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This is another ¶ that could blow up later.
The stated purpose of this prosecution is to assume due process doesn't exist.
The stated purpose of this prosecution is to assume due process doesn't exist.
![The government’s only other argument against dismissal with prejudice depends on
upending one of the most basic and fundamental premises of our criminal justice system: the
presumption of innocence. The government asserts (ECF No. 138 at 42) that dismissal with
prejudice would “thwart[] the public’s interest in the enforcement of its criminal law” because it
would allow Mr. Comey “to escape accountability for lying to and obstructing Congress.” But
the assumption that Mr. Comey must be guilty—before any public airing or testing of its
evidence—disregards bedrock principles underlying our system of justice. The government’s
unfounded assumptions of guilt cannot excuse its egregious constitutional violations.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreidami7adtw4qw72bhbq3zlejpolb7fxxue3idfbmli6xcxtpst4py@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is another ¶ that could blow up later.
The stated purpose of this prosecution is to assume due process doesn't exist.
The stated purpose of this prosecution is to assume due process doesn't exist.
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Your man couldn’t even find an image of the cover of the book he was pretending to listen to
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Your man couldn’t even find an image of the cover of the book he was pretending to listen to
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Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Started / going
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
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Exactly right. Why should we respect a president who doesn’t respect the constitution he swore an oath to uphold?
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Exactly right. Why should we respect a president who doesn’t respect the constitution he swore an oath to uphold?
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Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
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Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here
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NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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People in Portugal know more about what’s going on In America than do Americans who watch FoxNews and RW media
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
People in Portugal know more about what’s going on In America than do Americans who watch FoxNews and RW media
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Time for @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to replace @schumer.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Time for @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to replace @schumer.senate.gov
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This passage, arguing that 1A can be a basis for vindictive prosecution, is super important.
![6. Finally, the government’s suggestion (ECF No. 138 at 24-25) that a vindictiveprosecution argument cannot be based on the exercise of First Amendment rights lacks support
in precedent or principle. A prosecution brought to “punish[]” an individual “for exercising a
protected statutory or constitutional right” is “a due process violation ‘of the most basic sort.’”
United States v. Goodwin, 457 U.S. 368, 372 (1982). Nothing in that rule suggests that certain
constitutional rights are less worthy of protection than others. On the contrary, the Supreme Court has made clear that “government officials” may not “subject[] an individual to retaliatory
actions, including criminal prosecutions, for speaking out.” Hartman v. Moore, 547 U.S. 250,
256 (2006); see also Vullo, 602 U.S. at 189. Accordingly, a defendant may raise a vindictive
prosecution claim when a prosecution was brought to “deter[] [the defendant’s] exercise of his
First Amendment rights.” Bragan v. Poindexter, 249 F.3d 476, 483 (6th Cir. 2001).
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November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This passage, arguing that 1A can be a basis for vindictive prosecution, is super important.
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Super low key, Comey lays out the evidence that Trump had no cause to claim that Comey leaked classified info (which claim prosecutors parrotted).
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Super low key, Comey lays out the evidence that Trump had no cause to claim that Comey leaked classified info (which claim prosecutors parrotted).
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Even worse!!!
Cause to parrot Russian disinformation!!!
Cause to parrot Russian disinformation!!!
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Even worse!!!
Cause to parrot Russian disinformation!!!
Cause to parrot Russian disinformation!!!
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Oh nooooooooooo!!!
Donny!!!
You've given Comey cause to introduce the Mueller Report!!!!
Donny!!!
You've given Comey cause to introduce the Mueller Report!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Oh nooooooooooo!!!
Donny!!!
You've given Comey cause to introduce the Mueller Report!!!!
Donny!!!
You've given Comey cause to introduce the Mueller Report!!!!
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Again, Comey citing Abrego.
![Not only does President Trump have the ultimate power to cause a prosecution, but the
sequence of events that led to Mr. Comey’s prosecution leaves no doubt that he exercised that
power here. After forcing out the incumbent United States Attorney, Erik Siebert, because of his
reticence to bring this and other cases against the President’s perceived political enemies, the
President posted on social media a message to the Attorney General excoriating her for failing to
prosecute those enemies—including Mr. Comey—and directing that “JUSTICE MUST BE
SERVED NOW.” See id. at 10-11. In the same message, he praised Ms. Halligan’s legal ability,
and, within 48 hours, Ms. Halligan was appointed and four days later went to the grand jury to
indict Mr. Comey. See id. at 11-12. One does not need to connect these dots: they form an
unmistakable arrow from the President’s bow to Mr. Comey as the target. If “[t]he motivations
of the people who place the file on the prosecutor’s desk are highly relevant when considering a
motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution,” Abrego, 2025 WL 3002840, at *1 (emphasis
added), the motivations of the President who installed the prosecutor as U.S. Attorney after
publicly calling for Mr. Comey’s prosecution are compelling proof of his role in engineering the
indictment. The basis for imputation here is clear.1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreidwb2azb6okmjcdiec5xfvqtrae2kz4ldpreutbif43q4gwgw4gra@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Again, Comey citing Abrego.
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The former FBI Director, Jim Comey, cites the case of an undocumented immigrant, Kilmar Abrego, in his vindictive prosecution arg.
There's an important commonality between these cases.
There's an important commonality between these cases.
![indictments. United States v. Dickerson, 975 F.2d 1245, 1251 (7th Cir. 1992) (declining to
impute alleged animus of FBI agents and state police officers); see United States v. Spears, 159
F.3d 1081, 1087 (7th Cir. 1998) (declining to impute alleged animus of a state prosecutor and
investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms); United States v. Gilbert, 266
F.3d 1180, 1187 (9th Cir. 2001) (declining to impute alleged animus of IRS investigators);
United States v. Cooper, 617 F. App’x 249, 251 (4th Cir. 2015) (per curiam) (declining to impute
alleged animus of local law enforcement). Those cases are readily distinguishable from this one,
where the animus springs from the head of the Executive Branch who has supervisory authority
over all federal prosecutors and who exercised that power in this case. people who place the file on the prosecutor’s desk are highly relevant when considering a motion
to dismiss for vindictive prosecution.” United States v. Abrego, No. 25-cr-00115, 2025 WL
3002840, at *1 (M.D. Tenn. Oct. 27, 2025) (citing Adams, 870 F.2d at 1146). And the
government itself acknowledges that when an individual harboring animus “displace[s]” the
prosecutor as “‘the ultimate decision-maker’” in bringing a prosecution, that individual’s animus
can be imputed to the prosecutor. See ECF No. 138 at 20 (citing United States v. Gomez-Lopez,
62 F.3d 304, 306 (9th Cir. 1995)).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreihmvvjm5idxwua2oqrvnlb6pot35v4xuuxehick44dlvqq3eo363y@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The former FBI Director, Jim Comey, cites the case of an undocumented immigrant, Kilmar Abrego, in his vindictive prosecution arg.
There's an important commonality between these cases.
There's an important commonality between these cases.
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Onto Comey's vindictive and selective prosecution argument. This ¶ is super important, bc it gets to how inapt exist precedents on whether related investigators can be source of animus. A president is different.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Onto Comey's vindictive and selective prosecution argument. This ¶ is super important, bc it gets to how inapt exist precedents on whether related investigators can be source of animus. A president is different.
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It’s time for new leadership
CHUCK SCHUMER: "New data came out today from KFF - and that is not Kentucky Fried French Fries ... the Kaiser Family Foundation"
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It’s time for new leadership
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"Broke ranks" isn't even true. They admitted Schumer was in the room the whole time!
JFC. Does @schumer.senate.gov not get that by caving, Democrats make it *harder,* not easier, to make the ACA subsidies expiring stick politically to Trump/GOP? This effort to shame Republicans in this context risks signaling to low-info voters that Rs are standing on conviction and Dems aren't.
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"Broke ranks" isn't even true. They admitted Schumer was in the room the whole time!
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Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.