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seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social
UPDATE: Kahlil Mahmoud has had a court hearing arranged regarding matters of habeas corpus for Wednesday, and the judge has ordered that no further action regarding him shall be taken until this is resolved: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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March 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
sophiameyer23.bsky.social
Today is a blessing day for me 💋🥰🙏
March 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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scalzi.com
Today's blue sky, plus an airport
The tarmac of Charlotte international, with a blue sky above.
March 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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NEW: NYT asks Judge Ho to unseal newly filed govt exhibits in Eric Adams case that purport to show "troubling conduct" of SDNY prosecutors: "It is hard to imagine a circumstance in which the public interest would be higher and the privacy interest lower." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dear Judge Ho: I write on behalf of The New York Times Company ("The Times") to respectfully request that the Court not seal Exhibits A through H the "Exhibits") to the Government's March 7, 2025 Response in Support of Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to Rule 48(a) (the "Response," Dkt. 160). The Government, with the consent of the Defendant, has filed a letter requesting that the Exhibits be sealed but cites only a single ground: the purported privacy interest of the attorneys involved in this prosecution. (Dkt. 161.) The Response makes clear that all the attorneys were high-ranking officials at the U.S. Attorney's Office or at the Justice Department or prosecutors in this action, all of whom have been identified publicly on the docket. Those privacy interests are insufficient to set aside the public's constitutional and common law rights of access to judicial documents. More to the point, the Government is introducing the Exhibits as evidence of potential wrongdoing by prosecutors in a case involving the prosecution of the highest-ranking official in New York City. It is hard to imagine a circumstance in which the public interest would be higher and the privacy interest lower.
March 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
(vanquished Winston Smith voice) 83% + 18% = 100%
Pinned tweet from Marco Rubio: After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department. Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform. 4:55 AM • Mar 10, 2025 • 3.2M Views
March 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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scifri.bsky.social
An astronaut and a fiction writer discuss writing about the International Space Station.

www.youtube.com/shorts/5PBHD...
An astronaut and a fiction writer discuss writing about the International Space Station.
YouTube video by SciFri
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March 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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captaindisillusion.bsky.social
I used to work with some guys who right now would be like, “ok, so we need to quickly pivot to making a movie about a cat who must become an escort when Brighton Beach floods. And maybe it’s also a website where people can see all their social media at once.”
March 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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jaketapper.bsky.social
UNITED STATES OF SCANDAL 🇺🇸 SEASON TWO DEBUTS TONIGHT at 9 pm ET!!

Tonight: the wild FBI scheme — ABSCAM!
March 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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crunkdriver.bsky.social
Everyone is SooOOoo romantic about vampires, but there's no room in their hearts for a ghoul, I sigh wistfully as I scamper on all fours between the headstones
March 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I think our funniest pod episode?

Thank you Jimmy Kimmel and Patricia Arquette.

#severance

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
S2E8: Sweet Vitriol (with Patricia Arquette and Jimmy Kimmel)
Podcast Episode · The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott · 03/07/2025 · 56m
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March 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
This is a very good and useful news story. It reports on DOGE’s understanding that people hate them and what they’re planning to fix it.

It notes, in detail, that what they say they are doing (streamline/improving gov’t tech) was already being done by 18F, a gov agency they blithely destroyed.
March 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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scalzi.com
Home and absolutely exhausted from travel. Charlie appears vaguely surprised I am still alive.
Charlie the dog, not entirely convinced I am real and not a ghost
March 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I've seen a few "actually, a lot of dems are really good at the internet, they just aren't getting attention" please give me non-AOC, non-Bernie examples so that I can educate myself.

I will say though, being good at the internet MEANS GETTING ATTENTION.
hankgreen.bsky.social Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Mar 9
I NEED GOOD, THOUGHTFUL LEADERS TO GET WAY BETTER AT USING THE INTERNET LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO
March 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Luke and Turbo explore a late-winter forest and find some tiny-yellow-jelly-somethings growing on a stick under a blue sky
March 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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stephenking.bsky.social
My son Owen did an event at Brian Keene & Mary SanGiovanni's Vortex Books & Comics. He speaks very highly of that shop. Made me want to visit.
March 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
Nebraska is going to get crushed between Tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget and it looks like at least a 200m shortfall this year. BEFORE tariff impacts.

And Nebraska Republicans here ! Curious what you think

www.1011now.com/2025/03/05/t...
Tariff trouble? Nebraska companies, farmers trapped in middle of brewing trade war
The recent Trump administration tariffs imposed on that country means that the animal feed company will now pay more for a feed additive for pigs and chickens, a product that can lead to healthier ani...
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March 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM