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Ora Tor
@splitrailfence.bsky.social
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Civil War historian & Wide Awake. Prefers democracy (system) & republic (state). Kind to nonhumans. Retired from social studies, financial analysis, & small business. Traveled over 50k US miles for my research. Nature knows best & intends no ill will.
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raybeckerman.bsky.social
Facing Threats and Intimidation, Indiana Republicans Will Vote on Redistricting www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Facing Threats and Intimidation, Indiana Republicans Will Vote on Redistricting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies.

Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:

www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
NEW: DOJ files a notice it is appealing last week's ruling against National Guard deployment in D.C. The appeal goes to the D.C. Circuit.

Coverage at Law Dork on last week's ruling: www.lawdork.com/p/federal-ju...
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Plaintiff, Case No. 1:25-cv-03005 (JMC) DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. NOTICE OF APPEAL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Defendants hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from this Court's November 20, 2025 Memorandum Opinion (ECF No. 88) and Order (ECF No. 89) granting Plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction and a section 705 stay. Dated: November 25, 2025 BRETT A. SHUMATE Assistant Attorney General ERIC J. HAMILTON Deputy Assistant Attorney General JOHN BAILEY Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General BRAD P. ROSENBERG Special Counsel /s/ Kian K. Azimpoor KIAN KEVIN AZIMPOOR (D.C. Bar No. 90024613) Trial Attorney U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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meredithshiner.com
turns out that taking a blow torch to the federal government and all of the adjacent fields that rely on funding from the federal government is bad for jobs!! who could have foreseen???
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
ALL HANDS ON DECK. The Fifth Circuit has issued another maritime pun.
PARR T to travel up to 250 miles from the Atlantic Coast. We cannot fathom how that is not permission to go upon the “ocean.” Parr can point to no New York decision that supports his strained reading of the contract. To the contrary, New York courts have consistently deemed vessels “ocean going” where their insurance contracts expressl
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
Top Ivermectin Prescriber Now in CDC's Second Highest Position
Opinion | Top Ivermectin Prescriber Now in CDC's Second Highest Position
Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, has a questionable public health track record
www.medpagetoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Owens: Lawsuit against me? Who cares? Trump's got my back.
goldwagnathan.bsky.social Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16h
Somebody please ask the President of the United States about this, I honestly want to know what he'd say.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
And, here is Bovino's third day of depositions, November 4: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The lawyers:
Locke Bowman for the plaintiffs.
Sarmad Khojasteh for the government.
MR. BOWMAN: After he answers my question, 4 I'm going to ask him another question. You are not going to get in the middle of this. 6 MR. KHOJASTEH: But you're not -- 7 MR. BOWMAN: Stop it. 8 MR. KHOJASTEH: -- allowed -- you're not 9 allowed to -- if he's answering the question, 10 you're not allowed to start yelling at him and 11 saying it's a yes or no question. If he's 12 answering the question -- 13 MR. BOWMAN: Nobody's yelling -- 14 MR. KHOJASTEH: -- let him answer the 15 question. 16 MR. BOWMAN: - at anybody. 17 MR. KHOJASTEH: He's -- the record -- 18 MR. BOWMAN: He's not yelling and I'm not 19 yelling. Stop talking. 20 MR. KHOJASTEH: That -- 21 MR. BOWMAN: Stop it. 22 MR. KHOJASTEH: Still rude. Still rude. 23 MR. BOWMAN: I'm not here to be polite. I'm 24 here to do my job and so are you.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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zoetillman.bsky.social
In the Alien Enemies Act fight in DC, plaintiffs filed a proposal for judge's revived contempt probe - their initial list of potential witnesses, depending on what the judge deems necessary/appropriate, incl. ex-DOJ official/current 3rd Circuit Judge Emil Bove buff.ly/41VOd80

Prev: buff.ly/J5sksNa
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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zoetillman.bsky.social
ICYMI: DOJ is fighting an effort to force Elon Musk to testify in a lawsuit that accuses him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of USAID while he was an adviser to Trump, arguing he should be shielded as a former high-level executive branch official
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Trump Administration Fights Bid to Get Musk to Testify on DOGE
The Trump administration is fighting efforts by government workers and contractors to force billionaire Elon Musk to testify in a lawsuit that accuses him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of…
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
Findings support the hypothesis that gene duplications, particularly in reproduction and development, contributed to termite eusociality academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Genomic Features Underlying the Origin of Sociality and the Diversification of Caste Systems in Termites
Abstract. Termite colonies consist of distinct castes whose developmental pathways fall into 2 types and vary among lineages. Understanding caste evolution
academic.oup.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
The Trump health care proposal that would extend ACA subsidies for 2 years has been put on hold by House Republicans who can't stand seeing people covered. But that plan had a lot of stuff in it that would worsen insurance and raise prices, @ryanlcooper.com and I write.
Trump’s Obamacare Plan Is Still Not Great - The American Prospect
The Republican plan to more than double premiums is gone, but the insurance will get worse, and the poor will pay more.
prospect.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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mikezaccardi.bsky.social
TOM LEE: S&P 500 7k by year-end still likely, equity markets oversold coming into this week, strong gains common after up Jan-Oct @fundstrat
fsinsight.com/macro-...
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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gainvestigate.bsky.social
Average stays in federal custody’s for children is six months under Trump, compared with one month under Biden. flip.it/VBNqGg
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
flip.it
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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policyhound.bsky.social
A major reorganization and significant downsizing has left scientists wondering about the future of the US National Academies. www.science.org/content/arti...
Can a smaller U.S. National Academies remain relevant?
Loss of federal support leads to staff layoffs and fewer committees of outside experts
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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jorisluyendijk.bsky.social
How the Americans are poisoning not just their own democracy, but ours here in Europe, too.
rutgerbregman.com Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 23h
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
Can Trump DOJ refile against Comey?
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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landguyminor.bsky.social
Dark #blueskymonday #EastCoastKin #sunset #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear #moon
#MobilePhotography
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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kalimurray.bsky.social
Two things that would make housing affordable again: properly constituted public hoarding and a wholesale recognition of tenant’s unions.
djbyrnes1.bsky.social Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Fog flows across the Santa Cruz Mountains.
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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houseofreggae.bsky.social
Deeply saddened to hear that Jimmy Cliff has died at the age of 81.

A truly magnificent singer and performer. He started out as a teenager in the early 60s recording future classics like this...

RIP lion 🦁🙏

youtu.be/HRVqG5QxvhY?...

#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #jimmycliff
7" of Jimmy Cliff - King Of Kings on Island label. Released in 1963. Produced by Leslie Kong.
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
splitrailfence.bsky.social
A favorite album of all time. Every song is spectacular. Treat The Kids Right, Roots Radical, & Peace Officer though!
Peace officer: are you a warrior, a warrior? Why you carrying so much ammunition, more than an aircraft carrier?

Little changed from Inner City Blues, & Jimmy knew it.

#jimmycliff
Colorful album cover of Special by Jimmy Cliff. This album is post-dreds for Jimmy. The cover has green plants, a yellow building, and Jimmy in the color of glory and love and honesty. Lost a great one.
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
Subject of my first legal publication:

openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...
openyls.law.yale.edu
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM