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Zuñi @zunisays.bsky.social · Feb 5
going to repost this every damn day c/t @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
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zachsdorfman.bsky.social
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. JAMES B. COMEY, JR., Defendant. Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60) On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA NORFOLK DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. LETITIA A. JAMES, Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W Defendant. OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22) On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms. James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
PSA
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
quite a look for Trump today
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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ryanjhaas.bsky.social
And speaking of ICE, an Oregon coast community is now suing the federal government after its rescue helicopter was relocated to potentially make way for a new detention center in the state.
Two lawsuits seek return of Coast Guard rescue helicopter to Newport
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Friday that the state is filing a lawsuit to force the federal government to return a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter to Newport. Lincoln County and t...
www.opb.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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fritschner.bsky.social
Because I’m a House Guy
Distracted boyfriend meme with Mamdani Trump and Mike Johnson
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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thebulwark.com
Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "Try as much as you can to save democracy and freedom of the press and speech in America. Do not be a copy of a Middle East dictatorship. We look to you as a role model of Western civilization—please maintain it."
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.

It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's 19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had "determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky. The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.

The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.

However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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markhertling.bsky.social
Today the US Ambassador to NATO suggested that Germany should provide the next SACEUR. Funny thing, I wrote about that last March.

www.thebulwark.com/p/supreme-al...
The Supreme Allied Commander Must Be an American
There’s simply no realistic alternative.
www.thebulwark.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One in Iowa.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Extraordinary that the Texas government would be so corrupt that it would have to black out more than 80% of its emails with Elon Musk.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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maxbernstein.bsky.social
Governor Tina Kotek announced today she received a verbal demobilization order from the U.S. Northern Command for the 200 Oregon National Guard members.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: We’ve secured a $7 million settlement holding the largest U.S. landlord accountable for a price fixing scheme – and putting a check on the rising cost of rentals.

#consumerprotection #orpol
AG Rayfield announces $7 million settlement with largest U.S. landlord over price fixing scheme AG Rayfield and a bipartisan coalition have filed a proposed $7 million settlement to resolve claims against Greystar Management Services LLC, as part of the coalition’s ongoing enforcement efforts targeting price fixing involving housing rental prices across the country. “We’re in the middle of a housing crisis, and families are already stretched to their limits. When the largest landlord in America uses an algorithm to price fix the rent, the result is simple: people pay more. It squeezes working families when the cost of housing is already at an all-time high. This settlement holds the largest U.S. landlord accountable. It’s a win for Oregonians, our pocketbooks, and the rule of law.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
zunisays.bsky.social
Preach! 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map. Here’s why. Earlier this year, President Trump began urging Texas to redraw its U.S. House map to create five additional Republican seats. Lawmakers reportedly met that request to redistrict on purely partisan grounds with apprehension. When the Governor announced his intent to call a special legislative session, he didn’t even place redistricting on the legislative agenda. But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board. On July 7, Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), sent a letter (“the DOJ Letter”) to the Governor and Attorney General of Texas making the legally incorrect assertion that four congressional districts in Texas were “unconstitutional” because they were “coalition districts”—majority-non-White districts in which no single racial group constituted a 50% majority. In the letter, DOJ threatened legal action if Texas didn’t immediately dismantle and redraw these districts—a threat based entirely on their racial makeup. Notably, the DOJ Letter targeted only majority-non-White districts. Any mention of majorityWhite Democrat districts—which DOJ presumably would have also targeted if its aims were partisan rather than racial—was conspicuously absent.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
zunisays.bsky.social
I feel for the Marine having to assist this moment. Absolutely appalling. An afront to 9/11 families and this nation.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump greets MBS at the White House
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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datadrivenmd.social Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 7d
Terrible day to be literate
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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nullifie.bsky.social
ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.

Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.

www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Native American woman nearly deported after Polk County Jail issues ICE detainer by mistake
A Native American woman from Arizona was nearly deported by federal immigration officials after a clerical error at the Polk County Jail. The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous...
www.iowapublicradio.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM