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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · Aug 19

“If you identify data that is at risk, perhaps because its collection has been discontinued or it covers a controversial topic, you can report your observations to the Data Rescue Project” theconversation.com/data-that-ta...

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it

Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.

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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 1h

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ALT: a woman with curly hair crosses her fingers

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Kira @kiragooddog.bsky.social · 3h

A very good draw for the plaintiffs.

Ilana Rovner was Jim Thompson’s Deputy Gov and is the last of the liberal Republicans.

Amy St. Eve is a moderate Republican who worked for Bob Fiske.

Both were AUSA’s in Chicago and district judges.

Not typical GOP appointments.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Next, the 7th Circuit says that no matter how you define the phrase, there is no world in which the Trump admin has been "unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States."

They point out that immigration arrests are continuing and DHS is touting success.

We need not fully resolve these thorny and complex issues
of statutory interpretation now, because we conclude that the
administration has not met its burden under either standard.
Even applying great deference to the administration’s view of
the facts, under the facts as found by the district court, there
is insufficient evidence that protest activity in Illinois has significantly impeded the ability of federal officers to execute
federal immigration laws. Federal facilities, including the processing facility in Broadview, have remained open despite
regular demonstrations against the administration’s immigration policies. And though federal officers have encountered sporadic disruptions, they have been quickly contained
by local, state, and federal authorities. At the same time, immigration arrests and deportations have proceeded apace in
Illinois over the past year, and the administration has been
proclaiming the success of its current efforts to enforce immigration laws in the Chicago area. The administration accordingly is also unlikely to succeed on this argument.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

The 7th Circuit panel agrees with the lower court that there has been no "rebellion," finding that limited and sporadic violent acts that occur as part of a broader protest movement do not constitute a "rebellion" as the phrase is used in federal law.

Although we substantially agree with the definition of rebellion set forth by the district court in Newsom, we emphasize
that the critical analysis of a “rebellion” centers on the nature
of the resistance to governmental authority. Political opposition is not rebellion. A protest does not become a rebellion
merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or
policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes
to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience
as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment
right to carry firearms as the law currently allows. Nor does a
protest become a rebellion merely because of sporadic and
isolated incidents of unlawful activity or even violence committed by rogue participants in the protest. Such conduct exceeds the scope of the First Amendment, of course, and law
enforcement has apprehended the perpetrators accordingly.
But because rebellions at least use deliberate, organized violence to resist governmental authority, the problematic incidents in this record clearly fall within the considerable daylight between protected speech and rebellion.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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Jill Wine-Banks @jillwine-banks.bsky.social · 1h

I want to see you in Chicago’s Grant Park #NoKingsProtest. I’ll be there rain or shine wearing a NoKings pin made for me by #BarbKeith and a paper clip, a symbol of Norwegian resistance in WW2. I’m giving away paper clips for you to wear every day until we secure our democracy. Look for me.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1h

The New York Times has reported that John Bolton has been indicted over his handling of classified information. I'm sure that any indictment of John Bolton is ONLY because he's been critical of our big strong powerful president, which has in turn hurt his fee-fees.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 1h

Wonder why? Probably not thrilled to be engaged in war crimes and other Administration tomfoolery.

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Leaders know when to signal trouble

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1h

The president wants all the parts of government closed that he can't personally profit from. So he doesn't care about health care for your family. He wants to build a White House ballroom and promote bitcoin.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1h

Bolton indictment. Another distraction. For the Epsteinth time.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

It's being widely reported that Individuals 1 and 2, described in the indictment as "related to BOLTON," are his wife and daughter.

9. Individual 1, whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was related to BOLTON, resided in the District of Maryland, never held a U.S. security clearance, and was not authorized to access, receive, or maintain the classified information that BOLTON shared related to his work as the National Security Advisor.

10. Individual 2, whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was related to BOLTON, never held a U.S. security clearance, and was not authorized to access, receive, or maintain the classified information that BOLTON shared related to his work as the National Security Advisor.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

"Less than three hours later, BOLTON sent Individuals 1 and 2 a follow-up message that stated, 'None of which we talk about!!!' In response, Individual 1 sent a message that stated, 'Shhhhh.'"

35. On or about July 23, 2018, BOLTON sent Individuals 1 and 2 a message that stated,
"More stuff coming!!!" A few minutes later, BOLTON sent Individuals 1 and 2 a 24-page document which described information that BOLTON learned while National Security Advisor.
Less than three hours later, BOLTON sent Individuals 1 and 2 a follow-up message that stated,
"None of which we talk about!!!" In response, Individual 1 sent a message that stated, "Shhhhh."

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2h

"From on or about April 9, 2018, through on or about September 15, 2019, on a regular basis, BOLTON sent diary-like entries to Individuals 1 and 2 that contained information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level."

11. From on or about April 9, 2018, through on or about September 15, 2019, on a

regular basis, BOLTON sent diary-like entries to Individuals 1 and 2 that contained information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level. BOLTON wrote many of these diary-like entries by transcribing his handwritten notes from his day's activities into word processing documents, which

he then electronically sent to Individuals 1 and 2 through a commercial non-governmental

messaging application. On other occasions, BOLTON used his personal non-governmental email accounts, such as email accounts hosted by AOL and Google, to email information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level to Individuals 1 and/or 2 at their personal email accounts. At no point did BOLTON have authorization to store or transmit the classified information that he sent to

Individuals 1 and 2 via his personal electronic devices and accounts. Nor did, at any time, Individuals 1 or 2 have authorization to know or store the classified information that BOLTON

gave to them.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2h

"From on or about April 9, 2018, through at least on or about August 22, 2025, BOLTON abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor ... with two unauthorized individuals."

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From on or about April 9, 2018, through at least on or about August 22, 2025,

BOLTON abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages

of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor-including

information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level—-with two unauthorized individuals, namely Individuals 1 and 2. BOLTON also unlawfully retained documents, writings, and notes relating to the national defense, including information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level, in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland. Individual 1, whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was related to BOLTON, resided in the District of Maryland, never held a U.S. security clearance, and was not authorized to access, receive, or maintain the classified information that BOLTON shared related to his work as the National Security Advisor. 10. Individual 2, whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was related to BOLTON, never held a U.S. security clearance, and was not authorized to access, receive, or maintain the classified information that BOLTON shared related to his work as the National Security Advisor.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2h

READ the John Bolton indictment storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

INDICTMENT
The Grand Jury for the District of Maryland charges that:
GENERAL ALLEGATIONS
At all times relevant to this Indictment, unless otherwise indicated:
Introduction
The defendant, JOHN ROBERT BOLTON, II ("BOLTON"), resided in
Montgomery County, Maryland, and, from the 1980s through 2019, served intermittently in a variety of senior U.S. Government positions, including as an Assistant Attorney General in the U.S.
Department of Justice, an Under Secretary of State in the U.S. Department of State, U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations, and, in his last position of public service, from April 2018 to September 2019, as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which was commonly known as the National Security Advisor.
2. The role of the National Security Advisor varied by presidential administration, but
generally the National Security Advisor assisted the President in managing the National Security
Council ("NSC). The National Security Act of 1947, as amended, established the NSC to advise

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

As someone who has worked with female lawyers my entire career, the Helen Andrews piece is genuinely hilarious. Ever female public defender I’ve every worked with would eat her argument for breakfast and then go back to fighting like hell for their clients.

The field that frightens me most is the law. All of us depend on a functioning legal system, and, to be blunt, the rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female. The rule of law is not just about writing rules down.
It means following them even when they yield an outcome that tug at your heartstrings or runs contrary to your gut sense of which party is more sympathetic.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h

It also discounts state terrorism, but I argue that since the Trump Administration is doing terrorism itself, independent actors aligned with its principles don't need to at present.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h

What's amazing about that CSIS report that seems to be making an impact is that it's pumping up the idea we're seeing a surge in left terrorism on the basis of FIVE incidents, some of them very questionably by "the left," which made it worth taking on.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h

And here's another snippet:

Unfortunately, feature filmmakers love left-wing violence plots, and there seem to be far more ecoterrorists and violent leftists in movies than in real life these days. One way to explain it is that secret commando groups of violent guerrillas engaging in shootouts, car chases, becoming hunted fugitives work really well for movies, which only need to capture our attention for a couple of hours at most. Changing the world usually takes years or decades, and it requires the collective work of building coalitions, shifting public opinion, winning court victories, or passing legislation, which happens through meetings, maybe some lawsuits, maybe some protests and public events, more meetings, definitely some fundraising, and more meetings. I’ve seen climate and environmental and Indigenous and feminist and queer-rights victories and followed the underlying shifts in public opinion. None of it at the point of a gun, all of it from the often tedious, sometimes exhilarating work of activism. I yearn for more films like Rachel Lears’s Sunrise Movement documentary To the End that show how the world actually does get changed—and less nonsense about violence on the left.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h

Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The CSIS report declares, “Radicals will argue that peaceful politics will inevitably fail and that only violence will make a difference,” but I have no idea who these radicals are because in my 40 years around direct action organizing, I’ve only encountered theoretical enthusiasm for violence from the sidelines and the occasional young hothead (almost always white and male) in movements whose vast majority and leadership are committed to nonviolence. I do know someone who was part of a violent group in the early ’70s and then became wanted fugitive; he’s since become an ardent advocate of nonviolence.

What too often gets described as left-wing violence at protests is property destruction, which can be dangerous and intimidating and is usually opposed by protest organizers, but should be regarded as distinct from harming human life. For example, at the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, the Black Bloc, a small cadre among the 50,000 protesters smashed a lot of shop windows quite spectacularly. But there are no reports of activists harming human beings. Police, on the other hand, used tear gas; pepper spray; rubber, plastic, and wooden bullets; concussion grenades; and armored vehicles against protesters bystanders resulting in many injuries. Nonetheless, for years afterward, mainstream media outlets portrayed this event as an occasion of shocking activist violence.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid," JD Vance. We checked.

By scanning public records and media reports, Mother Jones determined the ages of eight of the 11 participants in the abhorrent leaked texts from young Republicans that Politico covered on Tuesday: They appear to range from 24 to 35.

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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 5h

War criminal proud of the torture of prisoners. Hope it’s used as evidence in The Hague one day

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

your regular reminder that Ben-Gvir is a proud war criminal who used to have a portrait of a mass murderer in his living room and in a remotely functional political culture would never be allowed anywhere near the levers of power

one of the worst people alive

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5h

And now separately the top national security prosecutor in Maryland, Thomas Sullivan, arrives and goes into same grand jury room....

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5h

JUST IN: As we await a possible indictment of former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton related to classified info handling, 4 men appearing to be prosecutors and/or FBI agents just arrived at fed court in Greenbelt, Maryland and entered grand jury room. GJ at lunch now.

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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 5h

The stupid. It burns.