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February 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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Katie Whittemore✊🏻💙

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Daily task: ❌❌BOYCOTT AMAZON! ❌❌

This is a tough one I know but here are some other options!

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#fuckjeffbezos 🖕

February 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊

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February 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM

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ACLU

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The First Amendment protects our right to criticize the government online. Period.

ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online

ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.

theintercept.com

February 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Joe Walsh

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February 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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Garrett M. Graff

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This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Feb 11

“You are directed … to dismiss the pending charges in United States v. Adams, No. 24 Cr. 556 (SDNY)…. The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based”

U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Washington, DC 20530
February 10, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR
FROM:
ACTING UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
THE ACTING DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 463 2/10/05
SUBJECT:
Dismissal Without Prejudice of Prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams
You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges
in United States v. Adams, No. 24 Cr. 556 (SDNY) as soon as is practicable, subject to the following conditions: (1) the defendant must agree in writing to dismissal without prejudice;
(2) the defendant must agree in writing that he is not a prevailing party under the Hyde Amendment, Pub. L. 105-119 (Nov. 26, 1997); and (3) the matter shall be reviewed by the confirmed U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, following the November 2025 mayoral election, based on consideration of all relevant factors (including those set forth below).
There shall be no further targeting of Mayor Adams or additional investigative steps prior to that review, and you are further directed to take all steps within your power to cause Mayor Adams' security clearances to be restored.
The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based, which are issues on which we defer to the U.S. Attorney's Office at this time. Moreover, as I said during our recent meetings, this directive in no way calls into question the integrity and efforts of the line prosecutors responsible for the case, or your efforts in leading those prosecutors in connection with a matter you inherited. However, the Justice Department has determined that dismissal subject to the above-described conditions is necessary for two independent reasons.
First, the timing of the charges and more recent public actions by the former U.S.
Attorney responsible for initiating the case have threatened the integri…

Memorandum from the Acting Deputy Attorney General
Dismissal Without Prejudice of Prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams
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Of The Federal Government. These actions and the underlying case have also improperly interfered with Mayor Adams' campaign in the 2025 mayoral election. See Justice Manual § 9-
85.500, entitled Actions that May Have an Impact on an Election.
Second, the pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior Administration. We are particularly concerned about the impact of the prosecution on Mayor Adams' ability to support critical, ongoing federal efforts "to protect the American people from the disastrous effects of unlawful mass migration and resettlement," as described in Executive Order 14165.' Accomplishing the immigration objectives established by President Trump and the Attorney General is every bit as important—if not more so as the objectives that the prior Administration pursued by releasing violent criminals such as Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death."? Accordingly, based on these additional concerns that are distinct from the weaponization problems, dismissal without prejudice is also necessary at this time.
' Your Office correctly noted in a February 3, 2025 memorandum, *as Mr. Bove clearly stated to defense counsel during our meeting [on January 31, 2025], the Government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams's assistance on immigration enforcement."
2 According to an October 2024 Wall Street Journal article, Bout has already started to participate in arms deals again, including negotiations with representatives of Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putins-merchant-of-death-is-back-in-

February 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM

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Peggy McDonald

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👇🦋💪

February 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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Joe Walsh

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This is what authoritarianism looks like. It’s taken 249yrs to come to America.

It’s up to the American people to resist it. To defeat it. I hope we do.

February 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM

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言霊 Kotodama, SKG Murphy

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#Anonymous spotted amidst massive Salt Lake City, Utah #USProtests that are growing larger. Reports indicate millions of people, coast to coast, are preparing to rise up against an illegal, corrupt, "anti-American" Trump/Musk regime. #3E

February 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM

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George Takei

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Yes he is.

February 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM

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Alt National Park Service

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February 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM

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News Wire - World 🌎 Independent News Network Pro-Democracy

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Military Flights carried Illegal Migrants to the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC), at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Eastern Cuba, have now begun, according to White House Officials.

February 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Jeanine 💙

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February 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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Karly Kingsley

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👇

February 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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George Takei

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Not one thing, nope.

Tweet by Sawyer Hackett reads, "None of this is legal." Below, a series of headlines from major news sources appear:

WSJ: "Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department"
AP: "Trump and Musk move to dismantle USAID, igniting battle with Democratic lawmakers"
Reuters: "Exclusive: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems"
PBS: "DOGE has requested and is being granted 'access to all SBA systems'"
AFP: "Musk takes reins of US Treasury payments, sparking alarm"

February 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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February 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM

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February 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM

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Alt CDC (they/them)

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All terms being used to flagged in NSF research. Notably “women” but not “men”, “disability”, and “trauma”.

Stalin would approve.
Mao would approve.
Our founding fathers would not.

Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.