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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 8h

Trying to help my parents. I can't believe how insanely complicated Medicare is, presumably partly to make things intentionally confusing and help insurance companies. How many people must be getting paid at all the insurance companies, benefits management companies, and advice companies involved?

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine how we feel in DC with 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton. Hopefully now that she has serious challengers she'll reconsider running.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 10h

An independent council seat is one of the worst launching points for a DC mayoral campaign. Realistically, you need to run in the Democratic primary, so you need to resign and trigger a special election purely for your own ego. I was surprised McDuffie wanted the seat.
www.axios.com/local/washin...

Scoop: Kenyan McDuffie and Janeese Lewis George consider runs for D.C. mayor

Meanwhile, anticipation is building over whether Mayor Muriel Bowser wants a fourth term.

www.axios.com

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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the results: It was conducted by a coalition of labor unions, many of which supported Bowser in '22, and they found very worrying numbers for her.

53% say she's not doing a good job as mayor and she loses 59-40 (!) against a generic challenger.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Zach Israel @zachisrael.bsky.social · 12h

If CM McDuffie resigns from the DC Council to run for Mayor as a Democrat, the 12 remaining CMs would then vote to appoint a non-Dem in the vacated At-Large CM seat. That person would serve until a special At-Large CM election winner is certified (likely in June 2026) www.axios.com/local/washin...

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WAMU 88.5 @wamu.org · 19h

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser might pass on a fourth term, a move that could scramble the 2026 mayoral race.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser might not run for reelection. That could scramble the 2026 mayoral race

The three-term mayor is discussing the possibility of stepping aside, despite months of speculation she planned to mount a bid for a fourth term.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it.
And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 14h

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.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 15h

I'm surprised some of them are actually suffering consequences. I thought the new GOP had given up on that sort of wokeness. Though I imagine they'll all be forgiven within the next six months.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

It's probably good for Noem that airports are refusing to help her become more hated. No one wants to hear her propaganda while waiting in a TSA line.
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Major airports refuse to air Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown

Airport spokespeople say the decision was made because the message blaming Democrats for the government shutdown violates the Hatch Act.

www.msnbc.com

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't he refuse to pay his rental on the Twitter building? Why does anyone rent to him after that? Same with Trump and hiring people after stiffing so many contractors over the years.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 2d

John Nance Garner, FDR's first VP.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Fair point. When I send invoices for freelance pieces, I'm often asked to include whether I prefer to be paid through direct deposit, a paper check, or cold hard cash in a Cava bag at a pre-arranged drop site.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 3d

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 3d

anyway, incomplete list of popular ai videos:
- woman reporter with 3 arms being arrested
- golden retriever eating wedding cake
- possum eating halloween candy
- MTG putting up Trump Epstein letter outside her office
- cat saving baby from bear
- SEVERAL Portland frog videos not from the protest

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 2d

I was only reminded of them recently because people were posting about a podcast episode they were both on.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has expropriated TikTok U.S. (banned under the law) and is now on the verge of forcing its sale at a below-market price to cronies of his choosing. What could go wrong? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

OCTOBER 18TH across 🇺🇸 & Tennessee

Republicans are calling them “Hate America” rallies, but as with most things they say it’s exactly the opposite. 🇺🇸 #NoKings 👑

Find one: www.nokings.org

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 2d

What about Travis Kalanick vs Jason Calacanis? I guess it's not that important to distinguish them if they're both bad.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 3d

RFK Jr when he was running for president: "I'm gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all. Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research

www.nbcnews.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

www.motherjones.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 9d

ICE and CBP agents seized the phone of an immigration lawyer at Logan Airport while he was returning from vacation even though—let's face it, probably *because*—the phone contains privileged information about his clients.

Regime grabs immigration lawyer's phone at Logan

A federal judge today ordered Customs and Homeland Security to keep their mitts off a phone their agents grabbed last week from an immigration lawyer returning to Logan Airport from a trip to Aruba, a...

www.universalhub.com

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