Norman Jefferson
@jeffnorm.bsky.social
Into justice, science, birds, archery. "To win the respect of intelligent people and... earn the appreciation of honest critics.." Trying not to dwell on the others.
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I s'pose that's one way to cut nuclear costs:
"Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules" www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
"Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules" www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
January 28, 2026 at 12:07 PM
I s'pose that's one way to cut nuclear costs:
"Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules" www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
"Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules" www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
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🤔 What's this sign all about?
Find out on Wednesday's ICECAST ⤵️
Find out on Wednesday's ICECAST ⤵️
January 28, 2026 at 4:36 AM
🤔 What's this sign all about?
Find out on Wednesday's ICECAST ⤵️
Find out on Wednesday's ICECAST ⤵️
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SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN!
Do not fund the government until a full investigation is performed for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The agents responsible for their execution must be removed from duty and put on trial.
The American people demand accountability and an end to ICE & DHS brutality!!!
Do not fund the government until a full investigation is performed for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The agents responsible for their execution must be removed from duty and put on trial.
The American people demand accountability and an end to ICE & DHS brutality!!!
January 27, 2026 at 2:50 PM
SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN!
Do not fund the government until a full investigation is performed for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The agents responsible for their execution must be removed from duty and put on trial.
The American people demand accountability and an end to ICE & DHS brutality!!!
Do not fund the government until a full investigation is performed for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The agents responsible for their execution must be removed from duty and put on trial.
The American people demand accountability and an end to ICE & DHS brutality!!!
ICE is now provoking international incidents at foreign embassies.
Under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations—of which the US is a party—foreign state consular premises are considered “inviolable,” which means federal agents cannot enter without the permission of the mission's head.
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
January 28, 2026 at 12:24 AM
ICE is now provoking international incidents at foreign embassies.
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Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
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BREAKING: The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Demands Resignation or Termination of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller for Smearing Slain AFGE Member Alex Pretti as “Domestic Terrorist” www.afge.org/publication/...
AFGE Demands Resignation or Termination of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller for Smearing Slain AFGE Member Alex Pretti as “Domestic Terrorist”
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union representing 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas.
www.afge.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:36 AM
BREAKING: The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Demands Resignation or Termination of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller for Smearing Slain AFGE Member Alex Pretti as “Domestic Terrorist” www.afge.org/publication/...
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Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
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Exactly right.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Exactly right.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
In honor of #Bovino getting tossed from Minnesota…. (Hopefully he’ll get to spend his retirement in federal prison).
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youtu.be/zjqebEeAqCk?...
See You Later Fuckface (Re-Recorded)
YouTube video by The Queers - Topic
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January 27, 2026 at 12:29 AM
In honor of #Bovino getting tossed from Minnesota…. (Hopefully he’ll get to spend his retirement in federal prison).
youtu.be/zjqebEeAqCk?...
youtu.be/zjqebEeAqCk?...
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Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.
January 26, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Sending a message to #iceair pilots in a blizzard. If the weather isn’t bad enough to stop them from flying, it’s not bad enough to keep people from reminding those pilots what they are doing. [alt text]
#Omni #deportation #iceout #fuckice
#Omni #deportation #iceout #fuckice
January 26, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Sending a message to #iceair pilots in a blizzard. If the weather isn’t bad enough to stop them from flying, it’s not bad enough to keep people from reminding those pilots what they are doing. [alt text]
#Omni #deportation #iceout #fuckice
#Omni #deportation #iceout #fuckice
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From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
This guy was one of the lawyers who helped create DHS, and later he was a Trump appointee to be the top lawyer for DHS.
January 25, 2026 at 3:21 AM
This guy was one of the lawyers who helped create DHS, and later he was a Trump appointee to be the top lawyer for DHS.
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I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.
January 25, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.
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The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.
January 25, 2026 at 1:16 AM
The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.
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The only ways to "lower the temperature" in the conflict between this administration and the American people is for our government to stop murdering us, stop kidnapping innocent people, stop terrorizing our cities, stop serially violating the law and stop lying about what they are doing.
January 25, 2026 at 12:54 AM
The only ways to "lower the temperature" in the conflict between this administration and the American people is for our government to stop murdering us, stop kidnapping innocent people, stop terrorizing our cities, stop serially violating the law and stop lying about what they are doing.
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to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app
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April 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app
select the icon in the top left corner
go to settings
go to content and media
make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off
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go to settings
go to content and media
make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off
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This is what secret police do and repressive regimes.
January 24, 2026 at 3:48 AM
This is what secret police do and repressive regimes.
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“I only think some people should have due process” is the same as “I don’t think anyone should have due process” because if one person gets to decide who has rights and who doesn’t, you no longer have rights, you have whatever privileges someone gives you as long as you’re on their good side
April 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“I only think some people should have due process” is the same as “I don’t think anyone should have due process” because if one person gets to decide who has rights and who doesn’t, you no longer have rights, you have whatever privileges someone gives you as long as you’re on their good side
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BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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NEWS: Judge Novak strikes Lindsey Halligan’s use of the “U.S. Attorney” title, finding that her doing so “ignores a binding court order.”
He also says her brief on the matter contains “a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show.”
He also says her brief on the matter contains “a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show.”
![Virginia was invalid and that Ms. Halligan has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025."). In both opinions, Judge Currie concluded that "[a]ll actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment... [constituted] unlawful exercises of executive
power ...." Comey Opinion at 28; James Opinion at 25.
Ms. Halligan's response, in which she was joined by both the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General, contains a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show and falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice. The Court will not engage in a similar tit-for-tat and will instead analyze the few points that Ms. Halligan offers to justify her continued identification of her position as United States Attorney before the Court. Ultimately, the Court concludes for the reasons that follow that Ms. Halligan's continued identification of herself as the United States Attorney for this District ignores a binding court order and may not continue; otherwise, Ms. Halligan and anyone who joins her on a pleading containing the improper moniker subjects themselves to potential disciplinary action in this Court pursuant to the Court's Local Rules.
I.
Relevant Procedural History
In her opinions, Judge Currie set forth the procedural history leading up to her decision.
The Court recounts here only that history necessary to evaluate Ms. Halligan's position in this
case:
On January 20, 2025, Jessica Aber, who had been nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate, resigned from her position as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The following day, the Attorney General appointed Erik Siebert as Interim U.S. Attorney under 28 U.S.C. § 546. Mr. Siebert's 120-day interim appointment vas set to expire on May 21, 2025. So, on May 9, 2025, the judges of the district xercised their authority under section 546(d) to appoint Mr. Siebert to continue in hi](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreif3bv223wshsxxmb4jasqdgvweo47hwuddhlwuxr7rptl6edzh2qy@jpeg)
January 20, 2026 at 6:40 PM
NEWS: Judge Novak strikes Lindsey Halligan’s use of the “U.S. Attorney” title, finding that her doing so “ignores a binding court order.”
He also says her brief on the matter contains “a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show.”
He also says her brief on the matter contains “a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show.”
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The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
We’ve had a year of Trump 2.0. A year of lies, law-breaking, extortion, targeted prosecution, government violence, murder, and war crimes. Don’t sit idly by: if you have power, use it. If you have a voice, use it. If you believe in democracy, justice, human rights and the rule of law, GET ACTIVE.
January 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
We’ve had a year of Trump 2.0. A year of lies, law-breaking, extortion, targeted prosecution, government violence, murder, and war crimes. Don’t sit idly by: if you have power, use it. If you have a voice, use it. If you believe in democracy, justice, human rights and the rule of law, GET ACTIVE.