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Lola Gayle @lolagaylec.bsky.social · 3d

All Rise with Adam Klasfeld - EXCLUSIVE: She Beat Jeanine Pirro in Court Four Times—Now She’s Breaking Her Silence

Sidney Reid speaks out for the first time since three grand juries and a trial jury cleared her of allegations that she assaulted law enforcement.

EXCLUSIVE: She Beat Jeanine Pirro in Court Four Times—Now She’s Breaking Her Silence

Sidney Reid speaks out for the first time since three grand juries and a trial jury cleared her of allegations that she assaulted law enforcement.

www.allrisenews.com

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 3d

The plurality of DC political coverage continues to be, ten years in, "Trump Says Something."

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

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eileen @espiegler.bsky.social · 3d

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein #BookSky

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 5d

While Republican Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to call the House of Representatives in session during the government shutdown so he can protect Donald Trump from a vote on the release of the Epstein Files, House Republicans are busy trying to overturn Joe Biden’s pardons.

GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are ‘void’ in final report | CNN Politics

Former President Joe Biden experienced such “cognitive decline” while in office that it remains a serious question as to whether he was aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations s...

www.cnn.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5d

yep, telegraphing a country under sure and steady leadership

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5d

Goodness gracious - part 2

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 5d

Read this @gregsargent.bsky.social piece on a super important @rooseveltinstitute.org report coming out today, which draws key lessons from the Biden experience for how our side can do better the next time we have the reins of power.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.

A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.

newrepublic.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Took a look at the entry they have for me in Elon's Grokipedia.

There are some surprisingly deep details, dredged up from interviews I'd long ago forgotten about, and then there are some incredibly big points that are completely wrong.

Let's roll the tape.

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eileen @espiegler.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning from Nick Cave's Red Hand Files

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 9d

BREAKING:

Feds want to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia by Oct. 31.

That's days before Abrego wanted to get Todd Blanche on the hot seat for vindictive prosecution hearings schedule for Nov. 4-5.

Background www.allrisenews.com/p/blanche-ab...

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

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 9d

My son is 7 days of meals away from Nov 1.

He’s at risk of losing his skyrocketing healthcare.
He just had his 42nd surgery, and for the 1st time ever, we had to depend on a Go Fund Me.
His 43rd surgery is stalled, somewhere on the horizon.

Democrats are fighting for him.
But #RepublicansAreAWOL

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9d

This is about to get bad.

D.C. Republicans are on paid vacation while millions in their own districts are about to lose SNAP benefits.

They’ll find out soon enough—families with hungry kids don’t stay silent. #FeedTheShutdown

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 9d

Not the point of the post, but it's extremely illegal for the Trump admin to not use the $6 billion in the SNAP contingency fund on benefits for November. In addition, USDA has broad transfer authority - like they used to make WIC whole - to help plug the gap (you need about $8 bn for the month).

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9d

New shutdown problem: Miami is the U.S. capital for seniors on food stamps

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

New shutdown problem: Miami is the U.S. capital for seniors on food stamps

Florida is warning families not to expect their EBT cards to be reloaded next month, increasing pressure on Congress to end the government shutdown.

www.miamiherald.com

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eileen @espiegler.bsky.social · 9d

"What Timbaland says he wants to do is create 'a new genre of music,' A-pop, artificial pop. It sounds like a bunch of bullshit. ... I'd say to a young person, if they want to hear a female voice shouting invective, check out the new Cardi B. It's pretty good." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

“Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”

—Donald Trump, August 2024

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Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · Oct 1

I’d love to see Iowa politicians in DC actually stick up for Iowa.

An image of a farmer looking into the sky with two headline rips, one from Reuters that reads, "Under Trump, US cedes its share of China's beef market to Australia" and one from Yahoo Finance that reads, "'The frustration is overwhelming': Soybean farmers feel betrayed as Argentina blows a hole in rural America's $47 billion soybean bonanza."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12d

UPDATE: I’ve graduated from “nobody” to “distortionist”

Roger Stone & @RogerJStoneJr
X.com
Anna Bower isn't a reporter- she's a distortionist

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12d

This story is incredible

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12d

Trump's handpicked U.S. attorney targeting James Comey and Letitia James texted with reporter Anna Bower for more than a day — alluding to sensitive grand jury matters in the process — and never said the conversation was off the record. tinyurl.com/4uptcupk

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 12d

Q: Was it a mistake for Trump to blanket-pardon all the Jan. 6 rioters, given that one was just arrested for threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries?

