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Chet Arthur, the Snack Food Mascot @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 2m

I will take you at your word that such statements have been proffered, but even if those offering such are technically accurate it's still cosmically bullshit, and quite obviously your larger point stands that nobody should make such attempts.

I mean, Jayzuz y'all

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 57m

a couple of people have criticized this "but what if you do bad things with all that power" but like. look around you. the right has already grasped the power at hand and is using it. "republicans use the state to advance their goals; democrats unilaterally disarm" is not a sustainable equilibrium!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Chet Arthur, the Snack Food Mascot @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 56m

Praise Goldwater!? Dafuq

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2h

2/2 Judge Smith's Order from today:

"Defendants’ new condition is not a good faith effort to comply with the order."

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

(h/t @kyledcheney.bsky.social)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: Counsel for James Comey confirms that his defense team plans to file a motion challenging the lawfulness of Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as interim U.S. Attorney.

Motion will be heard and decided by an out-of-district judge.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
Alexandria Division
United States of America
v.
James Comey
Defendant.
Case No. 1:25CR272-MSN
NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE MOTION ON UNLAWFUL APPOINTMENT
Please take notice that on October 20, 2025, James Comey, by counsel, will
file his motion to dismiss challenging the lawfulness of the appointment of the
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. See, e.g., United States
v. Garcia, Crim No. 2:25-CR-00230-DGC-BNW, ECF No. 39 D. Nev. Sept. 30,
2025); United States v. Giraud, et al., Crim No. 1:24-768-MWB, ECF Nos. 144, 145
(D.N.J. Aug. 21, 2025).
The Court advised at arraignment that such motion will require designation
of and assignment to an out-of-district judge to hear and resolve that motion. See 28
U.S.C. § 292(b); Minute Order, ECF No. 19 (Oct. 8, 2025). Thus, in the interest of efficiency and to avoid any unnecessary delay in such process, Mr. Comey files the
instant Notice to formally alert the Court.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES COMEY
By Counsel
Is/
Patrick J. Fitzgerald
Michigan Bar No. P86579 (pro hac vice)
Jessica N. Carmichael

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 4h

🙃

Dan Ray @danray05.bsky.social · 4h

Need a sign?

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Anthrodiva La Chatte @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 4h

They don't want grannies and frogs and gay guys throwing sammiches.

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Chet Arthur, the Snack Food Mascot @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 5h

Avoid a small fight now, get a bigger fight later

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

Will someone please call Mr Rutte and tell him that crack is wack

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 5h

NATO SecGen: “We are so much stronger than the Russians that we don’t need to shoot down their planes when they enter our airspace. If we were weak, we might need to prove ourselves immediately. But if there's no threat, a measured response clearly signaling our displeasure is a much stronger move.”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 10h

Fun fact: in chapter nineteen of the Second Treatise, John Locke writes that when the legislative power is usurped from that body in which the People have placed it, and exercised instead by a person or body not authorized to do so by the People, government is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h

Do you notice how the state basically cannot function any longer without using constant screaming all-channels terror and moral panics to force through deeply unpopular and immoral policies

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h

The government continuing to incite fear and hatred against members of the public here, hand in hand with our horrible, poisonous media outlets, both to evade responsibility for their own conduct and to fill space that might otherwise be stories about how unpopular they are and how much they suck.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 13h

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 11h

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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 18h

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 9h

If we get another wave of Democrats primarily worried about some bullshit like healthcare reform or infrastructure to the end of ignoring the enforcement of laws against the nation’s enemies and the annihilation of the 24-year state of exception that let them usurp then there is no point to victory

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Understand the background to this case.
1) Reid was arrested for what the FBI agent, who also called Reid a "libtard" said was a boo boo. They tried to charge her with felony assault.
2) That was no billed. So they decided to go ahead w/misdemeanor assault.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Here's what prosecutors--PROSECUTORS!!!--said last week about why they had not given Sydney Reid video to her alleged assault of an FBI agent.

She's seeking to get her case thrown out before it goes to trial this week.

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

There can be little doubt that the government failed in its duties, first by failing to collect
contemporaneous statements and other information from the officers from the incident and then
by neglecting to supervise the collection of that information, by relying on the officers’ conclusion
as to what is relevant and not relevant. Still, the government persists in trying to blame the defense.
Even at the hearing, the government deflected blame: “The ambiguity, I think, that arises here is
that we are trying to construct a very mundane incident three months after it happened involving,
I guess for lack of a better word, middle-aged people who just aren't great with technology, just
like everyone else in this courtroom.” Tr. at 10/10/25 at 14

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Chet Arthur, the Snack Food Mascot @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 15h

No, sir. Hole-in-One

Chet Arthur, the Snack Food Mascot @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 16h

Love the alt text - only appearing to be thinking is correct

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17h

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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Chet Arthur, the Snack Food Mascot @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 16h

“All Star” – Smash Mouth
“Self-Actualization Hymn in F# Major for California Quartet with Unlikely Cultural Impact”

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...

If Pop Songs Had Classical Music Titles

“Friday” – Rebecca Black “Temporal Awareness Cantata in G Major for Adolescent Voice and Auto-Tuned Choir (‘Hebdomadal Celebration’)” “Mambo No. 5...

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