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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 7h

Freedom of the Press Isn’t Just a Legal Issue
by @dicktofel.bsky.social

Why constitutional values are even more important than case law
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Freedom of the Press Isn’t Just a Legal Issue

Why constitutional values are even more important than case law

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 1d

"...the damage from the carbon and methane trapping heat in our atmosphere has now reached the most critical systems for supporting life on our planet. We have very little time, if any."

Something extraordinary just happened
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Something extraordinary just happened

But of course there's a but. Or two.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · 1d

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy. @propublica.org

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

This guy is such a dumb dipshit. How do you have “plenary authority” when you are using authority under power delegated by a statute (which you just cited) that contains specific conditions and limitations?? I am guessing he realized how idiotic he sounded the minute it came out of his mouth

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 2d

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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Duaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 2d

They are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.

How a little-known appeal could force your insurer to pay for lifesaving care

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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 3d

Irony just took its shoes off and slowly started walking into the ocean until it was never seen or heard from again…

Stephen Miller asks when in our history have we tolerated unlawful, riotous assemblies around government buildings

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 3d

Whoa. A must read!

NEWS: @sanders.senate.gov Releases Report on Big Tech Oligarchs’ War Against Workers, Warns #AI Could Eliminate Nearly 100 Million U.S. Jobs
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Full 25-page report [pdf]: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

NEWS: Sanders Releases Report on Big Tech Oligarchs’ War Against Workers, Warns AI Could Eliminate Nearly 100 Million U.S. Jobs » Senator Bernie Sanders

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released a sweeping report warning that artificial inte...

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 3d

"There has never been a more consequential term for the #SCOTUS. Today, like every first Monday in Oct., is the start of the court’s new term. But never, in all my years of watching the court, have there been so many cases that could so radically change America.."
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The Supreme Court’s Biggest Test Yet

Will the court codify Trump’s power grab?

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

Thanks, Donald Trump!

Burbank Airport has ZERO air traffic controllers from 4:15pm to 10pm today because of YOUR government shutdown.

Burbank Airport will have no air traffic controllers Monday evening, FAA warns

Burbank Airport is bracing for impacted operations as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.

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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 8d

A key finding: texting and messaging scam attempts have increased by 50 percent, according to a nationally representative CR survey of 2,158 U.S. adults conducted in April 2025. Here’s how to protect yourself:

Texting and Messaging Scam Attempts Have Increased by 50 Percent, a Consumer Reports Survey Finds - Consumer Reports

Texting and messaging scam attempts have increased by 50 percent, according to Consumer Reports' 2025 Cyber Readiness Report

www.consumerreports.org

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 3d

“I think the ultimate strategy here by people who are now holding power in our national #publichealth system is to undermine confidence in Covid-19 vaccinations and make them less available. That’s disappointing, because we know that children are at higher risk for complications from Covid-19.”

STAT @statnews.com · 3d

The CDC has accepted advisers' recommendations on Covid vaccinations, though there may still be uncertainty in some states about whether a prescription is needed to access them.
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CDC approves updated Covid-19, chickenpox vaccine recommendations

The CDC has accepted advisers' recommendations on Covid vaccinations, though there may still be uncertainty in some states about whether a prescription is needed to access them.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 3d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

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Ian Fortified with Sexy (but spooky) Vitamins @ianfortey.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think it's hyperbole to suggest Greta Thunberg is literally, in every meaningful way, tougher & a better leader than any elected official. Every single one. Some much more than others.

Methods, policy, practicalities, those are all beside the point. You need passion, drive & humanity

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 3d

We definitely need some rain but an absolutely beautiful autumn day in Vermont!

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 3d

"The cancellation of these deliveries comes at a critical time for food banks. Food insecurity is higher than at any time since the aftermath of the Great Recession, according to federal data, and many food banks are reporting higher need than they saw at the peak of the pandemic."

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 4d

Three weeks after a leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health filed a whistle-blower complaint against the Trump administration, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy fired her. @nytimes.com

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 3d

CBS News poll finds few feel shutdown is worth it, low marks for Republicans, Democrats and Trump's handling
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 3d

A CBS News/YouGov poll taken Oct. 1-3 says 52% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s and Republican’s handling of the shutdown, while 49% disapprove of how Democrats have handled things. On the shutdown’s economic effects, 49% said they were very concerned, while 31% said they were somewhat concerned.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 4d

This represents a major escalation.

President Trump effort to mobilize TEXAS National Guard for deployment in Portland and Chicago.

Court filing just entered in Oregon v. Trump⬇️

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 4d

America under siege.

“They are the ones that are making it a war zone,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday on CNN. “They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it’s a war zone.”

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4d

Where are the commanding officers of those sailors in the background. How are they letting this happen?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 4d

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BEIJING, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard near the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet had been guided to safety by rescuers, Chinese state media reported on Sunday, as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummelled the Himalayas.
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Almost 1,000 trapped on Tibetan side of Mount Everest by blizzard

Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday to clear access to campsites on Tibet's eastern slope of Mount Everest, where nearly 1,000 people have been trapped by a blizzard that has blocked roads, according to Chinese state media reports.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well.

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In sum, the President is certainly entitled "a great level of deference," Newsom II, 141
F.4th at 1048, in his determination that he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws
of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). But "a great level of deference" is not equivalent to
ignoring the facts on the ground. As the Ninth Circuit articulated, courts must "review the
President's determination to ensure that it reflects a colorable assessment of the facts and law
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Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56
Filed 10/04/25
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within a 'range of honest judgment.'" Id. at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399). Here, this
Court concludes that the President did not have a "colorable basis" to invoke § 12406(3) to
federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal
law enforcement officers to execute federal law. Id. at 1051-52. The President's determination
was simply untethered to the facts.
c. Whether there is a Rebellion or Danger of Rebellion
Defendants also aroue that the Sentember 28 2025 federalization order is authorized

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