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Marilyn French @marilynfrenche.bsky.social · 1h

Consistent with Catholic theology. In America women bleeding out and die. Please sit down.

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Marilyn French @marilynfrenche.bsky.social · 1h

Meloni has proved to be a pragmatic leader.

Marilyn French @marilynfrenche.bsky.social · 1h

Not very enlightening at all.

Marilyn French @marilynfrenche.bsky.social · 1h

Old article. Try again.

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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 23h

Exclusive: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Shows What Functional Government Actually Looks Like

My latest interview with Gov. Hobbs

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18h

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
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Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

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fizzlebuns.bsky.social @fizzlebuns.bsky.social · 3h

I didn't realize Sooknanan's first name was Sparkle. Judge Sparkle. Imagine that a Judge Sparkle calls you a clown in open court.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

Rut roh.

Sydney Reid is asking that her case be thrown out. Everytime Juicebox Jeanine gives a new explanation, things get worse.

Notice of Electronic Filing

The following transaction was entered on 10/14/2025 at 8:16 AM and filed on 10/14/2025
Case Name: USA v. REID
Case Number: 1:25-cr-00244-SLS
Filer:
Document Number: No document attached
Docket Text:
MINUTE ORDER as to SYDNEY LORI REID (1): The Court ORDERS the parties appear this morning for oral argument before trial, at 09:00 AM in Courtroom 14- In Person before Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan. So ORDERED by Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan on 10/14/2025. (znbn)

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 5h

Intentionally DESTROYING exculpatory evidence.

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Marilyn French @marilynfrenche.bsky.social · 4h

Ditto.

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LR @trychick.bsky.social · 5h

I wouldn’t call this sloppy, I would call it INTENTIONALLY criminal.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Also, the day before trial, USG turned over new videos, each two hours long.

I can't express how wildly inconsistent this sloppiness is with what happened on the Jan6 investigation.

In addition, around noon on October 13, 2025 (the day before trial is set to begin), the
government informed the defense of previously undisclosed surveillance video from two cameras
at the D.C. Jail. At approximately 3:45pm, the government finally disclosed the missing videos to
the defense, each of which is two hours long.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Residovic then explained that he didn't know how to preserve video, but would have made the effort if it was inculpatory, just not if it was exculpatory.

Agent Residovic also acknowledged that he did not recover the video because he “didn’t
see anything in the video that was criminal.” Tr. 10/10/25 at 48. While he first stated that he
would not recover an inculpatory video because he didn’t know how, he admitted that if he saw
strong evidence for the prosecution, he would reach out to others to learn how to preserve the
video. He said that he did not try to learn how to preserve the video in question because it was
short and because it “didn’t show evidence of anything criminal.” Tr. 10/10/25 at 49-50. He did
not and could not express that he did not think it was possible to capture the video.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Then there's the testimony that Dinko Residovic (unclear who he works for--MPD, FBI, or ICE) was checking his phone while driving, which is consistent with Reid's testimony.

But his testimony didn't resemble all the things USG has been saying up till now.

The testimony of Agent Residovic did not help the government’s cause. He testified that
he was driving the car with Officer Liang in the passenger seat and Ms. Reid in the back. During
the ride, a link to an Instagram video was sent to his phone by an ICE Agent Johnson and that he
briefly watched the video. He said that the video was only a
“couple of seconds,” Tr. 10/10/25 at 48, a “few seconds long” Tr. 10/10/25 at 46 and that he “barely
saw it.” Tr. 10/10/25 at 45. He specifically remembered that the contents of the video were unimportant. On cross-examination, he acknowledged that the Potomac Press video was
significantly longer than a few seconds and showed a portion of the incident with Ms. Reid.5

He was confronted with numerous prior statements to the prosecution contradicting his
direct examination. Specifically, he was asked about statements he made around September 16
where he had told the prosecutors that the link had not previously been sent to him, that it had been
sent to Officer Liang. He had also told the prosecutors that he did not have the link, that he only
received it from Officer Liang in response to the defense’s request. Tr. 10/10/25 at 57. He further
said that he did not know the account holder of the video because the link was dead. Tr. 10/10/25
at 57. Agent Residovic denied recalling making any of these statements. Tr. 10/10/25 at 57. He
also denied ever believing any of the information contained in those statements.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

The govt is also saying that DC's MPD has better evidentiary standards than the Eff Bee Eye, which would suggest Kash has been destroying things even faster than we suspected.

ICE? That I believe. Which is why everyone arrested by ICE should immediately get a preservation order.

3 The government disclosed over the weekend that neither the FBI or ICE have rules or procedures
governing the preservation of evidence. In contrast, MPD has a general order that requires officers to
preserve all potentially discoverable material, including any material which “may be favorable to the
accused.” MPD General Order 602.02 at 4.

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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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Marilyn French @marilynfrenche.bsky.social · 4h

I do not know what I would do without your succinct and predictive reporting.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

3) This thing is such a clusterfuck it threatens to implicate the entire DC USAO, from Juicebox Jeanine on down.

I've long been of the belief that criminal discovery will sink these political prosecutions. But the clusterfuck here surprises even me.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

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...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

Judge Nachmanoff has adopted Jim Comey's preferred protective order over the one the loaner AUSAs proposed (which would have required Comey have babysitters to access his own discovery).

He also included this footnote.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

ICYMI:

Stephen Miller's spouse doesn't know Joe Biden exists.

A screencap of a tweet from Katie Miller.

Why are there no living female hostages?
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20d

Critics including Elon Musk have assailed my @cato.org colleague Alex Nowrasteh's study finding that most politically motivated terrorist killings in the U.S. since 1975 have been done by persons on the right. Alex responds to the critics here and explains his methods and classifications.

Alex Responds to the Critics: Politically Motivated Terrorist Killings in the United States

The critics are mistaken

www.alexnowrasteh.com

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Marilyn French @marilynfrenche.bsky.social · 5h

Awesome!

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 7h

The president (or maybe not president) of Madagascar—a radio DJ who overthrew the island’s yogurt kingpin in a coup d’état—just fled the country in a French helicopter after Gen Z protests. I wrote about the most interesting island you know nothing about, with bonus pictures of me with lemurs:

The yogurt kingpin, the radio DJ coup, and the most interesting island on Earth

Madagascar is a fascinating island home to 30+ million people. It's also home to bizarre, volatile politics that virtually nobody knows about. And the president just escaped on a helicopter.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

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