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Twitter refugee. Former Foreign Service. New Mexico transplant.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
BONER AWARD — @GovBillLee 🏆 Let Kids Go Hungry

“Lee somehow bungled his moment, refusing to address widespread child hunger looming as SNAP benefits ran dry for 690,000 Tennesseans.”

(H/T @NashvilleScene) www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst...
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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jtischauser.bsky.social
Adding that Jason Lee Van Dyke is also deeply involved with Patriot Front. He's more than PF's preferred lawyer. Inside PF, Van Dyke is known as Big John TX. Only members of PF are given aliases b/c they want to hide their involvement in the openly fascist group.

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December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
FUCK ICE
murray.senate.gov Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 4h
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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lbyock.bsky.social
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
An AI prompt says “long stockings a red headed girl with braids sticking straight out” Four sexually suggestive images of a Pippi Longstocking type in various states of undress.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
sweetadelinevt.bsky.social Sweetadelinevt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · 8h
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.

They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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guante.info
Great reporting and a knockout final line:

“Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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newsweek.com
The Mobile Identify app was reportedly used by local police officers to identify immigrants wanted by ICE.
CBP’s Immigrant Facial Recognition App Disappears From Google Play Store
www.newsweek.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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antizionistjew.bsky.social
A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.
Missing in Gaza: CNN investigation points to the Israeli military bulldozing the dead bodies of Palestinians seeking aid | CNN
A CNN investigation into Palestinians who went missing near the Zikim crossing in Gaza this year points to aid seekers being killed and, in some cases, bulldozed into unmarked graves by Israeli forces...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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airbagged.bsky.social
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
Sabrina walking the dog
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
FBI agents now serving as Uber drivers for Kash Patel’s girlfriend’s drunk friends www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
FBI Director Kash Patel has - on more than one occasion - ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, according to three people with knowledge of the incidents. Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, asked FBI agents on her security team at least two times, including once this spring, to drive her friend home, and agents objected to diverting from their assignment, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss nonpublic matters. But Patel insisted they do as Wilkins requested and in one case called the leader of Wilkins' security detail and yelled at him to do so.
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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joedudekjd.bsky.social
We know you said we're behaving illegally, but you didn't tell us to stop, so ...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Halligan Continues as U.S. Attorney, Prompting Criticism From Judges
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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goldwagnathan.bsky.social
People spend much too much time trying to calculate the legal reasoning or strategy of SCOTUS, whereas I think it's pretty simple. Roberts et al are members of conservative elite culture, and they tend to go where that follows. Ten, maybe even five years ago, they were against this. Now they're not.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12h
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
QUESTION PRESENTED The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those “born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” are U.S. citizens. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV, § 1. The Clause was adopted to confer citizenship on the newly freed slaves and their children, not on the children of aliens temporarily visiting the United States or of illegal aliens. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 14,160, Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, which restores the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause and provides, on a prospective basis only, that children of temporary visitors and illegal aliens are not U.S. citizens by birth. The Citizenship Order directs federal agencies not to issue or accept citizenship documents for such children born more than 30 days after the Order’s effective date. The question presented is whether the Executive Order complies on its face with the Citizenship Clause and with 8 U.S.C. 1401(a), which codifies that Clause.
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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melissjpeltier.bsky.social
Since this may benefit women more than men, look for RFK Jr to can it. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
A Vaccine That May Reduce Dementia? The Evidence Keeps Getting Stronger
And women may benefit the most
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Breaking:

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: A 2-1 panel of the D.C. Circuit rules that Trump may remove members of the NLRB or MSPB regardless of laws meant to shield them from removal without cause.

Majority: Rao (Trump), Katsas (Trump)
Dissent: Pan (Biden)
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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abenewman.bsky.social
1/Quick thoughts of implications of US National Security Strategy for Europe -- weaponized interdependence meets nationalist international. The US will use its tools (economic, technology, and financial dominance) to press for far right agenda.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
The European Commission has found Elon Musk's X to be in violation of the Digital Services Act. They're charging fines of ~$140 million US (EU 120 million) and giving X 90 days to show how they'll resolve the violations... otherwise more penalties would follow. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/e...
Elon Musk’s X fined $140 million by European Commission over 'deceptive' blue checkmark and lack of transparency
The social-media platform has been fined by the bloc after breaching transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
www.cnbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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djlavoie.bsky.social
I don't think normal people have any idea that the US Government just talks this way now.

It's not just Trump and some rando podcasters (which is bad enough). It's our government. In a democracy. Ours.
robertmackey.bsky.social Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d
This is a message from an official, tax-payer funded White House account, written by government employees barred by law from engaging in partisan politics
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.
September 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
wait, on what planet is this boat making a nonstop cross-Caribbean voyage
rgoodlaw.bsky.social Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d
🚨🚨🚨This collapses the one 'argument' Hegseth had against it being a war crime:

"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."

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Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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jaywillis.net
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020) (per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was “just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care- fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein- stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145. Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every- one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig- nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres- sional election is not well underway. 16 ABBOTT v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS KAGAN, J., dissenting 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 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
“Details are in flux, but current plans call for SoftBank to help facilitate the construction of factory clusters, cranking out fiber-optic cable, data-center equipment, and, ultimately, AI chips.”
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
“.. the administration began pushing for a network of ‘Trump Industrial Parks,’ according to an administration official, with manufacturing infrastructure built on federal land.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM