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Mike Black

@mikeblack114.bsky.social

Hoo boy

Whole buncha folks about to have to face a choice between complying with a Congressional subpoena and getting fired because pete's mad at them

Also if anything is a "start the clock" moment on pete's tenure coming to an end, it's this

The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 1d

There are now bipartisan investigations in both the House and Senate into the administration targeting and killing people in the Caribbean without due process.

November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM

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EV Curve Futurist

@evcurvefuturist.com

EV/NEV share in China is already 50%+ — not 40. And exports? China sent 6.4m cars abroad in 2024, crushing Japan’s 4.2m and Germany’s 3.2m. Domestic dominance + an export explosion = the #lithium demand inflection. 2025–2030 is about to vaporise every outdated forecast. 🔋🌏 #LFP #EVS #BEV #Disruption

November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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Eric Michael Garcia

@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Trump announces he will terminate any "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen," and says "Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury."

A post at November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM saying "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United
States. The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM

Jinky

@jinkster13.bsky.social

And the JSOC guy who gave the official order got promoted

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said.
A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed.
As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.

November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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Gillian Branstetter

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM

Jinky

@jinkster13.bsky.social

Fucking loved her in this show

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says

Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

www.seattletimes.com

November 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM

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BeijingPalmer

@beijingpalmer.bsky.social

I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.

November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM

Jinky

@jinkster13.bsky.social

How many voted for Trump?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

“It’s insane to have them rip our family apart.” Federal agents are arresting the foreign spouses of Americans during interviews at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices. The couples and their lawyers said they had followed the required steps to secure permanent residency.

For Spouses of U.S. Citizens, Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs

Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation.

nyti.ms

November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)

@hansilowang.bsky.social

BREAKING: Federal judges are allowing North Carolina to use a new congressional map that could help Republicans win an additional U.S. House seat in the 2026 midterm election
www.courtlistener.com/docket/68059...

Memorandum Opinion and Order – #216 in WILLIAMS v. HALL (M.D.N.C., 1:23-cv-01057) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER signed by CIRCUIT JUDGE ALLISON J. RUSHING, CHIEF DISTRICT JUDGE RICHARD E. MYERS, II, AND JUDGE THOMAS D. SCHROEDER on 11/26/2025; that NAACP Plaintiffs' motion for a pre...

www.courtlistener.com

November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM

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NY Times Pitchbot

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

I always say that it's better to hold off on blaming a particular political side for an act of violence. Here's why I'm blaming today's national guard shooting on the woke left.

November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM

Jinky

@jinkster13.bsky.social

Oh, Trump endorses early voting now? 😒

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is sending out texts to try to stop Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social from shocking the world in TN-7 — but as Newsweek points out, that may not be such a great thing for Matt Van Eppstein Files 🤖

November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.

The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.

Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.

Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."

November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM

Jinky

@jinkster13.bsky.social

The solicitor general lied to the Supreme Court, and the Court could very conceivably rely on those lies to allow the National Guard to remain encamped in our cities.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 5d

"A @nytimes.com analysis of hours of police radio and hundreds of videos posted to social media refutes the federal government’s claims that the Chicago Police Department didn’t respond quickly to the scene, leaving federal agents to fend for themselves during what they called a riot."

Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM

Jinky

@jinkster13.bsky.social

Or, about 140 separate two-week periods since he last promised health care in two weeks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

July 2020 👇

"We're signing a health care plan within two weeks. A full and complete health care plan, that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do" -- Trump routinely cites a two week timeframe for new policy initiatives when he's just making stuff up

November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

Judge Currie rules Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's appointment invalid, dismisses Comey's indictment without prejudice, but also says EDVA judges get to pick who is US Attorney.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION
TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECF NO. 60)
On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior
prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms.
Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with
making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole
prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28
U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution’s Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr.
Comey that the Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to
present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey’s motion and dismiss the indictment without
prejudice.

November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM

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Olivia Messer

@oliviamesser.bsky.social

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.

She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.

“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...

A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.

thebarbedwire.com

November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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Roger Parloff

@rparloff.bsky.social

Costa Rica will accept Abrego, per @washingtonpost.com .
If true, DOJ, DHS, and Dept of State caused lies to be disseminated to Judge Xinis all day Thursday, where an ICE official testified about info sent him by Dept of State, claiming Costa Rica wouldn't take Abrego.
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