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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey

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Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey - emptywheel

Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to p...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 8h

"Donald Trump did investigate precisely the same people he demands be prosecuted now.

For years.

But some very determined prosecutors concluded that there was no probable cause to charge him."

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/11/p...

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey - emptywheel

Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to p...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Page One in Boston.

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 6h

President Miller?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 9h

what happened, happened

Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill

The National Defense Authorization Act passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.

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WIRED @wired.com · 8h

Plus: US government cybersecurity staffers get reassigned to do immigration work, a hack exposes sensitive age-verification data of Discord users, and more. www.wired.com/story/happy-...

'Happy Gilmore' Producer Buys Spyware Maker NSO Group

Plus: US government cybersecurity staffers get reassigned to do immigration work, a hack exposes sensitive age-verification data of Discord users, and more.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8h

The entire DC office of the CDC was fired overnight. All of it.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8h

We’re really going to need some version of regional CDCs, like what already happened with Covid shot coordination, organized by Dem governors, or there will be no public health data or policy in this country.

RFK’s ascension was a top five fiasco of Trump 2.0.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 8h

Translation: if the president has to give in to the Democrats’ demand for renewing health insurance subsidies, don’t worry. We can come back later with clawbacks (“rescissions”) that require a simple majority (“reconciliation bill”) to pass.

IOW, Johnson is announcing his intention to cheat.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23h

Read my interview with the peerless @tify330.bsky.social.

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Hakeem Jeffries: 'Republicans have zero credibility, zero'

The Democrats' message is breaking through, says Tiffany Carlock.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Reminder: Trump vaccinates himself 👇🏽

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Kirk (Antifa Social Secretary™️) Murphy 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❌👑 @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 15h

We are very, very, very pissed off. The former Surgeons General's collective announcement, the multiple specialty societies, the luminaries such as Peter Hotez - all speaking forcefully, at immense personal risk, in a manner far more urgent than demure o medicalese - all worth our reading & respect.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

🚨NEW: A panel of three federal judges will soon decide whether to block Texas from using its new congressional map in the 2026 election, after a contentious nine-day hearing concluded Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

‘We Could Not Have Clearer Facts’: Minority Advocates Say Racial Motive Is Evident As Texas Redistricting Hearing Wraps Up

Read more here.

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JAMA @jama.com · 7h

💬 Viewpoint: President Trump's use of executive orders to restrict gender-affirming care undermines medical regulation, infringes on physician autonomy, and contravenes legal frameworks.

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A JAMA viewpoint article titled, "Federal Funding Conditions Threaten Gender-Affirming Care Access and Physician Autonomy" by Carmel Shachar, Julia Lynch, and Kevin Costello, published online September 4, 2025.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 7h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7h

I am old enough to remember when Trump said he would lower grocery prices on Day One.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 16h

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, the NYT literally hired a reporter to plant puff pieces on Epstein! The NYC/DC media abetted Epstein because they were from the same social circles, circles that apparently do not have a problem with child rape. A page from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (it gets worse from there...)

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 7h

“Josh Dawsey reported in the Wall Street Journal today that administrative officials joke about ruling Congress with an “iron fist” and that Trump ally Steve Bannon has compared Congress to Russia’s largely ceremonial Duma.”

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

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October 10, 2025

All of President Donald J.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 15h

Also we have precisely ONE verified recent case of a politician paying actors to attend a political event. You'll never guess who it was.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Did Trump Campaign Offer Actors $50 to Cheer His Announcement?

The Trump campaign denied knowing a contractor hired a casting agency for the candidate's 2015 campaign-announcement rally.

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 14h

“industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.”
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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 14h

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse.

For partisan political pain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 16h

More on the CDC tonight: @jeremyfaust.bsky.social , who is impeccably sourced there (physician, Harvard faculty) has details on the divisions hit by the apparently illegal RIFS. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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