Sean "Diddy" Combs is due to appear in court on Thursday for a hearing over his bid to set aside a jury's verdict finding the hip-hop mogul guilty on prostitution charges but clearing him of more serious counts of sex trafficking and racketeering.

A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.

My little friends are a constant source of entertainment!🥰

Kamala Harris explores her most painful campaign moments in ‘107 Days’ Harris has said she tried hard not to write an “I told you so” book. But she did tell us.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed DHS Sec. Kristi Noem on labeling Democrats a domestic extremist group. Noem dodged, attacking Democrats’ policies and accusing CNN of twisting facts, sparking a heated on-air clash. www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

Vance was shouting about this yesterday but where is the lie? DHS is basically admitting they used the little girl as bait, right?

BTW, the person Watters was looking at as he said that was Greg Gutfeld, the failed comedian who soon after gave an on-air rant on about how no conservative ever does anything to incite political violence I'd say you can't make this up, but obviously we're already a decade into that era of history

My Boston brothers & sisters don’t play

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Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

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I'd like a perpetual audio stream of my Bluesky Following feed voiced by the respective posters

CNN: The ratings are in for the first day. 6.26 million viewers on ABC. That was four times Jimmy Kimmel's average. And that's despite the show not even being available in a quarter of all American homes.

WHERE ARE THEY? Google this, you find EIGHT outlets covering it. This one, Miami Herald, Miami Hurricane, Esquire, Irish Legal News, El Pais, Latin Times, & Democracy Now. NO major media appears to be covering it. WHY? They’ve disappeared TWELVE HUNDRED PEOPLE. san.com/cc/more-than...

A very good and important reform that should be something all sides can embrace. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Congratulations to @jimmykimmel.com on his triumphant return! Last night he was pitch-perfect. Inspirational, self-reflective, gracious to his haters, championing the 1st Amendment & most importantly: FUNNY. (Shout-out to Robert DeNiro as the mob-boss head of the FCC)😆

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Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich. The majority of “family farmers” aren’t working-class strivers. They’re affluent, politically connected businessmen who know when their next bailout is coming.

Dear World, Sorry. Sincerely, Sane America

I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hi, Bluesky! Over one million people cut Disney+, which is why Disney did the right thing and brought Jimmy Kimmel back without conditions. So I ask you, which mega company are we boycotting next and why?

U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson voted against honoring “the life & legacy” of Charlie Kirk on Friday, saying that the conservative activist “resurrected dangerous prejudices of a dark past." “The fact is Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was divisive, disparaging, & too often rooted in grievance,” he said.

Homeland Security revises death toll in Dallas shooting and says one detainee killed and two others are critically injured at ICE facility.

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Disney shareholders demand reasons for Kimmel suspension, Semafor reports reut.rs/4pWHZ67

Denmark and Greenland are offering apologies for their governments' roles in the historic mistreatment of Greenlandic girls and women. An independent investigation found that Inuit victims were either fitted with IUDs or given hormonal birth control injections in cases that date to the 1960s.

ABC faces new threat.

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

For over 100 days, journalist Mario Guevara has been detained by U.S. law enforcement for his livestream reporting. He is the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, and he could be deported for doing his job. We demand his immediate release. freedomformario.com

incredible what a performative drama queen the vice president is

The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.

The Dallas shooter is Joshua Jahn. He ain't a minority. He ain't transgender. He ain't an immigrant. Yet another white kid with a serious gun fixation.

NEW: They're going to indict Jim Comey. This should be interesting.

Big IF, but if Pritzger or Walz wins in Nov 2028, first thing he should do the following January is become a signatory to the International Criminal Court and have everyone arrested and tried in the Hague. Just an enormous purge. Fascism is a cancer and it needs to be irradiated.

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

No one will stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo until they stop acting like the Gestapo

Okay this is *very* good

Try to live your life in such a manner that escalators don't stop as you approach.

Diddy dockets: Just now Brian Steel wrote in with "letters from persons incarcerated and MDC-Brooklyn who have taken Mr. Combs’ Free Game course, as well as additional letters of support we have recently received" - story with documents comings

Alligator Alcatraz is back in the news, and for the worst reason imaginable: many of its prior detainees have simply... disappeared. There’s exactly one pop song about Alligator Alcatraz, and I wrote it. It’s one of the most popular Hounds songs, and you can find it on most streaming platforms.

AT&T and Nokia convinced a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday to overturn a $166 million jury verdict against AT&T for allegedly misusing patented technology in its 4G/LTE and 5G wireless networks.

Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy said Wednesday it expects to pay about $640 million to settle lawsuits alleging it was responsible for starting Colorado's most destructive wildfire that killed two people and destroyed nearly 1,000 homes in 2021.

A federal judge in Puerto Rico sanctioned two plaintiffs’ lawyers over error-filled filings in a lawsuit involving FIFA, awarding over $24,400 in legal fees to Paul Weiss and other law firms that accused the lawyers of misusing AI in the case. Subscribe to The Afternoon Docket: reut.rs/4aVlZjE