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For the uninitiated: Each of these case citations contains the volume and page where the case is publicly available. So they're redacting a thing but telling you exactly where you can find it. And mostly, they're redacting an abbreviation for which court the case was in, like “S.D.N.Y.”
bradheath.bsky.social Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3h
I have seen DOJ do some strange redactions before, but this is up there:
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.
mrgermy.bsky.social JFB @mrgermy.bsky.social · 16h
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
December 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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ladyemily.nebula.tv
Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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hegemommy.bsky.social
The Bank of America sponsorship is the pièce de résistance here. I was born before women could have bank accounts in their own names
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4d
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey
December 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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angus.bsky.social
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.

There’s no third option.
kodyisover.com Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 4d
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
"In a related move, the Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to a dozen companies that market chest-binding vests and other equipment used by people with gender dysphoria. Manufacturers include GenderBender LLC of Carson, California and TomboyX of Seattle. The FDA letters state that chest binders can only be legally marketed for FDA-approved medical uses, such as recovery after mastectomy surgery." Screenshot from The AP posted on The Seattle Times.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
coolstorymere.bsky.social
wishing you all find something you love as much as Hugh loves my old briefcase
a large orange cat lovingly sleeps on a brown briefcase on a multicolored rug
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
coolstorymere.bsky.social
I am reporting back to tell you that the massive deer are still in my neighborhood. There was a deer the size of a quarter horse munching grass in the neighbor's yard, and thank the lord Benny didn't notice it.
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
stevesilberman.bsky.social Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · Dec 8
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
A menorah in a window across the street from a building displaying a Nazi flag.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
B. No Order of Removal Exists for Abrego Garcia No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia. When Abrego Garcia was first wrongly expelled to El Salvador, the Court struggled to understand the legal authority for even seizing him in the first place. At the first hearing in Abrego I, the Court inquired of Respondents’ counsel: The Court: I want to ask, though, the very specific question, if there is a final order of removal, what . . . document got this process started? There is no warrant for his arrest by an order of removal. There is no statement of probable cause. There’s no charge. There’s no report that says that anyone saw Mr. Abrego Garcia doing anything illegal or criminal. So what is the actual document that gave these officers the authority to start this process? Counsel: That is not in the record, and the government has not put that into the record. And that’s the best I can do. Abrego I, ECF No. 33 at 21:11–22. The Court continued to press counsel about the existence of a removal order and was told plainly that none can be found: The Court: Okay. So if there’s a Title 8 removal order, there would be an order of removal that’s being executed, and we don’t have one for Mr. Abrego Garcia, right? . . . Do you have that order? . . . Is it in the record? Counsel: I do not have that order. It is not in the record. Id. at 23:7–24:4. Since that time, Respondents have never produced an order of removal despite Abrego Garcia hinging much of his jurisdictional and legal arguments on its non-existence. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 68–69; ECF No. 32 at 10, 15–17, 27; ECF No. 87 at 11–12. Indeed, Respondents twice sponsored the testimony of ICE officials whose job it is to effectuate removal orders, and who candidly admitted to having never seen one for Abrego Garcia. See ECF No. 107 at 30:16–22 (testimony of Cantú) (“Q: Based upon your many years of experience you described to us, you know what a final order of removal looks like, right, sir? Cantú: I do. Q: And have you seen a final order of removal in regard to Mr. Abrego Garcia? Cantú: I have not.”). See also Abrego I, ECF No. 234 at 46:6–12 (testimony of interim Assistant Director for ICE Removal Operations, Thomas Giles (“Giles”)) (“Q: You have not seen the final order of removal, have you, sir? Giles: What do you mean by that? Q: I mean, you have not seen a piece of paper that represents the final order of removal vis-a-vis Mr. Abrego Garcia, correct? Giles: No, I have not.”).15 Based on this, the Court concludes that no order of removal exists.
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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rusty.todayintabs.com
Congratulations to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Grink
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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plitter.bsky.social
theonion.com/it-only-tues...
It Only Tuesday
WASHINGTON, DC—After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were dishearte...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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alainaann.bsky.social
Birds in my neighborhood meeting up on the power lines every day, right before sunset.
Many birds on a power line and the top of the pole.
December 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
In case you missed it!
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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jameslonghurst.bsky.social
It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️
A magazine cover, with a single illustration covering the entire page, and no headlines over the top. A hand illustration -- perhaps watercolors -- shows a snowy day and an empty road heading towards the viewer. In the distance, a cozy christmas tree store surrounded by green trees, some cut and some still standing, with a cozy cabin behind. In the foreground, a jaunty woman with hat and sunglasses and scarf bicycles toward us, with a christmas tree horizontally held on the front rack of her bike and a black scotty dog running alongside. She and the shop and the cabin are all in pastels; pinks and purples and white. Her white scarf and hat match the white snow on the store and cabin. It is a cheerful, jaunty, undaunted tone, and evenly spaced big snowflakes float down over it all. At the top the magazine name, The New Yorker, the date Dec. 19, 1942, and the Price: 15 cents. At the bottom is the signature of the artist, Garrett Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Price
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
coolstorymere.bsky.social
my cat Hugh, mid nap, on his briefcase.
a sleepy orange cat on his brief case. A toy/doom pile in the background.
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
coolstorymere.bsky.social
Benny in the snow, a compilation thread
a small, yellow, fuzzy haired dog in an orange coat sits in the snow. His bottom teeth are visible. One ear is up and one ear is down
December 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
coolstorymere.bsky.social
Benny finally figured out how to keep Gordon from whipping his tail around
a small yellow scruffy dog looks at the camera, his chin resting on the butt of a gray cat. Both are on a couch.
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18d
a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
pantone just named landlord white the color of the year 2026, WE NEED TO BUILD HOUSES
pantone's color of the year, "cloud dancer", a dull shade of white here illustrated by a person wearing ridiculous white pants
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
coolstorymere.bsky.social
I was on the phone with one of my friends and he went “Someone just walked into my house!!!…. Hello?….Hello?” Real horror movie stuff. And then his wife popped out. “SEE! This is what happens when you don’t LOCK THE DOORS AT NIGHT! Imagine this at 1am!!!!”
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
coolstorymere.bsky.social
“Go Tell It On the Mountain” Sinatra/Crosby for Christian.

“Christmas All Over Again” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is the first Xmas song I remember LOVING and needing to listen to on repeat.
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22d
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?

I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.

And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
coolstorymere.bsky.social
Currently reading a romantasy and the main characters have the vibes of the below tweet and the ditzy daughter from a Yellowstone universe show
“One of life’s small joys is seeing a normal looking family with an extremely goth teenager trudging along beside them. Taking the prince of darkness for a day out.” the girl from landman
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
coolstorymere.bsky.social
here’s my hot holiday tip: don’t tease people who are in their 30s about bullshit that happened when they were a preteen!
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
For the next two weeks we will be fundraising for our winter ministry project … consider partnering with our local ministry in providing grocery gift cards for the community venmo.com/u/solomon-MI...
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM