@litscrib.bsky.social
Believer in science, human rights for all not just your chosen few, feminist, environmental protection for Mother Earth. Avid cyclist, cook, gardener and writer
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I know the lawyers that specialize in this sort of thing are probably swamped currently, but this is an opportunity to set precedent. This cannot stand. ICE needs a major pushback & hard legal boundaries. They will not stop until they are made to.
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I know the lawyers that specialize in this sort of thing are probably swamped currently, but this is an opportunity to set precedent. This cannot stand. ICE needs a major pushback & hard legal boundaries. They will not stop until they are made to.
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Sometimes, it's difficult to predict how #SCOTUS is going to rule based solely on how the oral argument goes.
And sometimes ... it's not.
And sometimes ... it's not.
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Sometimes, it's difficult to predict how #SCOTUS is going to rule based solely on how the oral argument goes.
And sometimes ... it's not.
And sometimes ... it's not.
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💰SCOOP: Hungary is in advanced talks with Russia on a plan to bypass US sanctions on Serbia’s mostly Russian-owned NIS oil firm by having a Hungarian firm buy shares. My sources say this is foreign minister Péter Szijjártó’s main topic at today’s Moscow trip—just 11 days after Orbán's Kremlin visit.
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
💰SCOOP: Hungary is in advanced talks with Russia on a plan to bypass US sanctions on Serbia’s mostly Russian-owned NIS oil firm by having a Hungarian firm buy shares. My sources say this is foreign minister Péter Szijjártó’s main topic at today’s Moscow trip—just 11 days after Orbán's Kremlin visit.
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One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD
After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.
n.pr
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.
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DOJ wants to force American Oversight to get rid of three pages of a FOIA complaint that lays out DOJ's Jeffrey Epstein cover-up.
Here's some of what they're asking to strike.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's some of what they're asking to strike.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
DOJ wants to force American Oversight to get rid of three pages of a FOIA complaint that lays out DOJ's Jeffrey Epstein cover-up.
Here's some of what they're asking to strike.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's some of what they're asking to strike.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jesus if they only redacted Trump from them, then he sure was in those files allot. Its almost like he was a Trafficker in this child trafficking business, with Epstien, and Maxwell. I hope MTG reads the perps names, and victims statements right on the House floor before she leaves.
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Jesus if they only redacted Trump from them, then he sure was in those files allot. Its almost like he was a Trafficker in this child trafficking business, with Epstien, and Maxwell. I hope MTG reads the perps names, and victims statements right on the House floor before she leaves.
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White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...
White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test - emptywheel
The self-imagined competent boys who wrote Trump's National Security Strategy effectively wrote a list of standards they're affirmatively failing to meet.
www.emptywheel.net
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...
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Remember, part of Trump's National Security Strategy is to have "A resilient national infrastructure."
This is what Crash Duffy is doing rather than making the US flight network more robust.
This is what Crash Duffy is doing rather than making the US flight network more robust.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Remember, part of Trump's National Security Strategy is to have "A resilient national infrastructure."
This is what Crash Duffy is doing rather than making the US flight network more robust.
This is what Crash Duffy is doing rather than making the US flight network more robust.
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What makes this *exceptionally* weird is that when Gareth Sheridan announced his candidacy for the Irish Presidency after everyone finished saying "who?" searches of his social media footprint indicated that he was virtually apolitical, with very few posts/interactions with Irish or US politics...
"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What makes this *exceptionally* weird is that when Gareth Sheridan announced his candidacy for the Irish Presidency after everyone finished saying "who?" searches of his social media footprint indicated that he was virtually apolitical, with very few posts/interactions with Irish or US politics...
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4. Why would a U.S. private equity firm (Affinity Partners) owned by a U.S. citizen (Jared Kushner) need to waive governance rights to avoid review by the Committee on FOREIGN INVESTMENT in the U.S.?
Because Paramount knows that Kushner's company is simply a vehicle for foreign influence.
Because Paramount knows that Kushner's company is simply a vehicle for foreign influence.
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
popular.info
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
4. Why would a U.S. private equity firm (Affinity Partners) owned by a U.S. citizen (Jared Kushner) need to waive governance rights to avoid review by the Committee on FOREIGN INVESTMENT in the U.S.?
Because Paramount knows that Kushner's company is simply a vehicle for foreign influence.
Because Paramount knows that Kushner's company is simply a vehicle for foreign influence.
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1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
popular.info
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
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This is the post I was going to write about Larry Ellison (and Jared Kushner's foreign influence peddling).
Only written better.
Only written better.
1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
popular.info
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is the post I was going to write about Larry Ellison (and Jared Kushner's foreign influence peddling).
Only written better.
Only written better.
