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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 4h

Over the weekend, NYT and WaPo reported the Justice Department's argument for why War Powers Resolution should not apply to boat strikes.

It comes down to definition of the word “hostilities.”

Former State Dept attorney @bcfinucane.bsky.social writes the DOJ argument is "incorrect and dangerous.”

Dissecting the Trump Administration’s Effort to Circumvent the War Powers Resolution for Boat Strikes

Analysis of Trump administration's claim that War Powers Resolution's regulating US troops in "hostilities" does not apply to boat strikes.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4h

A pinhead-sized retinal implant paired with camera glasses helped over 80% of trial participants across five countries with age-related macular degeneration regain central vision. Patients improved by about 25 letters on an eye chart after a year buff.ly/nlV15am #ShareGoodNewsToo

Tiny chip restores vision, hope for those with sight loss – DW – 10/21/2025

An implant attached to damaged retinas has helped people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) improve visual ability. AMD affects millions of people. This chip has been tested internationally.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h

"Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'"

In today's 'First Draft' morning newsletter from Zeteo, I counted and debunked at least *17 obvious, brazen lies* that the president told CBS's Norah O'Donnell, and that she just let slide:

🧾 Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'

Mehdi debunks the president's lies, unpacks the failure of our mainstream media, and has the latest from Gaza, as well as Trump's 'Great Gatsby'-esque Halloween party.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 5h

“The Americas — North, Central, & South — is the only region of the world that has ever managed to stop endemic transmission of measles. But that hard-won victory against the highly contagious virus is on the verge of being rolled back… “I think it’s a big wake-up call.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

The Americas, led by Canada, is on the brink of losing measles-elimination status

The Americas is the only region of the world to have stopped endemic transmission of measles. But its victory is on the verge of being rolled back.

www.statnews.com

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Jocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 4h

Very important news to local history authors and historical societies: slate.com/technology/2...

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Your Town’s Local History Books Have a Very Secret and Powerful New Buyer

Arcadia Publishing built its empire on small-town storytellers. Now it wants to sell their words to an A.I. company no one will name.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 4h

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4h

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability

The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 4h

they crashed into *her* car and then pulled this… 😨😫😡

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4h

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability

The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

Trump administration policy is indistinguishable from a foreign attack, episode 7,200:

FCC to rescind ruling that said ISPs are required to secure their networks

FCC chair to rely on ISPs’ voluntary commitments instead of Biden-era ruling.

arstechnica.com

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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 3h

A "close call" on deference to the executive's determination of an emergency?

If trade deficits are an emergency, then so are Tuesdays. The word loses all meaning.

See the brief signed by leading economists (and me):

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Supreme Court Confronts Trump and His Tariffs in Test of Presidential Power

www.nytimes.com

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 3h

1/UAE Chip deal offers textbook case in neo-royalism. Elite ties rather than national security drive dealmaking. The winner is not national security but Trump inner circile.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Microsoft to invest over $15 billion in UAE, secures US export licenses for Nvidia chips

Microsoft will invest over $15 billion in the United Arab Emirates in the seven years to the end of 2029 and has the Trump administration's approval to export Nvidia chips for its data centres there, a senior executive told Reuters on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 4h

This just went out to worldwide readers

Screenshot of a notification:

“Reuters
now
Supreme Court won't stop Trump's tariffs.
Deal with it, officials say”

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 4h

Today on @indicator.media: I speak to the lawyer representing the New Jersey teen suing AI nudifier ClothOff.

We spoke about the broad coalition of lawyers fighting to shut down these tools of online abuse, the difficulty of getting their owners served, and the claims his client is pursuing.

Taking an AI nudifier to court: A conversation with the lawyer suing ClothOff

“They shouldn't be out there. They shouldn't be operating," said Shane Vogt, the lawyer for a teenage plaintiff

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2d

Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.

A Halloween parade float with the gates of Auschwitz

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 5h

Democrats say this constantly, but when front pages of The NY Times and everyone else refuses to acknowledge it, or thinks stating it is is being a Dem partisan, how do you break through?

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

“every time theres a republican president the economy collapses” feels like pretty easy messaging on the economy

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: Trump administration’s Chicago immigration raids are coming to a city near you as Homeland Security sidelines old ICE leadership. “What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect. This is the new model.” Our story on what that means www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...

Border Patrol’s strong-arm tactics are the new norm in Chicago as Trump moves to sideline ICE leadership

“What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect,” said Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a scary floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 5h

Never let anyone tell you that you can’t accomplish your dreams

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

He upgraded to a bigger one.

A yellow lab from the side holding a larger stick than the prior post

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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 5h

A section of Rome’s mediaeval Torre dei Conti has collapsed while undergoing renovation, leaving one worker seriously injured.

Shock in Rome as mediaeval tower partially collapses

One worker injured in collapse at landmark tower. A loud crash shook Rome’s central Monti district on Monday morning when part of the mediaeval Torre dei Conti collapsed while undergoing renovation, l...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5h

Today's "One First" dives into the question #SCOTUS is now asking in the Illinois National Guard case—and why "regular forces" *does* mean only the military; why the Trump administration should therefore *lose*; and why that *won't* necessarily provide a justification to invoke the Insurrection Act:

187. "Regular Forces" and the Insurrection Act

The supplemental briefing order in the Illinois National Guard case provides an obvious way for the Court to block President Trump's deployments to date—and a fair concern about what could come next.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 5h

What Is the future of diplomacy when going to a sleepy UN meeting on shipping puts you and your family in the cross hairs of the full force of US coercion? As platforms of cooperation become the site of coercion the international system will quickly break down.

Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 5h

1/When @himself.bsky.social and I wrote about the future of US economic coercion we hoped that the tools could be used for global collective goods like climate. Now US “evaluating sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies”’
on.ft.com/4qJF3Ko

US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal

Officials say ‘threats’ used to derail net zero deal for shipping industry ripped up rules of global diplomacy

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 5h

Piercing analysis from @tompepinsky.com on the US in the Asia Pacific: "They must prepare for a future in which the United States cannot lead, regardless of who is in power." In a forthcoming @iojournal.bsky.social piece, @sdhyde.bsky.social & I conclude the same for US global leadership generally.

Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 1d

Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.

A United States that is disintegrating and no longer a leader in Asia

As Trump 2.0 hollows out US state capacity, the Asia Pacific must prepare for a world without US leadership

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 9h

European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.

This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules

Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

www.politico.eu

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds.

Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

12 Polling Places Move Before Mississippi Special Elections, 4 Close

County election officials in Mississippi have moved 12 polling places and closed four since 2024, an MFP investigation finds.

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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 5h

Israel arrests ex-military legal chief who leaked video showing abuse of Palestinian detainee

Israeli police on Monday arrested former military advocate general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi after she leaked a video appearing to soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee. The arrest comes after Tomer-Yerushalmi announced her resignation at the end of last week.

www.france24.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

NEW: A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity.

Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say they feel targeted just going about their lives.

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force

A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say they feel targeted just going about their lives.

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 22h

great video essay by johnny harris featuring context and insight from @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @kathleenbush.bsky.social among others ⬇️

Why the US is deporting so many people

YouTube video by Johnny Harris

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