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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 3h

Rather than this justify yourself nonsense that treats adults like children, the correct question to ask to spur innovation and make people feel like they have a stake in transformation: What do you WANT to make? The onus is on the leaders to inspire and challenge and ask.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 18h

This article hasn’t explained a single thing about how this happened. I didn’t even get a sense that Jared knew how it happened.

Get to a yes first and then work out the details? Why would I give you a yes without details? What does that even mean?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

Here’s how Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, helped broker an Israel-Hamas breakthrough from a makeshift command center in Florida.

How Jared Kushner, a Self-Described ‘Deal Guy,’ Helped Broker a Gaza Breakthrough

Trained in New York City real estate, the president’s son-in-law had a single goal: Get to a yes first, and hash out the details later. “It’s just different being deal guys — just a different sport,” he said.

nyti.ms

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Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 1d

Plus the new (to me) fact: “he cut his hand on her large wedding ring…”

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

This was one of those things I just dismissed as too funny to be true

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 1d

“Trump occasionally reminds aides about an incident last year in which Trump cut his hand on Bondi’s large wedding ring, causing him to bleed.”

What?

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Meldusa ✨ @mellylamelle.bsky.social · 2d

There is zero doubt that Stephen Miller wants to incite violence in peaceful cities like Portland and Chicago. He knows what he is doing. He wants to incite violence so a violent crackdown on dissent can be justified.

It’s pretty obvious.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2d

Trump engages in crazy talk. Miller is inciting civil war. presswatchers.org/2025/10/what...

What is Stephen Miller trying to accomplish in Portland and Chicago? | Press Watch

Trump engages in crazy talk. Miller is inciting civil war.

presswatchers.org

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Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 2d

The scariest parts are the fingernails.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 2d

“Hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers may not automatically receive back pay once the government reopens, President Trump signaled on Tuesday…”

When federal employees are your sheet rock subcontractors in Queens. Stiffed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

www.nytimes.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d

“CBS in particular—that’s your new company, now—has the oldest audience in primetime TV… It’s normie grandparents, a bunch of whom are planning to appear at the next No Kings rally. I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him…They don’t know who you are at all.”

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 3d

Biggest beautiful furloughs the world has ever seen.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

Whoaaaaa

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

How does one “win” the news

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 3d

cc Chemerinsky.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Boalt Hall right now:

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

/3 It is no longer any surprise to me that Dhillon is part of the frankly fascistic and dishonest movement to rebrand criticism as violence or threats. Evil gonna evil.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

Date Filed
Oct 5, 2025
Description
* CSV
SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00
p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-
990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 812-980-
324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference.
For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25 by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (jy)
(Entered: 10/05/2025)

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Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 4d

Not long.

matheffect.bsky.social @matheffect.bsky.social · 4d

How long until Oregon governor calls up Oregon NG to block federalized troop invasions?

Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 5d

100%

Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 5d

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 5d

When you read her finding (a worthy read) you’ll find two Newsoms. A first perhaps? The Governor of California and Appellate Court Judge Eleventh Circuit (covering Alabama, Georgia, and Florida). No relationship. Still, a future Jeopardy question.

Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 5d

Called it! Kudos to the Trump appointed judge for correctly finding there's no basis to deploy the National Guard in Oregon

Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10d

Trump’s attempt to federalize the National Guard in Portland has no legal basis

No invasion
No rebellion
No breakdown of law

He’s using a years-old video to justify a power grab

We @democracydefendersfund.org are in court to stop it

I explained on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇

Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 5d

“The protests have turned rougher since the president’s announcement last weekend with the arrival of right wing counterprotesters, some of whom have been spotted [WHAT??] observing the crowd from the ICE building roof.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore.

www.nytimes.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5d

Amen

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.

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

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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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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Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 5d

It’s the brown shoes and tennis shoes which make this laughable. (Still dangerously bad.)

bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, what in the living fuck???

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

Hegseth, Bondi & Miller in Memphis.

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Charles Koppelman @ckopp.bsky.social · 5d

This whole Trump thing: catch me if you can.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 6d

On MSNBC @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co just (correctly!) attributed some of Trump’s actions to “senility.”

Democrats need to pound pound pound pound pound the message that Trump doesn’t know what’s going on, that he’s not really the President.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10d

The videos from the Delaney Hall events make it clear they decided to kidnap Ras Baraka. Then settled for McIver bc she was -- what is the word they use for Black women?

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