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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 5m

“Don’t get me wrong,” Vance said with a puckish grin, “We do like hurting federal workers. But we REALLY wanted to hurt regular Americans by raising their health insurance costs. Democrats won’t let us have that fun, so we’re punishing people who work for the Department of Education instead.”

“The longer this goes on, the deeper the cuts are going to be,” Vance said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “To be clear, some of these cuts are going to be painful. This is not a situation that we relish. This is not something that we’re looking forward to, but the Democrats have dealt us a pretty difficult set of cards.”

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 5m

Been doing it for ages

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R. Wm. "Ruedii" 🦊🐧 🥖 @rwruedii.bsky.social · 5h

They are using warrants that have no judges signature on them at all?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5m

As Trump administration takes shares in more companies, a survey of finance economists warns that government ownership of share stakes tends to undercut corporate performance and governance, as accountability blurs and managers' side agendas proliferate. [Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller, @cato.org]

Finance Economists Warn Against Government as Shareholder

Just as most economists oppose price controls that distort market incentives, they view government ownership stakes as a threat to the market discipline that makes firms productive and innovative. In ...

www.cato.org

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Antifa Princess™️🗿💖🌻⛵️✨ @tleighb.bsky.social · 5m

Once the brain is wired a certain way, it takes immense effort to change. If the mess we are in has shown us anything, it's that we are failing as a nation to properly raise & protect our kids. Their brains are not wired properly & if it's not wired properly as a kid, it won't be as an adult.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 5h

One of my roommates in collage was a compulsive liar. Living with him and frequently overhearing the same stories, we were able to pick up on some of the very nuanced tells.

Over the years though, those little vocal inflections all but vanished. I think he really started believing his own tales.

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MountainStrider @mtnstrider.bsky.social · 13h

Can Portland sue Noem for lying and slandering both the individuals, and the city itself. That’s quite damaging to tell the entire nation a lie like that. There’s like 400,000 people that can testify that ICE Barbie is lying.

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ZenGali @zengali.bsky.social · 14h

the only qualification permitted

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jimrissmiller.bsky.social @jimrissmiller.bsky.social · 14h

Being a performative liar seems to be a minimum qualification to work in the Trump regime.

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Arcturus SaDiablo @asadiablo.me · 14h

It's always "everyone else is lying" with these people, when the proof, the actual evidence says they are the ones lying.

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shawnjohnpdx 🚫🧊 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 14h

I live in Portland. Unless you are at the ICE facility, nothing is happening. We are peacefully coexisting with one another. There are no fires. No violence. It's actually a pretty mellow place.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Also lying:
- your own eyes
- every bit of video evidence
- the fabric of reality itself

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

TY

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ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 7h

@emptywheel.bsky.social it seems feds are lying to keep Bovino out of court

ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 7h

Bovino was hurt on October 3rd and it was represented to the court that he was on 2 weeks bedrest due to a groin injury and yet was at CNN on October 7th. They are lying to keep Bovino out of court

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 50m

I don't feel sorry for these guys at all, but they're undoubtedly using shit they found on dockets bc they don't know EDVA and probably people want to stay the fuck away.

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 1h

"Attached a STIPULATED protective order that the defense disagrees with?"

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

USG wants to prevent Comey from talking about his discovery by, first, designating all the discovery sensitive (other cases designate PII and matters pertaining to informants), and then saying he can't access it w/o a babysitter.

Also note HIS discovery would be really useful for Maurene.

6. First, the defense objects to the provision in the protective order that disallows
defense attorneys from leaving the discovery with the defendant. Through public filings, the
government has reviewed at least ten protective orders that were entered on the docket in the
Eastern District of Virginia in September and August of 2025. Each of these protective orders
included a similar provision that prohibited unsupervised retention of discovery materials by the
defendant in the case. Prohibiting a defendant from unfettered access to the discovery is not unique
in criminal proceedings. The narrowly tailored restriction the government proposed is common
sense and does not place an undue burden on a Defendant that has been release on personal
recognizance.

7. Second, the government’s position is that all the discovery is Protective Material,
except for that portion of the discovery that is already carved out in Paragraph 2 of the proposed
order (Attachment 1). As the government understands it, the defense position is that all the
discovery is not Protective Material, unless designated as such by the government during
production. As stated above, through the proposed protective order, the government has already
carved out those items that are not Protective Material. The remaining discovery is appropriately
designated as Protective Material for the reasons previously provided

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

Here's their logic.

Really hard to imagine what they mean by "private emails or texts," as by their very natured they'd be governmental.

Normal, professional protective order requests speak of PII.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

2. The vast majority of the discovery is law enforcement sensitive, for official use
only, includes private emails or texts, or is otherwise sensitive because of the private nature of the
information. Additionally, there is a heightened media interest in this case. Through social media,
the Defendant has already made a public statement regarding the indictment. Both the defendant
and the government have an interest in a fair trial with impartial jurors making decisions based only on the evidence that is part of the record. In re Morrissey, 168 F.3d 134, 140 (4th Cir. 1999).

3. The need to produce much of the discovery as close to its original format as
possible, together with the volume of the data and the interests in producing the material
expeditiously, makes it infeasible to make extensive redactions to the materials.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

Yesterday, on the same day that the Vice President of the United States stated that Comey "obviously lied under oath" on MTP, the loaner AUSAs prosecuting him cited this video to justify a juvenile protective order.

James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 17d

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 42m

How do the suburban commuters feel about the Black Hawks?

The real ones, not the team?

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 14h

My reaction to JD Vance confirming that they are “considering” the Insurrection Act: I don’t give a shit what you do you MF I’m going to the No Kings protest. I’m not particularly courageous, but I am brimming with rage. I can’t be the only one.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14h

At his kids’ school, a woman (here legally) was ripped out of her car by ICE in the *school drop off line* last week for the crime of being brown. The school had to have a town hall about it. His wife teared up just talking about it. People are being traumatized and they are also fucking pissed.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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