Ams
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A hearing is about to start in Abrego Garcia's civil case. I'll try to cover for @lawfaremedia.org . Colleague @annabower.bsky.social might be joining. Among other things, govt is seeking to dissolve Judge Xinis's preliminary injunction preventing Abrego from being removed immediately.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A hearing is about to start in Abrego Garcia's civil case. I'll try to cover for @lawfaremedia.org . Colleague @annabower.bsky.social might be joining. Among other things, govt is seeking to dissolve Judge Xinis's preliminary injunction preventing Abrego from being removed immediately.
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DEM VETS IN CONGRESS: If you are serving in the military and are asked to carry out an illegal order, it is your duty to the constitution to refuse it.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
DEM VETS IN CONGRESS: If you are serving in the military and are asked to carry out an illegal order, it is your duty to the constitution to refuse it.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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Chris Murphy: "This is potentially the biggest scandal in presidential history ... I'm sure they are meeting in the White House right now trying to decide how they can get around complying with the law."
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Chris Murphy: "This is potentially the biggest scandal in presidential history ... I'm sure they are meeting in the White House right now trying to decide how they can get around complying with the law."
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CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
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“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
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The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.
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A woman who claimed she was brutally assaulted because she worked for GOP Rep. Jeff Van Drew instead orchestrated the entire incident — paying a scarification artist to wound her and staging the scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach and “Van Drew is a racist” on her back.
Ex-Van Drew staffer staged fake attack, writing 'Trump Whore' across her stomach and alleging men held her down and cut her body - New Jersey Globe
A 26-year-old Ocean City woman who claimed she was brutally assaulted because she worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Ocean City) instead orchestrated the
newjerseyglobe.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
A woman who claimed she was brutally assaulted because she worked for GOP Rep. Jeff Van Drew instead orchestrated the entire incident — paying a scarification artist to wound her and staging the scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach and “Van Drew is a racist” on her back.
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FYI, there are over 300,000 pages of Epstein files.
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
FYI, there are over 300,000 pages of Epstein files.
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It is either perfect timing or terrible timing. Either way, our new Noisy Piggy slot machine has just arrived on the casino floor.
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It is either perfect timing or terrible timing. Either way, our new Noisy Piggy slot machine has just arrived on the casino floor.
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Lawrence Summers will reportedly immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the university investigates his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Lawrence Summers will reportedly immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the university investigates his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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A Hamilton Health Sciences gynecological surgeon has helped to develop a surgical simulator for practising emergency surgeries to assist in preventing life-threatening bleeding after childbirth.
Hamilton Health Sciences doctor invents surgical simulator for childbirth emergencies
A Hamilton Health Sciences gynecological surgeon has helped to develop a surgical simulator for practising emergency surgeries to assist in preventing life-threatening bleeding after childbirth.
www.chch.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A Hamilton Health Sciences gynecological surgeon has helped to develop a surgical simulator for practising emergency surgeries to assist in preventing life-threatening bleeding after childbirth.
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Thankfully the Bezos paper displays some much needed spine in this editorial about the murderous Saudi leader who just got all he wanted from Trump while the US got bupkis www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Saudi Arabia gained more than the U.S. from MBS’s D.C. visit
The crown prince gets F-35s, new security status and legitimacy in exchange for promised investment.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Thankfully the Bezos paper displays some much needed spine in this editorial about the murderous Saudi leader who just got all he wanted from Trump while the US got bupkis www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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If Halligan pulled a grand jury switcheroo, and did not inform the court, this could be her deepest trouble yet.
Justice Dept. acknowledges full grand jury never saw final Comey indictment
The acknowledgement came during a hearing in which a federal judge heard the former FBI director’s arguments that he is the target of a vindictive prosecution.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If Halligan pulled a grand jury switcheroo, and did not inform the court, this could be her deepest trouble yet.
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Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
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It looks like Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury, prosecutorial conduct equivalent to committing perjury, in order to manufacture an indictment against James Comey for…
wait for it…
perjury.
wait for it…
perjury.
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It looks like Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury, prosecutorial conduct equivalent to committing perjury, in order to manufacture an indictment against James Comey for…
wait for it…
perjury.
wait for it…
perjury.
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Khanna: "The speaker looked frazzled last night. I think he's totally lost it. He's attacking the bill and he's not showing up to hear the survivors. The survivors wanted this bill. Then he's voting for a bill he criticized. And he's lost the confidence of half the people in his own caucus."
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Khanna: "The speaker looked frazzled last night. I think he's totally lost it. He's attacking the bill and he's not showing up to hear the survivors. The survivors wanted this bill. Then he's voting for a bill he criticized. And he's lost the confidence of half the people in his own caucus."
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Additional detail in a footnote of the government’s latest filing.
Suggests that the grand jury (other than the foreperson and deputy foreperson) had been released before second indictment was brought back to the grand jury room.
Suggests that the grand jury (other than the foreperson and deputy foreperson) had been released before second indictment was brought back to the grand jury room.
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Additional detail in a footnote of the government’s latest filing.
Suggests that the grand jury (other than the foreperson and deputy foreperson) had been released before second indictment was brought back to the grand jury room.
Suggests that the grand jury (other than the foreperson and deputy foreperson) had been released before second indictment was brought back to the grand jury room.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Powerful 💪
These kids organized a walkout today, standing up against ICE.
Raleigh Durham
These kids organized a walkout today, standing up against ICE.
Raleigh Durham
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Powerful 💪
These kids organized a walkout today, standing up against ICE.
Raleigh Durham
These kids organized a walkout today, standing up against ICE.
Raleigh Durham
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Judge Boasberg says he will proceed to fact-finding on whether to hold govt in contempt for sending people to El Salvador against his order on 3/15/25. Preliminarily wants to hear from whistleblower Erez Reuveni & DOJ's Drew Ensign. Will let parties advise how to proceed in writing by Monday.
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Judge Boasberg says he will proceed to fact-finding on whether to hold govt in contempt for sending people to El Salvador against his order on 3/15/25. Preliminarily wants to hear from whistleblower Erez Reuveni & DOJ's Drew Ensign. Will let parties advise how to proceed in writing by Monday.
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Meiselas this past Monday: Halligan says the grand jury rejected the 3-count indictment, so she brought back a 2-count version they supposedly approved, but that part is missing from the transcript. Judge Currie warned the grand jury may never have seen it. If true, that’s criminal.
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Meiselas this past Monday: Halligan says the grand jury rejected the 3-count indictment, so she brought back a 2-count version they supposedly approved, but that part is missing from the transcript. Judge Currie warned the grand jury may never have seen it. If true, that’s criminal.
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The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
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🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.
In Stunning Admission, DOJ Says Grand Jury Never Saw Indictment Against Comey
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.
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BREAKING: The FBI trainee that was fired for displaying a Pride Flag is SUING the government, saying his removal was illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
An F.B.I. Trainee Hung a Pride Flag Near His Desk. He Says He Was Fired for It.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
BREAKING: The FBI trainee that was fired for displaying a Pride Flag is SUING the government, saying his removal was illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...