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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Ellis highlights the attacks Reverend David Black has suffered at the Broadview facility, finding plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged that the feds' use of force against praying people "substantially burdens their excercise of religion."
October 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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From Feb 4th 1939
September 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
September 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by.

Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
September 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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the way you actually fight fascism is by locking up as many of their leaders as you can as quickly as you can, and identifying all their sources of power and influence and breaking those. they control the courts? break their control of the courts. crush fox news. destroy the federalist society. etc
“we are fighting fascism by passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill” is the lie you tell yourself because you cannot live with the truth that you are unwilling to take the risks associated with actually fighting fascism
July 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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July 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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I purposely clarified that yes, when I say I will never vote for Newsom, I mean NEVER because I really want it to sink in to the "VBNMW!" crowd that they can't keep moving to the right on this shit.
July 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
On a recent podcast Gavin Newsom tells Shawn Ryan how the Trans sports issue opened the door for him to change his mind on GAC for Trans Youth.

As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.

There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
July 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank
A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
n.pr
July 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more
July 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald”
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Opinion | If Emanuel runs, he’ll bet on candor defeating the ‘culture police’
The former mayor of Chicago talks about what ails the Democratic Party, and how to cure it.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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So many leftists are laser focused on never doing anything wrong instead of ever doing anything helpful.
July 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Make a movie about the indigenous vampire hunters
NEW — There’s lots of curiosity about the world before and beyond the ‘Sinners’ universe.

Though many are clamoring for a sequel, this writer argues that the rollout and sustained appeal of ‘Sinners’ that would be hard to recapture with a sequel.

thetriibe.com/2025/07/crit...
Critique: Everything don't need a sequel, including ‘Sinners’ • The TRiiBE
The best way to build upon the storytelling possibilities Ryan Coogler has introduced would be to greenlight more ideas from budding Black filmmakers and writers.
thetriibe.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war.

If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.
June 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
June 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Ryan Coogler shouting out Michael Mann’s THIEF.
June 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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I hope everyone understands that this means that many people who are undocumented will no longer come to any court hearings on any matter.

Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.
"At New York's Varick Immigration Court, ICE agents on Wednesday began checking the documents of everyone who left."

"They are indeed checking individuals off lists and attempting to detain them once they leave court."

"Immigration courts should be spaces of justice — not traps."
#USA #Deportation
ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests
The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.
theintercept.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I think a whole lot of damage has been done over the past 15 years with all of this "are trans women actually women?"/"are trans men actually men?" questioning. That's not the question when it comes to public policy!
May 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM