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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

In retrospect, perhaps trusting all of the government's systems and data to Elon Musk and his band of 20-year-old cybercriminals was not the smartest move.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1h

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5h

“The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops. . . . If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”

Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 12h

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers From DMV

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly a little surprised he hasn't tried to imply he is saving people money by not swearing her in during the shutdown.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 12h

Oh my god. The scale models kept imploding so he's like "don't worry I have a new manufacturing method that will stop these implosions" and they're like "should we test a scale model built with this new method" and he's like "no no just try it on the real sub I'm sure it'll work"

vessel. OceanGate determined that wrinkles in the cylinder had likely caused the sub-scale models' failure and identified the co-bonding process as a way to potentially mitigate wrinkle-related failures. However, OceanGate did not build or test any new sub-scale models using the co-bonding process; the only article produced using the co-bonding process was the v2 full-scale cylinder ultimately used in the casualty dive.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3h

If you're running in a Dem primary for Senate, preemptively endorsing the filibuster is already a red flag.

... but not knowing the filibuster for lower court judges has been gone for more than a decade is even worse, it's indisputable evidence of incompetence.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

Oh this is actually worse, we haven't had a judicial filibuster since 2013 dawg

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

the bet they're making is "the president gets things done" is a more compelling message than "the way the president is getting things done is flatly illegal"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Leavitt: "The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money going out the door. He found a creative solution to keep the troops paid. And rather than congratulate him for doing that, this unprecedented action to get our troops paid, Dems want to sue him for it. They're saying it's illegal."

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

To the extent anyone cares, the legality of tapping into tariff money is identical to the legality of tapping into federal income tax money, because they are both taxes that accrue to the treasury. Appropriations are still needed to spend it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Leavitt: "The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money going out the door. He found a creative solution to keep the troops paid. And rather than congratulate him for doing that, this unprecedented action to get our troops paid, Dems want to sue him for it. They're saying it's illegal."

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 4h

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 4h

Vance defended it all; Republicans In Disarray

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

After racist texts among members of the New York State Young Republicans were made public, the party’s state leaders were slated to meet Friday and vote to disband the group, people familiar with the matter said.

After Racist Texts, New York G.O.P. Is Set to Disband Young Republicans

State party leaders are expected to eliminate the charter of the Young Republicans group, allowing them to reconstitute the organization with new leaders.

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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 4h

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation.

youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...

AG Mayes Demands Speaker Johnson Swear In Adelita Grijalva | The Lead with Jake Tapper CNN

YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"This nation’s Young Republicans are more than just veteran political operatives and attorneys: they’re kids. And sometimes, kids say the wrong things. They can’t be held responsible for using slurs 251 times in just under 8 months."

Young Republican Kids Say the Darndest Things

“Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, and rape…. Vice President JD Vance downplayed [the] bi...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

jd vance and nick fuentes agree-love hitler and be racist but keep it off the internet

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Fuentes says the leaked Young Republican chats prove that "everyone's a groyper now," but they have to do a better job of hiding their real views: "These guys were doing a great thing ... The mistake that they made is that they were sloppy." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8h

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 5h

They said ICE would go after criminals. They are arresting cops.

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Published October 16, 2025 11:54am CDT
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ICE arrests Maine police officer, but his department claims DHS cleared him to serve
ICE claims the officer is in the U.S.
"unlawfully."
By Armando Garcia
July 31, 2025, 9:16 • 6 min
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Jesse Singal Vapes Piss @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 7h

this was literally some of the NYC trivia Mamdani spotlighted during his scavenger hunt event, does the New York Times employ any journalists

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 8h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 6h

To make this clearer—law students are wondering if they should use their very first law school assignments as writing samples to apply for jobs because the hiring cycle has moved so ridiculously early. There is no way employers can make informed decisions based on merit at this stage of law school.

Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 7h

This is madness. Today we had to send a message to our 1L students telling them it’s not a great idea to use the first drafts of their first legal writing assignments because the new OCI timeline is so early they are wondering if they should.
#LegalWriting

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 6h

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal DENIES Trump's motion for a stay of the TRO issued by Judge April Perry regarding the deployment of the NG in Chicago:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71608...

Because we conclude that the district court’s factual findings at this preliminary stage were not clearly erroneous, and
that the facts do not justify the President’s actions in Illinois
under § 12406, even giving substantial deference to his assertions, we deny the administration’s motion for a stay pending
appeal except to the extent we continue our stay of the portion
of the order enjoining the federalization of the Guard.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 6h

Kudos to anyone who voted for America to get more gurgly old-man hot takes about teenager sperm count.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

Ah the only conservative argument: "My prejudices are timeless eternal truths and it's unfair that all of society isn't structured to reflect them." bsky.app/profile/whst...

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

Tbh I think we ought to re-masculinize society through the dispensation of brutal, merciless justice to the class of intellectual quislings who are trying to carry us back to the middle ages

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 8h

Top that, Maccabees.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Rep. John McGuire: "We had an epic week. He stopped 8 wars in 8 days."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Dr. Rebecca Gibson @drrgibsongirl.bsky.social · 9h

Putting aside what I want to say about Mitch McConnell falling over, please remember for older people who you care about, the first priority should NOT be getting them back on their feet. Injury assessment including for orientation to their surroundings FIRST before moving them.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

Putting teeth in the Hatch Act should be high on the to-do list for whenever Congress remembers it’s Article 1.

“Legal experts say Kristi Noem's airport video breaks the law. Penalties are unlikely” — www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

Legal experts say Kristi Noem's airport video breaks the law. Penalties are unlikely

In a Department of Homeland Security video, Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown. Law and ethics experts say it violates the Hatch Act, but there are rarely serious consequences.

www.npr.org

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