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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 2d

live look:

a group of people are sitting around a table with a red and white checkered table cloth .

ALT: a group of people are sitting around a table with a red and white checkered table cloth .

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 2d

Who's gonna be the first person to present a fake Nobel Prize to Trump in the Oval Office?

The competition is going to be intense!

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve called so many things “tipping points” that the public can’t tell when one really tips. Antarctic sea ice may have just crossed a threshold for real. The crisis is clearer than the language.
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Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas — New Scientist

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 4d

Halligan and the two new AUSAs probably don't even know what CIPA is. This should be fun.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

The judge, for his part, warned the government that the case shouldn't get off track because of classified information issues.

Either the information will be declassified or we'll go through the "fastest CIPA process you've ever seen in your life," he said.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

The government's lack of a plan prompted Comey's counsel, Fitzgerald, to say that the prosecution "put the cart before the horse."

Usually, you figure out classified information issues in consultation w/ DOJ's national security division *before* bringing a case, he said.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 4d

Are we sure Lindsey Halligan was even competent as an insurance lawyer?

News stories seem to assume she was, but count me as skeptical.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 4d

Fun Fact: I once worked on a high profile prosecution in EDVA with Pat Fitzgerald and his team of AUSAs, all of whom were from outside the district. Let's just say that these Virginia judges do not take kindly to outside agitators, even those from the Department of Justice.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 5d

Checks out

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 9d

This is *exactly* right. The purpose of the shadow docket would be basically the opposite of this—e.g. to step in if a circuit court were going to allow summary deportations that placed individuals in danger. The conservative justices’ actions here are perverse.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9d

‼️ literally. I know I've written about this before (most recently, when the Court gave our Social Security data to Big Balls) but it bears repeating imo that the theoretical purpose of emergency shadow docket relief is to prevent serious, imminent real world harm

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 9d

Maturity is recognizing that your favorite artist's new album might not be that good, and being totally fine with that.

Sincerely,

A Pearl Jam fan

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12d

The coal industry has been shrinking for a reason: Coal is no longer cost-competitive.
There are more students enrolled at say Penn State than there are workers left in the coal industry (about 40k).

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17d

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics.

This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted days after Trump demanded his DOJ move 'now' to prosecute enemies

Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted just days after President Trump issued a public demand for the DOJ to act "now" to prosecute him, sources say.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah, poorly timed!

Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 17d

But I once saw two dudes watching the Paris Hilton sex tape in first class, so there are worse things to do I guess.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 17d

There are two women sitting in front of me on my flight, and one of them decided to pull up her birthing video on her laptop, where the videographer recorded every detail you could imagine. Every detail.

Why are we doing this on airplanes?

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CNN @cnn.com · 21d

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN

Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25d

After Trump’s FCC chair, demanded ABC take action against against Kimmel for his comments on Kirk, Nexstar, the largest operator of ABC affiliates announced it would pull Kimmel from its stations

Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air

Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Enters into Definitive Agreement To Acquire TEGNA Inc. for $6.2 Billion in Accretive Transaction | Nexstar Media Group, Inc.

Enhances Nexstar’s Position as a Leading Local Media Company Preserves High-Quality Local Journalism and Diversity of Opinion Strengthens Ability to

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 26d

Already on the record here:

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · Jul 12

And I while I won’t defend Jaws 4 (the Revenge), the 2% on Rotten Tomatoes seems a little harsh.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 26d

Trump's deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases

@kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

President Trump's deportations are diverting FBI agents off child predator cases

Officials warn that President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is leaving domestic terrorists, including online extremists who prey on children, unpoliced.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · Sep 12

The exceptions are the Drake and Sterling cases, but those were initiated under Bush, and Drake's was led by an overzealous prosecutor who had nothing else to do.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · Sep 12

It's very hard to build a leak case based on circumstantial evidence, but it's very easy when you have the defendant meeting all the elements of the crime in a single email.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · Sep 12

People like to give Obama and Holder the credit/blame for the rise in leak prosecutions, but the truth is that it's because a bunch of current and former government officials like Bolton became really stupid in their US of email, & also forgot about digital forensics

Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · Sep 12

There's a big question here of how the USG found out about the email hack (likely through espionage).

It's also notable that the USG was willing to declassify that for the purpose of executing the SW. Even though it's redacted, SWs are almost always unclassified, & this one has no markings.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · Sep 12

There's a big question here of how the USG found out about the email hack (likely through espionage).

It's also notable that the USG was willing to declassify that for the purpose of executing the SW. Even though it's redacted, SWs are almost always unclassified, & this one has no markings.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · Sep 12

Reading the tea leaves in this heavily redacted affidavit, it looks like: (a) Bolton likely retained some classified docs (likely notes) from his tenure as APNSA & (b) a foreign country hacked his email account & that revealed that he retained and/or was sharing classified info.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 11

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 11

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l

Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Sep 10

The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.

In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.

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