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The EDVA filing asking Judge Kollar-Kotelly to lift her TRO on unlawful searches of Dan Richman's data is signed by someone unlawfully impersonating the US Attorney.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The EDVA filing asking Judge Kollar-Kotelly to lift her TRO on unlawful searches of Dan Richman's data is signed by someone unlawfully impersonating the US Attorney.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Really great point from Salvadoran opposition leader Claudia Ortiz.
Of course, that's how Mamdani began his campaign.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Of course, that's how Mamdani began his campaign.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Really great point from Salvadoran opposition leader Claudia Ortiz.
Of course, that's how Mamdani began his campaign.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Of course, that's how Mamdani began his campaign.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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FWIW, there are very real reasons to worry that Jocelyn Ballantine was assigned to this case, tho the right wingers don't realize it may be to limit the (ahem) blast radius of the arrest.
Ballantine did some awfully corrupt things for Bill Barr in 2020, IMO.
Ballantine did some awfully corrupt things for Bill Barr in 2020, IMO.
The Jan. 6 pipe bomber arrest has spawned even more conspiracy theories.
Plus: Laura Loomer's Arby's-in-her-pants ruse has infuriated a federal judge. All that and more in today's False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/j6-pipe-bo...
Plus: Laura Loomer's Arby's-in-her-pants ruse has infuriated a federal judge. All that and more in today's False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/j6-pipe-bo...
The J6 Pipe Bomber Arrest Only Made the Conspiracy Theories Worse
MAGA has had the most predictable response to learning the suspect is an election truther.
www.thebulwark.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
FWIW, there are very real reasons to worry that Jocelyn Ballantine was assigned to this case, tho the right wingers don't realize it may be to limit the (ahem) blast radius of the arrest.
Ballantine did some awfully corrupt things for Bill Barr in 2020, IMO.
Ballantine did some awfully corrupt things for Bill Barr in 2020, IMO.
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The False Claims Todd Blanche, Robert McBride, and Some Lady Impersonating a US Attorney Tell to Justify a Crime
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/t...
The False Claims Todd Blanche, Robert McBride, and Some Lady Impersonating a US Attorney Tell to Justify a Crime - emptywheel
Todd Blanche says that Dan Richman has to just lie back and enjoy the FBI's ongoing unlawful searches of his data while they try to prosecute his friend Jim Comey.
www.emptywheel.net
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The False Claims Todd Blanche, Robert McBride, and Some Lady Impersonating a US Attorney Tell to Justify a Crime
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/t...
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I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors.
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
Stephen Miller's War on Cancer Cures - emptywheel
Stephen Miller is cutting your access to health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researchers (and, given the unnecessary bump in DOD spending, to invade Canada to...
www.emptywheel.net
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors.
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
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Renewed free to read link. as.ft.com/r/2706dddc-f...
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Renewed free to read link. as.ft.com/r/2706dddc-f...
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Once again, LLMs can’t believe reality is real.
December 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Once again, LLMs can’t believe reality is real.
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12 FBI agents who were fired this year for taking a knee during racial justice protests in 2020 are suing the Bureau and Kash Patel, alleging unlawful retaliation.
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
12 FBI agents who were fired this year for taking a knee during racial justice protests in 2020 are suing the Bureau and Kash Patel, alleging unlawful retaliation.
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Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment.
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Blumenthal & Robert Garcia to Hold Forum to Receive Testimony from Five U.S. Citizens Assaulted, Illegally Detained by DHS | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
[WASHINGTON, DC] – On Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 3 PM ET in 216 Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment.
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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It’s @dgcomedy.bsky.social and me at the 3rd annual Brick awards, and we ran into @zoandbehold.bsky.social and @erininthemorning.com! About to watch Dana raise money for the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative! #StonewallGives
December 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It’s @dgcomedy.bsky.social and me at the 3rd annual Brick awards, and we ran into @zoandbehold.bsky.social and @erininthemorning.com! About to watch Dana raise money for the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative! #StonewallGives
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It's official: Rep. Jasmine Crockett has announced she's running for U.S. Senate in Texas.
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It's official: Rep. Jasmine Crockett has announced she's running for U.S. Senate in Texas.
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lol. Calling their bluff. These aren’t part of the 300G of data the justice department has (and could have released anytime.) the deadline is 12/19. Tick tock, Pamela Jo.
Breaking:
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal judge grants Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal judge grants Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
lol. Calling their bluff. These aren’t part of the 300G of data the justice department has (and could have released anytime.) the deadline is 12/19. Tick tock, Pamela Jo.
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These grand jury materials will “not add to the public knowledge.” A judge says Trump misled the public and disregarded the victims.”
A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury materials.
But Judge Engelmayer swipes repeatedly at Trump's DOJ for paying "lip service" to then sidelining victims — and misleading the public about what the records contain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
But Judge Engelmayer swipes repeatedly at Trump's DOJ for paying "lip service" to then sidelining victims — and misleading the public about what the records contain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
These grand jury materials will “not add to the public knowledge.” A judge says Trump misled the public and disregarded the victims.”