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The new pope is younger than 13 members of the Senate Democratic caucus. Time to change the rules term limit.

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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

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She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

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The rise of modern country music and the collapse of society can't just be a coincidence.

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Civil disobedience by an elected official defending his constituents is something we should applaud. This is bringing the fight… www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2025/05/09/n...

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I also know @stephruhle.bsky.social and she sure as fuck has what it takes to explain this Trump chaos money tariff nonsense.

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More than he can chew…

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Breaking: Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka (D) has just been arrested by the Trump administration after he was protesting outside of an ICE facility.

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NEW: The white nationalist hate group Patriot Front is trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large swath of the active club network. Great reporting by @jtischauser.bsky.social and @splcenter.org! www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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What are they hiding? I thought they were all about transparency?

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Literally five minutes apart.

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This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

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BREAKING: Federal judge in Vermont orders Rumeysa Ozturk be released "immediately." Judge Sessions has found that Ozturk has raised "a very substantial First Amendment claim" and a "substantial" due process claim. Also: The latest in the AEA cases. Today, at Law Dork —>

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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.

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tired: SignalGate @wired.com: The Signal clone, TeleMessage—which Mike Waltz appeared to use in a Reuters photo—has been hacked. And Customs and Border Protection also confirmed it used TeleMessage. Welp.

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New: a man 'disappeared' by ICE was not included on a government list of people deported to El Salvador's mega prison. But we found his name in a hacked flight manifest to the country. Raises questions about how much the government knows about who it is deporting www.404media.co/man-disappea...

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New FEMA head says he will "run right over" staff who resist his changes - www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

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A little two part FAFO story from the other place to get your Friday started right 🤣

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It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

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Abrego Garcia’s lawyers filed a motion today and it could lead to a deposition in the White House. Read about it here and be up to date. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Well, well, well. The Acting FEMA Administrator said eliminating FEMA wasn’t in the best interest of the American people — and guess what?!?! They FIRED him. I guess that’s what happens when you stand up to your power-hungry “boss”.

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Lmao

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NEWS: Earlier today, the three-judge district court in Alabama again ruled that Alabama's congressional map — with its refusal to add a second majority-Black district — violates the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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consider, they picked whichever Pope would piss off Vance the most

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So, not really a deal.

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Spot on by Bill Gates. I knew he thought this but am glad he finally said it publicly. He has put up with such shitty misinformation from Musk over vaccines too.

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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

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New from @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social: When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.

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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Montana Public Interest Research Group, my law firm has sued Montana for targeting student voters in violation of the U.S. and state constitutions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Today’s reading exercise.

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The Trump Organization admits in a filing that President Trump never gave up control of his business assets despite public claims to the contrary. This confirms longstanding, and obvious, conflicts of interest, and the lack of transparency makes it worse.

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Do your job, Sean.

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Chicago is on to something.

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Staffers are "baffled" that a reporter complained to HR because his editor said she'd kill him if his draft was too long. "There's no way that Ellen was going to pull off a murder-suicide at The Times without clearing it with the masthead first," one snarked. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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One of my clients said "they send basically college-age kids out to assess our engineering department. They don't even have engineering backgrounds, and didn't understand anything we said. But I guess they'll determine if we're efficient and if we have jobs."

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Piers Morgan is a POS but man is this interview wild - based on the way her tone changes I don't think she realized the implications of what she said until after she said it. If you look closely you can see her realize she is absolutely cooked in real time.