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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

Not even a week in and prosecutors in the Jim Comey case have SEKRITS.

I'd give at least a 25% probability that the judge requires this unsealed (there's no sign of permission to sign it under seal).

Maybe it's about Trump's fee fees.

A screen cap of two docket entries reading:

10/14/2025 44 Sealed Motion by USA as to James B. Comey, Jr. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order) (jlan) (Entered: 10/14/2025)
10/14/2025 45 Sealed Document as to 44 Sealed Motion as to as to James B. Comey, Jr. (jlan) (Entered: 10/14/2025)

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LegalEaseHilary ❤️🫂🇺🇸🐶✡️💙🏳️‍🌈☮️🇺🇦 @legalstuffhilary.bsky.social · 1h

They’re NOT police…they’re criminal thugs trying to make a buck. It has to stop.

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LegalEaseHilary ❤️🫂🇺🇸🐶✡️💙🏳️‍🌈☮️🇺🇦 @legalstuffhilary.bsky.social · 56m

Of course not.👊🏼
apple.news/Asiv7nEGkTta...

Chicago airports refuse to air DHS video blaming Democrats for gov't shutdown — NBC 5 Chicago

Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway International Airports will not play a video of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

apple.news

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LegalEaseHilary ❤️🫂🇺🇸🐶✡️💙🏳️‍🌈☮️🇺🇦 @legalstuffhilary.bsky.social · 53m

He’s a delusional fuck. I’m sick of all of this and no one stepping in to stop it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

A federal judge said "DHS, you cannot legally put this language into a grant." So what DHS did is... keep putting that language in grants — but with a new disclaimer saying it would only apply if the court order was struck down.

The judge was NOT happy.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 6h

Judge William Smith (W. Bush appointee): The Government has done "precisely what the ... [court's] Order forbids."

The case is Illinois v. FEMA

On Wednesday, we'll publish an updated catalogue of such judicial decisions on noncompliance with court orders at @justsecurity.org at the link below:

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation

Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."

www.justsecurity.org

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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 2h

🎀🎀

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James @jmcn.bsky.social · 23h

I saw this tremendous book off the plot this evening. As they say Roger Moorhouse has knocked it out of the park. Highly recommended. #histbookchat

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Martina Firefly @martina22.bsky.social · 2h

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Is this true? If so, please swear in Adelita Grijalva @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

@aoc.bsky.social @demwomencaucus.bsky.social @crockett.house.gov

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Dave Min @daveminca.bsky.social · 2h

This shutdown is about Republicans trying to rip health care away from 15 million families and protecting pedophiles. There’s nothing more evil or un-American.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3h

Have they ever provided proof that these are drug traffickers?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Senator @corybooker.com declines to call Netanyahu a “war criminal”

(And @mizzwelch.bsky.social @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social @pumpspumpspumps.bsky.social call him out for it)

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3h

Cant believe this is what they are focusing on, when they aren’t even able to keep the government open.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

Me: “Why do you think ‘Succession’ was such a big show?

Arian Moayed/'Stewy': "Because the truth of ‘Succession’ dials into what we’re witnessing every day in our news cycles. There’s an elite group of 10 to 15 people that run everything."

Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/succession...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

What the fuck is this now?

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 6h

The power of words. The court did indeed hear this but only, if you read the article, because Robinson’s lawyer claimed it. And yet anyone reading the headline would think Robinson had been vindicated.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tommy Robinson police stop at Channel Tunnel unlawful, court hears

The far-right activist was charged under the Terrorism Act over an incident at the Channel Tunnel in July 2024.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jim @jimdjr1522.bsky.social · 2h

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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you so much, Jim -- and thank you from Ammar, too.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 3h

Trump Administration now censoring Facebook:

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 3h

told ya so

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3h

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Rep. Johnny Olszewski @repjohnnyo.bsky.social · 3h

Over 15,000 federal workers in Maryland have already lost their jobs under Trump — more than any other state.

Now he’s weaponizing this shutdown to fire even more.

It’s illegal. And #TeamMaryland is fighting back.

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