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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 3d

Literally the only thing I missed about living NOVA was access to the Ethiopian places in DC. Found a brilliant place when I moved to RVA but they closed a bit back (RIP Nile) - this is good reminder to go back to Buna Kurs here in RVA and try Addis as well!!!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 4d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 4d

This is exactly the kind of thing that Timothy Snyder is talking about in the essay I reposted earlier this week.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Stephen Miller: "If you can't see that since we've taken office, there's been an organized, systemitized campaign to delegitimatize, dehumanize, threaten, impede, obstruct, and physically assault ICE officers in their duties, then I can't persuade you of it."

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! I’ve been kind of sporadic on all social media platforms and lost the thread in this!

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 5d

Wait. May also involve post about Kirk…I’m confused. Sorry.

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 5d

Something about Jessie Singal as far as I can tell. Which, like, if it involves him - probably involves him saying something offensive and then whining when people get in his comments.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 5d

The DC Circuit is set to consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by expelling the Associated Press from the White House press pool. @knightcolumbia.org's brief, just filed. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 5d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Immergut has issued her written TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from relocating or deploying federalized national guard troops to Oregon.

Here it is:

Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM|
Document 68
Filed 10/05/25
Page 1 of 2
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON
STATE OF OREGON; the
CITY OF PORTLAND; and STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
Case No. 3:25-cv-1756-IM
SECOND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States; PETE HEGSETH, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security: and U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
Defendants.
Based on this Court's prior Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs' First Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 56; the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; and the newly submitted declarations, ECF 60, 63, 65, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 59, and ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendants are temporarily enjoined from deploying federalized members of the
National Guard in Oregon.

This Second Temporary Restraining Order expires by its own terms in fourteen
days on October 19, 2025.
3. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to post a nominal bond of $100 within 48 hours. The
bond shall be filed in the Clerk's Office and be deposited into the registry of the Court.
4. Defendants' Request to Stay or Administratively Stay this Second Temporary
Restraining Order, which was raised in the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order, is DENIED.
The Court Clerk will contact the parties to schedule a telephone hearing on
October 17, 2025, to address whether this Second Temporary Restraining Order should be
extended for another 14 days.
Any motion for a Preliminary Injunction shall be filed no later than October 17,
2025; Defendants' opposition shall be due no later than October 23, 2025, and Plaintiffs' reply
shall be due on October 27, 2025.
A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion and a trial on the merits
under Rule 65(a)(2) is set for October 29, 2025, before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 5th day of October.
/s/

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 5d

That this administration is mobilizing ANG from states largely controlled by Rs to states largely controlled by Ds is incredibly alarming. It’s not just the misuse of the ANG…yeah it’s alarming.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

snyder.substack.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 8d

WTF? I dint even know why Im saying that. More like. Of fucking course.

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 9d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 11d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 16d

In case there was any doubt about the anti-DEI sentiment is actually about…

Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 17d

A group wearing MAGA hats and carrying signs that read "DEI should be illegal" and "deport all illegals now" appeared Tuesday on the campus of Tennessee State University, a historically Black college in Nashville.

They were escorted off campus.
www.tennessean.com/story/news/e...

Tennessee State University: Group with MAGA hats, 'inflammatory' signs removed from HBCU

TSU said the group was unaffiliated with the university and not authorized to be there.

www.tennessean.com

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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 18d

dailynous.com/2025/09/22/w... Academics with publications on academia edu need to look at the new terms and the permissions it provide to AI farm your work and identity

What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (updated) - Daily Nous

Users of the Academia.edu service are cancelling their subscriptions in response to perceived overreach by the firm in its recent update to its terms of service. Catching users' attention was a new pa...

dailynous.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19d

IT IS TIME.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

buff.ly

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 18d

The whole administration in one quote

Some ICE officials call Sheahan "Fish Cop" behind her back because of her previous stint running the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in Louisiana. Sheahan knows there are people who think that, without any law-enforcement background, she isn't qualified for a job usually occupied by veteran ICE officials. "I absolutely think Im qualified for the job," she told me. "Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?"

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 19d

When one of your journalism crushes strays into your botanical world 🌱🩷

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20d

cabbage is the unsung MVP of the brassicas

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Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton) @paleoethnobot.bsky.social · 19d

In case you were wondering the “I’ve read some obituaries with great satisfaction” quote was not Mark Twain.
More fittingly - it was Clarence Darrow
“ I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." Clarence Darrow 1932.

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