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Leah Litman

@leahlitman.bsky.social

Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1h

OMFG-ex DOJ official (& now federal judge) Emil Bove was involved in the administration's plots to murder individuals via lethal strikes

"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."

At a Justice Department conference in February, then-acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove told the department's top drug prosecutors that the Trump administration wasn't interested in interdicting suspected drug vessels at sea anymore. Instead, he said, the U.S. should "just sink the boats," according to three people present for the speech.

November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Olivia Messer

@oliviamesser.bsky.social

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.

Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.

www.orlandosentinel.com

November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM

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Solomon

@solomonmissouri.bsky.social

#BubbaGate

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18h

White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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Norm Charlatan

@normcharlatan.bsky.social

J.J. Redick poetry writing.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 38m

yet I cannot stop

November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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Jordan

@slclunk.com

Alison Janey in 10 Things I Hate About You

November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM

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charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald

@fourverts.bsky.social

can someone just give him a consulting job somewhere

Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 1d

seriously what the fuck do we do about this guy

November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM

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Brian Floyd

@brianmfloyd.bsky.social

had to keep hiring her not only because she has an issue with trying to bone her sources and only weird right wingers would talk to her for some reason but also she’s a bad writer. it’s just too good of a deal to pass up

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

“Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.”

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. "Baby, don't worry," he said.
"It's not a worm.
." A doctor he trusted had
reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.

November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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Don Moynihan

@donmoyn.bsky.social

The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, issued a statement saying that I was lying about the circumstances leading up to my firing. Then I was invited by the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to testify in front of Congress. The administration sent armed U.S. Marshals to my home to deliver a letter warning me about testifying. A career employee who was still at the department helped me get it called off before they got to my house, where my teenager was home alone. I felt the purpose was to intimidate me. And I think it was intended to send a message to other department employees, too, who might be thinking about speaking up.

I needed a lawyer. I spent the entire weekend calling all of the lawyers that I know at law firms around D.C. Everybody I talked to was saying: “Thank you so much for what you’re doing. We’ll do whatever we can behind the scenes to support you.” But nobody actually wanted to sit behind me at a congressional hearing. Nobody wanted to put their name on a letter to Todd Blanche.

November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM

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Norm Charlatan

@normcharlatan.bsky.social

I sometimes wonder if I had a worm in my brain that was controlling my behavior if my wife was in love me or the worm.

November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS)

@dirtbagqueer.rocks

i am vibrating with excitement

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 2h

I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect

insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

"I would take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment.

November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS)

@dirtbagqueer.rocks

i understand why people are tired of hearing about her but this is delicious food to me. i'm gonna come back for seconds and thirds with a smile on my face

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 39m

I cannot keep going

November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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mattie lubchansky

@mattielubchansky.com

oh word | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A GUY IN A TINFOIL HAT runs up to MATTIE waving a piece of paper around. MATTIE is on her phone.
GUY: I figured it out…all the signs!
GUY: Everything is bad because we're being SECRETLY ENSLAVED by a SHADOWY CABAL of OCTOPUS MEN from JUPITER'S MOON.

PANEL 2: MATTIE looks up at the guy, who is gesticulating wildly.
GUY: See, they need OUR oxygen to–
MATTIE: Hey actually no the news just came out.
MATTIE: Turns out it was just a cabal of rich perverts.

PANEL 3: The GUY, scratching his head. He displaces his tinfoil hat slightly. MATTIE shows him her phone.
GUY: Oh. Word?
MATTIE: Yeah they all know each other and were all just sort of emailing about it.

PANEL 4: AN OCTOPUS MONSTER in a spacesuit pops up behind MATTIE and the GUY.
MONSTER: Really awful infosec.

November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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Rodger Sherman

@rodger.bsky.social

from the keyboard the sentence overwritten launched the sentence convoluted

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 2h

I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect

insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM

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Dolphin Pilot

@theamitie.bsky.social

Sir, it wasn’t a worm

George W Bush on 9/11 being told 9/11 is happening on 9/11

November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM

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The Haunted Bookshop

@bookshopghost.bsky.social

"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web

An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.

www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about

DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

www.lawdork.com

November 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM

Matt

@handsoffthesub.bsky.social

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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Bob Mungovan

@bobmungovan.bsky.social

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

A screenshot of a comment:

divergentcoachkelly

ADHD is knowing exactly what you need to do then watching yourself not do it like you're a scientist observing a very dumb experiment

November 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM

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Matt Novak

@paleofuture.bsky.social

“Please remember that these are crimes that were committed against real humans, real individuals.”

Epstein survivors push for release of files in new PSA, say fight isn't political

“While we are Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell survivors, we are standing for so many victims of sexual assault and of domestic violence, as well,” Danielle Bensky said.

www.nbcnews.com

November 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM

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Michael McDonald

@electproject.bsky.social

Grocery store clerks keep putting fake prices on food

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Rep. Keith Self on Newsmax: "If you saw Fox News just recently, groceries, gas, inflation in general is down under President Trump. Now, the mainstream media won't tell you that. But those are the actual numbers. We just have to get the American people understanding."