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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

So The Guardian reported yesterday that Jimmy Kimmel's return "rankled" Trump. So today's episode of the @dailybeanspod.com is called "Kimmel Rankles Cankles." You're welcome. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Kimmel Rankles Cankles (feat. Alder Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford)

Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 10/08/2025 · 1h 3m

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 23h

Really glad none of the people calling American cities “war zones” were with us in Afghanistan. Would’ve become tiresome constantly hosing them down after they soiled themselves.

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Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social · 8h

I've literally no use for the purity brigade who demand that politicians not only agree with them on everything but be pure as Caesar's wife (who Stalin pointed out was perhaps not so pure).

There are people who are all bad but NO ONE is all good. And politics is not an area where one is ever going

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 1d

It was fun seeing bribe for hire Pam Bondi get annihilated in her bullshit perjury-filled Senate hearing today, but I would’ve much preferred seeing her sent to prison for fraud, corruption and bribery.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 8h

The New York Yankees are the most valuable MLB franchise. They have the third-highest payroll among MLB teams. They've had their league's most valuable player for three of the past four years.

They have not won a World Series since the year Obama entered the White House.

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angryinch.bsky.social @angryinch.bsky.social · 18h

As a HS student I went with my class on a train through, what was then, East Germany. E German guards came through to check our papers, someone took a picture of them and they freaked the hell out - took the teachers and all our cameras, stopped the train for 30 min.
That's now us

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

It's out at the Dispatch:

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 8h

If you still wonder why we say Abolish ICE, look at this again.
This ain't a few bad apples.
The entire ICE organization is rotten to the core.

Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 12h

Rise up Americans

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Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social · 9h

Rereading Arendt's The Origins of Totalitariansim. She is an author one may disagree with but who makes you think and is (sadly) always relevant. Her chapter on Dreyfus is worth the price of admission alone. She makes the point that the vital people who stand up for democracy may come from across

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 19h

Suddenly, I noticed a faint smell of tuna. I looked over at my office partner, Dr. Hunt. She was grinning by the machine she'd built.

"It works!"

"Nice," I said. "What is it?"

"What you smell is the ghost of tuna!"

I felt something brush against my leg. The office filled with ghostly purring.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law.

Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 16h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 13h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 1d

Last one. James Vickery looks like a unhelpful GameStop employee but man that music

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 14h

I am playing the Final Fantasy Tactics remake and maybe games were just weirder in 1997, but I was browsing the weapon store and alongside fire knife and bronze shield I present to you The Stick That Turns People Atheist

a screencap from Final Fantasy Tactics, from the store, showing Gokuu's Pole, which 'when attacking, has a chance of granting Atheist"

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11h

Kristi Noem was unaware that the suspension of habeas corpus was under Article I of the Constitution and even if the fate of the most basic liberty right were delegated one would hope that it would be to the President and not the Secretary of Homeland Security

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11h

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 13h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10h

Some cases take on outsized importance, with issues that transcend the decision the parties ask the courts to make. This is one of those cases. The stakes are high: the integrity of the Justice Department and the ability of a president to corrupt the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution

This morning at 10 a.m., former FBI Director Jim Comey was arraigned in federal court.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 10h

The subtle implication that Trump v. U.S. has always been law and that a president's official acts weren't considered prosecutable when Smith started is disgustingly dishonest.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 10h

The alignment of far right politicians with billionaire tech bros is at play.
The op ed is an illustration of why so many subscribers left the WashPo and so many journalists left the newspaper in disgust and dismay over what happened to a revered paper.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10h

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that will require web browsers to add settings that allow residents to opt out of third-party data collection (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 16h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17h

Folks, the oath of enlisted people and officers are two different oaths. The officer's oath does not include the stuff about the president.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 17h

Again, the oath has mentioned obeying orders of the President since 1789. Here it is as established by Congress in 1962, in Public Law 87-751 (codified then in 10 USC 501, codified after 1968 in 10 USC 502):

Public Law 87-751
October 5, 1962
AN ACT
(H. R. 218]
To provide that individuals enlisted into the Armed Forces of the United States shall take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Armed Forces.
Enlistment oath.
70A Stat. 17.
National Guard.
70A Stat. 602.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 501 of title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows:
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"Each person enlisting in an armed force shall take the following oath:
-→ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, accorang to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

NEW: Comey is going to challenge the legality of Lindsay Halligan's authority. Here's an explanation from my show this past Sunday. You can watch the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/PkEOK7J...

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