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jamellebouie.net
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
I thought this was a joke. It’s real.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14h
From JD Vance on Houthi PC small group, the day after Signalgate broke:
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
dude was so all about the metaverse that he renamed the whole company, only to burn billions on a venture that anybody with sense knew was destined to fail. it is laughable that he remains in charge. merit simply does not exist
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8h
Meta Platforms is planning cuts to the metaverse—an arena Mark Zuckerberg once called the future of the company—and will shift spending to AI wearables.
Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse
Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion since 2020.
on.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
I need to know if @newyorker.com goes with “reïndict”
aedwardslevy.bsky.social Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 8h
good evening only to the people frantically emailing copy editors to determine if "re-indict" needs a hyphen
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
We should execute him at the first opportunity. Not even kidding. Peleus precedent
December 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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bradmossesq.bsky.social
Ham sandwiches couldn’t be reached for comment.
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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hurricanexyz.bsky.social
Yeah but I ain't putting it past 'em

Which is fucked up, I should be able to put it past them quite comfortably!
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
I still think even this Court won’t go there. but we‘ll see.
December 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
I don’t know how this will go in the birthright citizenship case. But if the Court pulls that particular trigger, it will simply be the case that the entire United States government is constitutionally illegitimate
bill-of-lefts.bsky.social No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 6h
In nine years of conservative judicial power, the Supreme Court has, once again, read the 14th Amendment out of the Constitution
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Just got off a 2 hour zoom meeting and am once again so thankful that there are so many people out here doing good things in the world. Thank you. ALSO, we need to do more to buck each other up by noticing the good and reflecting it back.
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Full paper in nature here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy - Nature
Rapidly growing satellite constellations pose a substantial threat to astronomical observations, with projections indicating that future space telescopes will have more than 96% of their exposures aff...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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erininthemorning.com
From a new paper in Nature.... Satellite light pollution is becoming a major problem. If it continues at this rate, this is what our deep space telescope images of the universe will look like.

One of my joys is visiting dark sky parks... and nwo you can't go without seeing many satellites.
Fig. 2: Simulated effects of satellite trails in Hubble, SPHEREx, Xuntian and ARRAKIHS. figure 2 a–d, Simulated exposure for Hubble (a), SPHEREx (b), Xuntian (c) and ARRAKIHS (d) space observatories, showing sectors affected by satellite trail contamination. The satellite trails represent the effects of the planned satellites using the orbital and physical parameters of the announced constellations to be operational by 2040 (Fig. 3). Background galaxies were modelled on the basis of previous studies34,35. Full images can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15707680 (ref. 36) and also see Extended Data Figs. 8–11.
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Many of you may have heard that trans girls are now banned from Girlguiding in the United Kingdom, their version of the Girl Scouts as we know them in the United States.

It is a cruel new low in a country that has treated trans people horrifically in recent years.

The latest from S. Baum.
UK's 'Girl Scout' Group Has Banned Trans Girls From Joining In Cruel New Low
“This Government must be held responsible for the long-lasting damage they are doing to a generation of LGBTQ+ people.”
www.erininthemorning.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
This is a crazy story—the FBI may have had advance warning of a credible conspiracy to kill MLK ... and did nothing to stop it. The man at the center of the plot broke his silence this year, just before he died.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
There’s Always Been an Official Story About One of America’s Most Notorious Murders. One Man Knew Otherwise. He Finally Told Me Everything.
Just before he died, a 94-year-old career criminal had one last confession.
slate.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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billycorriher.bsky.social
ICYMI: A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice used a fake quote and citation in a high-profile dissent. She completely turned SCOTUS' 2023 gerrymandering ruling (out of North Carolina) on its head. #AI
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 8d
Nestled within this bizarre story is the important news that the Wisconsin Supreme Court has taken the first steps toward striking down its state’s GOP congressional gerrymander, a move that could net Democrats 2-3 more seats in the House of Representatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Conservative Justice Uses Fake Quote to Justify Wisconsin Republican Gerrymander
It is not clear how Ziegler’s misquotation wound up in the published opinion of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice.
slate.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
No. 25-5418 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Plaintiffs-Appellee V. DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al., Defendants-Appellants BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE SOUTH CAROLINA, WEST VIRGINIA, AND 22 ADDITIONAL STATES IN SUPPORT OF STAY PENDING APPEAL Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia District Court Case No. 1:25-Cv-03005-JMC ALAN WILSON ATTORNEY GENERAL STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Thomas T. Hydrick Solicitor General P.O. Box 11549 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 JOHN B. MCCUSKEY ATTORNEY GENERAL STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA Michael R. Williams Solicitor General OFFICE OF THE WEST VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF AUTHORITIES 11 INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE ............... 1 INTRODUCTION ............ 1 ARGUMENT ........... 3 The Equities Weigh Heavily in Favor of a Stay, as the Injunction Usurps Presidential Power and Endangers D.C. Citizens and the Government ............................... ..... 3 A. Securing the District Is the President's Constitutional Responsibility and Vital to a Functioning Republic .... .....3 B. Crime Has Exploded in Our Capital, Hurting Residents and Hindering the Federal Government 5 C. In the Few Months Since the Executive Orders, President Trump and National Guard Troops Have Made the Capital Safer ......... 10 CONCLUSION .............. 13 ADDITIONAL COUNSEL........................ 15 INTRODUCTION The District of Columbia is the Seat of America's National Government and the house of all three of its branches. U.S. CONsT. art. I, § 8, cl. 17. Safety, security, and domestic tranquility in D.C. are critical, not only to the good people of the District, but to the functioning of the United States. The American People rely on the effective operation of their Government, which in turn depends on the safety of elected representatives and officials who carry out the popular will. The American People travel from all over the country to Washington, every day, to visit its historic sites and exercise their First Amendment right to petition the Government. See U.S. CONST. amend. I. The District belongs to "the People" as a whole, and its safety is critical to our constitutional republic.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Major decision. In D.C., ICE/CBP can no longer arrest immigrants without a warrant unless they find individualized probable cause of a flight risk.

"Viewing all immigrants potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
For the reasons discussed below, plaintiffs’ motion to enjoin preliminarily defendants from continuing any policy or practice of conducting warrantless civil immigration arrests in the District without making individualized probable cause determinations as to each arrestee’s risk of escape, as required by 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(2), is granted, and a final decision on the requested certification of a class and both subclasses will be reserved for a later time. Defendants are preliminarily enjoined from enforcing their policy of conducting warrantless civil immigration arrests without probable cause to believe that the arrestee is likely to escape before an administrative warrant can be obtained; and only plaintiffs’ proposed Unassessed Escape Risk Class is provisionally certified. 3
December 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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zackford.bsky.social
Here's @mjsdc.bsky.social's explainer on how much more damage SCOTUS is about to do to our democracy: slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Is About to Hand Trump Insidious New Powers
Why are the Republican-appointed justices so eager to give the president dictatorial control over the government?
slate.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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kelseyreichmann.bsky.social
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps

apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review!

Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.
And even supposing it is now the ninth or tenth hour, whose choice was that? It was of course the Texas legisla- ture that decided to change its map six months before a March primary. The plaintiffs could not have moved any faster: They requested an injunction before the new law was even signed. And to try to speed the litigation, they de- clined discovery. (That decision, by the way, probably ac- counted for their failure to submit an alternative map, which to be probative must be based on the State’s particu- lar districting criteria. See supra, at 13 n.) The District Court moved expeditiously too, issuing its 160-page opinion (on November 18) just a month after post-hearing briefing concluded. No one dilly-dallied in this case. The District Court ruled as “late” as it did because the legislature en- acted a new map less than three months before. If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the opportunity to hold an unlawful election. The District Court, once again aptly, made the point: Were judicial re- view so broadly foreclosed, then to implement even a “bla- tantly unconstitutional map,” the “Legislature would need only to pass” it on a schedule like this one. App. 154–155. That cannot be the law—except of course that today it is. According to the majority, Texas had a free pass to redis- trict in August 2025 for the 2026 House elections. See ante, at 2. All that the plaintiffs can hope for is better luck in 2028.
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
I would bet the moon this thing is never getting built
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
It's because he's so trans inclusive
December 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
just an utter joke of a court.
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8h
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM