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Mitch King @mitchking.bsky.social · 14h

It seems like just yesterday - and also several decades ago - that Jeffrey Goldberg was added to the Houthi Small Group Signal chat and @annabower.bsky.social, half-joking/half-hopeful offered up her signal info to anyone in the administration who wanted to add her to a chat, and now here we are.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

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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Jane🔪Slain🔪Lane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 15h

Screenshots of Lindsey Halligan clearly acknowledging she understands she is speaking with a reporter:

"Lindsey Halligan here. You are reporting things that are simply not true."

"I can't tell you everything but your reporting in particular is just way off."

"...You don't have sources that are accurately telling you what you're writing."

"If you have any questions, before you report, feel free to reach out to me."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

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...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

That’s seven.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

And the fourth is Steve Mnuchin. END/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

Third is Tom Price: 3/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

Talk about a throwback to the old Mueller She Wrote podcast introduction! The second comparator is Scott Pruitt: 2/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

OMG! In Comey's motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution, he points to others who have lied to Congress that were NOT prosecuted. Number one is JEFF SESSIONS when he said "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two, but I did not have contact with the Russians." 1/

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The case is one of at least two major gun disputes the Supreme Court is set to decide this term.

Supreme Court Will Consider Overturning Federal Ban On Drug Users Owning Guns

The case is one of at least two major gun disputes the Supreme Court is set to decide this term.

www.forbes.com

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18h

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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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18h

It's the guns 💯%

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist.

But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a...

You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

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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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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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Hilly @sillychillyhilly.bsky.social · 14h

I need this in my life.

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 1d

Self-affirmation for ten lousy dollars. Sale ends tomorrow!
eatf.art/mugs

A ceramic mug featuring an illustration of a bird beside the text "fuck you, I'm hilarious"

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 12h

NASA's first female space commander: I didn't want people to say 'the woman made a mistake.' 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The trailblazer who made history as Nasa's first woman commander

The BBC speaks to astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

He's making America sick again… 👀 👀

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 12h

"Hey, you want to head down to the combination hotel and casino?"

"No, not really."

"They have a bowling alley, you know."

"YOU SONUVAGRINCH, *I'M IN.* "

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 12h

scott's hotel & casino, deposit, new york, 1976

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

after 6 weeks in a cast for a broken foot during which he acted like he had been decapitated, my cousin finally went to get the plaster removed, tripped on the carpet on the way out and now has a cast on the other foot and we are all the losers here

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

n.pr

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

According a statement from the Cook County Sheriff's Office, the Illinois State Police conducted 14 of the 15 arrests from yesterday's ICE facility protests in Broadview, all for resisting or disobeying police. Broadview PD conducted the remaining arrest for disorderly conduct.

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