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Old Soldier
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"Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again." - Bertolt Brecht BS Business Admin MS Cybersecurity DLI/FLC Alum ΦΚΦ Pining for that downhill run to Papeʻetē.
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Separation of Church & State protects everyone's right to however they want to practice (or not) their faith.
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Mike Johnson’s Bible apparently has Jesus encouraging lying as often as possible as the pathway to heaven. Must be a Trump Bible.
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gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
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Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.
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DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf
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DHS’s patented response to anything that proves they didn’t tell the truth is just to go on the attack, without offering any factual rebuttal.
DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf
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Donald Trump's DOJ has recently started treating doxing as a crime, charging at least 4 people in SoCal with it.

Which makes it all the more corrupt that Juicebox Janine memory holed Trump's own doxing that led to dangerous stalking of Barack Obama.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/30/j...
Jeanine Pirro Covers Up Donald Trump's Doxing Conspiracy - emptywheel
Among the things Trump's DOJ excised from the sentencing memo of Tayler Taranto yesterday is Trump's own role, by doxing Barack Obama, in getting Taranto to stalk Obama's neighborhood.
www.emptywheel.net
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We gave China advanced AI chips just to buy the beans they were already buying before.
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Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
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Oh, the humanity

Mr president, please call the National Guard
Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
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Trample Nazis
This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever
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Yes, it would be so futile to bring back the House

Because there’s no need to hold hearings, advance legislation, conduct oversight, swear in Adelita Grijalva, draft bills or-heaven forbid-negotiate with Democrats to end the shutdown

Yep. Completely useless.
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I just read your delightful brief again, thank you. As a layman, this seems to be the relevant summary. bsky.app/profile/mart...
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I just read your delightful brief again, thank you. As a layman, this seems to be the relevant summary. bsky.app/profile/mart...
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... he's now violating section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution, too (or will do so any day now).

It's difficult to overstate the profound obliteration of the legal order here--and the acute threat to long-established norms for the use of force by all states.

And yet ... crickets.

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... it's been close to or more than 62 days since Trump deployed forces to the Caribbean to engage in such strikes--which means that in addition to violating the Constitution, the assassination ban, two criminal murder statutes, and international law, [2] ...

www.justsecurity.org/120296/many-...
The Many Ways in Which the Caribbean Strike was Unlawful
Legal expert on domestic authority and law most relevant to the US strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat
www.justsecurity.org
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[Updating thread from last night.]

The patently unlawful murders continue apace, but no one (e.g., in DoD, in Congress, among other nations) appears much to care. And now ... [1]

@justsecurity.org @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social @charliesavage.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
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The lower-court ruling is presumptively correct. It should be stayed only in extraordinary circumstances.

“Extraordinary” doesn’t mean “once-in-a-lifetime” (ooh, Talking Heads.

But it also doesn’t mean dozens of times in the course of one presidential administration.
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This should be about the balance of hardships, in the absence of a pretty clear error of law.

Instead, we have a Court going out of its way (for the umpty-seventh time in nine months) to try to find a way to interfere in lower-court proceedings over Trump’s law-breaking.
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We're in recess for 45 minutes.

I don't know if I'll be able to live-post the second half of the day, but check out my newsletter tomorrow for a full recap.

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Starting a new thread over here for the continuation of Commander Schoening's testimony.

Given what I've heard from the objections so far, attorneys for defendants don't seem like seasoned litigators. "This is becoming a narrative" is definitely not a legitimate objection.
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This caught my eye today.

Wild dogs in the Chornobyl exclusion zone seem to have developed blue fur.

It could be a mutation brought about by the high radiation levels. The animals also seem to have developed tolerance to their environment.
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India will jointly produce passenger aircraft with Russia’s United Aircraft Corp, sanctioned by the West.

While India’s relations with the U.S. deteriorate due to India continuing to import Russian oil, its ties with Russia grow stronger.
India and Russia Sign Jet Manufacturing Pact Before Putin’s Visit
India and Russia have signed a pact to jointly produce passenger aircraft, just weeks ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s visit, signaling that ties between Moscow and New Delhi remain resilient despi...
www.bloomberg.com