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Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Somehow I don't think the pitching coach walked out there and said "let's see if Ohtani's weakness is a middle middle fast all"
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Right-wing political violence is more frequent, deadly than left-wing violence
Most domestic terrorists in the…
arstechnica.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The defining experience of fascism is familiar to anyone who has written stuff on the internet.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...
Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses
The defining experience of fascism.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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sigh...
July 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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pam bondi as porta potties: thread
July 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Michael Feinberg, threatened with demotion over his friendship with a former official on the FBI director’s “enemies list,” details FBI leadership’s efforts to oust him from the Bureau, and his decision to ultimately resign.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI. 
www.lawfaremedia.org
July 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Happy No Kings Day
June 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."
April 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I bought a Tesla because it was fast like a rocket ship. But now every time I drive it, I feel like a rolling billboard for a man dismantling our government and hurting people. So Tesla, you’re fired!

New ride coming soon.
March 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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An October 2024 story about Russell Vought captured the breadth and ferocity of the coming attack on the federal government.

So why didn’t this story drive more of a national conversation when it appeared?
The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story…
propub.li
March 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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In the hours before IRS leadership fired some 7,000 employees for allegedly poor performance, a top IRS lawyer flagged officials that “no one” at the agency had done such an assessment.

The termination notice went out unchanged anyway.

By @andykroll.bsky.social
Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts
The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had…
propub.li
March 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM