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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 1d

Wait someone who took a job as chief torturer for a dictator is also corrupt? You don't say

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 20h

I was a guest on this podcast talking about teaching con law in the age of Trump. I start at the 10 minute mark.
I don’t hold back.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Ep 172 — Law School In The Age Of Trump (Ft. Prof. Eric Segall)

Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · 10/10/2025 · 1h 6m

podcasts.apple.com

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 21h

As we read the evidence, bounding that dissensus does allow us to make at least one strong negative claim: there was no consensus that executive power included an indefeasible removal power. (2/2)

Disagreement and Historical Argument or How Not to Think About Removal

Scholars have debated the reach of the President’s power to remove government officers for over one hundred years. This old fight is now suddenly urgent as Pres

papers.ssrn.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 21h

Sure, but what idiot would make a constitutional interpretive theory based on original public meaning?

Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 21h

As we read the evidence, bounding that dissensus does allow us to make at least one strong negative claim: there was no consensus that executive power included an indefeasible removal power. (2/2)

Disagreement and Historical Argument or How Not to Think About Removal

Scholars have debated the reach of the President’s power to remove government officers for over one hundred years. This old fight is now suddenly urgent as Pres

papers.ssrn.com

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 6h

Trump does love putting his name on things. 😉
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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 7d

They can call it the Trump Peace Prize.

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 7h

In their minds, it will lead to more "intellectual diversity," so the ends justify the means. Perverse notions of academic freedom and free speech.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 7h

I mention this in my article because the same doublespeak is in Project 2025. As far as I can tell, they believe that because universities are leftist indoctrination factories, they're promoting "academic freedom" and "free speech" by punishing units and ideas they believe are anti-conservative.

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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 22h

@ryanenos.bsky.social is right to highlight this passage.

In my youth, everyone would’ve seen this for what it is – Soviet-style doublespeak

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

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Justin @justinlawguy.bsky.social · 8h

ITS NOT IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE IF I ADMIT TO IT

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 7h

Watching baseball players try to do penalty kicks would be entertaining. I request that Bartolo Colon come out of retirement solely for that purpose. 😉

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 7h

I'm gonna be on repeat about this forever: What is especially dangerous about measles is that it can trigger immunity amnesia. From UCLA Health:

"Researchers have found that, after recovering from the measles, the immune system is suppressed for at least several months, and for up to two years."

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 7h

Homerun Derby. Each team gets to pick one batter and a guy to pitch to him. 10 pitches. Most HRs win.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Justin @justinlawguy.bsky.social · 8h

Obviously this was only because of the shut down and not because RFK has been fighting a war against the CDC since he first arrived.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

it is frustrating how much space NYT gives to people with nothing worthwhile to say

just an uninteresting man with stale, despicable views talking to a lazy man with no intellectual curiosity

like wow, a white Christian nationalist? is he just like the other ones? is he wearing a suit? fascinating

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 7h

Me too! I would have tried to nominate you, but I didn't want Trump to send you to Guantanamo if you won over him. 😉

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 8h

a man in a military uniform says " believe it or not jail " in front of a crowd

ALT: a man in a military uniform says " believe it or not jail " in front of a crowd

media.tenor.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 9h

You're not allowed to call them Nazis, Sam. That's terrorism. 😉

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 10h

Look, this is amazing. And it's also Nazi resistance shit.

And it's very clear who the Nazis are in this scenario.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 10h

Undergrad: "Man, 10 page essay. what am I going to write in here"

Lawyer: "What do you mean just 13,000 words?"

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 9h

WTF. That's really fucked up. What an asshole.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 12h

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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