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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 35m

“Put them all on that spaceship and send them off.”

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2h

9th Cir. panel pauses judge's order against federalizing OR National Guard, leaves in place another (as yet unappealed) order barring deployment of OR & CA guard in Portland. 9th Cir arguments tomw. (Clarifies confusing omission in earlier post.) Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 1h

It is not a person. The movement is made up of people. (I have seen different definitions).

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1h

(🚨) ICYMI: Rooftop Trump Sniper Shoots Unarmed, Peacefully Protesting Priest in Head in Shocking Video

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cavalrygreek @cavalrygreek.bsky.social · 2h

a woman wearing glasses says cuckoo quackers in a photo lab

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cavalrygreek @cavalrygreek.bsky.social · 3h

a baby is crying while being held by a woman in a crowd .

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 4h

Most of Dem Senators did not attack Bondi yesterday as they should have. Among other things they should have said, "You're lying again, Ms. Bondi" and "That's a bald-faced lie, Ms. Bondi."

The rapid rise of authoritarianism is no place for etiquette.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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cavalrygreek @cavalrygreek.bsky.social · 3h

Both are like…what the fuc* is that

a man is laying in bed with a blanket on his head and says `` i see dumb people '' .

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cavalrygreek @cavalrygreek.bsky.social · 3h

It’s rational. I suspect that the opinion granting the tro & its expansion resonated with at least two of the panel. I’ll go out on a limb and say that they’ll deny trump using NG in Portland…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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cavalrygreek @cavalrygreek.bsky.social · 6h

supposedly, trump found her to be talented...

a close up of a banana with the word champion written on it

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 7h

Trump’s lawyers don’t pass the bar - they lower it.

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cavalrygreek @cavalrygreek.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and the words nailed it written on it .

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cavalrygreek @cavalrygreek.bsky.social · 6h

with trump, it's like...

a man in a suit is talking to a woman and the words are you having a senior moment

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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cavalrygreek @cavalrygreek.bsky.social · 9h

wait a minute...these NG's don't look like they could pass Hegseth's PT test, or the body fat test. hell, they look like they're a test case for heart attack on big buns. somebody please, inform the secretary of war!

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 11h

This Article makes it seems like the charges against comey are for the Richman stuff, not the Cruz/McCabe stuff. Is that right? Do we know that now?

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Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources

Ex-FBI Director James Comey faces federal charges, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness in the case would prove "problematic," sources say.

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 11h

JESUS SAID, "Heal the sick, after you check their papers."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 11h

Fun Fact: I once worked on a high profile prosecution in EDVA with Pat Fitzgerald and his team of AUSAs, all of whom were from outside the district. Let's just say that these Virginia judges do not take kindly to outside agitators, even those from the Department of Justice.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 9h

MORE DETAILS: Comey’s counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, told the judge that the defense still doesn’t know the names of “PERSON 1” and “PERSON 3” referred to in the indictment.

INDICTMENT
COUNT ONE
False statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government
[18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)]
1. On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, JAMES
B. COMEY JR., did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and
fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the
Government of the United States, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing that he, JAMES B. COMEY JR., had not "authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports" regarding an FBI
investigation concerning PERSON 1.
2. That statement was false, because, as JAMES B. COMEY JR. then and there knew, he in
fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding
an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1.
3. All in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2).

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10h

lindsey halligan, welcome to the rocket docket

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

The judge, for his part, warned the government that the case shouldn't get off track because of classified information issues.

Either the information will be declassified or we'll go through the "fastest CIPA process you've ever seen in your life," he said.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

The government's lack of a plan prompted Comey's counsel, Fitzgerald, to say that the prosecution "put the cart before the horse."

Usually, you figure out classified information issues in consultation w/ DOJ's national security division *before* bringing a case, he said.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Comey case meets rocket docket. He pleads not guilty. Trial date Jan. 5. Comey to move to dismiss arguing Halligan wasn't validly appointed. Massive discovery could slow case. Prosecutors made clear they don't know what they have. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

James Comey pleads not guilty to criminal charges following Trump pressure to prosecute

The judge set a trial date of Jan. 5.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 9h

JUST IN: Overstock founder Patrick Byrne formally defaulted by court in libel suit Hunter Biden brought against him. Biden lawyers to propose size of default judgment in coming weeks. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Hunter Biden seeks arrest of former Overstock.com CEO in defamation case

Attorneys for the ex-president’s son ask a federal judge to issue a bench warrant against defendant Patrick Byrne for failing to respond to court orders.

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