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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14h

NEW: Between her personal and DOJ accounts, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon tweets over 100 times a day — a behavior that can safely be categorized as chronically online. But could her social media presence be killing her cases? @jimsaksa.com explains👇

Trump's Terminally Online DOJ Could Be Killing Its Cases Just to Own the Libs

Read more here.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17h

Speaker Mike Johnson, standing next to Emmer here, urged Democrats less than a month ago to "turn down their rhetoric," saying, "Nazis and fascists is not helpful."

As such, striking to see him stand quietly as a fellow Republican insists there is a "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 19h

BUT what if we bundle these up, then cut them into different tranches, and then sell those?! IT CANNOT FAIL

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19h

Crypto bros have a great idea: "fractional real estate." Investors just buy a piece of a property, on the blockchain.
This is *how every property-related security already works*.
And given its history, securitization might not be something you want to reinvent!
From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:

Crypto Bros Want to Create Micro Landlords

Crypto executives are selling investors fractions of buildings in yet another scheme to reinvent an existing activity and say rules don’t apply because it’s on the blockchain.

prospect.org

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 19h

What's more peaceful than a Department of Defense? A Department of War, of course!

Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 19h

Can't believe the guy deploying troops against his own citizens and blowing up motorboats without a scintilla of legal justification didn't win the peace prize

Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 19h

Can't believe the guy deploying troops against his own citizens and blowing up motorboats without a scintilla of legal justification didn't win the peace prize

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 21h

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 23h

This year’s laureate:

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 1d

I hate sports, why do I watch sports, sports are dumb and stupid and

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 1d

New meme format

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Ingrassia is also the WH aide who Brian "The Drizz" Driscoll has alleged questioned him about political loyalty to Trump

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Pat Gallen @patgallen.bsky.social · 1d

Devonta Smith running wide open 40 yards downfield and Hurts misses him.

The Philly sports week from hell.

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Mike @85mf.bsky.social · 1d

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 1d

OF FUCKING COURSE THEY DO

Charlie O'Connor @charlieoconn.bsky.social · 1d

Flyers lose their opener to the Panthers by a 2-1 final score.

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 1d

ugh.

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 1d

Eagles seem to do better when I watch. Phillies, so far, no impact either way. Might stick with football for all our sakes

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 1d

Not feeling great about sports right now

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 1d

Truly believe the goofy guys protesting as silly as possible will be what saves us

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 1d

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

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Jacob Knutson @jaknutson.bsky.social · 1d

How do we operate as a free and open society when the president can swoop into any city, tear apart communities, then use the inevitable unrest resulting from his actions to station standing armies indefinitely?

Jacob Knutson @jaknutson.bsky.social · 1d

The DOJ is currently arguing in court that the president can deliberately provoke unrest and incite chaos in a city and then can use that turmoil as justification for deploying the National Guard.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: How do you respond to the plaintiffs' contention that any unrest, any violence is the fault of how federal agents are interacting with members of the public? Does it matter if their conduct is why they can't execute federal laws?
Hamilton: No.

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE63...

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