Johnson: “The violence on the left is far more prevalent than the violence on the right...”

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eileen @espiegler.bsky.social · 12d

I often dream of Heaven, and I know that Prince and D'Angelo are there. ☔ www.facebook.com/watch/?v=101...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

BROWN: There's an estimate that millions of Americans could lose their insurance if something isn't done about these premiums

REP. STUTZMAN: I think that's just a Democrat talking point to promote fear

B: No. The source is the Urban Institute. They estimate 4 mil Americans will become uninsured

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: A Jan. 6 rioter who breached the Senate floor — and was subsequently pardoned by Trump — was arrested Sunday for threatening to assassinate Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Little Billie (KB) @realgoebs.bsky.social · 12d

Had trouble finding a tweet that was flagged yesterday... after some investigative journalism it appears it was from the Radical Rights (Reich) propaganda machine. It disappeared faster than Epistein got suicided! I'm sure it was a tiny mix-up? Jesus is watching!

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eileen @espiegler.bsky.social · 13d

I feel a bit more like

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13d

Graber: “[T]oday's decision is not merely absurd. It erodes core constitutional principles, including sovereign States' control over their States' militias and the people's First Amendment rights to assemble and to object to the government's policies and actions. I strenuously dissent.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13d

Opinion, concurrence and dissent: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nelson would have gone further than the per curiam order, holding that Trump’s National Guard determination under 12406 is unreviewable by federal courts.

Graber, a Clinton appointee, “strenuously” dissents.

FILED
Oregon v. Trump, No. 25-6268
R. NELSON, J., concurring:
OCT 20 2025
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
I concur in the Per Curiam order which concludes that the government is likely
to succeed on the merits of its claim that the President's assessment reflects a
colorable assessment of the facts and law to sustain his designation under 10
U.S.C. § 12406(3). Normally, for a stay pending appeal, that would be enough. But given that these legal issues are moving quickly, I write separately to emphasize four
points. First, under current Supreme Court precedent, presidential determinations
under § 12406 are not reviewable by federal courts. Second, Plaintiffs have serious
standing issues because they only seek injunctive relief that this court lacks the power to issue and Plaintiffs lack an injury in fact. Third, while the Per Curiam order takes a more fact bound approach to the issues presented, the President's
determination under § 12406(3) and § 12406(2) are bolstered by the history and
tradition of the early Militia Acts. Fourth, the likely lawfulness of the President's
determination under § 12406 is bolstered by the executive's proportionate response
to the events in Portland.

FILED
State of Oregon v. Trump, No. 25-6268
OCT 20 2025
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
GRABER, Circuit Judge, dissenting from the order:
In the weeks preceding the President's September 27 social media post
proclaiming that Portland was "War ravaged" and authorizing Secretary Hegseth to
deploy federalized Oregon National Guard members, demonstrations in Portland
were non-disruptive and small. Notwithstanding the turbulent events that had
occurred several months earlier, the record contains no evidence whatsoever that,
on September 27, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") was unable
either to protect its Portland facility or to execute the immigration laws it is
charged with enforcing. But, in the statute invoked here, Congress has authorized
the President to call up the National Guard only to repel a foreign invasion, quell a rebellion, or overcome an inability to execute the laws. Consequently, no legal or
factual justification supported the order to federalize and deploy the Oregon National Guard. Given Portland protesters' well-known penchant for wearing
chicken suits, inflatable frog costumes, or nothing at all when expressing their disagreement with the methods employed by ICE, observers may be tempted to
view the majority's ruling, which accepts the government's characterization of
Portland as a war zone, as merely absurd. But today's decision is not merely
absurd. It erodes core constitutional principles, including sovereign States' control
over their States' militias and the people's First Amendment rights to assemble and
to object to the government's policies and actions. I strenuously dissent.

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