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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

UPDATE: DOJ lawyers state that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem made decision not to return March 15 flights.

Also Tuesday, ACLU lawyers name Emil Bove, now a federal judge, as a possible witness in Boasberg's contempt inquiry over the flights.

My write-thru at Law Dork:

DOJ lawyers state that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem made decision not to return March 15 flights

Also Tuesday, ACLU lawyers name Emil Bove, now a federal judge, as a possible witness in Boasberg's contempt inquiry over the flights. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

November 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM

Ryano

@justbeingryano.bsky.social

I'd feel better, too.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 44m

Kimmel: “ it makes me feel better about him only wanting me to be fired.”

November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM

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hilzoy

@hilzoy.bsky.social

😳

Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social · 6h

Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service

November 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM

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Steven Leandres

@sleandres.bsky.social

they should change the name to the department of fragile christian nationalists

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...

U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'

Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.

www.npr.org

November 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM

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Noah Shachtman

@noahshachtman.bsky.social

The US stranded a pair of astronauts on the International Space Station for months. After an accident stranded three taikonauts, the Chinese launched their rescue mission in less than two weeks. arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

China launches an emergency lifeboat to bring three astronauts back to Earth

This is a “successful example for efficient emergency response in the international space industry.”…

arstechnica.com

November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM

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Adam Rose

@adamrose.bsky.social

Thankful for outpouring of support from 16 states+DC in our LA Press Club case against DHS.

I started taking screenshots, but too much good stuff to highlight! Check out crowd-control munitions section starting page 8. Bravo!

LAPD & Los Angeles leaders: Take note.

oag.ca.gov/system/files...

Amici States also have learned hard lessons over the years through efforts to
address numerous mass protests. Most notably, after the George Floyd protests of
2020, many Amici States recognized that existing guidelines and state laws did not
properly balance their interests in policing unlawful conduct while protecting First
Amendment rights, nor did they recognize that aggressive tactics can often inflame
rather than quell public unrest.

Together, these
laws and guidelines reflect an emerging consensus on the best practices in crowdcontrol policing: that crowd-control munitions should typically only be used to
address a threat to life or serious bodily injury. In this way, these best practices
attempt to ensure public safety and order while at the same time protecting the
First Amendment rights of the public and members of the press.

In light of the complexities associated with crowd management and control,
Amici States recognize the need for specialized training. For example, California’s
POST Commission requires agencies to conduct trainings on crowd management
and control that “include the actual stress of incident management to ensure that
critical thinking can be applied during real events.”19 The Commission has also
stressed the “need for reality-based scenario training that mimics, as much as
possible, the ‘fog’ encountered during critical event management.”

November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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Maris Kreizman

@maris.bsky.social

If you’re “alarmed” that the mayor elect says you shouldn’t violate international law, maybe the problem is you. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...

November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

That's the October 30 deposition above.

Here is Bovino's November 3 deposition: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Don't worry, the charm continues:

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Okay. I showed you some video at the
conclusion of our last session and asked you some questions about it. In general, do you recall being shown that video?
A. I was shown a lot of videos. Which -- which

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one in particular?
You'll have to dial that in for me.
e.
Sure. The one that I showed you toward the
end of the deposition relating to Little Village, your throwing of a canister. Do you recall that video?
A.
No. I mean, not all of it. Not in its
entirety, no.
e.
I was just asking you in general, do you
recall being shown that video?
A.
No.

November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM

Ryano

@justbeingryano.bsky.social

Must be good, then.

Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 21h

Russian officials have called the revised 19-point plan a failure, Bloomberg reports.

November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM

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Yell In a War

@jelenawoehr.bsky.social

fantastic idea to take a medical system that already has a measurable and documented habit of undertreating women’s pain and add “also, it’s ok for doctors to literally respond to complaints about care with ‘fine, then feel free to die’”

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh I’m so sorry! A similar thing happened to me when I pushed back on a doctor telling me that my pitting edema was just “fat”.

I asked for more tests and said it wasn’t fat and she said “if you’re unhappy with the care there’s always MAiD”

I complained and was told that’s allowed. Disgusting.

November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM

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Luke McGee

@lukemcgee.bsky.social

An engineer working at one of Britain’s largest firms said: “We have multi-use items that could be for both military and civilian purposes, but cannot invest until we know what government strategy is. If it’s bad for us, it must be so hard for SMEs.”

www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Starmer promised to spend big on defense but Britain’s arms industry is still waiting

Six months after a major inquiry into how the U.K. would meet geopolitical threats, many in the industry complain they haven’t received the certainty they need about where the British government pl…

www.politico.eu

November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Garcia: The oversight committee and Democrats launched our official oversight immigration enforcement dashboard. The dashboard that allows our committee to investigate and document and archive for the public record, possible misconducts by federal agents, ICE, and DHS.

November 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM

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CHOAM for the holidays

@samthielman.com

All the Camelot shit really broke people huh. You can’t just say a guy is a rich crank who thinks he’s smarter than everybody, he has to cut some sort of a tragic figure

November 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM

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Mark Jacob

@markjacob.bsky.social

We had a war to stop fascism. Then we had post-war trials to make it clear that "just following orders" was no excuse. Trump and Hegseth are taking the side of the death camp guards.

