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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 16h

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Says It Will Make Only Partial SNAP Payments This Month

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 16h

A Step Closer to the Release of Volume II of Jack Smith's Final Report

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals tells Judge Cannon to fish or cut bait on the 8 month old motion to release Volume II.

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A Step Closer to the Release of Volume II of Jack Smith's Final Report

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals tells Judge Cannon to fish or cut bait on the 8 month old motion to release Volume II.

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 23h

Joyce Vance The Week Ahead — This Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear the Trump tariffs case, arguably one of the most important cases it will hear all term. More...

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The Week Ahead

November 2, 2025

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 1d

Good News: A Court Rejects Trump's Effort To Suppress The Vote

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Good News: A Court Rejects Trump's Effort To Suppress The Vote

In March, Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS.” Predictably, it was designed to do anything but that.

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 2d

NEWS: Saturday News Update

Trump has ordered the DoD to prepare for war with Nigeria. He has also declared attacking him to be “likely illegal.”

ICE is reportedly hiring bounty hunters and agents have been wearing horror masks during raids this Halloween weekend.

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BREAKING Saturday News Update

Good evening, everyone.

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 3d

Trump Administration Live Updates: Government Ordered to Pay Food Stamp Benefits During Shutdown

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Government Ordered to Pay Food Stamp Benefits During Shutdown

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 3d

Americans blame Trump and GOP more than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds

Independents hold Trump and Republicans responsible for the shutdown by a 2-1 margin, according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos.

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Americans blame Trump and GOP more than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds

Independents hold Trump and Republicans responsible for the shutdown by a 2-1 margin, according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly.

Some people scoffed that Pritzker even raised this.

But now Noem is on record, which looks awful AND ALSO may help win legal cases.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d

The contractors who just destroyed the East Wing are trying to lay low.

😜

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Some White House ballroom contractors go underground

Some firms involved in the White House ballroom project appear to be trying to lower their online profiles.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

I’m shocked.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

BREAKING: Furloughed employees at CDC just received an email about the shutdown, but has REMOVED language about backpay that appeared in a similar email sent out a month ago. On the left is the Oct 1st email with the backpay language, on the right is the email they received today.

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Bopeep-Burton 🌎🏴‍☠️🏡🐓🏖 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🇺🇸 🏳️‍⚧️💙🗽 @bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 4d

How nice.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4d

🇨🇳❗️China sent more than 3 million engines for UAVs to Russia in 2024, — WSJ.

This is stated in reports for the US State Department and European governments. The supplier is Shenzhen Kiosk Electronic, the recipient is Moscow-based Rustakt LLC, which makes FPV drones.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 4d

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.

California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.

Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 4d

BREAKING: For the third day in a row, Senate Republicans have rebuked Donald Trump and his tariffs, voting to overturn all of Trump’s tariffs. More...

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BREAKING: Senate Republicans Rebuke Trump for Third Day in a Row

Good afternoon everyone.

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 5d

The Supreme Court's (Self-Defeating) Supremacy

2025 Sup. Ct. Rev. (forthcoming)
40 Pages Posted: 27 Oct 2025
Stephen I. Vladeck
Georgetown University Law Center
Date Written: October 25, 2025

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The Supreme Court's (Self-Defeating) Supremacy

<p><span>This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of <i>The Supreme Court Review</i>, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on eme

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 5d

108 Steps the Trump Administration Has Taken To Destroy America

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108 Steps the Trump Administration Has Taken To Destroy America

Many conversations about this administration devolve into arguments about interpretation, intent, or whether things are really as bad as…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 5d

Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

I'll be on MSNBC's @chrislhayes.bsky.social momentarily!

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5d

For every meal that a food bank provides, SNAP provides 9. There’s no way that food banks can meet that gap. This needs to end and SNAP needs to be funded.

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 5d

NEWS: Pentagon directs states to form rapid response units to target protests, DHS uses fake videos as basis for sending in military, Democrats warn of Trump declaring national emergency over elections, more news...

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BREAKING: Pentagon Directs All 50 States to Form National Guard Rapid-Response Units to Target 'Civil Unrest'

Pentagon directs states to form rapid response units to target protests, DHS uses fake videos as basis for sending in military, Democrats warn of Trump declaring national emergency over elections

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 6d

MAGA Uses Hunger as a Political Weapon

Donald Trump is weaponizing food supply. He is prepared to let more than 40 Million Americans go hungry to pressure Democrats to capitulate on the shutdown & snatch health insurance away from tens of millions of people.

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MAGA Uses Hunger as a Political Weapon

Starving children is a new low

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 6d

Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations

Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.

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Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations

Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was years old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.

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Frank Gilbane @gilbane.com · 6d

NEWS: ICE rapidly expands surveillance of your social media, Trump replaces ICE officials with CBP officials to increase militarization of agency, SNAP set to run out in four days for millions, federal judge rebukes Bondi and Noem, more...

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NEWS: ICE Rapidly Expands Surveillance of Your Social Media and Expands Surveillance State

ICE rapidly expands surveillance of your social media, Trump replaces ICE officials with CBP officials to increase militarization of agency, SNAP set to run out in four days for millions, and more

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