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· Oct 18
A massive, peaceful crowd at #NoKings Evanston, IL this morning. Great speakers with lots of love for the USA! 🇺🇸
One estimated of crowd size was more than 4,000 Attendees!
One estimated of crowd size was more than 4,000 Attendees!
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NYT corroborating and extending WaPo's results.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record (Gift Article)
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
NYT corroborating and extending WaPo's results.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I mean, he’s already gonnna get the job. This seems silly
Kevin Hassett on Trump: "He's the best communicator I've ever seen ... he's solving it seems all the world's problems, stopping wars and everything else"
December 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I mean, he’s already gonnna get the job. This seems silly
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Irony is dead
BARTIROMO: How is it possible that the Democrats have been able to rally around 'affordability' and make people think that's what they're focused on and not what Republicans are focused on?
HASSETT: It's just what happens sometimes when one political party has the media echoing what they're saying
HASSETT: It's just what happens sometimes when one political party has the media echoing what they're saying
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Irony is dead
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Yesterday, Judge Moss held a hearing in NPR v. Trump in which the two sides clashed over the First Amendment.
@mollyroberts.bsky.social describes what occurred in the courtroom, where NPR argued the government is disfavoring speech it disagrees with by cutting its funding.
@mollyroberts.bsky.social describes what occurred in the courtroom, where NPR argued the government is disfavoring speech it disagrees with by cutting its funding.
Hearing Dispatch: NPR Fights Trump on the First Amendment
The plaintiffs argue the government is disfavoring speech it disagrees with. The government barely disputes that.
www.lawfaremedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Yesterday, Judge Moss held a hearing in NPR v. Trump in which the two sides clashed over the First Amendment.
@mollyroberts.bsky.social describes what occurred in the courtroom, where NPR argued the government is disfavoring speech it disagrees with by cutting its funding.
@mollyroberts.bsky.social describes what occurred in the courtroom, where NPR argued the government is disfavoring speech it disagrees with by cutting its funding.
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Despicable
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Despicable
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NEWS: A judge has granted Daniel Richman’s request to temporarily block DOJ’s access to evidence taken from his electronic devices.
Richman was a key figure in the now-dismissed prosecution of former FBI director James Comey.
Order could complicate DOJ’s effort to re-indict Comey.
Richman was a key figure in the now-dismissed prosecution of former FBI director James Comey.
Order could complicate DOJ’s effort to re-indict Comey.
![tailored to preserving the status quo while this Court considers his [1] Motion for Return of
Property on an expedited basis.
III.
Accordingly, Petitioner Richman's (9] Motion for Temporary Restraining Order is
GRANTED IN PART and DEFERRED IN PART, as follows:
The United States and its agent, the Attorney General of the United States, are ORDERED to identify, segregate, and secure the image of Petitioner Richman's personal computer that was made in 2017, his Columbia University email accounts, and his iCloud account; any copies of those files; and any materials obtained, extracted, or derived from those files (collectively, "the covered materials") that are currently in the possession of the United States.
Case 1:25-mc-00170-CKK Document 10
Filed 12/06/25
Page 4 of 4
The United States and its agents, including the Attorney General of the United States, are
further ORDERED not to access the covered materials once they are identified, segregated, and
secured, or to share, disseminate, or disclose the covered materials to any person, without first
seeking and obtaining leave of this Court.
The Attorney General of the United States or her designee is further ORDERED to certify
that the United States is in compliance with this Order no later than 12:00 p.m. ET on Monday, December 8, 2025.
It is further ORDERED that Petitioner Richman's counsel shall promptly serve a copy of
this Order on the Attorney General of the United States, accompanied by copies of all papers filed in this action to date.
All other requests for relief in Petitioner Richman's (9) Motion for Temporary Restraining
Order are DEFERRED pending a response from the Govemment and further consideration by this Court.
This Order shall remain in effect until 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, December 12, 2025, or
until dissolved by further order of this Court, whichever comes first.
Finally, it is ORDERED that, no later than 9:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, December 9, 2025,
the Govemment shall file a combined response to Peti…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreifpknfysivu76mvp5ulcpw3l2trlz37dadehspu6sbv7b74xyivqi@jpeg)
December 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
NEWS: A judge has granted Daniel Richman’s request to temporarily block DOJ’s access to evidence taken from his electronic devices.
Richman was a key figure in the now-dismissed prosecution of former FBI director James Comey.
Order could complicate DOJ’s effort to re-indict Comey.
Richman was a key figure in the now-dismissed prosecution of former FBI director James Comey.
Order could complicate DOJ’s effort to re-indict Comey.
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"These increasingly expensive, secretive, and outrageous efforts beg the question of whether such maneuvers are permissible under the law. In many cases, they are not."
@mboaz.bsky.social discusses the Trump administration's efforts to send migrants to countries with which they have no connection.
@mboaz.bsky.social discusses the Trump administration's efforts to send migrants to countries with which they have no connection.
Due Process in Third Country Removals
The administration’s use of ad hoc procedures to send migrants to countries with which they have no connection likely violates due process.
www.lawfaremedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"These increasingly expensive, secretive, and outrageous efforts beg the question of whether such maneuvers are permissible under the law. In many cases, they are not."
@mboaz.bsky.social discusses the Trump administration's efforts to send migrants to countries with which they have no connection.
@mboaz.bsky.social discusses the Trump administration's efforts to send migrants to countries with which they have no connection.
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NEWS: Judge Boasberg orders Erez Reuveni and Drew Ensign to testify in court next week as part of his ongoing contempt inquiry over Alien Enemies Act flights.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
NEWS: Judge Boasberg orders Erez Reuveni and Drew Ensign to testify in court next week as part of his ongoing contempt inquiry over Alien Enemies Act flights.
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In JGG, Judge Boasberg will hear testimony from whistleblower Erez Reuveni on 12/15 and from DOJ atty Drew Ensign in hearings over whether to hold DHS Secy Noem in contempt. Declarations provided too "cursory" to tell if her conduct was willful violation of court's order."
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
In JGG, Judge Boasberg will hear testimony from whistleblower Erez Reuveni on 12/15 and from DOJ atty Drew Ensign in hearings over whether to hold DHS Secy Noem in contempt. Declarations provided too "cursory" to tell if her conduct was willful violation of court's order."
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Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
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Why anybody listens to him about…well, anything, but about this in particular, I mean 🤷♂️
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Why anybody listens to him about…well, anything, but about this in particular, I mean 🤷♂️
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Today's Lawfare Daily is a live where @nkorpett.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, and James Pearce discussed the disqualification of Alina Habba as U.S. attorney, and more.
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Today's Lawfare Daily is a live where @nkorpett.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, and James Pearce discussed the disqualification of Alina Habba as U.S. attorney, and more.
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Abrego is asking Judge Crenshaw to let him tell the criminal jury the full story of his immigration saga—which govt seeks to exclude. Says it explains the witnesses' bias & how they've won extraordinary favors from the govt in their own crim/immigration cases.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Abrego is asking Judge Crenshaw to let him tell the criminal jury the full story of his immigration saga—which govt seeks to exclude. Says it explains the witnesses' bias & how they've won extraordinary favors from the govt in their own crim/immigration cases.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Here are the declarations of Secy Noem, DHS GC Mazzara, and DOJ DAG Todd Blanche on their decision not to follow Judge Boasberg's orders to halt surrender of Venezuelans into foreign custody on 3/15-16/25.
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Here are the declarations of Secy Noem, DHS GC Mazzara, and DOJ DAG Todd Blanche on their decision not to follow Judge Boasberg's orders to halt surrender of Venezuelans into foreign custody on 3/15-16/25.
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NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
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Today’s “One First” tackles the grant of certiorari in one of the birthright citizenship cases, and then Justice Kagan’s TX redistricting dissent—“yet another warning about the majority’s seeming willingness to do … whatever it wants, at least where rulings on emergency applications are concerned.”
196. Justice Kagan's Texas Redistricting Dissent
As unsurprising as the Supreme Court's intervention in the Texas redistricting case may have been, Justice Kagan's dissent is still a telling indictment of another emergency ruling that lost its way.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Today’s “One First” tackles the grant of certiorari in one of the birthright citizenship cases, and then Justice Kagan’s TX redistricting dissent—“yet another warning about the majority’s seeming willingness to do … whatever it wants, at least where rulings on emergency applications are concerned.”
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Yes, he's throwing the operational commander under the bus. But that whole chain of command has some explaining to do
Hegseth: I watch that first strike live. At the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do so I did not stick around. Couple of hours later, I learned that commander had made -- which he had the complete authority to do, he made the correct decision to sink the boat and eliminated the threat.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Yes, he's throwing the operational commander under the bus. But that whole chain of command has some explaining to do
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“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted?
JFC what are you doing?
JFC what are you doing?
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted?
JFC what are you doing?
JFC what are you doing?
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On 7/8, govt changed 29 yrs of statutory interpretation & announced that detention was mandatory for the vast majority of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. On 11/26, Judge Kaplan calculated that of 362 cases testing the new policy since then, 350 had gone against govt (left); 12 for (right).
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
On 7/8, govt changed 29 yrs of statutory interpretation & announced that detention was mandatory for the vast majority of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. On 11/26, Judge Kaplan calculated that of 362 cases testing the new policy since then, 350 had gone against govt (left); 12 for (right).
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Waiting for the “critics say this was bigoted” in the top of the hour newscast.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Waiting for the “critics say this was bigoted” in the top of the hour newscast.
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Dangerous, illegal and counterproductive.
He’s dragging us into another war—
With no regard for our troops, international law and the destabilizing impact to the region.
Congress must rein in this President before it’s too late.
He’s dragging us into another war—
With no regard for our troops, international law and the destabilizing impact to the region.
Congress must rein in this President before it’s too late.
Trump: "We're doing start doing those strikes on land too. You know, the land is much easier."
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Dangerous, illegal and counterproductive.
He’s dragging us into another war—
With no regard for our troops, international law and the destabilizing impact to the region.
Congress must rein in this President before it’s too late.
He’s dragging us into another war—
With no regard for our troops, international law and the destabilizing impact to the region.
Congress must rein in this President before it’s too late.
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This thread…
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This thread…
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Hostile policies and attacks on science are driving them back into China’s arms
America is foolishly waving goodbye to thousands of Chinese boffins
Hostile policies and attacks on science are driving them back into China’s arms
econ.st
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hostile policies and attacks on science are driving them back into China’s arms
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Yep, let’s have the active duty guy take the fall
WAPO: “.. Officials in Congress and the Pentagon said Monday they are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill two survivors of a targeted strike ..”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Yep, let’s have the active duty guy take the fall