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Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.

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2025-05-25 20:13:38

OMG, and happy birthday, Q!! What a perfect way to celebrate

2025-04-16 21:07:47

NEW: DOJ notifies Judge Xinis that it is appealing her revised order directing it to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the Fourth Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-04-13 22:59:27

To be fair, Judge Xinis's revised order uses the "facilitate the return" language. But that shouldn't be an obstacle to holding the govt accountable, given the Supreme Court's order, and she could always clarify again for the record (though everyone understand what she means).
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2025-04-13 22:54:09

Today's recalcitrant DOJ update on Kilmar Abrego Garcia predictably reopens the tedious debate over the meaning of "facilitate."
DOJ claims it means merely *permitting* his entrance into the US, without requiring "any affirmative steps."
DOJ is wrong. 🧵 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-04-13 22:54:09

DOJ's hook for the argument that "facilitating" requires no affirmative action is this 2012 ICE memo and cases that cite it.
But this memo doesn't anticipate a situation in which the US has contracted with a foreign nation to imprison the person overseas. rejouer.perma.cc/replay-web-p...
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2025-04-13 22:54:09

More importantly, the Supreme Court didn't order the Trump admin to "facilitate [his] return." It ordered the admin to "facilitate [his] release from custody." Different language describing a different situation, and locating the object of the government's action in El Salvador.
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2025-04-13 17:49:46

Bluesky's RealFeel trending index adjusts post numbers for how much a topic irritates you personally!
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2025-04-09 13:24:22

Overnight, attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia filed a short but satisfying bonus reply brief with SCOTUS, taking issue with two brand-new factual claims in the govt's latest brief. 🧵 www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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2025-04-07 14:13:29

No ruling yet from the Fourth Circuit, but they have just accepted an amicus brief from Erwin Chemerinsky, Martha Minow, and Laurence Tribe.
Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Amicus: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-04-04 01:01:29

It always happens: one moment I'm cooing over @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social's snout-wiggling tapirs, then I pause to look up *one little tapir fact* and suddenly I'm deep into a journal article on the evidence that horses once had FIVE TOES on each foot www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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2025-04-04 00:18:15

Am I crazy, or are these your vows?

2025-04-03 19:47:08

It's way too late for me to be telling you this, but! Did you know that if someone is live-posting something boring, you can hide the entire thread—including any future additions!—by clicking the three dots at the lower right corner of the first post and choosing "Hide post for me"?
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2025-04-03 19:41:15

Judge Boasberg: OK, I'll issue order (prob next week) on whether I've found probable cause that contempt has occurred and what to do about it

2025-04-03 19:40:40

Lee Gelernt for ACLU: I think the next step has to be some evidence that's sworn. Three possibilities: declarations, a hearing under oath, depositions. I think you could find contempt on present briefing, but I understand you want to learn more. I'm not sure govt will reveal more in declarations.

2025-04-03 19:38:00

Judge: Are you prepared to tell me today why this info can't be given to *me*?
Govt: Diplomatic consequences
Judge: Like what?
Govt: Uh, it's what the govt has represented

2025-04-03 19:36:11

Govt: Don't know. Not to my knowledge.
Judge: Can you think of a single case where state-secrets privilege has been invoked re: *unclassified* info?
Govt: No
Judge: I can't think of one

2025-04-03 19:35:20

Judge: I agree with plaintiffs that I can probably find probable cause for contempt without information I'm missing because of your state-secrets claim. But let's talk for a moment anyway. I don't see any claim that info I'm seeking is *classified*
Govt: Correct
Judge: So *is* it classified?

2025-04-03 19:34:00

Judge: Would your clients like to have the chance to *purge* contempt? And if so, have you thought about how you'd do that?
Govt: Would have to learn more

2025-04-03 19:33:07

Judge: If I find there is probable cause for contempt, how do you think I should find out who those contemnors are? Declarations? Hearings?
Govt: Declarations
Judge: OK, but if I find those declarations insufficient, we'll hold hearings. So let your clients know that.

2025-04-03 19:31:40

Judge: You've said the govt behaved perfectly appropriately. So who made that perfectly appropriate decision?
Govt: Don't know
Judge: So you, standing here, have no idea who made the decision not to turn back?
Govt: No

2025-04-03 19:30:27

Judge: Who did you tell about my *written* order?
Govt: Same people
Judge: Who, then, gave the order that planes should not turn around?
Govt: Potentially subject to atty/client privilege
Judge: Because ...?

2025-04-03 19:29:36

Judge: OK, who did you tell about my *oral* order once the hearing was done?
Govt: Contacts at DHS, State Dept
Judge: OK! Who?
Govt: Uh ... e-mailed James Percival (DHS), Joseph Mazzara (DHS), Jay Bischoff (State). Maybe others? I believed it would be circulated to relevant people.

2025-04-03 19:27:09

Govt: Don't know what members of the admin who were listening in to call
Judge: You can't think of anyone else?
Govt: No?
Judge: Anyone you *believe* were listening in?
Govt: Maybe covered by atty/client privilege?
Judge: ... Why?

2025-04-03 19:26:02

Judge: Were there other govt officials listening to the 5 p.m. hearing on that day?
Govt: I believe so, but not full list. Members of my DOJ team.
Judge: Members of administration?
Govt: Uh ... my contact was James McHenry, assoc dpty AG. Don't know others
Judge: Take a moment to think

2025-04-03 19:23:47

Judge: And then there were people who were returned from the US—8 women and a man?
Govt: That's my general understanding
Judge: So certainly operationally feasible to bring people back to the US
Govt: Not sure

2025-04-03 19:23:05

Judge: So are you saying that everyone on that plane to El Salvador was Salvadoran? Because plaintiffs say, what's the basis for removing to El Salvador people who weren't Salvadoran?
Govt: 8 USC 1231(b)

2025-04-03 19:22:09

Judge: OK, let's talk about the third plane. You've represented that no one was deported purely on Alien Enemies Act proclamation. You agree that would be a clear violation.
Govt: Yes
Judge: Your arguments about oral vs. written order wouldn't be relevant to third plane
Govt: Right

2025-04-03 19:20:59

Judge: They told you *nothing* about these planes?
Govt: Content of conversations covered by attorney-client privilege
Judge: No one told you from the administration that planes were in the air or would be in the next 24 or 48 hours?
Govt: Correct, your honor

2025-04-03 19:20:14

Judge: So what I want to know here, as an officer as a court, you're telling me that you had no knowledge whatsoever between 5 and 6 p.m. that planes were in the air, or shortly would be in the air?
Govt: I had no knowledge from my clients that this was the case. Diligently tried to find out.

2025-04-03 19:19:14

Judge: According to your timeline, third plane was removed three hours after order
Govt: Yes, but those people weren't Alien Enemies Act deportations
Judge: So you say

2025-04-03 19:18:12

Judge: So in order to do this as quickly as possible, you were willing to risk putting people on planes who shouldn't be there, right? You admitted one person was removed in error, right?
Govt: Yes, though he was on the third plane, for which no issues were raised
Judge: Oh, issues were raised

2025-04-03 19:16:53

Judge: Why, when you knew I was holding a hearing that afternoon, why wouldn't the prudent thing be to say, Let's slow down here. He's already enjoined the removal of 5 people. Certainly possible he'll enjoin these others. Better safe than sorry and wait. Why not the wise, prudent, considered route?

2025-04-03 19:15:44

Judge: It was good fortune that I happened to be around at 7ish a.m. and plaintiffs filed at 1:12 a.m. on March 15. Otherwise, govt would have flown everyone out. The window between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. isn't really sufficient for plaintiffs to be heard, right?
Govt: Eh, timing isn't *that* uncommon

2025-04-03 19:13:27

Judge: Is there any other inference that there was an expedited effort to get people on planes before my hearing at 5 p.m. or when I ruled? Isn't that a fair inference?
Govt: I don't think so, your honor
Judge: People bused to planes in morning so plaintiffs couldn't challenge it, yes?
Govt: No

2025-04-03 19:11:39

Judge: OK, day of March 15. My first order entered at 9:40 a.m. (re: 5 original plaintiffs). When was info about order passed on to ICE?
Govt: Not sure
Judge: When did *you* learn about it?
Govt: Not sure, but sometime that morning
Judge: That *morning*
Govt: I believe so

2025-04-03 19:09:57

Judge: OK, so if this was true, if there was preparation, there isn't even a question: it has to be true
Govt: I think you could draw that inference
Judge: Is there any other conclusion you could possibly draw? Isn't it the *only* possible inference?
Govt: I think that's correct

2025-04-03 19:09:06

Judge: ICE says proclamation was made public at 3:53 p.m. But ICE clearly knew of proclamation before 3:53 on March 15
Govt: You might infer that
Judge: Is there any way *not* to infer that? People in TX rounded up three planes' worth of people, flew them out within hours?

2025-04-03 19:06:58

Judge: Why was proclamation not made public until 15th if it was signed on the 14th?
Govt: Not sure, but it wasn't effective until it was made public
Judge: So you don't think it was because the govt was trying to get people ready to be whisked out of the country ASAP
Govt: No knowledge

2025-04-03 19:05:19

Judge: So, if any of your clients, or any members of the administration, continue to make statements contrary to the facts as I've just outlined, they would not be true, correct?
Govt: Yes ... if they were not true ... they would be false.
Judge: That's what I thought

2025-04-03 19:04:14

Judge: You agree that my TROs did not order any TdA members to be released from custody, right? And it didn't prevent the govt from arresting any TdA members? Or use other procedures to deport TdA members? In fact, I hear you deported some this week!
Drew Ensign (govt): Agreed

2025-04-03 19:01:34

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg holds a "show cause" hearing on whether the government defied his orders when it deported Venezuelans accused of being members of Tren de Aragua to a nightmarish Salvadoran prison
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2025-04-03 18:18:14

Öztürk atty: Her attorneys were not told where Öztürk was, despite their best efforts to find out over many hours, while she was being moved from state to state. Your order was intended to preserve status quo. But the govt tried to whisk her away and conceal location until she was in Louisiana.

2025-04-03 18:08:39

HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk's attorneys (including ACLU) argue before Mass. federal judge Denise Casper that Öztürk's case should remain in Massachusetts. (The govt argues it should be dismissed or moved to Louisiana.)

2025-04-02 23:07:20

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
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2025-04-02 01:46:52

We deserved some good news!
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2025-04-01 00:20:59

NEW: ACLU tells Judge Boasberg that he should reject the government's invocation of the state-secrets privilege, saying that it is "unaware of *any* case in which [it] has been invoked to withhold evidence from a court seeking to enforce its own orders." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-03-31 20:48:11

Note that ordinarily, a TRO can't even be appealed! The Trump administration and these Republican AGs can't even bear to wait a few weeks before demanding to resume deporting and imprisoning people with no evidence or process—and they're counting on SCOTUS to be equally unprincipled

2025-03-31 16:02:04

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Wishing all my trans friends a life filled with the love, respect, acknowledgment, and support you deserve ❤️

2025-03-25 15:46:53

The DC Department of Health says that someone with measles visited several places in DC, including Amtrak trains, six days ago while contagious.
Press release: dchealth.dc.gov/release/heal...
Measles case confirmed in DC w...

2025-03-24 18:29:11

Judge Millett: "The president has to comply with the Constitution and laws like everyone else"

2025-03-24 18:26:42

DOJ's 30 minutes have so far lasted nearly an hour, which is how these things often go
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2025-03-24 18:23:01

For those who aren't used to listening to arguments, it's very satisfying to listen to Judge Millett tear apart the DOJ attorney, but we won't really know how how this bodes for the outcome until we hear more from the other two (more conservative) judges. We'll see what they ask the other side.

2025-03-24 17:34:51

LISTEN LIVE: DOJ asks the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to lift Judge Boasberg's temporary restraining order preventing the deportation—without due process—of Venezuelans accused of being members of the criminal gang Tren de Aragua. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DoT...
youtube.com/watch?v=4DoTLG...

2025-03-22 18:11:20

First Bluesky post!
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2025-03-19 22:12:33

NEW: NJ federal judge Michael Farbiarz, a Biden appointee, is assigned to the Mahmoud Khalil case and immediately orders that Khalil "shall not be removed from the United States, unless and until the Court issues a contrary Order." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-03-19 22:10:24

NEW: DC Circuit judges Henderson (GHWB), Millett (Obama), and Walker (Trump) schedule oral argument for MONDAY on whether to block Judge Boasberg's TRO in the Alien Enemies Act deportation case
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2025-03-19 13:29:18

NEW: DOJ files an emergency motion in the hopes of avoiding a noon deadline to provide more info to Judge Boasberg, in private, about deportation flights that appear to have violated the court's orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-03-18 04:12:53

NEW: DOJ asks Judge Boasberg to vacate his TROs against the gov't, calling them "an affront to the President’s broad constitutional and statutory authority to protect the United States from dangerous aliens who pose grave threats to the American people." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-03-17 19:15:00

!!! NEW: DOJ tells Judge Boasberg that he should CANCEL the 5 p.m. hearing "because there has been no violation of the Court's orders, and because the government is not prepared to disclose any further national security or operational security details." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-03-15 03:49:49

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys file their opposition to the US's motion to dismiss or transfer for lack of jurisdiction: "This is no ordinary case; it is an unconscionable one." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-03-15 00:59:09

A Friday news day so bad there's nothing left to be dumped

2025-03-14 01:59:10

"Legislative history reveals that Congress intended to limit the Executive’s authority to exclude noncitizens based on their speech or beliefs."
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2025-03-14 01:54:48

Khalil's brief cites Michel Martin's excellent interview of DHS deputy secretary Troy Edgar www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
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2025-02-26 14:10:17

NEW: Eric Adams breaks with DOJ, asks Judge Ho to dismiss his case *with prejudice*, arguing that the published resignation letters of Danielle Sassoon and Hagen Scotten "destroyed whatever presumption of innocence Mayor Adams had left" for a future jury storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-02-24 02:51:28

Making a mental list of podcasters I'd rather have as deputy director of the FBI

2025-02-20 23:33:33

NEW: Judge Chutkan sets a two-month briefing schedule on a proposed preliminary injunction against Elon Musk and DOGE for alleged violations of the appointments clause. This was the schedule that plaintiff states requested. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-02-20 19:19:22

New Bluesky feature makes you watch an hour of MSNBC before replying
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2025-02-19 21:16:10

Gov. Hochul: "Think about this next time you're stuck in traffic." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFl...
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2025-02-19 18:44:01

The MTA sues the Trump administration: "The Trump Administration’s efforts to 'terminate' Congestion Pricing are
unlawful." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-02-18 01:58:29

NEW non-clarifying clarifications about Elon Musk's employee status filed just now in a NM-led lawsuit:
—Musk, as a presidential senior adviser, "has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself." He is also not DOGE's administrator.
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2025-02-17 16:50:34

Judge Chutkan: Elon Musk hasn't been nominated or confirmed to anything

2025-02-17 16:48:54

Judge Chutkan to DOJ: DOGE's actions have been unpredictable and scattershot. I'm not sure if that's by design.

2025-02-13 21:38:27

READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com:
"Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
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2025-02-11 22:02:13

"The government has made a mistake."
Tom Goldstein argues in an emergency motion for his release that prosecutors confused sender and recipient and that the two recently discovered crypto wallets belong not to him but to third parties he owed money to storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-02-11 17:23:08

Tom Goldstein is going pro se storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2025-02-10 02:37:50

Another power that properly belongs to Congress, of course
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2025-02-06 21:19:17

Full court order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69607...

2025-01-20 23:08:21

This is so bad
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2025-01-07 22:07:59

DOJ opposes George Santos's request to postpone his sentencing date by six months so he can raise the $578,752.94 he owes as part of his plea. DOJ expresses skepticism that his podcast “Pants on Fire with George Santos” will generate this revenue. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2024-12-17 00:23:15

NEW: Judge Merchan rules that Donald Trump's criminal conviction in the NY hush-money case stands despite the Supreme Court's presidential-immunity decision (scan via The Hill) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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2024-12-03 20:41:31

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss ask Judge Howell to find Rudy Giuliani in contempt for additional defamatory statements after he missed yesterday's deadline to respond to their contempt motion storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2024-11-21 23:21:26

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) has just conceded to Republican challenger Dave McCormick x.com/Bob_Casey/st...
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2024-11-08 02:51:54

Bluesky just hit 14M users! 🎉 🎉 🎉
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2024-11-06 04:04:48

Full e-mail from Jen O'Malley Dillon to Harris-Walz staff (via Kellie Meyer, NewsNation)
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2024-11-05 03:58:07

A RUDY GIULIANI GHOST STORY. On Halloween morning, a moving and storage company hired by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss arrived at Giuliani's NYC apt to plan the removal of his personal possessions. But when they arrived, they found the apt virtually empty! 1/n storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2024-11-04 21:59:32

PA judge rules that Elon Musk CAN CONTINUE his $1M/day giveaway, denies emergency injunction sought by Philly DA Larry Krasner. Full opinion with reasoning to come. (via Teddy Schleifer)
(Deleted and reposted to change "dismisses lawsuit" to "denies emergency injunction"—apologies!)
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2024-10-29 17:21:32

UPDATE: More than 250,000 Washington Post subscribers—approx. 10% of all paid circulation—have now canceled their subscriptions since Friday's reporting that owner Jeff Bezos was blocking the paper's endorsement of Kamala Harris
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2024-10-26 00:08:43

ODNI, FBI, and CISA say a fake video depicting someone ripping up ballots in Pennsylvania was manufactured and distributed by Russia www.cisa.gov/news-events/...
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2024-10-16 18:21:02

WELCOME, NEW BLUESKY USERS
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2024-10-16 17:18:19

Jimmy Carter voted today! He filled out a mail-in ballot that was deposited in a drop box at the Sumter County Courthouse
Jimmy Carter fulfills wish and...

2024-10-15 07:11:25

Lillian Schwartz, pioneer of computer-generated art, 1927–2024 (video clip from "Enigma," 1972, via Robert Beatty)
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2024-10-11 01:11:34

Barack Obama made an unannounced stop at the Harris-Walz field office in Pittsburgh today and said a few things about misogyny (I believe directed toward Black men)(via Erica L. Green for pool)
"Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president."
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2024-10-10 05:56:01

Outside the office of the Tampa Bay Times in downtown St. Petersburg — video by Max Chesnes, Tampa Bay Times #milton
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2024-08-09 21:27:43

Congratulations to X on its slow journey to achieving feature parity with Bluesky. You're doing great, kiddo!
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2024-07-26 16:28:12

Trump made Ronny Jackson release a new letter to say that it was really, REALLY a bullet wound
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2024-07-22 06:41:24

Idk, seems kind of silly to me. I’ve seen lots of divergent opinions here, and plenty of straight reporting too. Not sure why he thinks he’s the only one capable of reading other people’s opinions without being indoctrinated.
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2024-07-18 19:48:53

lolll NYT standards desk asks reporters to please not call J.D. Vance a “son of Appalachia” (via Justin Baragona)
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2024-07-14 01:48:44

It all happens on X!
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2024-05-31 16:07:52

Great new Bluesky search features!
—Use "to:" or "mentions:" as well as "from:"
—Specify post dates with "since:" or "until:" (YYYY-MM-DD)
—Search for a URL to see if users have posted links to it
—Find posts in a particular language (e.g., "lang:ja") with keyword