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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 4h

Damnit guys.... come on

Republicans celebrate the Navy's birthday — with photos of Russian ships www.rawstory.com/navy-birthday/

Republicans celebrate the Navy's birthday — with photos of Russian ships

Monday marks the 250th birthday of the U.S. Navy and, to commemorate the occasion, some Republican lawmakers and others took to social media to share photos of ships. Unfortunately, they chose ones fr...

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 5h

hey at least we can see his damn face

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 8h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 6h

This is a cross-posted Free Press story which is now 3 days old and uncorrected.

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 7h

Trump's cankles are looking rough today

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 8h

People have been eager to read what this former prosecutor at one of the nation’s preeminent U.S. Attorney’s Offices has to say since she resigned in protest and out of principle—she stood up to Emil Bove!—and … this is what she decided to write about?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

This framing is a bit of a choice:
What happened: Ilya Shapiro and the Federal Society wanted an event on anti-semitism at NYU. Campus officials proposed another day, worried about the anniversary on Oct 7. After pushback, they relented. Is this a cancelation?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Opinion | I Resigned as Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney. Law Schools Are Missing the Point of My Story.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 8h

Also, despite the headline, only one law school is mentioned in the piece. This is a classic misinformation tactic.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

This framing is a bit of a choice:
What happened: Ilya Shapiro and the Federal Society wanted an event on anti-semitism at NYU. Campus officials proposed another day, worried about the anniversary on Oct 7. After pushback, they relented. Is this a cancelation?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Opinion | I Resigned as Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney. Law Schools Are Missing the Point of My Story.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

Per the governments argument, Fitzgerald is refusing to enter into a discovery agreement until the DOJ gives up the names of two anonymous witnesses in Comey’s indictment.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 1d

NO SLOWING on the gun violence this week: there were seven separate mass shooting incidents in the United States where 15 people were killed and 48 were injured.

My Sunday recap covers this and all the critical legal and political details of last week: shero.substack.com/p/shero-on-s...

SHERO on Sunday

A lightning-fast rundown of the week's most significant political and legal events for October 6th - 12th, 2025

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 1d

One of these days congress really just needs to ban the shadow docket, force cameras in scotus, pass ethics mandates, pass high penalties for a breach of those ethics and maybe it should include an unpaid suspension

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 1d

If the cases aren’t resolved there’s no reason to establish it as law then and even less of a reason for any other court to follow the ruling.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1d

Cool. So should lower courts should simply disregard shadow docket cases?

This does nothing whatsoever to help end the Supreme Court's legitimacy crisis.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

To hell with judicial decorum. Liberal Justices should just go on podcasts and do TikTok videos at this point.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 1d

Finally

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 1d

If you wonder why lower federal court judges are talking to the press, it's because of stuff like this

Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · May 6

If I were a lower-court judge, I’d find this SCOTUS demoralizing.

District court hears evidence, enters an injunction. Circuit court hears government’s arguments for the extraordinary remedy of a stay, denies it.

SCOTUS: Have a stay, administration. Get rid of trans soldiers. Moot the injunction.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things about Lindsey Halligan's First Filing

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/12/s...

"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things abt Lindsey Halligan's First Filing - emptywheel

Lindsey the Insurance lawyer and her two loaner AUSAs didn't do so well on their first filing.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

"Looking through this whole poll, the single number Enten cites in his segment is basically the most pro-Trump number in the poll."

Oof.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

52% of Americans say Trump is “doing what he promised.” But not all those people *like* what he’s doing! That is key context for interpreting this number, but was notable missing from a viral CNN segment (that the White House later turned into a press release)
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/is-trump-d...

Is Trump “doing what he promised”? | Weekly roundup for October 12, 2025

And what does that even mean? Also this week: Shutdown polls; Left-wing populism; Low favorability ratings for all U.S. leaders; Judges' concerns about Trump; + more!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Judge moves up hearing (Thursday to Wednesday) on union suit over Trump shutdown RIFs plan. Also wants update by Tuesday on RIF details. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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