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John W Creighton
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Lawyer and sustainable tree farmer interested in public policy, infrastructure, dogs, the outdoors, @vegasgoldenknights & @seahawksoffical.com Johns Hopkins SAIS/Columbia Law/UNLV
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 5h
I like how Joe Biden never demanded that I pay his legal bills.
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Ken Eissner @keeissner.bsky.social · 1d
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h
The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021.

The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.
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JDKBrown @jdkbrown.bsky.social · 7h
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House. Monday's photo from the Washington Post
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 7h
Supreme Court rule 6-3 that the DOJ owing Trump $230 million is a bargain.
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jablaw.bsky.social @jablaw.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not that the 9th Cir is off the wall. It’s that two Trump appointed judges on the 9th Cir decided they want to be on his short list for S.Ct. I’d be very surprised if the court did not take this up en banc and vacate the ruling asap.
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 11h
9th Cir. National Guard case headed to en banc review:

"...Judge Susan Graber essentially begged for patience from the public as she implored the full appeals court to act:

“I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order..."

(Source: Talking Points Memo)
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h
In what constitutional universe is "the President is telling the Justice Department to pay him $230 million" not an abuse of power?
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John W Creighton @jwcreighton3.bsky.social · 7h
Exactly because Elon Musk is a fascist loser whose views most decent Americans reject.

Musk can only get “engagement” on X by using his army of bots.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 8h
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harry.bsky.team Harry @harry.bsky.team · 9h
A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)

Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 1d
The Dissenting Opinion
Given Portland protesters' well-known penchant for wearing chicken suits, inflatable frog costumes, or nothing at all when expressing their disagreement with the methods employed by ICE, observers may be tempted to view the majority's ruling, which accepts the government's characterization of Portland as a war zone, as merely absurd," Graber wrote.
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John Fralloween @johndavidfraley.bsky.social · 1d
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 16h
Imagine if the tech bros doing all these cool things for themselves used their billions to help humanity instead. apple.news/AJNA_ADzrQ_S...
Inside the Secret Tech Island Where Death Is Optional — Popular Mechanics
How a tropical haven for “anarcho-capitalist” ideals became ground zero in the scientific quest for immortality.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 16h
This. Every word.
edwardluce.bsky.social Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 16h
"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...
Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump
Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16h
It does somehow sum everything up neatly. Trashy vulgarian unilaterally decides to tear up an iconic American building as though it’s one of his tacky private clubs, rather than a national monument he has very temporarily (and foolishly) been permitted to inhabit.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18h
European leaders and Ukraine’s allies issued a careful warning to US President Donald Trump early today over his lukewarm support for Kyiv, backing his call to halt fighting but rejecting any suggestion of territorial concessions to Moscow.
Ukraine allies to Trump: Yes to freezing the line, no to changing borders
Joint statement from U.K., Germany, France, Italy and the EU comes after U.S. president holds tense meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
www.politico.eu
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John W Creighton @jwcreighton3.bsky.social · 18h
Why is a serious, fact-based publication giving even the slightest credibility to anything the inveterate liar Trump says anymore?

The battlefield & country reports if anything point to the tide starting to turn against Putin.
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Denise Thomas Patrick @deniseky.bsky.social · 1d
If you look at today's tweets and "truths," you'll see the president of the United States of America is too stupid to know how to spell Colombia.

It's unbelievably egregious to know how stupid he and his entire cabinet prove to be on a daily basis.

They are too stupid to be embarrassed 😔
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John W Creighton @jwcreighton3.bsky.social · 22h
Exactly. Obama should have insisted on providing aid to homeowners not Wall Street,
davidsirota.com David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d
IMO promising people hope & change & then bailing out bank donors as they foreclosed on 10 million families was the defining political moment that birthed this era & IMO liberals/Dems still refusing to reckon with this & discard the politics that led to it is part of why this descent persists.

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Liberal Television @liberaltelevision.bsky.social · 2d
7 million patriots standing up for their rights and their freedoms all across America. No Kings Day was a HUGE success.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5d
From the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on deployment of National Guard: "Political opposition is not rebellion."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5d
7th Circuit: ‘The Administration Remains Barred From Deploying the National Guard of the United States Within Illinois’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/7th-cir...
7th Circuit: ‘The Administration Remains Barred From Deploying the National Guard of the United States Within Illinois’
A 7th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously Thursday to maintain...
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Utahbug @utahbug.bsky.social · 2d
White House accused Newsom of overreacting in closing a portion of I-5.
Debris from an exploding shell hit a vehicle.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d
WaPo is reporting that former SSA data chief Charles Borges says Musk’s “U.S. DOGE Service” copied a federal mainframe with data on hundreds of millions of Americans. SSA denies a breach, but insiders say DOGE had unprecedented access and moved the data to a vulnerable cloud.
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