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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 13h

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 13h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11h

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

I'm just saying that if a major news broadcaster --acquired-- partnered with Liberal Currents, there would be a lot less shame and humiliation involved.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 20h

CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19h

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve generally been of the opinion that Poilievre is safe where he’s at, but if any coherent opposition did exist they’d be able to argue that the guy polling 10 points behind his party is the liability.

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 20h

Latest Nanos federal poll: Liberals and Conservatives gripped in a statistical tie in ballot support – Carney ahead of Poilievre by 20 points as preferred PM nanos.co/liberals-and...

Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 21h

I would simply publish @aselrod.bsky.social instead

War Fighters and the Enemy Within: Trump, Hegseth, and the Assault on the American People

Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 21h

Paul Horwitz on NYU

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Scheduling is (Sometimes) Speech

David Lat offers the basics regarding NYU Law either canceling (FIRE’s version) or, at a minimum, refusing to schedule for October 7th (NYU’s version) a Federalist Society talk by Ilya …

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Judge Poised to Free Abrego Garcia if Officials Can’t Supply Deportation Plans

www.nytimes.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

McGill alums: have you reserved your seat yet?

McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · 6d

www.eventbrite.ca/e/democracy-...

@mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social Homecoming week roundtable in the Department of Political Science

Democracy under Pressure: What’s at Stake for Canada and the World

Oct 23, 5:45 pm

Moderator:
@excubs.bsky.social

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Democracy under Pressure: What’s at Stake for Canada and the World

In this special Homecoming roundtable, experts from the McGill Department of Political Science discuss today's most pressing issues.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

The collective action that thee nine universities need to take is to unequivocally reject the compact.

Danielle Allen, who is a wonderful and thoughtful person, seems to be imagining possibilities for good faith negotiations here that plainly do not exist. The government does not share her goal.

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Allen has proposed many good things for Harvard, so I’m puzzled by her reading of the word “compact” here, as if this would be an agreement freely entered into. She rightly says that, as written, this shouldn’t be agreed to. Maybe leave it there? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

Why I’m Excited About the White House’s Proposal for a Higher Ed Compact

Now we have a chance for collective action

therenovator.substack.com

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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the signs that will go up around #Chicago

Great reporting @thetriibe.com

City of Chicago sign that says "This property is owned and/or controlled by the City of Chicago. It may not be used for Civil Immigration Enforcement as a: Staging area, processing location or operations base."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

What was lovable about Gilmore Girls was never any *verisimilitude* about New England, or for that matter high school or college. In part it was just seeing them through Amy Sherman-Palladino's "central casting" Californian eyes.

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McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

New article coauthored by Juliet Johnson and Alison Johnston in Perspectives on Politics

"Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments"

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 1d

Gentiles stop trying to define Jewishness and how it is referred to in order to justify your own prejudices 5786 challenge.

Prof. Severus Snape @profseverussnape.bsky.social · 3d

The only way antisemitism would make sense is if one hates Muslims, Jews, and some others, or, at least brown skinned M.E. people, which aren't Askenazi.

As such, the term antisemitic is as obsolete as the word semitic itself.

Different and new words are needed, so:

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 1d

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Yann Allard-Tremblay at University College Dublin: “A Great Ox Stands in Your Mind: Decolonial Caution about Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known”

Invited Speaker Series: Yann Allard-Tremblay

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very bad to turn any major news organization into a branch of The Bari Weiss Press, but even after the last eight months it turns out I’ve still got some anger available for the defilement of CBS news in particular.

Conservatives were supposed to care about, you know, conserving great things.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in this picture

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Immergut has issued her written TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from relocating or deploying federalized national guard troops to Oregon.

Here it is:

Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM|
Document 68
Filed 10/05/25
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON
STATE OF OREGON; the
CITY OF PORTLAND; and STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
Case No. 3:25-cv-1756-IM
SECOND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States; PETE HEGSETH, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security: and U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
Defendants.
Based on this Court's prior Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs' First Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 56; the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; and the newly submitted declarations, ECF 60, 63, 65, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 59, and ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendants are temporarily enjoined from deploying federalized members of the
National Guard in Oregon.

This Second Temporary Restraining Order expires by its own terms in fourteen
days on October 19, 2025.
3. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to post a nominal bond of $100 within 48 hours. The
bond shall be filed in the Clerk's Office and be deposited into the registry of the Court.
4. Defendants' Request to Stay or Administratively Stay this Second Temporary
Restraining Order, which was raised in the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order, is DENIED.
The Court Clerk will contact the parties to schedule a telephone hearing on
October 17, 2025, to address whether this Second Temporary Restraining Order should be
extended for another 14 days.
Any motion for a Preliminary Injunction shall be filed no later than October 17,
2025; Defendants' opposition shall be due no later than October 23, 2025, and Plaintiffs' reply
shall be due on October 27, 2025.
A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion and a trial on the merits
under Rule 65(a)(2) is set for October 29, 2025, before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 5th day of October.
/s/

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Trump keeps babbling about how we stopped fighting wars to win after we named it the Department of Defense, but that's not because we went woke, it's because Russia got the bomb.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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