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ckjones24.bsky.social @ckjones24.bsky.social · 3d

Credit where credit is due: The NYT Editorial Board tells it like it is

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

Opinion | Trump Disgraces American Justice

www.nytimes.com

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ckjones24.bsky.social @ckjones24.bsky.social · 4d

I'm borrowing this image from someone else's post because it's perfect for this moment

Three encyclopedia-looking books lie flat on a tan surface. Their titles are: "The Declaration of Independence, "The Bill of Rights," and "The Constitution of the United States of America."

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 6d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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ckjones24.bsky.social @ckjones24.bsky.social · 6d

Who Is The Leader of Antifa? (WITLOA?) @annabower.bsky.social

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ckjones24.bsky.social @ckjones24.bsky.social · 6d

Bondi says they're going after Antifa just like they've gone after cartels (?). But cartels have actual leaders, operate out of real facilities, & take concrete actions toward desired ends. Antifa is a loosely defined ideology w/no actual leader, facilities, etc. Let's start a new campaign:

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 12d

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.

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The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence

Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

blog.dividedargument.com

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taber @kvetch.gay · 11d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12d

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia says the Trump admin is in "blatant violation of the law" for "misuse of taxpayer dollars for political purposes" over partisan shutdown messages on agency websites.

Garcia wants the Office of the Special Counsel to investigate.

Top Oversight Democrat says Trump’s partisan shutdown emails break the law

Rep. Robert Garcia is asking for an Office of the Special Counsel investigation into the Trump administration’s shutdown guidance.

www.msnbc.com

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ckjones24.bsky.social @ckjones24.bsky.social · 14d

This CNN article casts Halligan as some kind of victim who didn't get the support from DOJ to which she was entitled, was a "sacrificial lamb," then "defied the odds" anyway like some kind of heroine. Give me a break!

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 14d

So it wasn't just me. Mag. Judge Zia Faruqui, on bench since 2020, had also never seen a "Report of a Grand Jury's Failure to Concur in an Indictment" until last week. (h/t Alan Feuer @nytimes.com) www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15d

The ‘what’ economy?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "It seems very disingenuous for the Democrats to be blaming President Trump for these rural hospital struggles. The reason rural hospitals are struggling is because of the bad economy."

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15d

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry: "Tonight, we're sending the Department of War a request to send the National Guard, asking them to deploy the National Guard here in Louisiana into our cities like New Orleans and Baton Rogue and others."

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 16d

According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18d

Mornin, @thehill.com

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 19d

As a former federal prosecutor who worked for DOJ for 25 years, I concur.

This is a red line moment of political abuse that cements the United States as a banana republic with better window dressing.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21d

Tick, tock.

Lindsey Halligan, the newly-installed prosecutor in EDVA, has less than a week to secure an indictment against James Comey before a key statute of limitations runs out.

Ben Wittes and I examine her charging options.

Spoiler alert: they all suck.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

LAWFARE
The Situation: Choose Your Own
Adventure: Lindsey Halligan
Edition
Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 4:52 PM
Share On: f X in
Any way you play, you lose.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22d

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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ckjones24.bsky.social @ckjones24.bsky.social · 27d

"We're going back to" a past era pretty well encapsulates this administration's endgame — e.g. going back to the days when wealth & power were concentrated in the hands of a few white, Christian men; people died of now-preventable diseases, and corporations were unaccountable for bad behavior.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27d

WOW. Judge Kelly takes the Trump admin to task for their outrageous effort to deport children in the dead of the night. Not only does he say their justification "crumbled like a house of cards," he also says the admin was not engaging in "conduct ... that reflect[s] good faith."

Second, the record and Defendants’ conduct suggest that they are not applying their criteria accurately, consistently, or in ways that reflect good faith. Consider the criterion that excludes from eligibility any child whose “attorney of record” has “affirmatively protested the child’s reunification with their parent.” Salazar Decl. ¶ 10. How would any such attorney have had a reasonable opportunity to protest Defendants’ “reunification” plan when it was set in motion in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend? Of course, now that litigation has provided the objection opportunity that Defendants did not, many more attorneys have objected. Hearing Tr. at 26– 27. Still, questions remain. For example, Defendants asserted at the September 10 hearing for the first time that the named Plaintiffs were ineligible because their attorneys protested by filing this lawsuit. But if Defendants have always viewed filing a lawsuit as an attorney objection, why did they not bring this issue to the Court’s attention earlier—even as soon as the August 31 hearing? After all, Defendants need not have known the identities of the named Plaintiffs to have raised this point. True, maybe Defendants recently changed how they apply this criterion. But either way, its scope and application seem uncertain.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28d

New data shows building permits have contracted for 5 straight months, the longest streak since 2008.

Housing permits are now at the lowest level in 5 years.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 28d

DOJ has filed a lawsuit against the state of Oregon, seeking access to its voter registration rolls.
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Principles First @principlesfirst.bsky.social · 28d

It's National Voter Registration Day!

Make sure you're registered to vote.
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Register to Vote/Check Registration | National Voter Registration Day

If you’re looking to register to vote or check/update your voter registration, you’re in the right place! Not sure if you need to update your registration? Here’s a list of reasons to check your statu...

nationalvoterregistrationday.org

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ckjones24.bsky.social @ckjones24.bsky.social · Sep 12

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Scrutiny Mounts of F.B.I. Under Patel as Kirk’s Killer Remains at Large

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Sep 7

Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance:

"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."

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