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The Dispatch @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social · 17h

"While the Supreme Court itself hasn’t yet faced the issue squarely, the six federal circuits that have done so all agree that the First Amendment protects the right to record police performing their duties in public." --Walter Olson

thedispatch.com/article/dhs-...

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 17h

Is he auditioning for the straight man in an Abbot and Costello tribute?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 21h

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

www.latimes.com

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 21h

Florida man. www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr...

Florida Man Arrested on Federal Criminal Complaint Alleging He Maliciously Started What Became the Palisades Fire

A former Pacific Palisades resident now living in Florida has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what eventually became the Palisades Fire of January ...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID?

It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown

Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

www.thehandbasket.co

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 8d

BREAKING

A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.

His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 8d

Lol

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 8d

Really the only question that matters

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 8d

So Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him

Who's running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an…

So Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him

Who's running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an American city based entirely on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. Tim Cushing had a story yesterday about Trump's bizarre declaration of war on Portland, threatening to deploy the US military against a city experiencing nothing more than a few tame protests.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

“Siri, zoom in.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12d

Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott

www.nytimes.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 12d

you win if you fight

Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 12d

NEWS: Sinclair says its ending its pre-emption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12d

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12d

What the fuck?

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents

The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

www.iowapublicradio.org

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19d

If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority.

It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19d

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 19d

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 18d

He allegedly accepted the money ***in cash*** "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources."

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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 18d

Idiocracy in action.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 18d

Ngl, I think there is a decent chance this blows up completely in their faces from an optics standpoint

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 18d

A preview of your sestercentennial cage match.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18d

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 18d

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 18d

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

Shadi Hamid @shadihamid.bsky.social · 21d

One of the biggest mistakes left-of-center pundits and influencers made was decamping to Bluesky. They made themselves irrelevant, shrunk their audiences, and dramatically lessened the positive impact they could have on our public debate at the precise time we needed it most.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20d

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 20d

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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