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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 1h

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1h

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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1h

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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Judge Perry rejects the Trump admin’s proposed definition of “unable” as basically any interference with federal law enforcement, and say that even if she did, “the factual conditions necessary for President Trump to have properly invoked Section 12406(3) simply do not exist.”

In any event, while decisions of the Ninth Circuit are "not binding" on this Court, Hays v.
United States, 397 F.3d 564, 567 (7th Cir. 2005), and the Court frankly does not agree that
"significantly impeded" is the same thing as "unable," the Court would still find that Plaintiffs
are likely to succeed on the merits even were the Ninth Circuit standard applied. As discussed,
there is evidence of protests, some of which have included acts of violence. There is also evidence of property destruction, and discrete groups who have attempted to impede DHS agents. At the same time, there is significant evidence that DHS has not been unable to carry out
its mission. All federal facilities have remained open. To the extent there have been disruptions,
they have been of limited duration and swiftly controlled by authorities. Pairing all this with
evidence that federal immigration officials have seen huge increases in arrests and deportations,
see Doc. 13 at 34-35; id. at 34 n.124, the Court concludes that even under the Ninth Circuit
standard, the factual conditions necessary for President Trump to have properly invoked Section
12406(3) simply do not exist.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 10h

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 10h

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 5h

I think I know why Republicans don’t give a shit about the ACA tax credits expiring.

Remember all that personal information DOGE stole last spring?

Pretty sure they know exactly who registered Democrats are in most states…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 6h

But also, $2/gal is $84/bbl.

So, energy up?

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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 6h

Definitely the latter. Sad.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 9h

I found the war on Christianity

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Eric Majeski @lgp-netwolf.bsky.social · 9h

DoPS: Here are all the reasons this after-the-whistle play is unacceptable, avoidable, and has no place in the game.

Also DoPS: j/k, it wasn't that bad. Sit out a game and were good.

NHL Player Safety (Bot) @notnhlplayersafety.bsky.social · 9h

NY Islanders’ Jonathan Drouin has been suspended for one game for cross-checking Pittsburgh’s Connor Dewar. https://www.nhl.com/video/topic/player-safety/drouin-suspended-one-game-6382575148112

Drouin suspended one game | NHL.com

New York Islanders forward Jonathan Drouin is suspended one game for cross-checking against Penguins forward Connor Dewar

www.nhl.com

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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 9h

As always, Trump hates Americans.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 23h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 14h

bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 15h

Let’s ask the dead fishermen.

Who all had more hair than this dope.

Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 1d

What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 22h

Froggy went a-courtin’, he did ride
A grand jury said no charges against him they could decide
uh huh

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 23h

The third worst play of the night.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

From the bad old site, in response to pro-immigration commentary from Cato scholars. I wonder whether there's something dangerous in letting presidents just arbitrarily declare one or another group to be a terrorist organization -- nah, I suppose that's alarmist.

Four tweets from X, text:

[user] Sep 20
The CATO Institute should be labeled as a domestic terrorist organization.

[user] Sep 20
Replying to
@AlexNowrasteh
Trump's next EO needs to be declaring the CATO Institute a terrorist organization.

[user]
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Sep 19
The next group that
@realDonaldTrump
needs to designate as a terrorist organization is the Cato Institute

[user]
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Sep 19
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
we are going to designate the CATO Institute as a terrorist organization next.

Tweets from X, text: "

[user]
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11h
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
The Cato Institute should be declared a terrorist organization.

[user]
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11h
President Trump needs to declare Cato institute domestic terror organization
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The Alex Nowrasteh
@AlexNowrasteh
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Oct 8
Americans would be slightly more pro-immigration if they knew how hard it is to come here legally."

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