Shelley Powers
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Writer. Plain. She/her and bite my ass, Bondi Burningbird
https://burningbird.net
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Roger Parloff
about 3 hours ago
Jamie Raskin has filed briefs supporting his motions for the court to appoint an amici to contest vacating the convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Here's the Proud Boys version ...
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#01208842361 in United States v. Ethan Nordean (D.C. Cir., 23-3159) – CourtListener.com
AMICUS FOR APPELLANT BRIEF [2169455] filed by Representative Jamie Raskin [Service Date: 04/17/2026 ] Length of Brief: 2,092 Words. [23-3159, 23-3160, 23-3161, 23-3162] (Sher, Justin) [Entered: 04/20/...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.40140/gov.uscourts.cadc.40140.01208842361.0.pdf
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Bryce Tetraeder
about 3 hours ago
We have a deal.
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DiscussingFilm
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The new logo for Infowars has been revealed. The Onion has successfully landed a deal to take over Alex Jones' site after 17 months of legal issues. Tim Heidecker will serve as the site's creative director.
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Guardian US
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Satirical website The Onion plans to turn rightwing commentator Alex Jones’s misinformation site InfoWars into a parody of itself under a leasing agreement provisionally approved by a Texas court.
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The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/the-onion-alex-jones-infowars?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1740769161-1
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 hours ago
we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help
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Bejebus, Texas. What the hell kind of people are you sending to Congress?
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David Roberts
about 2 hours ago
Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.
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Aaron Rupar
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Jeffries on Kash Patel: "We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What about the people who confirmed him? It's extraordinary to me that Senate Republican confirmed people like Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Patel."
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Kevin M. Kruse
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We know someone in the administration is making bets on the war, but is it possible they're trying to somehow beat the spread as well?
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Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats
The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/federal-judge-vacates-kennedy-declaration
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Anthony Michael Kreis
about 6 hours ago
It seems to me that any government official who sues for defamation should be required to pay attorneys' fees x 3 plus costs if they drop the case, and x 5 if they lose.
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Discovery ought to be fun in this case
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Liz Dye
about 6 hours ago
As we all await Kash Patel's eleventy trillion dollar lawsuit against The Atlantic, let's spend a little time with his wonderweasel lawyer Jesse Binnall
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FBI Director Promises To Pound 'The Atlantic' Like A Six Pack On A Tuesday
MAGA trollsuit lawyer prepares for another round.
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/fbi-director-promises-to-pound-the
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And this is why, Pope Leo's pushback against Trump aside, the Catholic church really isn't a friend to true democracy.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/p...
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Supreme Court will decide if preschools that decline children of same-sex couples may receive state funding | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a Colorado law that requires preschools receiving taxpayer money to enroll children of same-sex couples — setting up an important First Amendment showdown at ...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-couples-preschool
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Wife of active-duty U.S. Army sergeant detained by ICE in Texas at immigration appointment
The wife of a 27-year Army sergeant was detained by ICE at an immigration appointment in Texas. He says he doesn't understand why, and "ICE is out of control right now."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-detains-army-sergeant-wife-immigration-appointment-jose-serrano-deisy-rivera-ortega/
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Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family
Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won year...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-joseph-schwartz-pardon-lawsuit
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 8 hours ago
This is exactly right. It’s not a dilemma though. It’s a line in the sand that will at once once collapse what remains of the rule of law and regulatory infrastructure designed to protect the public.
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Damon Kiesow
about 8 hours ago
This is institutional vandalism of one of the prime drivers of economic growth in the state.
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Greg Sargent
about 9 hours ago
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here:
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Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go?
Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...
https://newrepublic.com/article/209254/trump-library-funding-millions-media-companies
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Eric Segall
about 9 hours ago
“The In-Your-Face Corruption and Arrogance of Justice Clarence Thomas.”
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The In-Your-Face Corruption and Arrogance of Justice Clarence Thomas
An astonishing event occurred last week at the University of Texas. Justice Clarence Thomas gave a speech in which he accused progressives ...
https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/04/the-in-your-face-corruption-and.html?m=1
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Walter Olson
about 9 hours ago
Police unions are now potent political forces at the local, state, and national levels, and their largely successful effort to immunize themselves from oversight is one of the great political coups in recent American history.
@cjciaramella.bsky.social
reviews a Hopkins professor's new book
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‘Blue Power’ and the rise of police union politics
Stuart Schrader's new book details how police unions became a dominant force in U.S. politics.
https://reason.com/2026/04/16/blue-power-and-the-rise-of-police-union-politics/
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Nothing says "We want to negotiate" more than attacking and seizing your opponent's cargo ship. Mr Peace Prize does it again.
about 8 hours ago
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
about 9 hours ago
I share Steve’s concerns. An observation: The Court’s immense power, such as it is, is contingent upon its at least plausibly appearing to do law. This may seem like an academic debate, but it’s literally over whether the Court is doing law or something else. That matters.
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The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court
The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-2016-memos-roberts-supreme-court-mess
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Jen Taub
about 20 hours ago
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Mark Jacob
about 22 hours ago
People are urging participants in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to wear pro-1st Amendment pocket squares or take a bathroom break when “guest of honor” Trump speaks. I have a better idea: Cancel the damn dinner.
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Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/cancel-the-white-house-correspondents
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Don Moynihan
about 22 hours ago
Weird how they never do this in areas where Trump won! DOJ Office of Civil Rights seem very focused on districts with a lot of Black voters.
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The 119th Congress Becomes Worst Congress on Public Lands in Modern American History
From the Arctic Refuge to the Boundary Waters, fifteen months of destruction no Congress has matched, with more on the way.
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/the-119th-congress-becomes-worst
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Dave Karpf
1 day ago
Once again wishing that either the F in my last name wasn’t silent, or that Palantir was run by a different psychopath.
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Nicholas Brown
1 day ago
(Reuters) - European allies fear an inexperienced U.S. negotiating team is pushing for a swift, headline‑grabbing framework deal with Iran that could entrench rather than resolve deeper problems, diplomats with past experience dealing with Tehran said.
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Bill Kristol
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"The Europeans are coming to understand two rather different things. The first is that the fate of Ukraine is crucial to their own fate. And second, more European states are seeing Ukraine as a new center of gravity for European defense and security."
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Weekend Update #181; Germany Raises The Pot For Ukraine
The USA Boasts, Bluffs And Then Folds; More On Ukraine Fighting Humans With Machines
https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/weekend-update-181-germany-raises?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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This was stupid. Stupid. The place is already closing down by July. Stupid.
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Hundreds trying to storm Wisconsin beagle research facility met with rubber bullets, pepper spray | CNN
About 1,000 animal welfare activists who tried to gain entry Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into ...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/19/us/animal-rights-protest-wisconsin
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This will kill the talks for good
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Trump sends JD Vance to Pakistan again for more talks with Iran but repeats threats against its infrastructure as Hormuz stays closed | Fortune
Parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf, said in an interview aired on state television late Saturday that “there will be no retreat in the field of diplomacy.”
https://fortune.com/2026/04/19/trump-jd-vance-pakistan-iran-ceasefire-talks-threats-infrastructure-hormuz/
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Guy is desperate to hold onto his job. All those great perks, including the Secret Service waking you up from a drunken stupor.
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
it's remarkable how crazy this video is, especially in light of what we just learned in that Atlantic article
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Otherwise known as eliminating lawyers who are doing their job and not kneeling at the feet of King Trump.
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He's promising genocide again, and Republicans are just going along with it. There are NO decent Republicans. None.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD
1 day ago
Going on Sunday morning talk shows to issue prebuttals for war crimes instead of going to church is a choice
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Scary Gorgon
1 day ago
I don’t remember where I heard this, but: the observation that Muppet Christmas Carol worked because Michael Caine knew he was not a muppet, and that Muppet Treasure Island worked because Tim Curry understood, deeply, that he was, springs to mind. Anyway. Happy Birthday, Tim.
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Lockheed Martin, Raytheon etc. spent decades trying to cast themselves as engineers, technicians, impartial, & responsible, and to skate beneath politics, and for good reason Here, Palantir just puts its cards on the table that any reasonable society ought to destroy them
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Doghouse Reilly
1 day ago
This and the Palantir statement in white supremacy are very much connected.
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Leah McElrath
1 day ago
⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out:
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This is both obscene and absurd
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Trump to read Bible verse from Oval Office after feud with Pope and deleted AI image | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump will participate in a public Bible reading this week as the administration continues to integrate religion, particularly Christianity, into official business.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/19/politics/trump-bible-reading-oval-office
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Bill Grueskin
2 days ago
Amanda Ungaro was 16 when she was flown to the US on an Epstein plane. She later became close to the Trumps On Apr. 8, she went on X to threaten legal action vs Melania “and your pedophile husband” On Apr. 9, Melania made that odd public statement about Epstein
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Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir
A Brazilian brought to the U.S. on an Epstein plane at age 16 lashes out at the Trumps, saying she was betrayed by her friend Melania.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article315437390.html?giftCode=c7803b23310e6dbf8933c839047749465aca51674a2a385a2ac5e37cf85bef54
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Dan Kennedy
2 days ago
You can read the whole thing, but if you don't have time: Kash Patel drinks way too much, is undisciplined and has terrible judgment, and Trump is probably going to fire him soon.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/?gift=Zx0FBbT8VBkv_R3KIrlTmYj8mmiD928YB4vV5uhuBV4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
Joe Rogan is standing directly behind Trump in the Oval Office
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Urban
2 days ago
think this is the EO where they make peptides derived from baby monkeys available over the counter at 7-11.
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Says the man who sniffed cocaine from a toilet seat and cut a penis off a dead raccoon
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Oh look! They let a few women in!
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They're...they're applauding solely because he could sign his name. My god, I would die of embarrassment
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