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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 35m

Kids with disabilities just lost their lifeline‼️ If the states can handle it themselves ….why are states paying FEDERAL taxes?

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 32m

Kids with disabilities just lost their lifeline‼️ If the states can handle it themselves ….why are states paying FEDERAL taxes?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

I don't feel sorry for these guys at all, but they're undoubtedly using shit they found on dockets bc they don't know EDVA and probably people want to stay the fuck away.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Spread this around. Missouri and Ohio Democrats need at least 100,000 valid signatures to take on Republican gerrymandering maps. This is the fight 🔥

Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

MO & OH Dems need us to help Rally support!

A commissioned poll shows nearly 1/2 of MO voters oppose the maps

The Dem committee needs over 100,000 valid signatures across multiple congressional districts before the state’s 90-day window expires on Dec. 11 to let voters decide on the maps.

Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they’re largely on their own.

Despite relatively little investment from Washington, Missouri and Ohio Democrats are looking to block new Republican-drawn maps through uncertain avenues.

www.politico.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

Here's their logic.

Really hard to imagine what they mean by "private emails or texts," as by their very natured they'd be governmental.

Normal, professional protective order requests speak of PII.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

2. The vast majority of the discovery is law enforcement sensitive, for official use
only, includes private emails or texts, or is otherwise sensitive because of the private nature of the
information. Additionally, there is a heightened media interest in this case. Through social media,
the Defendant has already made a public statement regarding the indictment. Both the defendant
and the government have an interest in a fair trial with impartial jurors making decisions based only on the evidence that is part of the record. In re Morrissey, 168 F.3d 134, 140 (4th Cir. 1999).

3. The need to produce much of the discovery as close to its original format as
possible, together with the volume of the data and the interests in producing the material
expeditiously, makes it infeasible to make extensive redactions to the materials.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

USG wants to prevent Comey from talking about his discovery by, first, designating all the discovery sensitive (other cases designate PII and matters pertaining to informants), and then saying he can't access it w/o a babysitter.

Also note HIS discovery would be really useful for Maurene.

6. First, the defense objects to the provision in the protective order that disallows
defense attorneys from leaving the discovery with the defendant. Through public filings, the
government has reviewed at least ten protective orders that were entered on the docket in the
Eastern District of Virginia in September and August of 2025. Each of these protective orders
included a similar provision that prohibited unsupervised retention of discovery materials by the
defendant in the case. Prohibiting a defendant from unfettered access to the discovery is not unique
in criminal proceedings. The narrowly tailored restriction the government proposed is common
sense and does not place an undue burden on a Defendant that has been release on personal
recognizance.

7. Second, the government’s position is that all the discovery is Protective Material,
except for that portion of the discovery that is already carved out in Paragraph 2 of the proposed
order (Attachment 1). As the government understands it, the defense position is that all the
discovery is not Protective Material, unless designated as such by the government during
production. As stated above, through the proposed protective order, the government has already
carved out those items that are not Protective Material. The remaining discovery is appropriately
designated as Protective Material for the reasons previously provided

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

Yesterday, on the same day that the Vice President of the United States stated that Comey "obviously lied under oath" on MTP, the loaner AUSAs prosecuting him cited this video to justify a juvenile protective order.

James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 17d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Another Californian @anthrclfrnn.bsky.social · 7h

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Another Californian @anthrclfrnn.bsky.social · 7h

Oct 13, 2025: 5 days of Russian Federation Armed Forces losses (as reported by General Staff of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine) compared to the invasion average: Yellow is below average; Green is above average; the number is the ratio of the day’s losses over average. @anthrclfrnn.bsky.social

5 days of Russian Federation Armed Forces losses (as reported by General Staff of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine) compared to the invasion average: Yellow is below average; Green is above average; the number is the ratio of the day’s losses over average. @anthrclfrnn.bsky.social
Date 9-Oct 10-Oct 11-Oct 12-Oct 13-Oct
Personnel 1.21 1.32 1.25 1.46 1.35
Tanks 0.12 0.59 0.12 0.12 0.35
APV 0.06 0.79 0.34 0.00 0.00
Artillery 0.59 0.51 0.83 0.39 0.83
MLRS 0.00 0.00 0.87 0.00 1.75
Anti-Aircraft 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Planes 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Helos 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
UAV 6.35 4.91 4.22 4.69 4.45
Cruise Missiles 0.00 0.00 6.18 0.00 0.00
Warships 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Vehicles + Fuel trucks 1.14 1.45 1.49 1.80 2.26
Specialty 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.33

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Random Bott 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇬🇪 🇷🇴 @randombott.bsky.social · 7h

Daily Totals as of Oct 13
1,140
1,123,950

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

Amateur hour with the feds!

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Random Bott 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇬🇪 🇷🇴 @randombott.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent assessment

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 10h

People should 100% be alarmed‼️

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 10h

No one is surprised‼️ Corruption is unchecked‼️

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 10h

THAT GUITAR SANG‼️

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 10h

Update on Chicago protest

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 11h

ICE, why are you so upset when US citizens are videotaping your activities? If you are doing nothing criminal, nothing illegal, you should not be so reactive. We are only collecting evidence when we take over. Are you afraid? Stop harassing folks. No one is impeding your "investigation" assholes!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Just days after the indictments of James Comey and Letitia James, Trump says online that Sen. Adam Schiff is "dishonest and corrupt" — and he hopes "the necessary authorities" are looking into his first impeachment.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

They've also come up with WIC money.

Of course, they may lose that money if SCOTUS says tariffs are illegal.

apnews.com/article/gove...

WIC food program receives $300M to keep running during government shutdown

The Trump administration has provided a $300 million infusion to a food aid program for low-income mothers and children, easing concerns about funding during the government shutdown.

apnews.com

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Michael O’Grady 🇨🇦 @mog7546.bsky.social · 17h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

Trump continues to hide the Epstein files

#MOG8
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Random Bott 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇬🇪 🇷🇴 @randombott.bsky.social · 17h

They’ll face harsh consequences if this money is used without Congress approval and oversight.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

Tariff money is not a Trump Regime slush fund. It is tax money deposited into the US treasury and Congress has sole authority over the appropriation of tax dollars.

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