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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 3m

Sequim.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 55m

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 12m

The press would certainly be correct in asking the question.

Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t want to get rid of it. My point is, blaming the other side for the shutdown, when you have the power to end it, is stupid, and they should be called out on it.

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 2h

Not totally. I’d be okay with the budget. Because I’m sick of the Dems bailing out the GOP from the worst impacts of their policies. Let the people see what a GOP budget really does and maybe they’ll stop voting for the GOP.

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 4h

I agree it’s plausible. Although, I think if the Democrats were “hellbent on killing the filibuster” as you claim, they’d have done it when they controlled the Senate under Biden.

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve met some great people from #AppellateTwitter / #AppellateSky and even gotten business.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 4h

Literally a complaint in the Declaration and the reason we have a 4th Amendment.

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 4h

They know their budget would crush their voters. They don’t want to take the hit for passing it. So they can either use the Dems as cover with their base about why they didn’t pass a budget, or they can point and say the Dems signed off on it.

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 5h

Every time a GOP Senator blames the shutdown on Democrats, a reporter should ask why they don’t just eliminate the filibuster for budget bills, like they just did for block confirmations.

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 21h

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 23h

Except replace delicious with the truth.

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 23h

One thing to get used to in private practice is that I can just subpoena people.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 1d

Look here! They have dressed as clowns and they have taunted the ICE lads with donuts on fishing lines. What more do you want? This is social collapse! Just ask Stephen Miller!

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 1d

Again, if the is is you, call me. I spent 15 years defending an Agency. Now, I’m on your side. And this is why.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump, answering reporters' questions in the Oval Office, says he'll announce in four or five days how many federal workers will be fired amid the government shutdown but "it'll be substantial and a lot of those jobs will never come back."

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 1d

No badges. No insignia. This is assault and kidnapping, caught on video.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This is how ICE detains individuals without any warrants, even in the presence of a lawyer making requests.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 1d

My real concern is whether Amicus, the mascot of the Canadian Supreme Court, has also been compelled to change robes.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 1d

To be absolutely clear: if ICE or DHS says something happened, it almost certainly didn't happen.

And even if it did, at this point, the burden is on them to produce evidence. Anybody who gives them even the least benefit of the doubt hasn't been paying attention.

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Sonya H @sonyah.bsky.social · 2d

We need to do what’s morally right because it’s morally right. To achieve the framer’s intent on forming a more perfect union. To keep going forth in this great experiment. Not because it does or doesn’t poll well.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2d

Sidelining marginalized groups/causes for electoral purposes is morally bad, as Ta-Nehisi Coates argued so well recently. @anatosaurus.bsky.social is making an important case---that strategy's electoral benefits are often limited or non-existent. A must-read. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

www.weekendreading.net

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 2d

I saw an interesting argument that citizens can and should use this to prove 4A violations. Instead of describing (in)objective reality, say it is setting the legal standard, which ICE has violated.

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court WILL NOT hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2022 sex trafficking conviction, which she claimed was partially barred by a provision in Jeffrey Epstein's nonprosecution agreement that promised not to bring criminal charges against his co-conspirators. #SCOTUS

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 22d

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 2d

Fleeing the country wouldn’t help if I was in charge. We can go get you.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll note that while SCOTUS complains lower courts aren’t following its (unreasoned and opaque) shadow docket orders in cases it sees as substantially similar, the Trump admin loves trying to skirt court orders by tweaking one tiny fact and then doing exactly what it was just forbidden from doing.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

Date Filed
Oct 5, 2025
Description
* CSV
SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00
p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-
990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 812-980-
324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference.
For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25 by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (jy)
(Entered: 10/05/2025)

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