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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 2h

I’m telling a story about my children! If you’re in Baltimore you should come!

SIGNS, SYMBOLS & STRANGE HAPPENINGS STORIES ABOUT THE WEIRD, THE WONDERFUL, AND THE POSSIBLY OTHERWORLDLY.
OCT 23, 2025
7pm @ 2640 Space
2640 ST. PAUL STREET
BALTIMORE, MD 21218

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 5h

District courts are ruling with 100-page opinions explaining their reasoning. The Supreme Court majority is tossing aside those rulings with unreasoned orders.

Ain’t nobody being persuaded by this horseshit that justices having to explain their reasoning would be too darn confusing.

Nobody.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 5h

Well, I read it, and I'm pretty sure that Thiel is the antichrist

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 6h

So instead we write nothing, and then yell at lower courts for failing to read our minds — ACB

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Bmore Gabe @bmoregabe.bsky.social · 9h

Nazi talking points, memes, phrases, etc have become totally assimilated by the “totally not antisemitic” left.

Congrats on becoming Nazis?

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I am deeply sorry for the error. Thanks, and ... oof.

marge simpson from the simpsons is sitting at a table with a bunch of food on it .

ALT: marge simpson from the simpsons is sitting at a table with a bunch of food on it .

media.tenor.com

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

I was given to understand that the president's son getting a job with a company doing business before the government was an impeachable offense

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

t.co

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

Another pleasant law enforcement interaction, fully in compliance with the Fourth Amendment, per Justice Kavanaugh

#KavanaughStop

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry but I had to

#WITAOD

Roger Stone: Kyle Cheney is a congenital liar and a propagandist and Anna is a nobody. Multiple attorneys who have examined this case describe it as air tight. By
the way, Cheney is also a leaping bounding, screaming asshole.
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Anna Bower &

@AnnaBower: I may be a nobody, but who is the administrator of DOGE?

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 2d

A Chicago woman shot multiple times by U.S. Border and Customs Protection agents was indicted by a grand jury on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon.

Chicago woman shot multiple times by a US border patrol agent indicted by federal grand jury

A Chicago woman shot multiple times by U.S. Border and Customs Protection agents was indicted by a grand jury on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

bahahaha, Ingrassia's lawyer is Edward Paltzik, the one who files Trump's most bumptious lolsuits

well, at least I'll have amazing copy, even with Alina Habba mostly retired. verily, when the lord closes a door, she opens a window

abovethelaw.com/2025/07/trum...

Trump's Lawyers Go To Iowa To Learn How To CivPro - Above the Law

Oops.

abovethelaw.com

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2d

Outrageous -- and apparently in blatant violation of yesterday's ruling protecting protesters and journalists from this kind of shit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 2d

Come for "how do we teach con law in an era of madness?" and stay for "what exactly IS stare decisis, and how badly has the Roberts Court butchered it??"

with @espinsegall.bsky.social and of course @lizdye.bsky.social

Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

How can you teach law school when SCOTUS is setting fire to a new precedent every day? Here's hoping @espinsegall.bsky.social can explain it to us!

with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 172 — Law School In The Age Of Trump (Ft. Prof. Eric Segall)

Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · 10/10/2025 · 1h 6m

podcasts.apple.com

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

How can you teach law school when SCOTUS is setting fire to a new precedent every day? Here's hoping @espinsegall.bsky.social can explain it to us!

with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 172 — Law School In The Age Of Trump (Ft. Prof. Eric Segall)

Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · 10/10/2025 · 1h 6m

podcasts.apple.com

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 3d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 3d

Like a dad buying millions of dollars in poker chips to stop his son from defaulting on his casino loan

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 3d

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, lord that Ninth Circuit hearing was bad. Let's console ourselves with this nice TRO out of Chicago blocking ICE from gassing peaceful protesters and journalists

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Temporary Restraining Order
Plaintiffs filed an Emergency Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order [21] against
Defendants. Having held hearings on October 6, 8, and 9, 2025, the Court finds that Plaintiffs
have met their burden to support the issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order. Accordingly,
the Court grants the motion and orders as follows:
1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,1 their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as “Federal Agents”), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a. Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless
Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.
Defendants may order a Journalist to change location to avoid disrupting law enforcement,

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 3d

The coming national horror is that if Portland's *truly* minimal level of protest justifies federalizing and deploying troops, they can and will be federalized and deployed anywhere the President wants and whenever he wants.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 3d

My initial read on this argument: Judge Nelson is eager to disagree with his 9th Cir. colleagues that federalizing the NG is reviewable at all.

He's also eager to disagree with Judge Immergut that the Portland protests were small and under control.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 3d

McArthur about the ICE protesters: "these are violent people." Says the president is entitled to say "enough is enough."

Asks for a stay pending appeal. Sits.

Argument is over.

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 3d

Greg Bovino is the face of Trump's anti-immigration crackdown in blue cities, staging military-style raids to conduct civil immigration arrests.

“The level of violence has changed since he was put in charge,” Chicago alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez tells TPM.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Democratic AGs @democraticags.bsky.social · 3d

The president cannot condition federal funding based on his political preferences. Which is why Dem AGs are fighting back in court. @oagmaryland.bsky.social

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This is wild, via @jmetr22b.bsky.social of the Chicago Tribune:

From U.S. District Chief Judge Virginia Kendall in the Northern District of Illinois:

“At no point did I, nor the Building Security Committee, authorize or request the National Guard’s assistance to secure the Dirksen Courthouse.”

Press release from federal court in Illinois:

Statement from Chief Judge Virginia M. Kendall

"Providing access to justice is at the heart of the Court's mission and critical for our democracy.
Maintaining access to the courthouse for anyone who seeks redress remains a top priority of the court. It is a core principle to promote our rule of law," said Chief Judge Virginia Kendall.

As the Chief District Court Judge in the Northern District of Illinois, I chair the Dirksen Courthouse Building Security Committee and work closely with the United States Marshals Service. During the past several weeks, I have received frequent updates on matters impacting the Court's operations to allow for proceedings to continue safely. Proceedings are and have been open to the public and the media.

The United States Marshals Service has jurisdiction over the interior and exterior security at the Dirksen Courthouse. While the Federal Protective Service has authority in most federal buildings, the United States Marshals Service has that primary responsibility at the Dirksen Courthouse. I trust and rely upon the men and women of the United States Marshals Service and the Court Security Officers to provide security at the Dirksen Courthouse; this includes the perimeter of the building. At no point did I, nor did the Building Security Committee, authorize or request the National Guard's assistance to secure the Dirksen Courthouse.
With my approval, additional security measures have been implemented to allow court operations to proceed, but those measures do not include the National Guard at the Dirksen Courthouse. The Courthouse remains open and accessible for all matters including hearings, jury trials, and naturalization ceremonies. The District Court Clerk's Office will be open during normal business hours, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, and in-person proceedings will continue as scheduled by the assigned judge.

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