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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 11h

So…
They presented the case to a grand jury, which found no crimes.

Then they presented the case to a different GJ - WITHOUT the evidence that proved that there weren’t any crimes…

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20h

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 1d

Realllllllll good guy stuff

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 4d

Oregon criminal law is a little nutty, but Alan Swinney is doing 75 months, day for day, for shooting someone with a regular paintball at a protest.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 5d

MALÖRT LAVE

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6d

"...ambient temperature is among the largest external threats to human health, and is responsible for a remarkable 5-12% of total deaths across countries in our sample, or hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in both the U.S. and EU."
www.nber.org/papers/w34313

Understanding and Addressing Temperature Impacts on Mortality
Marshall Burke, Andrew J. Wilson, Tumenkhusel Avirmed, Jonas Wallstein, Mariana C. M. Martins, Patrick Behrer, Christopher W. Callahan, Marissa Childs, June Choi, Karina French, Carlos F. Gould, Sam Heft-Neal, Renzhi Jing, Minghao Qiu, Lisa Rennels, Emma Krasovich Southworth #34313

Abstract:
A large literature documents how ambient temperature affects human mortality. Using decades of detailed data from 30 countries, we revisit and synthesize key findings from this literature. We confirm that ambient temperature is among the largest external threats to human health, and is responsible for a remarkable 5-12% of total deaths across countries in our sample, or hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in both the U.S. and EU. In all contexts we consider, cold kills more than heat, though the temperature of minimum risk rises with age, making younger individuals more vulnerable to heat and older individuals more vulnerable to cold. We find evidence for adaptation to the local climate, with hotter places experiencing somewhat lower risk at higher temperatures, but still more overall mortality from heat due to more frequent exposure. Within countries, higher income is not associated with uniformly lower vulnerability to ambient temperature, and the overall burden of mo! rtality from ambient temperature is not falling over time. Finally, we systematically summarize the limited set of studies that rigorously evaluate interventions that can reduce the impact of heat and cold on health. We find that many proposed and implemented policy interventions lack empirical support and do not target temperature exposures that generate the highest health burden, and that some of the most beneficial interventions for reducing the health impacts of cold or heat have little explicit to do with climate.

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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 6d

Never got the sense that she wanted anything from anyone, except maybe to be an Article 3 judge someday.

Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 6d

I knew her in as a state court judge when I was a new PD. Square, very nice, had maybe the most buttoned-up chambers in the courthouse. Good on evidence. Did not suffer foolishness, which was good because she also tended to be State-friendly in procedure and sentencing. Civil bar seemed to love her.

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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 8d

You’ll get dozens of very middle-of-the-road retired teachers showing up in matching tees with signs that say stuff like “US out of Portland”

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 9d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 9d

This matters. Politics matters, even, and it needs to be done by people who actually give a damn.

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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 9d

I’m sorry to quote the West Wing at you, but I’m reminded of Leo McGarry’s admonishment that “there’s a way to be a person,” which just keeps echoing for me. It’s a biting indictment of a particular brand of ironic detachment that’s become an American political brand.

Life matters. Truth matters.

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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 10d

“They want to kill fascists. That’s terrorism. And you know what we do to terrorists!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Stephen Miller: "They say they are trying to kill the fascists & stop the fascists. It's deliberate. President Trump is saying that we as a nation are not going to tolerate it anymore & the joint terrorism task force at the FBI is going to find these terrorists & we're going to put them behind bars"

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10d

With the US military's new shaving crusade, Pete Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops

If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid

Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.

www.motherjones.com

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 11d

I've read a couple of history books and I can tell you for sure that rounding up your generals, having a drunk yell at them and call them fat, and then stopping paying them that same day is absolutely how you institute durable personalist rule

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Real Original CP3 @cp3.bsky.social · 11d

“Be cool when you walk down, but don’t bop down the stairs.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Trump: "I'm very careful when I walk down stairs, like I'm on stairs, I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12d

Yeah, last year I wrote about a 1993 Time column that is beat-for-beat the same complaints about college kids you hear today.¹ Year before that I wrote about how “woke” companies were just updated “p.c.” gripes.²

¹ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
² www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12d

This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11d

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Hegseth: "I don't want me son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11d

Bring on the war crimes

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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