November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting

@thefred.bsky.social

How much oil did the Nazis get out of the Maikop fields?

November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM

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Jon Seidel

@jonseidel.bsky.social

And FWIW, here's how it was all described in the criminal complaint filed against Briggs:

4. On September 27, 2025, a large crowd gathered in protest of ongoing immigration enforcement operations being conducted by law enforcement authorities in the Northern District of Illinois. The crowd gathered in protest in front of an entrance to an ICE facility located on Beach Street in Broadview, Illinois (hereinafter the "Broadview Facility"). Agents from the United States Border Patrol (USBP) were working in and around the Broadview Facility to ensure the safe passage of vehicles and personnel into and out of the Broadview Facility. This included performing various crowd control functions outside the Broadview Facility.
5. The entrance to the Broadview Facility at issue includes a large metal security gate that opens onto a public street. Personnel working at the Broadview Facility routinely utilized the entrance gate to move personnel and vehicles into and out of the Broadview Facility. Individuals standing in the street during these operations created an impediment to the movement of federal government personnel and vehicles into or out of the Broadview Facility. As a result, USBP agents routinely instructed protesters, at the risk of arrest, to leave the street area when USBP agents, in the exercise of their lawful authority, needed to utilize the street in furtherance of their operations.

6. As reflected in video recordings made by third-parties and later posted to YouTube, at approximately 5:40 pm (Central Time) on September 27, 2025, USBP agents, while facing outward toward protesters, were moving backward from the street into the Broadview Facility. BRIGGS was one of multiple protesters who remained in the street facing the USBP agents and walking toward them as they retreated toward the open gate of the Broadview Facility gate. BRIGGS was located several feet from the USBP agents.
7. Prior to all of the USBP agents entering the Broadview Facility, for operational reasons, USBP agents began moving back out of the Broadview Facility into the street. As they did so, and as captured on videos posted to YouTube, USBP agents ordered all persons in the street, including BRIGGS, to leave the street to facilitate the movement of personnel and vehicles out of the Broadview Facility and into the public street.
8. However, rather than move out of the street as instructed, BRIGGS remained stationary in the street shouted "Why?" toward a USBP agent. That USBP agent then made physical contact with BRIGGS, who fell backwards onto the street. Agents then moved forward to arrest BRIGGS for refusing to follow the USBP agent's order for him to leave the street. As reflected in one YouTube video I have seen, as agents began to arrest BRIGGS, he attempted to hand his phone to another protester. At that moment, another USBP agent ("Victim A"), wearing a USBP uniform that bore insignia identifying Victim A as a USBP agent, reached forward with Victim A's left arm to prevent BRIGGS from handing off his phone. In response, BRIGGS swung

his right arm toward Victim A's left arm and, in doing so, made physical contact with Victim A's left arm. BRIGGS' act of swinging his right arm toward Victim A's left arm and striking Victim A's left arm (which resulted in an audible slapping noise) is depicted in the YouTube video. Thereafter, BRIGGS was arrested without incident.
9. On September 27, 2025, an HSI case agent briefly interviewed Victim A who told the HSI case agent that BRIGGS made contact with Victim A and, in doing so, caused Victim A to experience pain in Victim A's wrist.
10. On September 28, 2025, an HSI case agent conducted a second interview of Victim A, which included review of the YouTube video with footage that depicted BRIGGS swinging his right arm toward Victim A's left arm. Victim A confirmed that it was Victim A's left arm that was depicted in the video and that it was during this portion of the video that BRIGGS made contact with Victim A.
11. Various USBP agents were equipped with BWCs at the time of BRIGGS' arrest, although not all of the agents, including Victim A, had their BWC operating at the time of the incident. Affiant has procured and reviewed the BWC of the USBP agent who physically interacted with BRIGGS prior to his arrest. Due to the position of BRIGGS' body relative to that agent at the time of BRIGGS' arrest, that BWC does not depict BRIGGS swinging his arm in the direction of Victim A.
III. Conclusion
12. Based on the above information, I submit there is probable cause to believe that on or about September 27, 2025, DANA BRIGGS forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, and interfered with an officer of the United States, as designated in Title 18, United State Code, Section 1114, more specifically, a USBP agent, who was engaged in the performance of their official duties, and in doing so, DANA BRIGGS made physical contact with the agent, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1).

November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM

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Daniel Kibblesmith

@kibblesmith.com

[old Trix commercial is different than I thought it would be when I pull it up on YouTube]

Well that settles it we live in a god like alien’s computer

November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"

November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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Tyler King

@tyleraking.com

Some park rangers are still waiting on backpay from the federal shutdown.

Archive: archive.today/rQXQu

Some Park Rangers Are Still Owed Pay After the Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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ETX Gov

@etxgov.bsky.social

I didn't expect America going to war over oil to be such a recurring theme in my life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"

November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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Olga Nesterova

@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Why is victim being pressed to concede while murderer sets expectations? This is simply illegal.

If ukrainian borders are questioned, everything else - from Outer Manchuria to Taiwan is questioned as well.

There’s a peace prize.. not a surrender award. Someone pls explain that on Penn Ave

November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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Greg Sargent

@gregsargent.bsky.social

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

a family of four income of $136,500 is below the AMI in 75 counties / independent cities in the United States adding up to more than 11% the total U.S. population.