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Yet here was Kavanaugh, insisting that the solution isn’t accountability or reform or transparency. No. It’s tone. As if the right cadence of judicial bedside manner might hypnotize the nation into forgetting Heller, Citizens, Dobbs, Bruen, and Trump v. U.S.

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Fear and Loathing at the 6th Circuit Judicial Conference
The Court is less a deliberative body than a cartel: six butt-hurt ideologues with lifetime tenure, laundering billionaire ideology through grievance-based constitutional reinterpretation.
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OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 17h
Exclusive: Top Trump administration officials plan to meet today to discuss House efforts to force the release of the Epstein files. https://cnn.it/3WSyk2Y
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Important to remember!!!
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November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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WHY, indeed
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
ghislaine is doing prison the right way, tomorrow on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics?

Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics?

Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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it's (darkly) funny that the tech titans' politics are basically "we have no choice but to end representative government because my employees asked for a slight raise in 2020"
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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NEW: Tennessee has one of the highest rates of gun-related homicide.

A blind spot in the state's probation department appears at a time when experts say offenders are a danger to domestic violence victims, @wpln.bsky.social and @propublica.org found.
How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger
Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died duri...
www.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Yikes
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.

Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
hahaha mark knows i think his wealth is a result of bad policy. but the reality is politics is a billionaire game thanks to Citizens. mark puts his money where his mouth is, which ain’t nothing.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
the good news is there’s hope for a post-Citizens union

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November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@mcuban.bsky.social subscribes to clayjakstack—you should too.

20% off forever 🔗👇
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
meanwhile its biz as usual for the vast majority of my colleagues in the bar. neutrality is complicity
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
brb gonna ball my eyes out for a min
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
s/o doug
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Silence is intolerable.” — Hon. Mark L. Wolf, former Reagan-appointed U.S. district judge, D. Mass.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Maybe it’s the dog angle that hit me harder, but this story is crushing. They’re destroying people for no reason.

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
He Was a Beloved Dog Trainer and an Asylum Seeker. Why Was He Detained?
The humans love him, and so do the canines. What happened when ICE took Seyre Mussa Traore away.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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"The goal is to put terror into people."

Radley Balko with @stephruhle.bsky.social on the tactics federal officials are using as they carry out the president's immigration and deportation agenda.
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Lawless goons. Racial profiling isn’t just something they do, it’s all they do.

www.instagram.com/p/DQu5q2pkc_...
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM