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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1h

Hamilton: “The court doesn’t have to decide what a rebellion is.”
Perry: “I think I do.”

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1h

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 6h

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/b...

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

Central bank says market concentration hasn’t been this extreme in 50 years.

arstechnica.com

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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 17h

Roughly my take on it

Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · Sep 28

Self quote, when in disagreement, you should appeal to the highest set of values that your opponent holds, neither go higher nor lower.

(or else they'll never truly believe your argument)

And as a corollary - if they have no values, do not appeal to them

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

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Matt Stocum @matt.stocum.us · 18h

The greatest crime Trump has committed is making me support Bolton and Comey.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Prosecutors in Maryland are expected in coming days to charge one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers, John Bolton, now a top Trump critic, with mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 18h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 21h

I was also reminded of the way code proactively gets made. You give the fire science people a chunk of money and space to build the thing they're interested in. Then they set it on fire and collect a lot of data while it's burning and in the aftermath.

Wanna guess something we haven't really done?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 20h

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21h

Putting aside the many reasons they should include it, this is also negotiation 101: don't negotiate against yourself, such as by locking your demand in low when your counterparty refuses to negotiate.

Dems shouldn't take stuff off the table until Trump & GOP are truly negotiating.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 1d

Deeply recommending the video she just did on this for a legal eagle. I know it doesn't seem like a very consequential story, but there is so much nonsense going on there that I, even as someone who spends a lot of their free time studying far-right politics, had my jaw drop.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: James Comey pleads not guilty to federal criminal charges, judge sets trial date for Jan. 5

More details TK

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from the line outside the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI director James Comey is set to be arraigned on federal charges.

I’m here for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along for updates ⬇️

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20h

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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A New Social @anew.social · 1d

Today, we announced our next Bounce Beta that lets you migrate your Mastodon profile into any existing ATProto account, whether you're on Bluesky or any other PDS provider!

We'll be going live with Bounce Beta 2 on October 20th.

Read more here:

Bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky

With our next Bounce Beta, you will be able to Bounce your Mastodon account to Bluesky!

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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 1d

hyperallergic.com/1045489/acti...

Activists Condemn Arrest of NYC Protest Photographer Alexa Wilkinson

Wilkinson was charged with a hate crime for social media posts critical of the New York Times’s executive editor over the publication’s Israel coverage.

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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 1d

I was in the first 25000 users here.

I know his motivations. I also know they quickly became irrelevant as the current bluesky team brought their own prototypes in and Dorsey exited the process, and Twitter/X cut the contracts after the sale.

The current protocol is a distinct thing.

Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 1d

Every motivation traces back to dorsey wanting to dodge regulations

Twitter Wants to Reinvent Itself, by Merging the Old With the New (Published 2022)

www.nytimes.com

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Alan Zibel @alanzibel.bsky.social · 1d

White House offers white glove, concierge service to fossil fuel companies.

Meanwhile, wind and solar aren’t even allowed to check into the Motel 6.

Great scoop from @jakespring.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 1d

> no moderation responsibilities

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

When US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas tried to prove his identity by showing federal agents his REAL ID, they dismissed it as a fake and kept him detained, releasing him only after they bothered to run his Social Security number.

Just a few weeks later, they detained him again:

Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All

Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.

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Fighting Against Fascism @fightinginjustice.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said.

The fact that he knows he's not supposed to be just saying it out loud like that because it's not true and he didn't mean to telegraph their intentions that clearly

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

open.substack.com

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