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joshgerstein.bsky.social
JUST IN: Defense attorneys take another shot at ousting Bill Essayli from running US Attorney's office in L.A., say his own X post shows he's acting as 'inferior officer' without Congressional OK or presidential nomination www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Defense lawyers seek Bill Essayli’s ouster, again
A judge ruled Essayli couldn’t serve as acting U.S. attorney in Los Angeles but allowed him to keep supervising the federal prosecutor’s office.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
psh 50 year mortgages are a half measure; real ones want 100 year mortgages that burden all the debtor's genetic descendants and let investors build actual castles off all the interest they'll collect for their outlay
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
QUINTANILLA: What's more likely -- a $2,000 tariff rebate check or a 50 year mortgage?

HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, ‘you lose sight of anatomic normalcy.’”

@axios.com #Panem
www.axios.com/local/washin...
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"

Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5h
"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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natashabertrand.bsky.social
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This is another ¶ that could blow up later.

The stated purpose of this prosecution is to assume due process doesn't exist.
The government’s only other argument against dismissal with prejudice depends on upending one of the most basic and fundamental premises of our criminal justice system: the presumption of innocence. The government asserts (ECF No. 138 at 42) that dismissal with prejudice would “thwart[] the public’s interest in the enforcement of its criminal law” because it would allow Mr. Comey “to escape accountability for lying to and obstructing Congress.” But the assumption that Mr. Comey must be guilty—before any public airing or testing of its evidence—disregards bedrock principles underlying our system of justice. The government’s unfounded assumptions of guilt cannot excuse its egregious constitutional violations.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Your man couldn’t even find an image of the cover of the book he was pretending to listen to
freydalpishti.bsky.social 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 18h
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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crazycanloon.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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ridingrobots.bsky.social
Started / going

Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno

Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Jupiter against the blackness of space. The planet is wrapped in its characteristic horizontal bands of colorful clouds. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill © cc by
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Exactly right. Why should we respect a president who doesn’t respect the constitution he swore an oath to uphold?
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.

Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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junlper.beer
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. Boy watching Homer beat up the krusty burglar: Stop! He’s already dead!
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Sheesh
zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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joshthelibromancer.bsky.social
Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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bagleycartoons.bsky.social
People in Portugal know more about what’s going on In America than do Americans who watch FoxNews and RW media
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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mariopro.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Time for @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to replace @schumer.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This passage, arguing that 1A can be a basis for vindictive prosecution, is super important.
6. Finally, the government’s suggestion (ECF No. 138 at 24-25) that a vindictiveprosecution argument cannot be based on the exercise of First Amendment rights lacks support in precedent or principle. A prosecution brought to “punish[]” an individual “for exercising a protected statutory or constitutional right” is “a due process violation ‘of the most basic sort.’” United States v. Goodwin, 457 U.S. 368, 372 (1982). Nothing in that rule suggests that certain constitutional rights are less worthy of protection than others. On the contrary, the Supreme Court has made clear that “government officials” may not “subject[] an individual to retaliatory actions, including criminal prosecutions, for speaking out.” Hartman v. Moore, 547 U.S. 250, 256 (2006); see also Vullo, 602 U.S. at 189. Accordingly, a defendant may raise a vindictive prosecution claim when a prosecution was brought to “deter[] [the defendant’s] exercise of his First Amendment rights.” Bragan v. Poindexter, 249 F.3d 476, 483 (6th Cir. 2001). 10
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Super low key, Comey lays out the evidence that Trump had no cause to claim that Comey leaked classified info (which claim prosecutors parrotted).
7 No evidence supported the President’s assertion that Mr. Comey leaked classified information, and the President’s indifference to facts further confirms that his accusations reflected animus, not “legitimate prosecutorial motive.” See ECF No. 55 at 4-6 (explaining that “there was no ‘leaking’” of classified information to the press by either Mr. Comey or his counsel” as was confirmed in the August 2019 Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Report). The FBI and DOJ Arctic Haze investigation similarly found no basis for charging Mr. Comey for “false statements or with the substantive offenses under investigation.” Arctic Haze Memo at -065.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Even worse!!!
Cause to parrot Russian disinformation!!!
To begin, the tweet does not reflect the President’s opinion about Mr. Comey, nor does it refer to Mr. Comey’s May 3 testimony as the government misleadingly implies. Instead, the tweet quotes a report based on a conversation on Fox and Friends describing a letter written by former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page stating Page’s view of Mr. Comey’s March 20, 2017 testimony about links between the Trump campaign and the Russia government.5 This tweet can hardly qualify as expressing the President’s legitimate prosecutorial motive—as opposed to relaying hearsay from a television program with no factual basis. In fact, it is the type of unfounded accusation that displays animus rather than a genuine interest in justice. And despite the government’s reliance on it as preceding Mr. Comey’s public statements, the tweet came after the news broke about Mr. Comey’s imminent testimony, i.e., after the President knew that Mr. Comey intended to exercise his First Amendment rights to speak publicly about Mr. Trump’s conduct in office. The President’s preemptive effort to discredit Mr. Comey reflects his animus triggered by Mr. Comey’s anticipated protected speech. 5 The tweet (issued in two parts) says: “So now it is reported that the Democrats who have excoriated Carter Page about Russia, don’t want him to testify. He blows away their....” “...case against him & now wants to clear his name by showing ‘the false or misleading testimony by James Comey, John Brennan...’ Witch Hunt!” Appendix at 1. The tweet was issued thirty minutes after Fox and Friends broke the same story. Id. And Mr. Comey had testified publicly before the House Intelligence Committee on March 20, 2017, to confirm the Trump-campaign and Russian-interference investigation. See Mueller Report, supra n.4 at 52-53.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Oh nooooooooooo!!!

Donny!!!

You've given Comey cause to introduce the Mueller Report!!!!
4 See Robert S. Mueller, III, Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election Vol. II, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, at 27-28, 33-36, 38-41, 57-60 (Mar. 2019) (“Mueller Report”) (recounting Mr. Comey’s mounting concern about the impropriety of the President’s actions), https://perma.cc/W3DH-PLS3. The President’s concerns were well founded: Mr. Comey’s June 8, 2017 testimony provided many details about his troubling interactions with the President. Open Hearing with Former FBI Director James Comey Before the S. Comm. on Intelligence, 115th Cong., 1st. Sess. (June 8, 2017) (“Intel Hearing”), https://perma.cc/UG4P-K2ZJ.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM