Sean Satori
@seansatori.bsky.social
Government litigator with interests in antitrust, IP, cyberlaw, and privacy. Views = own != legal advice. He/him/y’all. Married to @wheresmyburrito.bsky.social
Frankly if Republicans came to me and asked me to add a complete grift to a must pass bill I’d say “sure thing!” and start drafting ads attacking the grift for their next campaign. Like they are giving a literal gift to their opponents.
Indefensible. Hapless or worse Senate Democratic Leader Schumer personally and secretly and gratuitously added - on his own - to the budget, the provision that retroactively grants January 6-implicated Senators a special right to sue the Trump-allied DOJ that no other citizen has.
The new law lets senators sue for major damages if the Justice Department obtains their phone records without telling them.
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Frankly if Republicans came to me and asked me to add a complete grift to a must pass bill I’d say “sure thing!” and start drafting ads attacking the grift for their next campaign. Like they are giving a literal gift to their opponents.
This whole the President makes findings of fact that are unreviewable bullshit is completely made up. Even when it comes to foreign policy.
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This whole the President makes findings of fact that are unreviewable bullshit is completely made up. Even when it comes to foreign policy.
The emails read like a liar trying to perfect his lie.
One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The emails read like a liar trying to perfect his lie.
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ouroboreos
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ouroboreos
It occurs to me that fascism is so deliberately performative because it really is the political system for mediocre intellects.
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It occurs to me that fascism is so deliberately performative because it really is the political system for mediocre intellects.
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She was 17, so practically a senior citizen according to Megyn Kelly
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
She was 17, so practically a senior citizen according to Megyn Kelly
One nice thing about being furloughed is I didn’t have many substantive emails to address upon my return to the office. Mostly just deleting newsletters and junk mail.
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
One nice thing about being furloughed is I didn’t have many substantive emails to address upon my return to the office. Mostly just deleting newsletters and junk mail.
Or, maybe the Republicans didn’t “win” the shutdown after all, since Americans know they are willing to hurt the American people in any of a dozen different ways, including failing to prevent huge premium increases.
Republicans won the shutdown, but now face a health-care hangover as premiums set to soar for tens of millions heading into an election year (Gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
GOP’s Shutdown Win May Backfire Over Soaring Health-Care Costs
Republicans, still celebrating their US government shutdown victory, are waking up to a health-care hangover that risks upending the balance of power in President Donald Trump’s Washington.
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Or, maybe the Republicans didn’t “win” the shutdown after all, since Americans know they are willing to hurt the American people in any of a dozen different ways, including failing to prevent huge premium increases.
Can’t wait for Vance and Vermeule to explain why the Catholic bishops are wrong.
“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.”
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Can’t wait for Vance and Vermeule to explain why the Catholic bishops are wrong.
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What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month
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“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.”
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.”
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
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Still rocks me that Looney Tunes did a better job of handling this history than 99% of politicians, textbooks, and media
February 28, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Still rocks me that Looney Tunes did a better job of handling this history than 99% of politicians, textbooks, and media
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Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
I knew there was something there. God damn.
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I knew there was something there. God damn.
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
DoorDash literally inflates restaurant and other prices to mask how much it actually costs to deliver shit to you and extract profit while doing so.
good news, we now officially measure the economy with the burrito taxi index
Trump admin Press Secretary citing DoorDash on local commerce price levels.
Quite possibly the most cursed ‘economic indicator’ I have ever seen.
Quite possibly the most cursed ‘economic indicator’ I have ever seen.
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
DoorDash literally inflates restaurant and other prices to mask how much it actually costs to deliver shit to you and extract profit while doing so.
There is no Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago. He's either confused the one in Pennsylvania or he's referring to Magnificent Mile which is an actual street with a ton of shops on it and three gallerias that last I checked were doing fine.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There is no Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago. He's either confused the one in Pennsylvania or he's referring to Magnificent Mile which is an actual street with a ton of shops on it and three gallerias that last I checked were doing fine.
Veterans' Day snuck up on me and I don't have my where to go for free stuff plan in place.
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Veterans' Day snuck up on me and I don't have my where to go for free stuff plan in place.
I'm struggling to understand what cause of action they would have and what their damages would be.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I'm struggling to understand what cause of action they would have and what their damages would be.
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They were never going to get ACA subsidies, which is part of why it was a mistake to insist this was only about ACA subsidies and nothing else.
Sincere question: does anybody have any evidence that the GOP/WH would have eventually folded and extended the ACA subsidies if the shutdown continued?
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
They were never going to get ACA subsidies, which is part of why it was a mistake to insist this was only about ACA subsidies and nothing else.
It is amazing to me that Democrats in the Senate continually vote against the wishes of their base. I cannot remember the last time Republicans voted against the wishes of theirs.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It is amazing to me that Democrats in the Senate continually vote against the wishes of their base. I cannot remember the last time Republicans voted against the wishes of theirs.
Senate brain is a disease.
like i say every few weeks (annoying all my followers), in a crisis like this, people are scared, and they are looking for leaders they can trust — people who they think will fight for them, and defend them when it gets bad.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Senate brain is a disease.
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like i say every few weeks (annoying all my followers), in a crisis like this, people are scared, and they are looking for leaders they can trust — people who they think will fight for them, and defend them when it gets bad.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
like i say every few weeks (annoying all my followers), in a crisis like this, people are scared, and they are looking for leaders they can trust — people who they think will fight for them, and defend them when it gets bad.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
Looks like they finally pryed Cornyn out of his crypt.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Looks like they finally pryed Cornyn out of his crypt.