sadele2
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"I dreamed I was a perfect smile"
Can someone please remind me where this phrase came from, who said it or wrote it, decades ago?
Old & a bit out of the way. Background in writing world, art world, book world, tv news & entertainment world.
Can someone please remind me where this phrase came from, who said it or wrote it, decades ago?
Old & a bit out of the way. Background in writing world, art world, book world, tv news & entertainment world.
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
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The longest ongoing labor strike in the US has come to an end. www.wpxi.com/news/local/worke...
Workers end strike after court orders Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore terms of old contract
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers began returning to work on Monday, marking the end of a three-year-long strike against the company.
www.wpxi.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The longest ongoing labor strike in the US has come to an end. www.wpxi.com/news/local/worke...
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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By the way, Ken Burns’ next documentary series is apparently in the can — LBJ & The Great Society
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
LBJ & the Great Society - Ken Burns
This three-part, six-hour series will chronicle the life and times of Lyndon B. Johnson, one of the most capable, colorful, and controversial men ever to occupy the White House. A figure of extraordin...
kenburns.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
By the way, Ken Burns’ next documentary series is apparently in the can — LBJ & The Great Society
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
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8/ So why are children being left to languish in federal shelters?
Advocates for immigrant kids believe it's to pressure them to self-deport. Last week, lawyers obtained a document the government provides to kids in the shelter system:
Advocates for immigrant kids believe it's to pressure them to self-deport. Last week, lawyers obtained a document the government provides to kids in the shelter system:
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
8/ So why are children being left to languish in federal shelters?
Advocates for immigrant kids believe it's to pressure them to self-deport. Last week, lawyers obtained a document the government provides to kids in the shelter system:
Advocates for immigrant kids believe it's to pressure them to self-deport. Last week, lawyers obtained a document the government provides to kids in the shelter system:
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7/ Once kids are in federal shelters, they're increasingly stuck there.
The average length of stay has grown from one month under Biden to nearly six months under Trump as the administration has increased vetting of sponsors. Lengthy stays are leading some children to lose hope.
The average length of stay has grown from one month under Biden to nearly six months under Trump as the administration has increased vetting of sponsors. Lengthy stays are leading some children to lose hope.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
7/ Once kids are in federal shelters, they're increasingly stuck there.
The average length of stay has grown from one month under Biden to nearly six months under Trump as the administration has increased vetting of sponsors. Lengthy stays are leading some children to lose hope.
The average length of stay has grown from one month under Biden to nearly six months under Trump as the administration has increased vetting of sponsors. Lengthy stays are leading some children to lose hope.
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
Jimmy Cliff, Singer Who Helped Bring Reggae to Global Audience, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Updated with comment from Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project:
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Updated with comment from Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project:
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Note also that Comey's lawyers have argued that DOJ is wrong as to 18 U.S.C. 3288's applicability here. From their reply: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![In any event, Section 3288 would not allow the government to reindict Mr. Comey if the
indictment were dismissed. The grace period is triggered only if an "indictment is found," 18
U.S.C. § 3282; but here, the purported indictment was void ab initio. And the government cannot
"grant itself a six-month extension of the statute of limitations... simply by filing a patently defective and meaningless charging document." United States v. Gatz, 704 F. Supp. 3d 1317, 1330
(S.D. Fla. 2023). Moreover, Section 3288 states that "[t]his section does not permit the filing of a new indictment... where the reason for the dismissal was the failure to file the indictment ... within the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations, or some other reason that would bar a new prosecution." Id. (emphasis added). That proviso applies here. Using an illegal appointment to procure an indictment days before the statute of limitations expires thus depriving a person of repose—is precisely the type of "reason" that must "bar a new prosecution"
under Section 3288.
Indeed, Section 3288 expressly precludes reindictment when the first
indictment was filed after expiration of the statute of limitations. To give that provision meaning, the statute must also bar new prosecutions when a void purported indictment is secured simply to
prevent the statute of limitations from expiring. Any other reading would "obliterate the statute
of limitations." United States v. Clawson, 104 F.3d 250, 252 (9th Cir. 1996).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifq2zipxzqczadwskjunweexi2mlfvgsf4udfivmnjuhedrpqoxu4@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Note also that Comey's lawyers have argued that DOJ is wrong as to 18 U.S.C. 3288's applicability here. From their reply: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Comey's other motions might be moot now, but I just wanted to make clear that the reasoning behind Currie's without prejudice dismissal wouldn't necessarily apply to the other motions, if granted.
(This is also weird procedurally because you don't generally have two different judges on one case.)
(This is also weird procedurally because you don't generally have two different judges on one case.)
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Comey's other motions might be moot now, but I just wanted to make clear that the reasoning behind Currie's without prejudice dismissal wouldn't necessarily apply to the other motions, if granted.
(This is also weird procedurally because you don't generally have two different judges on one case.)
(This is also weird procedurally because you don't generally have two different judges on one case.)
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This is not, however, a ruling on Comey's other motions to dismiss — which are before Judge Nachmanoff — and which could be with prejudice, if granted.
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is not, however, a ruling on Comey's other motions to dismiss — which are before Judge Nachmanoff — and which could be with prejudice, if granted.
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As for Comey, DOJ will be arguing that it can re-indict, despite the statute of limitations having since run, under 18 USC 3288.
From DOJ's opposition: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
From DOJ's opposition: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Zeroing in on the actual claim here—that the Attorney General could not lawfully invoke
Section 546(a) to appoint Ms. Halligan—Comey comes nowhere close to showing “flagrant misbehavior,” “substantial prejudice,” or the unavailability of a “lesser sanction.” The Attorney General’s invocation of Section 546(a) rather than her many other appointment authorities is not “flagrant misconduct” akin to repeated Brady violations. Cf. United States v. Bundy, 968 F.3d 1019,
1029, 1037 (9th Cir. 2020). As explained above, Comey suffered no prejudice, much less substantial prejudice, from Ms. Halligan’s title when she entered the grand-jury room. And contrary to
his assertion (at 25), the counterfactual where the Attorney General did not, in his words, “unlawfully appoint[] Ms. Halligan” is not a world where the government would have let the limitations
period run. Instead, the Attorney General would have cited a different authority that would have
unquestionably authorized Ms. Halligan to obtain the exact same indictment at the exact same
time. If the Court deems the indictment invalid, any dismissal should be without prejudice to
permit the government to swiftly seek reindictment under 18 U.S.C. § 3288.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibd5ketujgkvh7vfzzilg4babuvwj2dwaoczj2a7kbv44qj6shbx4@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
As for Comey, DOJ will be arguing that it can re-indict, despite the statute of limitations having since run, under 18 USC 3288.
From DOJ's opposition: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
From DOJ's opposition: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Judge Currie, appointed to determine the Appointment Clause question, did not find the matter of whether to dismiss with or without prejudice to be particularly complicated.
![Ultimately, I believe the Supreme Court’s Appointments Clause jurisprudence provides the answer to the with-or-without-prejudice question. In both Ryder and Lucia, the Court essentially unwound the actions taken by the unconstitutionally appointed officer and restored the affected party to the position the party occupied before being subjected to those invalid acts. See Ryder, 515 U.S. at 188 (ordering a new “hearing before a properly appointed panel”); Lucia, 585 U.S. at 251 (“[T]he ‘appropriate’ remedy for an adjudication tainted with an appointments violation is a new ‘hearing before a properly appointed’ official.” (quoting Ryder, 515 U.S. at 183, 188)); see also Nguyen v. United States, 539 U.S. 69, 83 (2003) (vacating decisions made by an appeals panel that included a judge who was ineligible to sit by designation on an Article III court and remanding “for fresh consideration of petitioners’ appeals by a properly constituted panel”). I will do the same here. I will invalidate the ultra vires acts performed by Ms. Halligan and dismiss the indictment without prejudice, returning Mr. Comey to the status he occupied before being indicted. See Trump, 740 F. Supp. 3d at 1303, 1309.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreicyvwqtpir3cq4f5xudootpvsbgot7iunqhuo7k4hp6pj5daoznmy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Judge Currie, appointed to determine the Appointment Clause question, did not find the matter of whether to dismiss with or without prejudice to be particularly complicated.
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Comey opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
James opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Last week at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/11-reasons...
James opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Last week at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/11-reasons...
11 reasons why (the Jim Comey indictment could get tossed out)
A judge found that Lindsey Halligan appeared to make "fundamental" misstatements of law to the grand jury. DOJ faces skepticism on many fronts. Also: More on Charlotte.
www.lawdork.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Comey opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
James opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Last week at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/11-reasons...
James opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Last week at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/11-reasons...
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BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
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🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a sweeping new lawsuit in Michigan that seeks to eliminate a state law that protects voting access for U.S. citizens living abroad. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Republicans Launch Major New Attack on Michigan-Based Overseas Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a sweeping new lawsuit in Michigan that seeks to eliminate a state law that protects voting access for U.S. citizens living abroad. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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NEW: Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas.
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
www.lawdork.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
NEW: Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas.
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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I have been saying I wanted to write about this, so I am glad that I was able to just spend two solid days working on this story, basically without interruption. I haven’t had much of that since January, but it’s important, and I hope folks who appreciate it subscribe if they don’t already!
NEW: Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas.
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
www.lawdork.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I have been saying I wanted to write about this, so I am glad that I was able to just spend two solid days working on this story, basically without interruption. I haven’t had much of that since January, but it’s important, and I hope folks who appreciate it subscribe if they don’t already!
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War criminal says what
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
War criminal says what
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Comedy is legal again
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Comedy is legal again
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
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In 2024 I investigated many similar accounts that posted very similar types of content, claiming to be ‘Trump supporting women’ from the US, but they were fake accounts using images stolen from European influencers.
The findings were reported here 👇 edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/e...
The findings were reported here 👇 edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/e...
Stolen photos of European influencers used to push Trump propaganda on X | CNN
A phony campaign on X backing Trump ahead of the US election is using stolen or manipulated photos of real women in Europe to push its agenda.
edition.cnn.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In 2024 I investigated many similar accounts that posted very similar types of content, claiming to be ‘Trump supporting women’ from the US, but they were fake accounts using images stolen from European influencers.
The findings were reported here 👇 edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/e...
The findings were reported here 👇 edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/e...
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall