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Sarah Rumpf

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Native Floridian ☀️ Coffee aficionado ☕️ UF/UF Law alumna 🐊 Contributing Editor at Mediaite 📺 Freelance writer 💻 Aspiring pâtissière 🍰

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · Aug 22

“If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.”
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never been so proud to be a tiny bit Norwegian 😁

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 4d

an amusing typo and Back to the Future references for my fellow Gen X nerds...

OOPS: Judge Signs Order Scheduling Comey’s Trial for Impossible Date www.mediaite.com/crime/oops-j...

OOPS: Judge Signs Order Scheduling Comey’s Trial for Impossible Date

Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday, but he'll need to enlist the services of Doc Brown and Marty McFly to make the trial date on the judge's scheduling order.

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 4d

aggressively, absurdly, unconstitutional

Stephen Miller or whoever is telling him this is legal is lying to him

Trump Brags ‘We Took the Freedom of Speech Away’ With Plan to Imprison Flag Burners — Supreme Court Rejected in 1989 www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

Trump Brags ‘We Took the Freedom of Speech Away’ With Plan to Imprison Flag Burners — Supreme Court Rejected in 1989

President Donald Trump bragged on Wednesday that his administration "took the freedom of speech away" with a one year penalty for "inciting riots" with flag burning -- never mind that the Supreme Cour...

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 4d

hard to convince a judge there's a privacy interest when you brag about something to millions of followers 🤷‍♀️

Judge Grants NYT’s Demand for List of Elon Musk’s Security Clearances, Citing His Own Public Admissions www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/jud...

Judge Grants NYT’s Demand for List of Elon Musk’s Security Clearances, Citing His Own Public Admissions

A federal judge in New York granted a summary judgment motion to The New York Times regarding its public records request for a list of Elon Musk's security clearances -- and Musk's own public comments...

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 4d

best news of 2025 🙏 www.mediaite.com/media/entert...

America Breathes Sigh of Relief as Dolly Parton Posts Video: ‘I Ain’t Dead Yet!’

After America went through a stressful 24 hours fretting over the health of Dolly Parton, the beloved country music legend took to social media herself to dispel any rumors with her trademark candor, ...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 6d

The "putting people under oath" part is really important here. We need more of this.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

While we were sleeping:

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from deploying any federalized National Guard—Texas, California, the state’s own—in Oregon.

That’s big news. Even bigger: She’s decided to hold a trial on the merits. That is: She’s putting people under oath.

Screenshot of court order, which reads in part:

“A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion land a trial on the meries
under Rule 65(al(2) is set for October 29, 2025l before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 8d

ha, no, just what I whipped up this morning 💅🏻

Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 8d

dark chocolate mocha gâteau with raspberry filling, chocolate hazelnut cream cheese icing, fresh raspberries

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 9d

lol I do already have some new favorite songs

Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 9d

3 songs in and I can tell I’m definitely going to be listening to this on repeat for awhile ❤️‍🔥 #tsthelifeofashowgirl

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 9d

13 minutes!!! ❤️‍🔥

Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 12d

JUST IN: Trump Admin Absolutely Scorched By Reagan-Appointed Judge Over ‘Chilling’ Free Speech Crackdown www.mediaite.com/politics/jus...

JUST IN: Trump Admin Absolutely Scorched By Reagan-Appointed Judge Over ‘Chilling’ Free Speech Crackdown

A federal judge issued a scathing rebuke to President Donald Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian student protesters, finding that his administration had illegally targeted immigrant students for depo...

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 16d

Sinclair Agrees to Stop Preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! After Failing to Get Disney to Budge — UPDATE: Nexstar Too www.mediaite.com/media/entert...

Sinclair Agrees to Stop Preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! After Failing to Get Disney to Budge — UPDATE: Nexstar Too

Sinclair has agreed to stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! and will allow the show to resume airing on its ABC affiliates, the company announced Friday afternoon. A few hours later, Nextar joined them ...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16d

This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

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New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
The defense secretary is expected to lecture about the “warrior ethos” for less than an hour, according to multiple people familiar with the event. But top generals are bracing for possible firings or demotions.

4minutes ago

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16d

Imagine being one of these incredibly impressive four-stars and being lectured about being a warrior by an alcoholic former weekend cable news host

Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 16d

WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.

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New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 16d

JUST IN: Sinclair Agrees to Stop Preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! After Failing to Get Disney to Budge www.mediaite.com/media/entert...

JUST IN: Sinclair Agrees to Stop Preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! After Failing to Get Disney to Budge

Sinclair has agreed to stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, allowing the show to resume airing on its ABC affiliates.

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 16d

If you would enjoy a weird critter story to disrupt your doomscrolling...Florida is here for you!

Drone Video Shows Florida Cops Expertly Lasso and Wrestle 6-Foot Alligator: ‘Not Our First Call Like This’ www.mediaite.com/media/weird/...