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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

NEW: Comey is going to file selective and vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss AND he will challenge the legality of Halligan’s appointment! There’s more, too… so glad @annabower.bsky.social is there to bring us the whole story! Thread below with details:

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

The judge also set an initial schedule for pre-trial motions.

The first set is expected by Oct. 12. Per Comey’s defense counsel, that batch will include motions to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution, as well as a motion challenging the legality of Halligan’s appointment as US attorney

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Dill Childs @furiousteddy.bsky.social · 8h

My mum had a footed glass sugar bowl in that pattern.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 11h

@democracynow.org had @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social and me on together to explain that she is not being sworn in because she is the 218th signatory for the release of the Epstein files. Swear her in today.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 9h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Dill Childs @furiousteddy.bsky.social · 9h

The term "Wilbury" originated during the Cloud 9 sessions. Referring to recording errors created by faulty equipment, Harrison jokingly remarked to Lynne, "We'll bury 'em in the mix." So they used the term Wilbury for any small error in performance.

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Del Wasso @banksyfella.bsky.social · 13h

My kind of town…

Chicago is!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Dill Childs @furiousteddy.bsky.social · 9h

Such lovely people. What are they all in for?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Huge congratulations to @kamalimelbourne.bsky.social on holding a firm line in such a calm and professional way, faced with such utterly offensive nonsense. ~AA

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14h

This you, Kristi?

A screenshot of a post from X (formerly Twitter). The top tweet is from user @covie_93 with the caption: “This tweet aged like Stephen Miller…..”. Below it is a tweet from Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) that reads:
“If Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard, that would be a direct attack on states' rights.
Over the last several years, we've seen Democrats try to take away our Freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't let them take away our right to defend ourselves, too.
South Dakota defends the Constitution.”

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 19h

Kemi Badenoch: "Poland are experiencing more economic growth than the UK!"

also Kemi Badenoch: "We are the party that took us (the country) out of the European Union!"

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

media.tenor.com

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Dill Childs @furiousteddy.bsky.social · 16h

...and how many of those looking at their phones were actually reading books, too? E-readers are a thing, y'know.

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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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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

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Prairiesunshine @scottishox2.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in Canada 🇨🇦

The Supreme Court is:
* Appointed Based On Merit & Experience
* Diverse Like Canada
* Female-Majority
* Under 75 - When They Must Retire
* Independent Of Elected Politicians

Chief justice says judicial independence defend Canada from autocracy share.google/BUANEh3EHOv2...

Chief justice says rule of law, judicial independence defend Canada from autocracy

Chief Justice Richard Wagner says that while Canada is not a superpower in the traditional sense of the word, it is certainly a democratic superpower.

share.google

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK, backing US farming, not British farmers.

Lee Anderson’s keen to point out salads are chlorine washed, but he’s not keen to point out that you don’t need to with chicken you can cook chicken so long as it’s reared in reasonable conditions.

But you can’t cook salad.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

Why didn't Democratic Senators ask Pam Bondi why she didn't prosecute Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida's Attorney General from 2011 to 2019 at the very time he was running his child sex ring in Florida?!!

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