@dak-u.bsky.social
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NEW: Carol Loennig tells Nicoll Wallace on MSNOW that the DOJ intends to try and indict Letitia James a THIRD time.
The trouble with that is these multiple tries help James prove her vindictive and selective prosecution bid, and bolster a case to get the grand jury materials.
The trouble with that is these multiple tries help James prove her vindictive and selective prosecution bid, and bolster a case to get the grand jury materials.
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
NEW: Carol Loennig tells Nicoll Wallace on MSNOW that the DOJ intends to try and indict Letitia James a THIRD time.
The trouble with that is these multiple tries help James prove her vindictive and selective prosecution bid, and bolster a case to get the grand jury materials.
The trouble with that is these multiple tries help James prove her vindictive and selective prosecution bid, and bolster a case to get the grand jury materials.
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It's unbelievable how corrupt the Supreme Court is. It's insane that we are letting them get away with it. They are taking away all of our rights.
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It's unbelievable how corrupt the Supreme Court is. It's insane that we are letting them get away with it. They are taking away all of our rights.
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There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
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Excellent reporting from @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social starting with the "plain reality" that there was no warship, and no fighting going on, in the Sept. 2 strike, or any of them:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Excellent reporting from @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social starting with the "plain reality" that there was no warship, and no fighting going on, in the Sept. 2 strike, or any of them:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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Just some footnotes in a doc @seamushughes.bsky.social found, ordering both counsel to show cause why they shouldn't be sanctioned.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Just some footnotes in a doc @seamushughes.bsky.social found, ordering both counsel to show cause why they shouldn't be sanctioned.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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How dumb is Loony, I mean, Loomer? CNN is not part of the deal.
December 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
How dumb is Loony, I mean, Loomer? CNN is not part of the deal.
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okay, what the fuck is going on with this dumbass franklin the turtle shit. this is even stupider and more embarrassing than normal, and these fucking clowns aren't within a country mile of normal to start with.
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
okay, what the fuck is going on with this dumbass franklin the turtle shit. this is even stupider and more embarrassing than normal, and these fucking clowns aren't within a country mile of normal to start with.
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"The Pro-Death March: How the Ultra-Wealthy are Using Eugenics and Political Power to Cull the Herd"
An Unholy Alliance of MAGA Politics and Billionaire Eugenics Threatens Public Health, Democracy, and the American Working Class
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
An Unholy Alliance of MAGA Politics and Billionaire Eugenics Threatens Public Health, Democracy, and the American Working Class
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"The Pro-Death March: How the Ultra-Wealthy are Using Eugenics and Political Power to Cull the Herd"
An Unholy Alliance of MAGA Politics and Billionaire Eugenics Threatens Public Health, Democracy, and the American Working Class
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
An Unholy Alliance of MAGA Politics and Billionaire Eugenics Threatens Public Health, Democracy, and the American Working Class
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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"It is not an hors d’oeuvre, or a frippery. It is not here to amuse your bouche."
Oh yeah, Tal is back.
Oh yeah, Tal is back.
The sandwich newsletter is back!!! Prepare to learn more than you ever thought you would about pastrami! Origin myths! Disputes! An outstanding historical mystery! Yiddish ballads! Unlikely lyricism! The Armenian Church takes a stand! buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #132: Pastrami
Hello, and welcome back to the Sword and the Sandwich! I’ve been struggling with a particularly pernicious case of writer’s block, for months now. Not being...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"It is not an hors d’oeuvre, or a frippery. It is not here to amuse your bouche."
Oh yeah, Tal is back.
Oh yeah, Tal is back.
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Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.
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If Trump and Musk had a falling out, and if Musk is no longer involved in politics, why is the Trump admin using levers of US foreign policy to get Musk’s company out of well deserved fines?
This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.
This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.
Trump administration officials banded together to denounce the European Union after the bloc fined Elon Musk’s X, with some suggesting a US response is warranted, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports: www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...
Trump Administration Locks Arms with Musk’s X Against EU Tech Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press
Senior Trump administration officials banded together against the EU for fining Elon Musk's X on transparency grounds.
www.techpolicy.press
December 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
If Trump and Musk had a falling out, and if Musk is no longer involved in politics, why is the Trump admin using levers of US foreign policy to get Musk’s company out of well deserved fines?
This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.
This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.
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"Demeaning" trans people is exactly right. Their goal--and what they're most able to easily achieve--is our humiliation. The imposition of indignities. They also hope that, as humiliations often do, it exposes us to ridicule. Perhaps even violence. (e.g. forcibly outing people on their IDs).
It's really frustrating that a lot of the media just sort of frames the Trump admin as "wading into a hot debate over trans issues that have roiled american politics" when it's like, clear that they are motivated by a desire to demean trans people
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
December 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"Demeaning" trans people is exactly right. Their goal--and what they're most able to easily achieve--is our humiliation. The imposition of indignities. They also hope that, as humiliations often do, it exposes us to ridicule. Perhaps even violence. (e.g. forcibly outing people on their IDs).
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NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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When I have food that starts looking like this, I throw it out.
I suggest the United States does the same.
I suggest the United States does the same.
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
When I have food that starts looking like this, I throw it out.
I suggest the United States does the same.
I suggest the United States does the same.
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I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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In the district court vs. MSPB/immigration judges case, Chief Justice Roberts (as Circuit Justice for the Fourth Circuit) has already issued an administrative stay, and has ordered the respondents to reply to DOJ's emergency application by 4 p.m. next Wednesday:
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
The Trump administration has filed its 32nd emergency application with #SCOTUS, this one seeking to freeze a Fourth Circuit ruling in a dispute over whether district courts can hear challenges to limits on what immigration judges are allowed to say publicly:
georgetown.box.com/s/0ovhpw5pes...
georgetown.box.com/s/0ovhpw5pes...
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georgetown.box.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In the district court vs. MSPB/immigration judges case, Chief Justice Roberts (as Circuit Justice for the Fourth Circuit) has already issued an administrative stay, and has ordered the respondents to reply to DOJ's emergency application by 4 p.m. next Wednesday:
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.
I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight."
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.
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Alabama’s carceral system is a blueprint for everything that could possibly be ethically bankrupt. And most of our population believes whatever makes them most comfortable.
We're not supposed to execute people with intellectual disabilities because it violates the 8th amendment. The Supreme Court will hear a case where Alabama argues that Intellectual disability when it comes to death penalty should only be decided only by IQ tests.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Alabama wants to lower the bar for executing disabled people—if SCOTUS lets it
The case law is clear: There's more to intellectual disability than IQ tests. Will Trump's justices care?
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Alabama’s carceral system is a blueprint for everything that could possibly be ethically bankrupt. And most of our population believes whatever makes them most comfortable.
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The release of over 23,000 files associated with Epstein is raising questions about the scope and scale of his sex trafficking ring and its connections to power. @moiradonegan.bsky.social joins @michelegoodwin.bsky.social to discuss: msmagazine.com/podcast/on-s...
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The release of over 23,000 files associated with Epstein is raising questions about the scope and scale of his sex trafficking ring and its connections to power. @moiradonegan.bsky.social joins @michelegoodwin.bsky.social to discuss: msmagazine.com/podcast/on-s...
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We wrap our affordability series with a look at the hidden economic culprits of the cost of living crisis: middlemen. They sit in between transactions and take their profit, raising costs for everyone else. And their interventions can even turn deadly. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports:
Meet the Connectors - The American Prospect
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
prospect.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We wrap our affordability series with a look at the hidden economic culprits of the cost of living crisis: middlemen. They sit in between transactions and take their profit, raising costs for everyone else. And their interventions can even turn deadly. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports:
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GOP Rep. Haridopolos: "We're gonna keep the House because we are the ones addressing the issue of affordability"
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
GOP Rep. Haridopolos: "We're gonna keep the House because we are the ones addressing the issue of affordability"
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How many 2015 versions of elected Reps would look upon their 2025 versions with horror?
Rep. Crawford defends Hegseth's second strike on a demolished boat: "They were trying to right that ship. It was still laden with cargo. They were potentially signaling other vessels in the region."
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How many 2015 versions of elected Reps would look upon their 2025 versions with horror?
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Until we see the video they're going to lie lie lie
Rep. Crawford defends Hegseth's second strike on a demolished boat: "They were trying to right that ship. It was still laden with cargo. They were potentially signaling other vessels in the region."
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Until we see the video they're going to lie lie lie
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The both-sidesing here (by Bessent to be clear) is off the charts:
SORKIN: Is it appropriate for Trump to ask Larry Ellison to make a new Rush Hour film?
BESSENT: I don't know. The Obamas contract with Netflix, is that appropriate?
SORKIN: My understanding is that came after he was president. That's the distinction
BESSENT: I don't know. The Obamas contract with Netflix, is that appropriate?
SORKIN: My understanding is that came after he was president. That's the distinction
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The both-sidesing here (by Bessent to be clear) is off the charts: