@lorrelplimier.bsky.social
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I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.
December 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.
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Note the two new things happening here:
• This is a challenge brought by patients that was granted.
• DOJ has started scaling back the subpoena requests in light of the growing losses in court.
Law Dork:
• This is a challenge brought by patients that was granted.
• DOJ has started scaling back the subpoena requests in light of the growing losses in court.
Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
www.lawdork.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Note the two new things happening here:
• This is a challenge brought by patients that was granted.
• DOJ has started scaling back the subpoena requests in light of the growing losses in court.
Law Dork:
• This is a challenge brought by patients that was granted.
• DOJ has started scaling back the subpoena requests in light of the growing losses in court.
Law Dork:
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I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
Context for Trump withdrawing dozens of ambassadors
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
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"It's a political gift to fossil fuel donors that will raise electricity bills for U.S. households and increase our risk of blackouts." - @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and CEO of Vet Voice Foundation.
December 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"It's a political gift to fossil fuel donors that will raise electricity bills for U.S. households and increase our risk of blackouts." - @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and CEO of Vet Voice Foundation.
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“There,” said Toad. “Now I feel better. I am not in the dumps anymore.”
“Why?” asked Frog.
“Because I have done all that work,” said Toad.
“Why?” asked Frog.
“Because I have done all that work,” said Toad.
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“There,” said Toad. “Now I feel better. I am not in the dumps anymore.”
“Why?” asked Frog.
“Because I have done all that work,” said Toad.
“Why?” asked Frog.
“Because I have done all that work,” said Toad.
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CSIS: “This ship will never sail. It will take years to design, cost $9 billion each to build, and contravene the Navy’s new concept of operations, which envisions distributed firepower. A future administration will cancel the program before the first ship hits the water.”
December 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
CSIS: “This ship will never sail. It will take years to design, cost $9 billion each to build, and contravene the Navy’s new concept of operations, which envisions distributed firepower. A future administration will cancel the program before the first ship hits the water.”
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Stephen Miller finds it impossible for anyone else to consider immigrants as human beings so he's happy to go on air and say "would those journalists host the people we deported for a night to keep them out of torture prison?" as though getting people out wasn't exactly the point of the reporting.
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Stephen Miller finds it impossible for anyone else to consider immigrants as human beings so he's happy to go on air and say "would those journalists host the people we deported for a night to keep them out of torture prison?" as though getting people out wasn't exactly the point of the reporting.
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Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻♂️
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻♂️
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There's always a Tweet.
December 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
There's always a Tweet.
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
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“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
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Let's take the most charitable interpretation of Weiss here, and believe her when she says it was a call about newsworthiness. (I don't.)
That still shows she's a terrible grasp of how news works. She drew attention to a good, but well-told story and Streisand effected it to the moon.
That still shows she's a terrible grasp of how news works. She drew attention to a good, but well-told story and Streisand effected it to the moon.
December 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Let's take the most charitable interpretation of Weiss here, and believe her when she says it was a call about newsworthiness. (I don't.)
That still shows she's a terrible grasp of how news works. She drew attention to a good, but well-told story and Streisand effected it to the moon.
That still shows she's a terrible grasp of how news works. She drew attention to a good, but well-told story and Streisand effected it to the moon.
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Her whole thing is “No, it is the executives who are actually oppressed.”
Once you view any decision she makes through that lens, everything makes sense, including how she’s gotten to where she is.
Once you view any decision she makes through that lens, everything makes sense, including how she’s gotten to where she is.
In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
www.thefp.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Her whole thing is “No, it is the executives who are actually oppressed.”
Once you view any decision she makes through that lens, everything makes sense, including how she’s gotten to where she is.
Once you view any decision she makes through that lens, everything makes sense, including how she’s gotten to where she is.
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Trump is out here ending alcohol addiction and still the Radical Left gives him no credit bsky.app/profile/nyti...
Jim Beam, America’s largest bourbon distiller, is closing its flagship facility for 2026 after more than two decades of rapid growth. The move underlines the immense challenges facing the country's whiskey industry.
Jim Beam Halts Production at Flagship Distillery as Whiskey and Bourbon Markets Struggle
The bourbon giant is closing its flagship distilling operation for all of 2026.
nyti.ms
December 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump is out here ending alcohol addiction and still the Radical Left gives him no credit bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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Beyond the financial toll, the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Beyond the financial toll, the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers.
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Illinois AFL-CIO, Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, and Illinois Federation of Teachers, my law firm has moved to intervene as defendants in the DOJ's lawsuit seeking Illinois' complete statewide voter registration database. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
🚨 United States of America v. Matthews
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Illinois AFL-CIO, Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, and Illinois Federation of Teachers, my law firm has moved to intervene as defendants in the DOJ's lawsuit seeking Illinois' complete statewide voter registration database. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
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The Party of National Security
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The Party of National Security
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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
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Mary and Joseph praying over Jesus in the manger, or
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Mary and Joseph praying over Jesus in the manger, or
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
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Vance's latest rant has set off another misguided round of "free Usha" rhetoric. This isn't just inaccurate--she's wholly a part of this fascist project--it's dangerous. We can no longer afford to imagine fascism as smaller than it is. Hindu fascism is vast, too. No religion is immune.
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Vance's latest rant has set off another misguided round of "free Usha" rhetoric. This isn't just inaccurate--she's wholly a part of this fascist project--it's dangerous. We can no longer afford to imagine fascism as smaller than it is. Hindu fascism is vast, too. No religion is immune.
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Thud!
The sled hit a rock.
The sled hit a rock.
December 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Thud!
The sled hit a rock.
The sled hit a rock.
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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Let's remember that Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, who is happy to try to overturn Greenland's democracy for Trump in 2025, was also happy to try to overturn US democracy for Trump in 2020. Rotten people are consistently rotten. 1/
December 22, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Let's remember that Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, who is happy to try to overturn Greenland's democracy for Trump in 2025, was also happy to try to overturn US democracy for Trump in 2020. Rotten people are consistently rotten. 1/
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.