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Samuel Rubenfeld (he/him)
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senior reporter, financial crime and corruption, MLex.

Talk for hours, I hardly know ya
But I, I'm listening

https://www.mlex.com/mlex/financial-crime
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Samuel Rubenfeld (he/him) @srubenfeld.bsky.social · Nov 15
now that the skyline is more populated, I am going to be more intentional about how I use this site.

Reintroduction: I am a senior reporter for MLex, covering financial crime and corruption. I am often in court.

Otherwise, I read a lot of news, watch a lot of NY sports and listen to a lot of music
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jilltwiss.bsky.social
Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together
thedailybeast.bsky.social The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 19h
The identical twin brother of MAGA Texas Rep. Troy Nehls is hoping to replace his brother in Congress after Nehls announced his retirement on Saturday.
MAGA Rep. Tries to Hand Seat to Literally Identical Successor
Trever Nehls is hoping to replace his brother, Texas Rep. Troy Nehls, in Congress.
trib.al
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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tomcoates.bsky.social
I think the biggest thing we need to get our head around is that the modern America right uses whatever phrases they think will be most acceptable to conceal a profoundly anti-freedom, authoritarian, racist, sexist and homophobic agenda.
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22h
They never really believed in free speech
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h
How it started / How it’s going
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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mattnegrin.bsky.social
Not sure how other autocratic countries lost their independent media if they once had them (presumably a lot of that happened before the internet age), but from a purely anthropological perspective it’s equally fascinating and humiliating to be able to watch it happen minute by minute
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
List of headlines from media covering FDA, most emphasizing the claim that covid killed children
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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thestudyofwar.bsky.social
NEW: Russian state media is leveraging Putin’s recent statements to intensify the false narrative that the frontline in Ukraine will imminently collapse, likely to coerce the West and Ukraine into capitulating to Russian demands that Russia cannot secure itself militarily. isw.pub/UkrWar112925
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November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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ianboudreau.com
This despite it being aggressively shoehorned into every productivity application available - maybe investors are stupid???????
economist.com The Economist @economist.com · 1d
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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aterkel.bsky.social
To commemorate his 100 days in office, Trump held a rally in Warren, MI in April and promised "the greatest economy in the history of the world."

@jonallendc.bsky.social went back there this week. Voters said they're still waiting to see an economic turnaround.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
In the Michigan city where Trump held his 100 days rally, voters wait for an economic turnaround
In April, Trump went to Warren, promising "the greatest economy in the history of the world." Residents there say they're still trying to make ends meet.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
NEW: The Trump administration's lawlessness is front and center, on multiple fronts.

The response to the shooting of two National Guard troops, reporting on the boat-strike murders, and the continued contempt inquiry keep Trump's lawlessness in the news.

This weekend, at Law Dork:
The Trump administration's lawlessness is front and center, on multiple fronts
The response to the shooting of two National Guard troops, reporting on the boat-strike murders, and the continued contempt inquiry keep Trump's lawlessness in the news.
www.lawdork.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
srubenfeld.bsky.social
Come on man
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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robdenbleyker.com
he's being turned into a pastry before our eyes
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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katz.theracket.news
He’s threatening a fake cartel in a country sitting on a ton of oil while freeing an actual narcotrafficking ex-president who he likes. This isn’t hard to understand unless you want to make it hard to understand.
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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bloomberg.com
Protesters thwarted a planned immigration operation in Lower Manhattan, forcing federal agents into retreat after blocking the ramp of a Department of Homeland Security parking garage near Chinatown.
Protesters Disrupt Federal Immigration Action in Lower Manhattan
Protesters thwarted a planned immigration operation in Lower Manhattan, forcing federal agents into retreat after blocking the ramp of a Department of Homeland Security parking garage near Chinatown.
bloom.bg
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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nytimes.com
The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
South Africans Were Promised Job, but Ended Up ‘Going to War’ for Russia
The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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hellgatenyc.com
NYPD Clears a Path for Federal Agents on Canal Street With Violent Arrests and Pepper Spray

An immigration crackdown was scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Canal Street, but was abandoned after demonstrators and vendors caught wind of it.
NYPD Clears a Path for Federal Agents on Canal Street With Violent Arrests and Pepper Spray
An immigration crackdown was scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Canal Street, but was abandoned after demonstrators and vendors caught wind of it.
hellgatenyc.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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nytimes.com
A man was charged on Wednesday with shutting down a stretch of freeway in downtown Los Angeles so he could film a music video in 2023 in a bid to gain online fame, prosecutors said.
L.A. Man Is Charged With Stopping Freeway Traffic to Film Music Video
The closure happened in 2023, prosecutors said. As part of the video, drivers conducted doughnuts around a performer, who was charged with conspiracy to commit exhibition of speed.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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jbenmenachem.com
@emmagf.bsky.social on X: "Ricky Patel, the Special Agent in Charge at Homeland Security Investigations, called Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, to apologize after there was a confrontation between protesters and the police in Manhattan today, according to a person familiar with the matter."
Ricky Patel, the Special Agent in Charge at Homeland Security Investigations, called Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, to apologize after there was a confrontation between protesters and the police in Manhattan today, according to a person familiar with the matter. (1/2) Jessica Tisch told Ricky Patel that what happened today was "unacceptable" and that shows of force were putting the public, federal agents and police officers in harm's way. She warned them that it needs to stop and someone will get hurt if it continues, the person said. (2/2)
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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gwynnefitz.bsky.social
"all of you are immigrants," one man yells at the agents, he was in SoHo doing some shopping when he heard ICE was here.
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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gwynnefitz.bsky.social
Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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gwynnefitz.bsky.social
Moments ago, feds shove protesters out of the way as more NYPD officers arrive on scene. reporting for @thecity.nyc
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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taliajane.bsky.social
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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bloomberg.com
A Ukrainian delegation is heading to the US for further discussions over a peace plan pushed by President Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Ukrainian Team Heads to US for Talks With Trump Envoy Witkoff
A Ukrainian delegation is heading to the US for further discussions over a peace plan pushed by President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter.
bloom.bg
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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financialtimes.com
Airline travellers face disruption after Airbus warns A320 jets need software fix on.ft.com/48nFbqC
Airline travellers face disruption after Airbus warns A320 jets need software fix
Update to address potential problems caused by solar radiation could affect 6,000 aircraft
on.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
they want to do kristalnacht so bad
bananapantz.bsky.social Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 2d
We’re shutting down immigration and canceling Afghanistani-Americans because of a single incident. But thousands of gun deaths, don’t require a single action of any kind. We’re not banning men, or young men, or abusive young men, or guns.

This wasn’t “mental health”? This one incident?
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: As part of his contempt inquiry, Judge Boasberg orders DHS Sec Kristi Noem and other officials to submit declarations by 12/5 attesting to their actions relating to the decision not to turn around March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights.

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA J.G.G., et al., Plaintiffs, V. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. 25-766 (JEB) ORDER At the hearing on November 19, 2025, the Court offered both sides an opportunity to propose next steps in its inquiry into whether a criminal-contempt referral is appropriate. The Government, now for the first time, has identified who purportedly made the decision not to recall planes containing Alien Enemies Act detainees on March 15, 2025: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. See ECF No. 195 (Def. Resp.) at 2. Defendants nonetheless maintain, relying heavily on Judge Katsas's concurring opinion for the D.C. Circuit panel, that her decision was proper and not contumacious. Id. at 3-4 (citing J.G.G. v. Trump, 147 F.4th 1044, 1052 (D.C. Cir. 2025) (Katsas, J., concurring)). As a result, the Government posits that "no further steps are warranted" because "Defendants did not violate this Court's order." Id. at 1. Given that the other two panel members (plus the majority of the en banc court) did not agree with J. Katsas, the Court is not prepared at this juncture to terminate its inquiry. Instead, it must determine whether Secretary Noem or anyone else should be referred for potential contempt prosecution. In other words, the Court must decide if: (1) the court order was "clear and reasonably specific"; (2) "the defendant violated the order"; and (3) "the violation was willful." United States v. Young, 107 F.3d 903, 907 (D.C. Cir. 1997) (quoting United States v. NYNEX Corp., 8 F.3d 52, 54 (D.C. Cir. 1993)). In conducting such inquiry, Plaintiffs submit that the Court should "require the government to promptly file declarations) identifying all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025." ECF No. 193 (Pl. Resp.) at 1. "[O]nce these declarations are filed and depending on what information they disclose, the Court should then determine the appropriate sequence of witness testimony, and the manner in which that testimony should be provided." Id. The Government similarly notes: "If the Court believes any further information is needed for [its inquiry], Defendants respectfully request an opportunity to provide that information to the Court by way of declarations in the first instance (as even Plaintiffs agree is appropriate)." Def. Resp. at 1. The Court will adopt the parties' agreement on starting with declarations; it will then assess the need for witness testimony. It therefore ORDERS that by December 5, 2025, the Government shall submit declarations from all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025. Such declarations shall detail their roles in such decision. /s/ James E. Boasberg JAMES E. BOASBERG Chief Judge
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
"Contrary to Miller and Trump, Lakanwal’s shooting spree is not the result of importing Afghan culture to America. While much will surely be revealed in Lakanwal’s upcoming trial, it looks more like the result of importing American culture to Afghanistan." New from me @zeteo.com
He Killed for the CIA in Afghanistan. Trump Blames Afghan Culture Instead of Langley’s
After the National Guard shooting, the US needs to reckon with how its legacy of global violence inevitably comes home. Stephen Miller wants to do anything but.
zeteo.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM