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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4h

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them."

Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future.

There will be universal high income."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 8h

LIVE NOW: @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @annabower.bsky.social are discussing her article about how interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan reached out to her on Signal—and the conversation that followed. youtube.com/live/SZZyccE...

Lawfare Live, The Now: Anna Bower's Signal Exchange with Lindsey Halligan

YouTube video by Lawfare

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Kimmi🌷 @kimmi1965.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, aware of national security implications, we are ripe to be attacked. Corrupt criminal put us here.
Will not allow it to deter us, an eyes wide open approach is a requirement along w/meaningful acts of resistance. Believe we have the power to stop it.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 9h

It's the guns 💯%

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21h

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h

This is actually a perfect meme.

Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!

By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.
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Kimmi🌷 @kimmi1965.bsky.social · 7h

I know where this came from, LH.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h

President began demolishing the East Wing of the WH to build there his $200M+ ballroom.

East Wing was built in 1942 during the presidency of FDR. It was constructed to cover the bunker that he used during WWII and the President's Emergency Operations Center.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h

Today former President Joe Biden got to ring the bell on this phase of his cancer treatment.

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Kimmi🌷 @kimmi1965.bsky.social · 7h

Mad respect for this former POTUS. President Biden is a decent man who cared about the American people, he was treated terribly by US media, even his own party members.
Happy to see him ringing that bell, praying for Bidens’ future health & a peaceful journey thru his healing process.

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Kimmi🌷 @kimmi1965.bsky.social · 8h

Can hardly wait for the military jets & helicopter air activity, its noisy and gives a sense of a battle happening soon. Live downtown, south end, ICE building is close by.
Know it’s performative theater, hoping ppl stay clear of the bait site as it benefits 🤡, little else.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 10h

The USA is basically becoming El Salvador in real-time.

Sending another state's National Guard to beat down citizens in Portland.

An invasion in all but name.

The US is at war with itself now.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h

🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.

Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

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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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 12h

Two Trump-appointed judges of the Ninth Circuit let Trump send the troops into Portland, pausing another Trump appointee's TRO.

The only non-Trump appointee denounces the "political theater" behind the deployment, calling for an en banc review to stop it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 12h

All three judges of the Ninth Circuit agree that Trump labeling Portland a "war zone" is complete nonsense.

The two Trump appointees on the panel just think it's fine to send in the warriors, anyway.

(Two Trump appointees in other courts found otherwise.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The dissent erroneously asserts that we “accept[] the government’s characterization of Portland as a war zone.” ... Clearly, we do not.

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Kimmi🌷 @kimmi1965.bsky.social · 11h

Hiya, nice to see you on this site too. Listened to this hearing, knew how Nelson would rule, this is a terrible outcome although we should win on merits at full court.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 12h

BREAKING: Ninth Circuit panel, on a 2-1 vote, allows Trump to deploy National Guard troops in Portland during litigation. Both judges siding with Trump were appointed by Trump in his first term.

Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-trials...

Before: Susan P. Graber, Ryan D. Nelson, and Bridget S. Bade, Circuit Judges.
Concurrence by Judge R. Nelson; Dissent by Judge Graber.
PER CURIAM:
Defendants-Appellants, President Donald J. Trump, Secretary of Defense
Peter Hegseth, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, in their official
capacities, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) (collectively, Defendants), seek an emergency stay of the district
court’s October 4, 2025 temporary restraining order (TRO) enjoining the President’s
Case: 25-6268, 10/20/2025, DktEntry: 61.1, Page 2 of 93
order to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard for 60 days to protect
federal personnel and property at the Lindquist Building, an Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon. After considering the
record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President
lawfully exercised his statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3), which
authorizes the federalization of the National Guard when “the President is unable
with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.” The evidence the
President relied on reflects a “colorable assessment of the facts and law within a
‘range of honest judgment.’” Newsom v. Trump, 141 F.4th 1032, 1051 (9th Cir.
2025) (per curiam) (quoting Sterling v. Constantin, 287 U.S. 378, 399 (1932)). We
thus conclude that Defendants are likely to succeed on the merits of their appeal, and
that the other stay factors weigh in their favor. We grant Defendants’ motion for a
stay pending appeal.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h

My first book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, is out tomorrow, Tuesday, & I hope you’ll read it. I got to discuss it in advance of the release with my former boss & mentor @DougJones www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/801635...

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Kimmi🌷 @kimmi1965.bsky.social · 12h

Cutting off the pretend monarchists’ gilded age dreams. America first is Trumpism first.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13h

There are several bills to cut off Congress's pay checks during government shutdowns

Now there's a bill to halt White House ballroom renovations during the shutdown:

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

www.congress.gov

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

🚨2-1 panel of the 9th Circuit (2 Trump vs 1 Clinton appointee) permits Trump to deploy the National Guard in Portland.

The majority opinion finds that Trump properly considered the situation from June through September, and declares the ICE protests disruptive enough to call out the Guard.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h

Meanwhile, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the Trump administration's motion for a stay in Oregon v. Trump, regarding National Guard deployment in Portland.

Full opinion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b3...

cst.brightspotcdn.com

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