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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 9h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 10h

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 13h

It is mass resignation time at DOJ. Don‘t be complicit. These goons are largely incompetent and the authoritarian takeover will fail if they have to run things on their own.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21h

Why?

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social · 13h

In one breath, Carr trumpets a "focus on consumer protection," while his next breath aims to wipe
out tranparency in fees and pricing.

Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 14h

This reads almost like an Onion article. @saschameinrath.bsky.social @christopherali.bsky.social @davidberman.bsky.social @sydneyforde.bsky.social @ppopiel.bsky.social

ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.

arstechnica.com

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 1d

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 11h

Good question.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 1d

"new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments."

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts

The Nobel committee said that the three laureates “have developed a new form of molecular architecture.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Good news: fossil fuels have plateaued and solar is growing by leaps and bounds worldwide

apnews.com/article/clim...

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Or swear in a new member of Congress who was elected two weeks ago

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22h

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 11h

Or also mentioning the bombs dropped on a whim on people in boats in the Caribbean? Or the militarization of troops against his own citizens? How far the fourth estate has fallen.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 12h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17h

NEW: Few states hold elections with such national prominence as Pennsylvania — and this year is no exception. With three of the state’s Supreme Court justices up for retention, the GOP could have an opening to control a court that influences the state’s elections.

Why Anti-Voting Activists Are Using the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Election to Spread Disinformation

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

It’s very sad that Gov. Stitt can say this obviously true thing but @GovBillLee wouldn’t in a million years.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 15h

Why does everyone imagine that what creative people want (and I use that term broadly to include most "skilled" intellectual labor) is to replace their creative process with a machine?

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 15h

I get the feeling Shapiro has consumed a fuckton of Sam Altman propaganda and not one second of Simon's TV shows.

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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine telling the guy who wrote the Wire that he needs an idiot machine to help him transition scenes.

That thing was TRAINED on his writing.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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