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Doug Coulson
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Rhetoric professor at Carnegie Mellon. Lawyer, bold wordsmith. Exploring how legal language shapes justice, identity, and power. Latest book Judicial Rhapsodies: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/b2773z23s
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Anti-ICE commercials encouraging agents to 'walk away' are set to air over 🦃 weekend. The spots by Women's March WIN will air in Charlotte, NC and on the popular Palm Beach station near Mar-a-lardo and other locales - MSNBC, Fox, CNN, Hulu , and Peacock (per The Mirror)
"What will you say?"
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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I increasingly think this 11th C opinion upholding decision throwing out Trump lawsuit is a BFD.

That's bc Chief Judge William Pryor and Trump appointee Andrew Brasher said much of what Trump wants to charge as CRIMINAL conspiracy is not one.
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Before WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and BRASHER and KIDD, Circuit Judges. WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge: These four consolidated appeals concern five separate orders. In 2022, between his terms of office, President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against dozens of defendants, alleging several claims, including two under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and three under Florida law. The district court dismissed the amended complaint with prejudice for failure to state a claim. On the defendants’ motions, the district court also entered sanctions against Trump and his attorneys, under Rule 11 and under its inherent authority. While those orders were on appeal, Trump and his attorneys moved the district court to reconsider each order in the light of a report by Special Counsel John Durham. They also moved to disqualify the district judge. The district court denied both motions. Two defendants ask us to sanction Trump for bringing a frivolous appeal
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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South African émigré David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face. A leaked executive order draft reveals the tech billionaire making a power play to become America’s AI policy gatekeeper. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face
A leaked executive order reveals that the tech billionaire would have become America’s AI policy gatekeeper.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Being on the ground was scary and intense, yet reading the stories now makes it real in a new way. Yesterday I focused on being there. Now, from the perspective of someone reading about it in the news, I am dumbfounded.
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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"It is a functional toilet, and we are considering whether or not to make it available [for use] when we put it on display." #Florida based Ripley Entertainment has purchased an 18-karat gold toilet at auction for $12.1M. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/25/r... via @orlandosentinel.com
Ripley buys gold toilet / flushable art piece for $12.1 million
The sculpture, once installed at Guggenheim, is functional, has infamous background.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Tanzanians are fighting for their voices to be heard after President Hassan rigged their presidential election in her favor.
Has Tanzania Reached Its Breaking Point? | Journal of Democracy
President Hassan promised Tanzanians freedom, transparency, and reform. Instead, she has delivered repression, violence, and arrests as she bars anyone who dares challenge her.
www.journalofdemocracy.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Washington is betting on innovation while competitors are betting on compliance. Right now, compliance is winning.
How Washington Is Losing the AI Race No One Is Tracking
Spain — a NATO ally and founding member of the European Union — chose a Chinese company to manage its law enforcement wiretap systems. The €12.3 million
warontherocks.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The emergency powers in the EU's Digital Services Act risk destroying important evidence for future courts and historians. Alena Gribanova offers three targeted reforms to mitigate these risks and ensure the preservation of the digital historical record. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Hidden Risks of Platform Control Over Historical Memory
Emergency powers in the EU’s Digital Services Act risk destroying important evidence for future courts and historians.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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John Atherton, Christmas Eve, 1941
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134923
Purchase
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Joan Miro :
Femmes, oiseau au clair de lune
(Woman and Bird in the Moonlight), 1949

Oil on canvas
32 x 26 (81.5 x 66)

TATE London

Further description in the alt text 👇
This work belongs to a series of paintings that Miró made in 1949–1950 in Majorca. Miró's use of simple shapes and bright colours constitutes a highly personal visual language, often charged with symbolic meaning. In this case, the women and bird of the title are easily identifiable under the moon and stars. When asked whether the title used here was correct, the artist replied (letter of 17 June 1954): 'To the whole of this series of paintings, which was executed very slowly, I gave on completion a general title of "Paintings", but later, to be more precise and give a more objective and concrete meaning, I entitled your picture "Femmes, Oiseau au Clair de Lune".' Jacques Dupin has pointed out that Miró's paintings of the period 1949-50 can be divided into two contrasting and complementary series: a series of very elaborate paintings noteworthy for the diversity and extraordinary refinement of their grounds (the present work is an example of this) and a further series of completely spontaneous paintings of a summary, gestural character. In the 'elaborate' paintings, he writes, 'Figures, birds, animals, stars, and signs play and combine with one another with an elegance and acrobatic sureness, a casualness in the revelation of mystery and a joy in their nostalgic evocation of a primitive world which together confound the imagination'.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices
Unionize workers are fighting Donald Trump's attacks on wind energy. In Baltimore, they're preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future."
www.rollingstone.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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thebaltimorebanner.com
Maryland landlord who preyed on vulnerable women must pay over $2.49M in lawsuit
Maryland landlord who preyed on vulnerable women must pay more than $2.49M, judge rules
A judge ordered an Eastern Shore landlord to pay more than $2.49 million after he failed to defend against a lawsuit alleging he preyed on vulnerable women and engaged in gender discrimination.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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steadystatevets.bsky.social
What the “Department of War” posted today is not normal. Publicizing an internal referral memo on social media before any review has occurred undercuts the neutrality expected in military justice and risks unlawful command influence. That should alarm anyone who cares about due process. #holdfast
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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theintercept.com
"There are lessons to be learned from this victory — and from the absence of UC leadership in it."
Judge Rules Trump Can’t Cut UC Funding — but UC Leaders Are Still Negotiating a Settlement
While faculty and students won a federal ruling that Trump can’t cut UC funding, UC leaders are still negotiating a settlement.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Ancient Gujarati artisans were incredibly accomplished. Enjoying this new article by Pallavi Mohanan on the Carnelian trade between India, Eurasia, & the Mediterranean. Fun fact that Romans believed Carnelian helped blood 🩸 related diseases when used with magic or rings.

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Artwork Details Object Information Overview Provenance References Title: Carnelian ring stone Period: Imperial Date: ca. 1st–3rd century CE Culture: Roman Medium: Carnelian Dimensions: Length: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm) Classification: Gems Credit Line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881 Object Number: 81.6.48 Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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In August 2025, Mexico overtook Canada as the United States’ largest export market, underscoring how deeply the U.S. manufacturing sector and related jobs are tied to North American demand.

Learn more from the CSIS Americas Program: www.csis.org/analysis/mex...
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The trump regime is at the stage where it is happier for you to talk about its treason as it stops you talking about its pedophillia.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Julius Klinger (1876–1942)
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Itsumade are strange bird-like chimera in #JapaneseFolklore. They have a human face with a pointed beak, a snake's body, sharp claws and huge wings. They appear in the sky at night, flying in circles crying out 'itsumademo' which means 'until when?'
#LegendaryWednesday
🎨Matthew Meyer @yokai.com
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A bird-like chimera descends from a cloud filled sky and flies above a temple below.
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Fritz Henle, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, c. ‘60s
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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This is the most conclusive evidence of active US-Russian collaboration against Ukraine so far. According to sources cited by Reuters, the 28-point US peace plan for Ukraine was based on a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October.
www.straitstimes.com/world/united...
US peace plan for Ukraine drew from Russian document, sources say
The Russians reportedly shared the paper in mid-October, following a meeting between the US and Ukrainian leaders. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM