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Anna Kramer
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf. The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service funds. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects.
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The Trump Administration Is Spending $5 Million to Coat Horse Statues in Gold
The Interior Department quickly gave nearly $100 million in contracts in a rush to beautify D.C.
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/national-park-service-dc-beautification-contracts-horse-statues
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How I Uncovered Teapot Dome
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How I Revealed the Pentagon Papers
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How I Got to the Bottom of Watergate
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Hmm, can a judge just pre-grant the motion for dismissal due to vindictive prosecution?
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2 days ago
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Courtney Milan
4 days ago
I feel like this is the downfall of America in one blogpost right here: people defending institutions and abiding by norms that one side has abandoned.
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Stacked Automation
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at what point does he start tanking the reputation of u. of minnesota law school?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
5 days ago
the way every law professor who actually gives a shit about being a law professor and intellectual honesty is immediately reacting to this like, hey quick question: what the fuck Ilan Wurman should not be treated as a serious scholar ever again
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Extraordinary Paradise Hat
8 days ago
/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.
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Justin Wolfers
11 days ago
He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.
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Emily Farris
9 days ago
There was an attack to try to get me fired for being a “pro assassination” professor last fall (someone wildly mischaracterizing my Bluesky posts, resulting in like 200 calls to fire me and having to get the police involved), so to get this student eval about that this term feels a bit poetic.
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The $1.7BB has become $1.8BB. Damn, I guess inflation really is up.
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Miriam Posner
15 days ago
Uhhhh
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“The VRA wasn’t just the nice move — it was the smart one. Its purpose was to keep legitimate grievance inside the system rather than outside it. “Now they’ve put it back outside.”
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The VRA Was the Nice Version
SCOTUS has forced our hands, and now patience is our enemy.
https://betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-was-the-nice-version
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Ryan Cordell
17 days ago
Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years
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STAT
16 days ago
MIT President Sally Kornbluth said that the school’s research enterprise has shrunk 10 percent from a year ago and warned of a persistent drop in graduate admissions as the university grapples with federal funding challenges and policy changes.
www.statnews.com/2026/05/14/m...
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MIT says research has fallen 10%, and grad student enrollment is down
At MIT, research has shrunk 10% from a year ago, and the school expects a persistent drop in graduate admissions.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/14/mit-research-fell-10-percent-grad-student-enrollment-down/
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anil oza
16 days ago
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
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So one 277th of a ballroom
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Leah Litman
25 days ago
*clears throat*
literatibookstore.com/book/signedl...
in a TX case, SCOTUS said federal courts were wrong to pause a map they found illegal *in Dec 2025* bc that was too close to election. now, in a LA election already underway, SCOTUS jumps in to alter the state map - & free LA to do more.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Pablo Torre Finds Out!
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Anil Kalhan
26 days ago
known, and hoped to make happen
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Knowledge Fight RIP 😔
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This looks like a crime. Based on the videos included here, the president of Cornell should lose his job.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 1 month ago
The idea that "86 47" is not protected free speech is so insulting that a copy of the First Amendment in the National Archives spontaneously combusted upon the filing of this indictment.
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Helen Kennedy
about 1 month ago
Priceless post from the official White House social media
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him)
Leah Litman
about 1 month ago
WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan
@jodikantor.bsky.social
@adamliptak.bsky.social
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html
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Another entry on my list of startups at which I would not want to work without having retained my own criminal-defense counsel:
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Head of Engineering at Kyber | Y Combinator
At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to conso...
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/TcEa3b5-head-of-engineering
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Anna Bower
about 1 month ago
NEW: We obtained the government’s settlement agreement with Michael Flynn. As previously reported, DOJ agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle Flynn’s claims that he was wrongfully prosecuted. But docs suggest a separate settlement could be in the works:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/u.s....
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U.S. Government Agrees to $1.25 Million Settlement in Michael Flynn Suit
Lawfare obtained the settlement document through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this year.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/u.s.-government-agrees-to--1.25-million-settlement-in-michael-flynn-suit
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Katie Slivensky
about 2 months ago
A short bedtime tale by the 4yo: "Once upon a time there was a little boy who really wanted a unicorn. But every day, no unicorn came to his house. He would shout, "UNICORN!", but no unicorn came to his house. He wished EXTRA SUPER HARD but still no unicorn came to his house! Only tigers."
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John Pfaff
about 2 months ago
cc: All Dem POTUS aspirants. Also cc: all centrist DC pundits who have already pre-written their "no accountability, we must all come together" drivel pre-set to publish in November 2028.
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Dr. Leonard Bright
about 2 months ago
First Plato—now Dr. Peterson—out the door at Texas A&M! Who’s next? Here is Dr. Peterson’s letter of resignation, which he just shared with the faculty.
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MELANIA: You want me. Out of nowheres. To remind every one. Of my best friend, and child sex monster. Jeffrey Epstein?? (squints evilly) NATHAN FIELDER: (voice over) The First Lady loved my idea.
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Infrastructure week.
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derek guy
about 2 months ago
One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵
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ProPublica
about 2 months ago
WATCH: Cherise Doyley, a mother of three, was in labor at a Florida hospital when a nurse brought her a tablet. On the screen were a judge and several lawyers, doctors and hospital staff. Doyley wanted to have a vaginal birth. They wanted to force her to undergo a C-section.
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This executive order about mail-in ballots is obviously and nakedly unlawful and I expect that every part of it that actually does anything will be promptly blocked by federal courts.
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Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Help America Vote Act of 2002
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/ensuring-citizenship-verification-and-integrity-in-federal-elections/
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Zoe Tillman
about 2 months ago
Fun fact: If you ever find yourself thinking, "wow there sure are a lot of federal court rulings today," the odds are decent that the day is March 31 or September 30
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Civil Justice Reform Act Report
Gives data for civil cases in the district courts, by judicial officer, on motions pending more than six months, bench trials submitted more than six months, civil cases pending more than three years,...
https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/reports/statistical-reports/civil-justice-reform-act-report
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Josh Chafetz
2 months ago
1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT: Paying
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-homeland-security-and-the-director-of-the-office-of-management-and-budget/
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Alexander Howard
2 months ago
The Department of Justice denaturalized 2 more citizens for fraud:
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Watch this space carefully.
@brennancenter.org
research is a good starting place: "The only situation in which citizenship can be revoked without the citizen’s consent is if it is unlawfully procured."
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Stripping Naturalized Americans of Citizenship Faces High Legal Hurdles
The Trump administration may want to aggressively denaturalize citizens, but the Supreme Court has forbidden doing so when a person’s political beliefs are a focus.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/stripping-naturalized-americans-citizenship-faces-high-legal-hurdles
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Uh. “Ms. Dhillon on Wednesday afternoon posted a picture on social media of her signing one of the letters with her fountain pen, a Pelikan Souverän with an 18-karat gold, extra-fine nib.”
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Trump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/trump-medical-schools-civil-rights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.EIIB.9lmGzYJmKFWW&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Ok, what’s going on at Interior?
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Bike lanes are woke.
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Bike lanes that greatly reduced crashes on National Mall set for removal
After the 15th Street bike lanes were constructed, bicycle injury crashes decreased by 91 percent, according to the District Department of Transportation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/03/20/15th-street-dc-bike-lane-removal/
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Emperor Norton
2 months ago
Fetterman is doing tremendous damage to the reputation of the Big Oaf community. Big Oafs did not ask for this kind of toxic representation. Now we must lumber back into the shadows, hiding under bridges wearing our most somber JNCO jean shorts, drowning in both our sorrows & voluminous denim
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Marisa Kabas
2 months ago
SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.
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US Mint takes down video of meeting criticizing proposed Trump 24K gold coin
A coin advisory committee called the design for the America 250 coin something only produced by "kings or dictators."
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/mint-trump-gold-coin-ccac-video-removed
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Emily St. James
3 months ago
It is really cool to have PTA and Coogler’s first Oscars back to back.
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bakoon
3 months ago
worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns
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