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Jen Taub

@jentaub.bsky.social

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Law professor & author of BIG DIRTY MONEY and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES Host of LIVE morning news show https://www.youtube.com/@jentaub

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · Nov 12

📌 Kvelling here. A glowing review by @JamesStewartNYT of BIG DIRTY MONEY appears in print in the New York Times Book Review on page 10 today, Sunday, November 29, 2020.

@nytimesbooks @VikingBooks

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Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 7h

Oopsie

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 12h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 5h

Our enemies are cowards, and we're going to defeat them.

By frog.

Be it by chicken.

Be it by ballot box.

Be it by shield.

We will win.

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 5h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

This is not appropriate behavior. And I realize many of you who are fans of Katie Porter are very frustrated by what feels like a sexist double standard in how her anger is covered vs. Trump, but you can't tell me this is appropriate behavior toward staff.

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

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

Porter in the July 2021 video call exclusively obtained by POLITICO also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Stephen Trumbull @smtrumbull.bsky.social · 4h

Those radical left antifa!! 🤣

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 4h

He looks like the world’s most divorced watching his kid’s soccer game from just outside the range of the restraining order

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4h

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 4h

Omg

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 8h

I have a great idea for someone who can win the Nobel Peace Prize: Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent by the United States to an El Salvadoran torture prison for 125 days, with no due process, & who, afterwards, epitomized grace.

english.elpais.com/internationa...

Andry Hernández’s life after leaving Bukele’s terror prison: ‘Our bodies are free, but our minds are still there’

The Venezuelan stylist, one of the 252 men deported by the United States to a third nation for the first time, is trying to rebuild his life after four months of detention

english.elpais.com

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13h

Welcome to the resistance, uh...

[squints]

...Marjorie Taylor Greene?

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 5h

Correct

Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 12h

As it turns out, not only were we NOT overreacting, we were underreacting 🫠

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 11h

Let me be clear: Democrats are at work waiting for Republicans to wrap up their vacation and join us. It’s time for Mike Johnson to bring his caucus back, get to work, and stop playing politics with folks’ lives.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 5h

James is an excellent role model. We all must be fearless

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 8h

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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 8h

Omg

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 8h

BREAKING: NY State AG Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia

State Attorney General Letitia James has reportedly been indicted for alleged mortgage fraud.

www.cityandstateny.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11h

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

A federal judge just asked the government if they're the cause of the violence in Chicago - whether this is of their own making.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago.

She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents."

Hamilton: "No, your honor."

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

NEWS: The Epstein Survivors' press conference yesterday was postponed. New date TBD.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 10h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10h

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 11h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe next time, farmers. 😞

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11h

Bessent Says Today They Directly Purchased Argentine Pesos Bessent Says They Have Finalized $20 Billion Currency Swap Framework With Argentina’s Central Bank

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

Perry turns to the fact that drugs have been dealt in Chicago for decades in violation of federal law.

Perry asks if that means "the president has had the authority for decades to deploy the National Guard here?"

(I also believe she prefaced this hypothetical with "riddle me this.")

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