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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9h

A lot of people do not really seem to know this sort of stuff

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9h

It is true you can't trust Israel or the US but you should probably be aware the ceasefire doesn't begin until Saturday or Sunday and Israel has a long history of intensifying bombardment until the official starting point of a ceasefire.

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Treats Hog (Good) 류강 대™🪨🕯️ @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 11h

The nationalists tried to get the Chinese to stop smoking and the Communists saw it as a right of all Chinese to smoke a cig. This explains why the civil war ended the way it did

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12h

Underrated part of this story is that official USG business is done by Truth Social DM. It almost makes you miss the good old days of the PC small group Signal Chat.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 13h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 19h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 13h

This would be very welcome, especially if it includes full ceasefire and flood of badly needed Gaza aid. But so much remains unclear, even about first phase, including point of Israeli withdrawal. Key will be measures agreed to assure that first phase doesn't become last phase.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17h

when you are worried that THIS supreme court will rule against you on invoking the insurrection act, a statute that famously gives enormous deference to the president ... maybe that's a sign that your military deployments are pretty baseless

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 17h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

suspect this is what Miller means by the president's "plenary" power:

Whatever one thinks about the proper interpretation of Section 12406 and the district court decision, the president has at least two other authorities waiting in the wings. One of these authorities, the Article II protective power, has advantages for the president over Section 12406 but is untested in federal court. Another of these authorities, the Insurrection Act, gives the president much broader power to use troops in the homeland; has a greater claim to presidential deference than Section 12406; and has triggers that are easier—perhaps much easier—to satisfy as a legal matter than Section 12406.

Consider first the president’s protective power, which is the substantive power the president is asserting in Oregon through the federalized Guard. The protective power is the president’s inherent or independent Article II power to protect federal personnel, property, and functions. The key point is that the president can assert the protective power without reliance on Section 12406. He can deploy regular armed forces without any need to federalize the Guard. Presidents often have.

William Rehnquist, then head of the Office of Legal Counsel, wrote the leading executive branch opinion on the protective power in 1971. As Chris Mirasola explains in his outstanding definitive treatment of the issue, the protective power has a long pedigree in practice but an uncertain basis in Article II and Supreme Court case law. If the president relied on Article II alone to use regular armed forces for the protective function, it is hard to know what the Supreme Court would say about its validity or about the deference due to the president.

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vp @vptevo.bsky.social · 13h

god bless

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vp @vptevo.bsky.social · 13h

god I hope this holds

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LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 14h

Netanyahu is extremely effective at blowing up these deals, but it does seem like current indicators are pointing in the right direction (screenshots presented in chronological order)

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14h

Holy shit did something actually good happen for once? I forgot what that felt like

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

Al-Mayadeen says that the deal is done and Hamas and other factions have agreed.

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Al-Monitor @al-monitor.bsky.social · 13h

🚨BREAKING: Trump announces Israel and Hamas reach deal on hostages, Palestinian prisoners www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Trump announces Israel and Hamas reach deal on hostages, Palestinian prisoners

The announcement comes after key mediators, including from the Trump administration, joined the talks in Egypt.

www.al-monitor.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

Times of Israel claims the note handed to Trump by Rubio was asking him to approve a Truth Social post for announcing an imminent ceasefire deal in Gaza

Rubio hands Trump note saying he needs to okay social media post so he can declare Gaza deal

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www.timesofisrael.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

i find it hilarious that Barron never really thought through the implications of this

"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope." Bishop Robert Barron, who serves
on Trump's Commission on Religious Liberty, said to CBS a few days ago.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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vp @vptevo.bsky.social · 1d

god bless thunderball

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

One of the lesser remarked on but weirdly central things to American fascism is the obsessive way that it has been trying for a quarter of a century to manufacture a connection between Salafi jihadism and Hispanic drug cartels that just straight-up doesn’t exist

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow, Stuartism returned

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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vp @vptevo.bsky.social · 1d

Occasionally I think about how Oliver North’s testimony on Iran-Contra boosted him into superstardom. Here’s the recollection of the Independent Counsel who prosecuted him

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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 3d

Wrote a short post over on my substack on Mehdi’s recent interview of the Cuban deputy foreign minister

Interview was great but I wanted to add context which further solidifies Mehdi’s claims

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