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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 12m

"potential ethical conflicts"

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 17h

Just a reminder to everyone that the Ninth Circuit has weird en banc rules. En banc review is done by a group of 11 judges in the circuit, the chief judge and 10 more. Of the 29 active (and non-senior) judges, 10 are Trump appointees.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19h

Sua sponte call for en banc less than two hours after the 9th Cir decision to let loose the National Guard into Portland

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 19h

Weird how this keeps happening!

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 20h

Me, whenever I talk to @friendlyatheist.com

(From this Yikes of a story: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...)

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 20h

They're not sending their best.

Or maybe they are and that actually seems worse.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

"We are deeply concerned with anti-Semitism. As for The Jews, they are on an express train to hell with all the other Non-Believers"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

Infuriating. He treats this shit like a purely academic exercise rather than, ya know, public policy and real people's lives. And then he's even wrong about the academic exercise part of things!

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

I'll also note that Richard is so Not Obsessed™ with this issue that he chose to repost an article from A MONTH AGO just... because?

Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

"wHy iS tHe LeFt sO oBSesSeD wiTh iDenTitY pOLiTiCs??"

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

As a Professional Atheist™, hard same. Especially when the media keeps quoting them as if they speak for the overwhelming majority of atheists! Dawkins is hopelessly out of step with our community on this (and many other issues)!

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

This is what White Christian Nationalism looks like.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

That's Vought's White Christian Nationalism in a nutshell. Only the "elect" have any claim to wield political power. Those ordained to rule, and those ordained to be ruled. It's hierarchical, regressive, and exclusionary. It stands in opposition to everything our country aspires to be.

Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak @alikodjak.bsky.social · 1d

On Russ Vought's Christian Faith: “It always struck me as a strange thing,” the person said. “There’s compassion, but it only extends to certain people.”
@propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/russ...

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

www.propublica.org

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 1d

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

okay lol I just checked and I kid you not this is literally the cover of my own copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.

Note: This was published in 2012, more than a decade ago. This was just the iconography the publisher felt best expressed Paine’s views.

A copy of Common Sense that features an image of a crown with an X over it, similar to the No Longs protest iconography.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

Fine, fine. I suppose I should engage more fully and show an appropriate amount of deference to Prof. Dawkins. Please see below for a point-by-point discussion that affords his piece the attention it deserves.

1) No.
2) End of list.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

"wHy iS tHe LeFt sO oBSesSeD wiTh iDenTitY pOLiTiCs??"

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

The extra space before "boomers" seems to indicate the Mike Lee... workshopped this tweet? And this is what he ended up with? Such loser energy.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

Counterpoint: No Kings. Go Birds. 🦅

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 2d

Memo to Mike Johnson and his White Christian Nationalist ilk: We march not because we hate America but because we hate what they're doing to America.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 2d

Checks are on the way

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2d

The imagery here shows you why Mike Johnson & co. have been SO DESPERATE to peddle that "they hate America" nonsense. They think they can wipe their asses with the Constitution but claim the mantle of patriotism as long as they wave enough flags at the rubes. They're terrified of the real thing.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

Just checked the top of all the major networks’ sites (plus CNN), and all of them – CBS included – are currently leading on No Kings.

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