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Liz M
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🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 #NoKings #DangerousCoats Tragically empathic. Staunchly protective. Far from perfect. Karma. Serene Woodland Witch. Proud Democrat. LGBTQ 🌈 SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦 #IAmAntiFa #FuckICE
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
mikeeckel.bsky.social Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 3h
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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barackobama.bsky.social
Violence has no place in America. Michelle and I are praying for the servicemembers shot in Washington, DC today, and send our love to their families as they enter this holiday season under the most tragic of circumstances.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: DC's Metropolitan Police Dept says it has one suspect in custody after a shooting at 17th and I, near the White House.

AP reports that two members of the National Guard were shot, which DHS sec Kristi Noem confirms in a tweet.

Jeff Mason of Reuters reports that the White House is on lockdown.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Actually, stuff it.

I always had the opinion that what Willis did shouldn’t have had any legal consequences for the case.

I also think what she did showed a lack of judgment and the case would not have been derailed but for her decisions.

The buck stops with Willis, the constitutional officer.
ekvalinskyy.bsky.social Eric Valinsky @ekvalinskyy.bsky.social · 17h
Serious misogynoir. When will anyone learn? Fani Willis’s only failure was OUR failure. The same failure that elected a convicted felon and adjudicated con artist and rapist as President over a qualified black Asian woman.
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
$937,989.39: That's the amount of the penalty owed by Trump and Alina Habba, according to a new appeals court decision, which upheld a 2023 ruling that Trump and Habba committed "sanctionable conduct" by filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and James Comey.
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Called it: Trump is going to *give* China Taiwan (no, Taiwan is not his to give) in an attempt to reverse the damage of his stupid trade war.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h
“.. Japanese officials said the message was worrying: the president didn’t want friction over Taiwan to endanger a detente reached last month with Xi, which includes a promise to buy more agricultural products from American farmers ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Remember that the Guard were originally deployed to DC to avenge Big Balls, who is meanwhile rifling through all our Social Security data.

AND ALSO, on Nov 20, Jia Cobb ruled the Guard deployment was illegaly, but stayed her decision until December 11.

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MEMORANDUM OPINION Since August 11, 2025, over 2,000 members of the National Guard have been deployed to the District of Columbia. While in the District, these units have provided support to local and federal law enforcement agencies. Guard units have patrolled on the National Mall, in Metro Transit stations, and across D.C. neighborhoods. The Guard’s operations in D.C. have been coordinated by the Joint Task Force District of Columbia (JTF-DC), which oversees units from D.C.’s own National Guard (DCNG) and from other states, including South Carolina, West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, and South Dakota. At this point, National Guard units are expected to remain in the District through February 28, 2026. The District of Columbia (Plaintiff) filed this suit, alleging that the National Guard deployment violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA), and the Constitution. The complaint named three categories of Defendants: (1) President Donald J. Trump, (2) the United States Department of Defense, Secretary of Defense Peter B. Hegseth, the United States Army, and Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll (collectively, DOD Defendants), and (3) the Department of Justice, Attorney General Pamela J. Bondi, the U.S.
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
Was Karoline involved? Did she have her brother’s baby momma arrested for some reason? Perhaps to get her out of the picture?
Hey, God’s just asking questions here.
Karoline Leavitt’s Family Member Arrested By ICE
Seems suspicious.
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: SCOTUS will not grant the Trump administration’s request to allow it to fire Shira Perlmutter, the director of the Copyright Office, at this time. It puts off any decision while the court is considering the other two firings cases. Perlmutter stays in office during that time.
CORDER LIST: 607 U.S.) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2025 25A478 ORDER IN PENDING CASE BLANCHE, TODD, ET AL. V. PERLMUTTER, SHIRA The application for a stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is deferred pending Trump v. Slaughter, No. 25-332, and Trump v. Cook, No. 25A312. Justice Thomas would grant the application.
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
This is amazing.

As if "trading down" isn't an economic decision.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Hassett: "On one of the Sunday shows, the anchor criticized the fact Walmart said the Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by about $10. Then he said, 'Oh yeah, but they substituted generic stuff,' as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks! It shows how out of touch these people are."
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Q Thank you. You say that -- in your 3 declaration that "There was an incidence where 4 somebody was pulling the face mask and personally" 5 -- "and forcefully ripping off an officer's beard." 6 Do you see that? 7 A Yes. 8 Q What does that mean? 9 A Well, there was an officer that was 10 wearing a gas mask and a protestor had ripped the 11 gas mask off. This officer had a large beard. They 12 grabbed it and forcefully ripped the beard out of 13 his chin. 14 Q His beard was ripped off of his face? 15 A Yes, a good portion of it. 16 Q Okay. Did you take any pictures of it? 17 A I did not. 18 Q Did somebody else? 19 A I'm not aware. 20 Q How do you know that this happened? 21 A From the officer reporting it. 22 Q Okay. Who is he? A I don't recall the officer's name. 2 Q Was it somebody that you were familiar 3 with before you began work on Midway Blitz? 4 A No. 5 Q Do you know whether a report was written 6 about this incident? 7 A I don't know that. 8 Q Do you know whether or not the person who 9 allegedly ripped off an officer's beard was charged 10 with a crime? 11 A I don't know that specifically.
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
11th Circuit cites Clinton v Jones in ruling that Trump doesn't get extended statute of limitations on lawsuits to sue Hillary just bc he was super busy as President.

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The Supreme Court rejected a similar request from President Clinton when it refused to excuse him from judicial process during his term. See Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 703–04 (1997). It took no issue with a private citizen subjecting the president to judicial process, in the process burdening his “time and energy” and “impair[ing] the effective performance of his office.” Id. at 702. If a president can be haled into court, he cannot be excused from suing to enforce his rights. Trump unpersuasively argues that two “circumstances” support his request. First, he points to the workload he faced during his first term. But it is hard to see how his presidential workload differs from any other modern president, and those concerns did not arrest the Supreme Court in Clinton. See 520 U.S. at 697–99. Second, Trump argues that he was unable to seek relief in court while in office because, if he had filed this lawsuit during the Mueller or Durham investigations, “it would have looked like [he] was interfering with law enforcement functions.” But this argument gives away the game. Equitable tolling requires the circumstances “prevent[ing]” Trump from suing to be “beyond [his] control.” Menominee Indian Tribe, 577 U.S. at 255, 257 (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). Trump concedes that he chose not
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This review happens during the period when Ghislaine delayed her appeal to SCOTUS.
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d
Great urgency in reviewing Epstein files. Then silence for three months. Then the July 6 “nothing to see here” memo.

Wonder what they found that led to panicked silence then attempted cover up?
jasonleopold.bsky.social Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 1d
The docs also reveal the number of hours the FBI devoted to the project, which required some agents to work nights and weekends. The FBI paid personnel $851,344 in overtime for working on the Epstein files between March 17 and March 22.
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
This was always the endpoint of anti-wokeness or whatever you want to call it.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
In February 2023, the Coast Guard issued an instruction to combat harassment and mistreatment of members of what the service called “protected categories.” That included “race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), age, disability, genetic information, marital status, parental status, political affiliation” and whistle-blowers among others. The Coast Guard’s policy update, which was signed this month, removed gender identity and political affiliation from that list. The new document specified that nooses and swastikas would remain banned in public areas. But displaying them in public, it said, would be considered “divisive” only if they affected “good order and discipline, unit cohesion, command climate, morale or mission effectiveness.” According to the new instruction, the term “hate incident” was “no longer present in policy.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.

He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.

nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Back in August, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered DHS to start treating people humanely at 26 Fed. Plaintiffs says DHS has fixed none of the problems there and are asking for sanctions.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
More than three months have passed since this Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order on August 12, 2025 requiring Defendants to implement specific and detailed policies to rectify their unconstitutional practices, which were later incorporated into a Preliminary Injunction issued on September 17, 2025. In contravention of these orders, however, Defendants appear never to have implemented many of the required procedures, particularly those regarding attorney access, hygiene, and the provision of the Notice of Rights to all detained individuals. Plaintiffs have conferred with Defendants on multiple occasions, but attempts to obtain assurances that Defendants will comply with this Court’s orders remain futile. Defendants provided a wholly insufficient response to Plaintiffs’ first letter regarding these issues and have not responded substantively to Plaintiffs’ second letter. Meanwhile, testimony from detained individuals and the attorneys who have tried in vain to speak with them continues to accumulate, showing that more than three months after this Court ordered immediate changes to their practices, Defendants continue to ignore these directives. Plaintiffs now seek the Court’s assistance. Defendants’ ongoing, intentional violations of Court orders merit a finding of contempt and the imposition of sanctions. The Court’s orders are clear and unambiguous, the proof of noncompliance is clear and convincing, and the evidence shows that Defendants have been far from diligent in any attempts to reasonably comply with the Court’s orders. As such, a finding of contempt with associated fines and sanctions, including attorneys’ fees, is appropriate.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
lizerenity.bsky.social
@lizdye.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's shitposting legal strategy
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Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's shitposting legal strategy
It's backfired so spectacularly that now *they're* the ones being investigated.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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atrupar.com
"Weeks of watching Florida insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan flail around like a toddler trying to teach calculus should serve as a warning about the perils of crowdsourcing legal research to literal randos on the internet. *But it won’t.*" — @lizdye.bsky.social
Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's shitposting legal strategy
It's backfired so spectacularly that now *they're* the ones being investigated.
www.publicnotice.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a family connection to the Trump admin's ICE actions sweeping the country — her nephew's mother was arrested by agents in Revere, Massachusetts this month.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
White House spokeswoman Leavitt now has a family connection to an ICE arrest
Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area woman who is the mother of Leavitt's nephew, is now in custody at an ICE facility in Louisiana.
www.wbur.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Two of the three former Denver police officers fired for exchanging text messages in a group chat about using migrant shelters as "target practice" have been rehired by smaller police departments in Colorado, with one having recently trained for a school-based role. The third officer is still state-certified but not currently employed in law enforcement. ®
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WOWWWWW— that didn’t take long: “Crews walk out on on Nashville tunnel, claiming Musk’s Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA concerns”

As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
BREAKING:

“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove provided DHS with legal advice regarding the Court’s order as to flights that had left the United States before the order issued, through DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara. Mr. Mazzara then conveyed that legal advice, as well as his own legal advice, to Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. See 6 U.S.C. § 113(a)(1)(J). After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. As explained below, that decision was lawful and was consistent with a reasonable interpretation of
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
juliedicaro.bsky.social Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING:

“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove provided DHS with legal advice regarding the Court’s order as to flights that had left the United States before the order issued, through DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara. Mr. Mazzara then conveyed that legal advice, as well as his own legal advice, to Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. See 6 U.S.C. § 113(a)(1)(J). After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. As explained below, that decision was lawful and was consistent with a reasonable interpretation of
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Reminder: For voters in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, November 26 is the last day to vote early in person.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM