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Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · Jul 16
I write my weekly Heads Up News newsletter to give people a little hope in an otherwise excruciating news climate. It focuses on significant acts of resistance. Please give it a look and consider a paid subscription. www.headsupnews.org
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5h
Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.
Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 8h
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?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h
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.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 8h
“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.
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Sister Sawdust @mnimmigrant.bsky.social · 9h
How screwed up are we as a country when we need JUDGES to say you can’t fire rubber bullets or paintballs at clergy or throw teargas canisters at protesters because you’re stuck in traffic? These fucking ICE clowns are criminals!
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 9h
Again, Trump has crossed a Red Line no president has ever crossed: personally ordering the criminal prosecution of an American he doesn't like despite DOJ not finding evidence of any crime.

If Trump can do this to the powerful, he can do it to you. That's not freedom, and its not America.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 10h
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h
Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.
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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 10h
The indictment (www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...) actually focuses on a *separate* property from the one prosecutors initially focused on. But DOJ was skeptical of this case, ABC reported, because the Fannie Mae guidelines on "second homes" vs. "investment properties" are so squishy.
James indictment
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 9h
Get the fuck out of Chicago.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 9h
Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 9h
Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 10h
you could walk through Times Square buck naked with one of those car-dealership inflatable men tethered to your head, setting off bottle rockets as you go, and you would not be as desperate for attention than this sweaty twerp
a shitty post even by chris Cillizza's standards: "What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?"
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h
Perry just handed a draft of her order to both sides and left the bench. She's letting them look at it until she returns.

We still don't know the details of her order. She said she's granting the state's request "in part," which indicates some part of it is also being denied. Stay tuned.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h
Perry goes on to say the deployment of the National Guard is "likely to lead to civil unrest."
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h
Perry: "There is no evidence that the president is unable, with the regular forces, to execute the laws of the United States."
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h
Perry: "I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h
Perry cites other fed prosecutions/lawsuits in Chicago and says "in the last 48 hours, in four separate unrelated legal decision from different neutral parties, they all cast significant doubt on DHS' credibility and assessment of what is happening on the streets of Chicago."
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h
#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h
Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10h
👍NYT

A prosecutor handpicked by President Trump secured an indictment of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, on bank fraud and false statement charges in the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday after the president publicly demanded Ms. James be charged. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11h
Here's your lede:

Less than three weeks after Donald Trump ordered his attorney general to hurry up and start charging his enemies, the Justice Department indicted a second one: New York Attorney General Letitia James, the prosecutor who defeated him in court.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10h
CNN does it right.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10h
On the home page, NYT frames it correctly: WaPo fails.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11h
Here's your lede:

Less than three weeks after Donald Trump ordered his attorney general to hurry up and start charging his enemies, the Justice Department indicted a second one: New York Attorney General Letitia James, the prosecutor who defeated him in court.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11h
Indicting political opponents & critics because they are political opponents & critics is terrifying.

It's completely inconsistent with the rule of law & democracy.

It should scare everyone - and (hopefully) will get people to realize that we all need to stand against this.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h
The prosecutor put in office after the president who wants vengeance against his enemies told his AG that a WH lawyer was the person for the job — despite no prosecution experience — successfully sought an indictment against one of the named enemies, the second such indictment.

And you push this?
Notification Center 22 NBC NEWS Breaking news Federal grand jury in Virginia charges Letitia James, the New York attorney general who investigated Trump's business practices, with bank fraud
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 15h
VICTORY: Today, together with our partners, we won an emergency order stopping federal agents from using violent force against protestors in Illinois. Federal ICE/DHS agents are now blocked from using tactics like tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse lawful assembly. protdem.org/474KWsA
Court Halts Unlawful Suppression of Speech by ICE DHS ordered to stop violating First Amendment rights of press, clergy, and protesters in Illinois
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13h
Right. It’s the Democrats who are shattering norms. LOL NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/democrats-shutdown-trump-administration.html
Democrats employ language in describing the Trump administration that would be considered extraordinary in the past, but is becoming almost commonplace now, illustrating the depth of their apprehension about the administration and their dark view of its capabilities.
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