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Pro-Democracy & Constitution. No One Is Above The Law. Sports, Movies, Rock Music, Audiobooks & Hiking keep me busy. Boston Sports Fan on Left Coast. Fantasy Baseball & Football for fun. Rinse & Repeat.
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Bove accepted Sassoon’s resignation in a remarkable 8-page letter, in which he blasted her handling of the case and decision to disobey his order. He told her the prosecutors who had worked on the case against Adams were being placed on administrative leave & would be investigated by the AG and OPR.
Danielle Sassoon and Other Officials Resign After Order to Drop Eric Adams Case (Gift Article)
The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the Justice Department ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Ad...
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Bove accepted Sassoon’s resignation in a remarkable 8-page letter, in which he blasted her handling of the case and decision to disobey his order. He told her the prosecutors who had worked on the case against Adams were being placed on administrative leave & would be investigated by the AG and OPR.
Danielle Sassoon and Other Officials Resign After Order to Drop Eric Adams Case (Gift Article)
The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the Justice Department ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Ad...
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Read Sassoon's letter to Bondi. Footnote 1 will be of interest to people who have been following the Eric Adams case.
Read Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi (Gift Article)
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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And here's Sassoon's letter to Bondi with lots of interesting details. Check out Footnote 1.
Read Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi (Gift Article)
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Updated again with more details

The resignations represent the most high-profile public resistance so far to President Trump’s tightening control over the Justice Department. They were a stunning repudiation of the administration’s attempt to force the dismissal of the charges against Mr. Adams.
Danielle Sassoon and Other Officials Resign After Order to Drop Eric Adams Case (Gift Article)
The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the Justice Department ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Ad...
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped (Gift Article)
Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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This footnote always felt like Bove knew a shitstorm was coming and he was trying to get ahead of it.

Generally speaking, it's best not to go to war with SDNY.
February 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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SDNY US attorney Danielle Sassoon resigns in protest over Trump’s corrupt deal with Mayor Adams
February 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Top 100 Starters for 2025 Fantasy Baseball, as I finish out my positional rankings and 120,000 words written, someone blow on my fingers
razzball.com/top-100-star...
Top 100 Starters for 2025 Fantasy Baseball
A look at the top 100 starters for 2025 fantasy baseball and all of the top 100 starters projections with tiers for your drafts.
razzball.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Super useful for upcoming fantasy baseball drafts.
February 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Gulf of Distraction
February 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
February 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor. (There are a lot of them.) voxdotcom.visitlink.me/VETn5u
All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
There are a lot of them.
voxdotcom.visitlink.me
February 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger has been placed on China’s “unreliable entities” list, which could force it to shut down stores, cease manufacturing and send its employees home.
How Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger got caught in Trump's trade war with China
The owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfger has been placed on China's unreliable entities list, which could force it to cease operations in the region.
www.cnbc.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Dyer: The media and most of their customers are ignoring this terrifying warming trend completely because the Tangerine Toddler is having a tantrum.
Climate change should worry us more than Trump’s latest outrage
The media and most of their customers are ignoring this terrifying warming trend completely because the Tangerine Toddler is having a tantrum.
buff.ly
February 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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You might have a credit card’s worth of microplastics in your brain — and dementia patients may have more, new study suggests.

The American researchers believe they’re the first to find shards of plastic in the human brain, after similar findings in animal models.
You might have a credit card’s worth of microplastics in your brain — and dementia patients may have more, new study suggests
The researchers believe they’re the first to find shards of plastic in the human brain, after similar findings in animal models.
www.thestar.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Head of DOGE-controlled government tech task force resigns
Head of DOGE-controlled government tech task force resigns
The head of USDS says he isn’t ‘taking the fork.’
buff.ly
February 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Local bookstores have become tiny beacons of light, drawing Angelenos seeking solace and consolation following the L.A. fires.
Local bookstores, dealt another blow by L.A. fires, become 'community touchstones'
Local bookstores have become tiny beacons of light, drawing Angelenos seeking solace and consolation following the L.A. fires.
www.latimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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When Donald Trump formally announced a newly created Department of Government Efficiency in December, @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-Calif.) argued in a post on X that Democrats should “work with” Musk.

Not anymore. “There’s no room for collaboration on an unconstitutional effort," he says.
Ro Khanna's DOGE dream is dead
“There's no room for collaboration on an unconstitutional effort.”
www.motherjones.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Exclusive: The White House is preparing an executive order to fire thousands of workers from the Department of Health and Human Services
Exclusive | White House Preparing Order to Cut Thousands of Federal Health Workers
The executive order could come as soon as next week, if the Trump administration goes ahead with plans, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Breaking news: A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily paused the Trump administration’s buyout program’s deadline, which had been set for 11:59 p.m. Thursday, and set a new hearing for Monday.
Federal judge pauses deadline for Trump administration’s buyout program
The Trump administration gave most of the country’s federal employees just nine full days to decide if they want to resign with pay through the end of September.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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A federal judge just temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s exit plan for government employees until Monday.
Judge temporarily blocks Trump's exit plan for federal employees
Senior District Judge George O’Toole has hit pause on the plan until a new hearing Monday.
www.politico.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM