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aaronparnas.bsky.social
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 11:43 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
A did a video on the import of Jim Comey's claims that Kash Patel's FBI didn't get (new) warrants for their investigation into him.

If he proves this, it should be a glaring warning for every Trump target who has ever been investigated by DOJ.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQZ...
A General Warrant for Jim Comey
YouTube video by emptywheel
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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gotmtv.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
With Trump’s massive tax cuts for the wealthy currently exploding the deficit, and now this, Trump and his oligarch cronies want to make us debt slaves from birth to death while truly owning nothing, while they buy bigger yachts and more mansions.
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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brrrock.bsky.social
they are laughing…
laughing
April 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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thinkyparts.bsky.social
Here’s the clip.
April 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
1) The presser with Bukele with theater designed to get credulous journos to repeat the "terrorism" claim w/o question. Remember: THESE VERY SAME PEOPLE freed adjudged Jan6 terrorists on Day One.

2) The WAY in which they flouted courts provides more surface area (bc this was not classified).
April 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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financialtimes.com
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage
April 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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titonka.bsky.social
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

x.com/nayibbukele/...
x.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Oy.
Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent I am pleased to welcome Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler to the @USTreasury Department, where they will help us drive much-needed cultural reform within the IRS. These veteran civil servants join us to help further the agency's focus on collections, modernization, and customer service. I appreciate Sen. @ChuckGrassley 's efforts in Congress to support whistleblower protections in order to improve transparency, accountability and root out the culture of retaliation.
March 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
FWIW, @jasonleopold.bsky.social's FOIA newsletter is available w/o paywall.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Mar 18
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
John Bates: NO, you cannot seal a declaration in which alleged DOGE Administrator Amy Gleason describes her role in DOGE.

cc: @annabower.bsky.social

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Long screen cap in which John Bates lays out how three DOGE officials have already been publicly IDed, which ends this way: Finally, reports and records show the three affiants are not just DOGE employees, but senior DOGE members. See, e.g., supra, n.2; HHS Employee Details, supra. In fact, the Trump Administration has acknowledged that Amy Gleason is the Acting Administrator of USDS. See Citizens for Resp. & Ethics in Wa. v. U.S. Doge Serv., Civ. A. No. 25-511 (CRC), 2025 WL 752367, at *2 (D.D.C. Mar. 10, 2025). “[P]rivacy interest diminishes . . . as an official’s rank increases.” Wa. Post, Co. v. Special Inspector Gen. for Afg. Reconstruction, Civ. A. No. 18-2622 (ABJ), 2021 WL 4502106, at *13 (D.D.C. Sept. 30, 2021).
March 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Remember. that their SINGLE high profile operation against TdA, targeting the very same apartment at which Trump did a campaign event, netted a single solitary arrest of a real TdA member.

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A February 6 Tweet from Fox News deportation propagandist Bill Melugin (which he RTed). It says: EXCLUSIVE: We were embedded w/ ICE as part of a massive federal operation in Aurora, CA targeting Tren de Aragua gang members. But the op fell far short of its goals, possibly due to leaks to the media that the raid was coming. I’m told 30 arrests were made, & only 1 was TdA. Acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello told me the following at one of the locations: “I do get the impression that there were some intel leaks here. And I think that, probably, they did know we were coming. But we're still coming. And just because something leaks now and then, it’s not going to stop us.”
March 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
My theory on why Trump is choosing THIS order to defy is 1) someone at White House made the decision [cough, Stephen Miller] w/o properly vetting it, and now DOJ has to dig in and 2) like suspected fuck-ups at USAID, if they back down it'll reveal just how incompetent they really are.
rgoodlaw.bsky.social Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Mar 18
2/ This does not instill confidence that the Government has accurately or properly identified individuals under the Alien Enemies Act:

Government declaration:

"[T]he lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."

Full context:
March 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Trump promised the JFK docs before NSD had reviewed them, so now they ALL have to urgently review 500 docs apiece.

www.reuters.com/legal/us-jus...
U.S. Justice Department orders national-security lawyers to review JFK documents
The U.S. Justice Department is ordering some of its lawyers who handle sensitive national-security matters to urgently review records from the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy that are due be released on Tuesday, according to an email seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: internal memos we obtained under FOIA reveal how agencies complied with Trump's anti-trans order. The documents explain exactly how different agencies are seeking to purge the notion that trans people exist. Also, shows FOIA is still working, somewhat

www.404media.co/public-recor...
Public Records Reveal How Agencies Complied With Trump's Anti-Trans Order
FOIA documents show how agencies dropped everything to comply with Trump order—and that FOIA is still sort of working.
www.404media.co
March 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This is true.

But I'd ALSO love to see small businesses respond to Amazon's invasion w/an effort to get off Meta platforms.
thebookshopie.bsky.social TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · Mar 18
I won't pretend that Amazon's launch of a .ie site is not a threat to many small (and medium sized) businesses here.
It is.
But if I could ask Irish people to do one thing - don't assume that whatever you're buying will always be cheaper there. A monopoly is in no one's interest. #speirgorm
March 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Tim Pool, who believes that Cracker Barrels in WV are overrun with leftists.

www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-broca...
Tim Pool isn’t like the other right-wing YouTubers with millions of followers. He’s a little bit punk, a little bit skater! So I watched with interest when Pool—a former Vice reporter best known in the broader internet for the signature beanie he wears at all times—bought an empty lot in Martinsburg, West Virginia that had become a sort of makeshift hangout for local skaters. Pool, who lives near Martinsburg, had offered the skaters $20,000 in prizes for a contest they were organizing, only to have some of the skaters warn him he wasn’t welcome on the property. So he bought their skatepark instead, throwing the small town’s skating scene into disarray. But roughly a year and a half after Pool bought the land with plans to develop it into a more complex skatepark, the dream is dead. In a confusing video posted March 13, Pool claimed that his skatepark has been bedeviled by anti-Pool vandals who, among other things, confronted him at a Cracker Barrel. “I can confirm for you 100 percent these are far-leftist political individuals,” he said. “How do I know? They got in my face and threatened me personally at the local Cracker Barrel.”
March 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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obarcala.bsky.social
Such a weird little encapsulation of how DOJ's subservience to Trump causes them to make arguments that are really against the government's interests as a whole. DOJ would never make an argument that would lead to automatic stays in every case, except that this one is in Trump's interest.
March 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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petree09.bsky.social
Not exactly the same but re: Trump requiring bad arguments:

At this morning's TRO hearing on Texas A&M's drag ban the TX AG's office said "we don't believe drag shows on university campus violate Trump's EO but we believe Trump's admin thinks they violate the EO"

What are we even doing here?
March 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
I was gonna suggest someone catalog the dangerous tats of right wing men and forgot abt this.

Cue the video of right wingers defending his.
krhawkins.bsky.social KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · Mar 18
Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.
March 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
I keep staring at this paragraph, which is the answer to Boasberg's Q, "A sworn declaration setting forth when the Proclamation at issue was signed, when it was made public, and when it went into effect."

Dude runs one ERO in TX. Who does he mean by "ICE"?

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A screen cap of this text, with "ICE understood" and "had been signed" marked with red rectangles: 5. ICE understood the Proclamation Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua to be effective only once it was posted to the White House website (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocationof-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua/), which was at or around 3:53 PM EDT on March 15, 2025. Based on the face of the Proclamation, it had been signed by the President on March 14, 2025.
March 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
2000+ Jewish professors, staff, and students circulating a letter on Trump-Vance's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil:

"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
2000+ Jewish professors, staff, and students circulating a letter on Trump-Vance's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
March 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Here's how DOGE claimed to have contacted the USADF board to dismiss them.

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10. I have reviewed the exhibits (Docket entry 10-1) that Defendants filed with their opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order. 11. Exhibit 1 is an email purported to be to board member Morgan Davis. I do not recognize the email address mdavis@whitemountains.com. From his biography on the USADF website, I believe that Davis used to be a board member at White Mountains but no longer is. I do not believe that Davis ever had a USADF email address. And I am aware that mdavis@usadf.gov is not a functioning email address. Morgan Davis has confirmed with me that he does not use either of those email addresses. 12. Exhibit 2 is an email purported to be to board member Carol Moseley Braun. I do not recognize the email address carolmoseleybraun@gmail.com. Carol Moseley Braun has confirmed with me that she does not have a gmail address. 13. Exhibit 3 is an email purported to be to board member John (Jack) Leslie. I have confirmed that jleslie@usadf.gov is not a functional email address. Jack Leslie has confirmed to me that he does not use the email address jleslie@usadf.gov. 14. Exhibit 5 is an email purported to be to board member John Agwunobi. I do not believe that John Agwunobi ever had an official USADF email address. Even if he did, the email address in Exhibit 5—john.agwundobi@usadf.org—both misspells his last name and is addressed to a .org domain, not a .gov domain.
March 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Here's how that shutdown process. DOGE showed up and LIED about fixing their IT, but after getting an MOU signed, used access to personnel records to start shutting things down.

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3. On February 20, 2025, Chris Young, a senior member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team met with the USADF leadership team, including me, at headquarters. Young explained that he was there to introduce DOGE to the Agency. He also announced that two software engineers would be assigned to the Agency to modernize the Agency’s IT systems and create efficiencies in our operations. During discussions, I stated to Mr. Young that modernizing our IT systems and databases was welcome news and that we fully supported the mission of using technology to create a more efficient workforce. Mr. Young spoke about his experience in Africa as a child of missionaries and stated that he has seen first-hand the many problems that USADF is trying to address. He mentioned that due to the urgency of responding to the President’s Executive Order aimed at USADF, the two engineers would come to the Agency the next day on February 21st. 4. On February 21, Ethan Shaotran, Jacob Altik, and Nate Cavanaugh arrived at USADF. Shaotran and Cavanaugh introduced themselves as IT personnel from GSA. Altik stated that he was a lawyer from the White House Personnel Office. They explained that we needed to immediately sign a memorandum of understanding for their detail assignment. 5. Once the MOU was signed, Altik explained the true purpose of the meeting, which was to provide USADF leadership with DOGE’s interpretation of the “minimum presence and function” required by USADF’s statute. DOGE read the statute to mean: 1) only the USADF Board and President/CEO are statutorily required, 2) only one or two grants funded by private sector partnerships are required, and 3) all other personnel/employees therefore needed to be eliminated under the Executive Order.
March 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM