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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

Pamela Jo has until December 20th to release the Epstein files. She must include explanations for everything she redacts or withholds.

November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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Brent Toderian

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.

Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.

Or both.

November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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Jack Hopkins-The Original

@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social

Rumors are circulating...and reported on MSNOW that Pete Hegseth has been pulled OUT of any negotiations regarding Ukraine.

He is unprofessional, unqualified...and frankly...a laughing stock.

I would not be at all surprised. Nor would I be surprised if he was fired...eventually.

You?

#HOLDFAST

November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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Morgan J Freeman

@mjfree.bsky.social

DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!!

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM

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Angry

@angrystaffer.bsky.social

Unbelievable.

Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.

November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

What they want is to control and destroy actual science.

3/n

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November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM

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Pé 🍺🧿

@forevernever.bsky.social

So, a Wisconsin supreme court justice may have used an LLM to write a brief, and didn't check the cites. Countless attorneys have been sanctioned for doing this; she should face a similar inquiry.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 55m

Question about the dissent by (the far-right) Justice Ziegler: Does this quote actually appear in Moore v. Harper? Did Moore say that state courts' role in congressional redistricting is "exceedingly limited"? I don't think it did! vhdshf2oms2wcnsvk7sdv3so.blob.core.windows.net/thearp-media...

November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM

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Morgan J Freeman

@mjfree.bsky.social

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM

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Laurel Davila

@laureldavilacpa.bsky.social

#Pinks

youtu.be/3wRn1ppeUbs?...

November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM

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Sammy Roth

@sammyroth.bsky.social

Cooking with gas.

Well-oiled machine.

Burning the midnight oil.

Step on the gas.

Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...

Watch your f-ing language

Too many expressions reek of fossil fuels. Let's stop "cooking with gas" and come up with cleaner alternatives.

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com

November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Dr. Earhart Sampson, PhD🌎

@earhart.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal

It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for Cop

www.theguardian.com

November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM

Dr. Earhart Sampson, PhD🌎

@earhart.bsky.social

Democrats spending big to expand coalition in midterms - POLITICO share.google/cFADQTY7Sia3...

Democrats spending big to expand coalition in midterms

A new DCCC program will pour eight figures into engaging some demographic groups that swung to the right in 2024.

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November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM

Dr. Earhart Sampson, PhD🌎

@earhart.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Control of Congress 2026: Latest Polls

Track the latest congressional ballot surveys that ask who Americans plan to vote for in the 2026 midterm election.

www.nytimes.com

November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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Anti-Fascist Collective 👊🏼👊🏿

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November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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Mark Joseph Stern

@mjsdc.bsky.social

When liberals secured a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2023, they changed internal procedures—over the objection of the conservative chief justice, who claimed they were taking away her power. Today the justices released MESSY details about the affair...
www.wicourts.gov/sc/rulhear/D...

BRIAN HAGEDORN, J. (concurring). The Wisconsin Supreme
Court is composed of seven justices who are supposed to be members
of the same team. Unlike trial courts, when we act, we do so
collectively. To accomplish this, over the last 175 years, this
court has established various practices and traditions, both
formal and informal. These practices ensure all voices are heard,
create clear lines of decision-making authority, and establish
consistent and neutral processes to govern our case-deciding and
administrative work. Some of these are reflected in formally
adopted Supreme Court Rules, and some in our Internal Operating
Procedures. But the true currency of a court like ours is trust.
When trust is broken like it has been here, every aspect of our
work suffers.
¶2 This all began in the summer of 2023 when four justices
wished to make significant changes to how this court functions.
Fair enough. These modifications could have been pursued through
a process built on collegiality and mutual respect. Instead, my
colleagues pursued a more destructive path.
¶3 The morning our then-newest justice was sworn into
office——August 1, 2023——my four colleagues at that time set off to
reshape our court and the operation of the court system. They had
apparently engaged in significant discussions in the months prior
and decided to force through these changes during our summer
recess, and to do so via email with or without the input of their
other colleagues. They issued a press release triumphantly
announcing that these changes were all about transparency,
accountability, and inclusivity. This was true in the same way

Pearl Harbor was a strike for peace in the Pacific. I will not
rehash every detail (Justice Ziegler's excellent writing recounts
much of the history), but the reader deserves a taste.
¶4 The first shot sounded when my four colleagues fired the
Director of State Courts, who functions as the CEO of
administrative matters for the entire judicial branch. Without
following any established process, one of my colleagues sent an
email proposing that we fire our Director and install a new, preselected interim Director in his place. This happened through
email, over the course of two business days, while the Director
was out of town on state business, during our summer recess. He
never received a performance review indicating concerns; he was
simply told his employment was over. This came just months after
some of these same colleagues emphasized the importance of having
all justices participate in hiring key staff.
¶5 Later that same week, my colleagues proposed dramatic
changes via email affecting both our case-deciding and
administrative responsibilities. The email invited justices to
attend a new, unscheduled meeting of the court later that week to
discuss the proposals. One justice said she could not be there;
another objected to the meeting as outside our court calendar.
The meeting would go forward no matter what, we were told. I
implored my colleagues to reconsider, to treat their fellow
colleagues with the respect they would want if circumstances were
reversed. They refused. The meeting went on as expected, and
with only four members present, they voted to fundamentally remake
our court.

¶7 Among their changes, my colleagues radically altered the
role of the chief justice. They created a new, three-person
administrative committee (on which the chief justice would
ostensibly sit) to take over nearly all of the chief justice's
most important administrative duties. And they did so in the face
of serious objections that these changes violated the Wisconsin
Constitution, which says the chief justice "shall be the
administrative head of the judicial system." Wis. Const. art.
VII, § 4. One justice who in the past championed the
constitutional role of the chief justice suddenly changed course.
Again, these actions stripping the chief justice of powers she had
exercised for as long as anyone could remember were proposed via
email, and were voted on a few days later during an unscheduled
meeting of just four justices during our summer recess. Not
exactly transparent, accountable, and inclusive.
¶8 Another significant series of amendments to our internal
rules involved modifying the way we consider certain kinds of
cases, essentially making it much easier for this court to expedite
cases coming to us outside the normal appeals process. Why the
change? As everyone understood, my colleagues had the not-sosecret goal of swiftly hearing particular politically charged
cases. This was all by design.
¶9 And how did this experiment go? Not well.
Administratively, it was not clear who was in charge. We
experienced significant breakdowns in communication amidst a lack
of clarity about who was doing what. Our staff was often caught
in the middle of a court that did not have established lines of

communication and authority. And when the Director of State Courts
was unceremoniously fired for what many perceived as political
reasons, it sent a shockwave through the system. Furthermore, my
colleagues' changes were not one and done. Throughout the past
two years, they continued to modify the court's procedures in a
similar ad-hoc fashion, often after realizing problems with their
earlier ill-considered changes. This only added to the confusion.
¶10 Finally, at one of the court's internal conferences this
past June, my colleagues shifted course. One of the four announced
she was "withdrawing" her prior votes from the past two years
(which, by the way, is not a thing) with the idea that every
disputed change was now, all of a sudden, reversed. What changed?
Again, it was no mystery. My colleagues wanted to take power away
from then-Chief Justice Annette Ziegler. Such a move ensured that
my colleagues would run the court through the administrative
committee. Following the April 2025 election, they concluded they
would have the votes to elect a chief justice of their choosing
and have a block of votes to support her, so they no longer needed
to seize those powers. This is not a cynical take. It is exactly
what happened.
¶11 What's past is past, however. I have no desire to hold
this against my colleagues, and I am grateful they have changed
course. In fact, I was happy to work collaboratively on many
operational changes reflected in this order, most of which I

November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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D-Mac Ottawa

@dmacottawa.bsky.social

Sunbeams. Major's Hill Park, Ottawa. Mid-November 2016. #fall #nature #trees #city #travel #biking #photography

November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM

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@darren32359.bsky.social

November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM

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BladeoftheSun

@bladeofthes.bsky.social

Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords.

Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.

November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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NBC News

@nbcnews.com

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labour. This is after a video circulated of a Black woman who was dismissed from a hospital, only to give birth in her truck minutes later on the side of the road.

A woman gave birth 8 minutes after a hospital turned her away. A bill aims to stop that from happening again.

The legislation seeks to stop Black women from suffering during and after childbirth and hold hospitals accountable, according to bill language obtained exclusively by NBC News.

nbcnews.to

November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Robin (she/he-ella/él)

@merryrobin.bsky.social

Ellen Harding Baker (1847-1886) was a US astronomer and teacher, known for her Solar System Quilt, used as a teaching aid in her lectures on astronomy.
She likely began creating the Solar System Quilt in 1876, and it apparently took her until 1883 to complete the project.
#WomenInSTEM #WomensArt

A black and white portrait of a young white woman looking back at the camera with calm eyes.

The quilt has a wool top embellished with wool-fabric applique, wool braid, and wool and silk embroidery. The design of the quilt resembles the illustrations found in astronomy books of that time period. The quilt shows the Sun at the center and the eight planets of the Solar System (with indicated orbits around the Sun), as well as the asteroid belt. The myriad of stars that exist beyond the Solar System are also shown. The Galilean moons of Jupiter, as well as moons of Earth, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are included, as are Saturn's rings. The upper left of the quilt shows a large comet, which is likely C/1874 H1, discovered in 1874 by Jérôme Eugène Coggia.

November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

I'm wondering if Kegseth is hell-bent on going after Mark Kelly because he outranked him. Small men do that kind of thing.

November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM

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George

@retiredsurgassist.bsky.social

I don't know them personally, but I know they've never actually read the entire buy-bull. I also know that despite a continued decline in church attendance an ambiguous belief in a mute invisible supreme being still exist among voters ergo the cross.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 1h

Thou shalt not wear a cross around your neck if you always do the opposite of what Jesus would do.

November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM

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Mark Joseph Stern

@mjsdc.bsky.social

Question about the dissent by (the far-right) Justice Ziegler: Does this quote actually appear in Moore v. Harper? Did Moore say that state courts' role in congressional redistricting is "exceedingly limited"? I don't think it did! vhdshf2oms2wcnsvk7sdv3so.blob.core.windows.net/thearp-media...

Worse yet, the plaintiffs’ theory disobeys the United States
Constitution’s Elections Clause which vests redistricting responsibility
exclusively in “the Legislature thereof.” U.S. CONST. ART. I, § 4. As the
United States Supreme Court recently reaffirmed, the role of state courts in
congressional redistricting is “exceedingly limited.” Moore v. Harper, 600
U.S. 1, 34 (2023). This lawsuit invites the very judicial meddling that the
Constitution prohibits. We see other states invoking fairly interesting
procedures to address congressional maps.

November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.