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I run mountain trails and think about politics. Dogs and cats. Interior design and David Lynch films. Figure skating. I work in emergency medicine. Colorado is my home.

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · Dec 13

Just when I become optimistic upon seeing how stupid our enemies are, I become pessimistic when I see how few friends we have

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 2h

Mark Dubowitz is also an idiot.

🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 3h

I'm happy that I canceled my subscription and that I'm not helping to pay Marc Thiessen's salary.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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Colorado Avalanche @avalanche.bsky.social · 8h

The Dogg goes shelf for his first of the season!

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NHL Scores @nhlscores.bsky.social · 7h

Final:
Mammoth 1
Avalanche 2

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Next Up: Letitia James
Molly Roberts
Monday, October 6, 2025, 9:59 AM
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It's hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey-until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 14h

We’re only this far in because
- fascists eat centrist libs for lunch
- fascists thrive in the current media environment

Change both

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Barton Gellman @bartongellman.bsky.social · 15h

THAT's your headline?

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

President Trump’s declaration that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be jailed is the latest clash between two feuding billionaires.

The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades

President Trump’s declaration that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be jailed is the latest clash between two feuding billionaires.

on.wsj.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

New York AG James, a Trump foe, indicted for bank fraud reut.rs/4750yfz

New York AG James, a Trump foe, indicted for bank fraud

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime foe of President Donald Trump, was indicted for bank fraud on Thursday, a person familiar with the matter said, as the administration seeks to use government power against those who have pursued investigations into him or publicly resisted his agenda.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 17h

Part of what's happening now was laid out by Stephen Miller on a podcast with Charlie Kirk in early 2024, then shortly after in an article on Feb 8 from The Atlantic. Trump's court losses only lead to further blurring of the lines between "legal" and overt dictatorial power.

screenshot of an article, text reads; How Trump and his advisers intend to staff such a program would make a prospective Trump deportation campaign even more volatile. Stephen Miller, Trump's top immigration adviser, has publicly declared that they would pursue such an enormous effort partly by creating a private red-state army under the president's command. Miller says a reelected Trump intends to requisition National Guard troops from sympathetic Republican-controlled states and then deploy them into Democratic-run states whose governors refuse to cooperate with their deportation drive.
Such deployment of red-state forces into blue states, over the objections of their mayors and governors, would likely spark intense public protest and possibly even conflict with law-enforcement agencies under local control. And that conflict itself could become the justification for further insertion of federal forces into blue jurisdictions, notes Joseph Nunn, a counsel in the Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

Note: Mamdani leads by double-digit among Black and Hispanic voters, and by 48 percentage points among Asian respondents. White respondents go 39/37 for Cuomo.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

New Quinnipiac poll of New York City:

Mamdani 46%
Cuomo 33%
Sliwa 15%

(A month ago, it was Mamdani 45%, Cuomo 23%, Sliwa 15%, Adams 12%.)

One obstacle to Cuomo rising much higher: Mamdani's favorability rating is 43/35, but Cuomo's is 37/52.
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

Given these numbers, we might ask why he makes so much noise about undocumented migrants on Medicaid.

I'd argue maybe because: the real goal is to cut the Medicaid that legally goes to US citizen kids of undocumented migrants, but that's politically a harder sell.
abcnews.go.com/Health/emerg...

Emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants accounts for less than 1% of state spending: Study

Emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants made up only 0.4% of total Medicaid spending in 2022, a new study published Thursday finds.

abcnews.go.com

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 16h

Same, Judge Perry. Same.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 18h

Perry: "We would be in a very different position" if you were arguing the National Guard was just here to defend federal property and agents enforcing immigration law.
But you are not arguing that, she says.
"I am very much struggling to figure out where this would ever stop."

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 16h

yes, I want my cookie. I deserve it

🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 16h

I have so far restrained myself from intervening in a discussion on here (not involving me) where a lot of political 'isms' are being tossed around in a way I find fairly appalling and indicative of a lack of understanding.

🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 16h

ryan nelson

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 17h

9th Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson argued so vehemently Thursday that President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard into unwilling states on very little pretext that one suspects the arguments were doubling as his Supreme Court audition.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/9th-cir...

9th Circuit Trump Judges Enthusiastically Support His Ability To Deploy Military Anywhere At Any Time

9th Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson argued so vehemently Thursday that President Trump...

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 16h

lies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 16h

consequences

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 3d

Without any irony whatsoever: I am immensely disappointed in Danielle Allen for making political scientists look like naive rubes.

Folks, I promise most of us are not this credulous.

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 3d

Immediately after writing this she gave $100,000 in unmarked bills to someone representing the Federal Bureau of Wallet Inspection

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 16h

hold my dead bear

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 17h

First time!

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 18h

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a TRO in the Northern District of Illinois (including Chicago and the Broadview ICE facility), providing protections for protesters and journalists covering the protests.

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

Some of the key elements:

1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless
Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.
Defendants may order a Journalist to change location to avoid disrupting law enforcement,
' President Trump, one of the named Defendants, is not included in this Order.
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as long as the Journalist has an objectively reasonable time to comply and an objectively
reasonable opportunity to report and observe;

b. Issuing a crowd dispersal order requiring any person to leave a public place
that they lawfully have a right to be, unless dispersal is justified by exigent circumstances as defined by Department of Homeland Security Use of Force Policy (updated Feb. 6,
2023), Sections III.F and XII.E;
С.
For purposes of this Order, a crowd dispersal order is a lawful command
given by a Federal Agent for all persons to leave a designated area when three or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct that are likely to cause substantial harm in the immediate vicinity;
d. Using riot control weapons including kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs), Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PIS and FN303), Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray, CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants, 40 mm Munitions Launchers, less-lethal shotguns,
Less-Lethal Specialty Impact-Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM), Controlled Noise and Light Distraction Devices (CNLDDs), Electronic Control Weapons (ECWs) - on members of the press, protesters, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others;

To facilitate the Defendants' identification of Journalists protected under
this Order, the following are examples of indicia of being a Journalist: visual identification as a member of the press, such as by carrying a professional press pass, badge or credentials; wearing distinctive clothing or patches that identify the wearer as a member of the press; or carrying professional gear such as professional photographic or videography
equipment. Other indicia of being a Journalist under this Order include that the person is standing off to the side of a protest, not engaging in chanting, sign holding, shouting slogans, or otherwise protesting, and documenting protest activities, although these are not
requirements. These indicia are illustrative, and a person need not exhibit every indicium
to be considered a Journalist under this Order. Defendants shall not be liable for unintentional violations of this Order in the case of an individual who does not wear a press pass, badge, or other official press credential, professional gear, or distinctive clothing that identifies the person as a member of the press.

It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a
uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official
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duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence
will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when
wearing riot gear.

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 1d

Every night I think back to all these years of Republicans piously telling us how much they respected the Constitution, and the rule of law, and limited government, and how proud they were that America stood for freedom.

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 18h

Full-on SCOTUS audition today by Nelson: do you admit that it was "ill advised" by the city of Portland to order the boards be taken off the ICE building?

His whole thesis is: we don't know what Trump is seeing behind the scenes, so how could we possibly question his judgment in sending in troops?

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18h

This is the tidiest way I know to put it.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 20h

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone.

We’ll have to build again.

We want to think that the repeated, widespread abuse of basic rights by DHS; the DOJ actions against former officials like James Comey and John Bolton; the presence of 2020 election deniers across congressional and executive branch leaders; the unconstitutional dismantling of federal agencies; the consolidation of old and new media under leadership favorable to Trump; the use of lawsuits and executive branch power to intimidate and silence critics; and the clear attempts to subvert the 2026 and 2028 elections; and Trump’s constant insinuation that he might seek a third term do not all in fact mean that we have crossed the threshold into a competitive authoritarian environment.
But we have. We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.

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