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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

When the output of the highest court in the land wouldn't pass muster coming from first-year law students, it discredits the institutional legitimacy of the entire legal system. Nobody can pretend they are at the apex of the profession, intellectually credible even when you disagree with them.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

Their opinions are poorly written, when they even bother. Their rationales fail to hide their overt partisan bias even when ways of doing so are available. Their oral arguments are cringe-inducing. They might seem sober adults compared to the freak show in the White House, but only by that low bar.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

In ways above and beyond simply having a conservative GOP majority (which after all had already been the case for decades), they're just outright bad at the job. They're thoroughly unimpressive, even incompetent, as jurists, in ways that are not historically normal for the Supreme Court.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12h

Thread 🧵

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 19h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

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katefromnyc.bsky.social @katefromnyc.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks for this clarification.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine being this bad at running a government

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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katefromnyc.bsky.social @katefromnyc.bsky.social · 9h

The only constancy in the Trump world is chaos.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h

Loss in court for Trump Admin:

Appeals court blocks the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area amid ongoing protest

www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

Appeals court temporarily blocks deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago

The Defense Department announced earlier this week that about 200 National Guard soldiers from Texas and another 300 from Illinois were federalized and sent to the Chicago area.

www.cbsnews.com

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 12h

The most frustrating part of this is that a federal judge literally made a finding of fact of the evidence presented by the administration, a judge appointed by Trump, and that judge called the narrative untethered to facts, and the narrator, unreliable.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 12h

One would think headlines couldn‘t get more abnormal, but they can. www.oregonlive.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12h

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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katefromnyc.bsky.social @katefromnyc.bsky.social · 10h

Serious question: how much control does he have over that?

He obviously has control over the state police. Not sure about the hotels.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

trib.al

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16h

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

wow is this grotesque

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 14h

The entire premise is bonkers too. The president deserves a "cut" for brokering the FORCED sale of a company to his allies after illegally freezing legislation banning the company's operation to facilitate it's sale to his allies...when he championed the ban in the first place.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 14h

It seems they also got rid of the organization that monitors how many Americans die, when, and of what. Convenient.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 19h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 14h

Years and years ago, I knew an attorney who needed to buy an extra day or two for briefing, and the 2d Cir., which is notoriously stingy about extensions, would automatically bounce a brief with incomplete tables and order that it be refiled w/in 48 hours. You can see where this went.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

The pro-disease admin.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 15h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 17h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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