Abdul El-Sayed wins the Michigan Democratic Senate primary!!! More than 1.2 million ballots cast. Over $60 million in outside spending alone. The most expensive Democratic Senate primary in American history. On to Mike Rogers in November. LFG.
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Susan Collins has confirmed at least 16 anti-abortion judges in Trump’s second term. Some Mainers may think their reproductive and civil rights are safe and still vote for her, but any of these freaks could tee up a SCOTUS case that takes the entire country backwards mainedems.org/susan-collin...
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Collins Confirms Two More Anti-Choice Judges
Susan Collins just voted to confirm Tony Mattivi and Anthony Powell to lifetime seats on the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
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Collins has continued to “rubber stamp” Trump-appointed anti-choice judges who have advocated for and defended near-total abortion bans in states. In the past few months alone Collins confirmed:
Whitney Hermandorfer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who was lead counsel in a case defending Tennessee’s total abortion ban.
Maria Lanahan to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, who defended Missouri’s near-total abortion ban, and helped author and argue Missouri’s complaint seeking to restrict the use and access to mifepristone, a common medication abortion pill.
Jennifer Mascott to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, who urged the court to overturn Roe and return it to the “dustbin of history,” then praised the Dobbs ruling, testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee defending the Court’s decision to leave in place Texas’ extreme abortion ban.
William Mercer to the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, who “has repeatedly supported anti-abortion bills.”
Chad Meredith to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, who is staunchly anti-abortion and has even defended abortion restrictions in Kentucky.
Jordan Pratt to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, who authored an amicus brief in support of Florida’s abortion ban where he called abortion “barbaric.”
Rebecca Taibleson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, who testified that she believed the three-year-old Dobbs decision that gutted federal protections to abortion was “controlling precedent and settled law.” In addition to clerking for Brett Kavanaugh, Tabileson testified in front of the Senate to de…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreif4k66fmxo5z4qmtaydwrxgmeqmwghjjn72yzo3dsqzruyrk72dom)
Omg is anyone else watching this??? YIKES. This is NOT a defense. And is Max Miller drunk? He’s slurring his words. This is insane.
Trump made hundreds of millions of dollars off crypto while running for president. Now Congress is considering legislation that could make it easier for him to keep profiting from the industry he regulates. Ben McKenzie testified about it before the Senate. Worth watching. bit.ly/4xfu1Pl
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FUCK DECORUM. I hate hate hate that Sotomayor apologized for her comments about Kavanagh. She was right. Fuck him. abcnews.com/Politics/jus...
Justice Sotomayor apologizes to Justice Kavanaugh for public criticism of immigration opinion
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a rare public apology Wednesday over what she called "inappropriate" remarks aimed at Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Good explanation of the intracasies in the Clancy trial.
Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins.bsky.social · 3d agoFull breakdown here: youtu.be/2bXKzNtbMzI
Massachusetts is trying Lindsay Clancy for first-degree murder, and lots of accounts of it are getting the law backwards. Her lawyers already conceded the killings. 🧵
A key paragraph which makes me ask, why would an experienced lawyer use a legal term incorrectly in front of Congress?
Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins.bsky.social · 5d agoAn Obama White House Counsel told Congress a dead Epstein survivor's allegations "lacked inherent credibility." She's a former federal prosecutor. That phrase means impossible of belief, not "sounds far-fetched." What it actually means, from someone who's argued it:
An Obama White House Counsel told Congress a dead Epstein survivor's allegations "lacked inherent credibility." She's a former federal prosecutor. That phrase means impossible of belief, not "sounds far-fetched." What it actually means, from someone who's argued it:
OBJECTION: "Inherent credibility" doesn't mean what Kathy Ruemmler thinks it means
A former federal prosecutor told Congress that Virginia Giuffre's allegations lacked "inherent credibility." That's a legal term with a specific meaning, and it isn't the one she used.
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Some days being on social media sucks so much and other days it’s sunshine and rainbows. Today is the latter. I’m so grateful and humbled by the praise and the time you all spend with me. Thank you. 🥺🥺
And if you prefer to read while you listen to my video: OBJECTION: Congress Wrote Five. open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
OBJECTION: Congress Wrote Five.
The DOJ's own memo tells its Epstein reviewers to black things out for at least three reasons Congress never authorized. Tw of the ten files a federal judge is reviewing are defended on that ground.
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Congress wrote five exceptions into the Epstein Files Transparency Act. DOJ's own January 2026 review protocol quotes those five correctly, then adds three more that Congress never wrote—including names of AUSAs & law enforcement. Full breakdown: youtu.be/zCfGTe_Jhng
The DOJ Memo Behind the Epstein Redactions
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People in my comments constantly say I “sound vaccinated,” and I assume they mean smart. So I’m like, “yup! Thanks!”
The Epstein Files Transparency Act does not permit redactions for embarrassment or reputational harm. Tomorrow at 3PM, Todd Blanche has to prove to a federal judge that his redactions fall within what the law does allow. At 9AM, Senate Judiciary votes on making him AG. youtu.be/sshmaM2WtpQ
The Epstein Files "In Camera" Deadline: What Blanche Has to Prove
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BLANCHE VOTE POSTPONED BECAUSE REPUBLICANS DO NOT HAVE THE VOTES! youtube.com/shorts/kqxoq...
BLANCHE VOTE POSTPONED BECAUSE REPUBLICANS DO NOT HAVE THE VOTES! 
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The Epstein Files Transparency Act does not permit redactions for embarrassment or reputational harm. Tomorrow at 3PM, Todd Blanche has to prove to a federal judge that his redactions fall within what the law does allow. At 9AM, Senate Judiciary votes on making him AG. youtu.be/sshmaM2WtpQ
The Epstein Files "In Camera" Deadline: What Blanche Has to Prove
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If you can't get enough about why Todd Blanche is the absolutely worst Attorney General nominee in history and should be disbarred, tune in here at 2:30pm ET today (July 22) to a shadow hearing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5dh... #BlockBlanche Please share :)
EXCLUSIVE LIVE: Senate Democrats' Shadow Hearing on Todd Blanche (Not on C-SPAN)
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fuck this i am going to listen to the shadow hearing instead, he is just gonna lie www.youtube.com/live/E5dhoNr...
EXCLUSIVE LIVE: Senate Democrats' Shadow Hearing on Todd Blanche (Not on C-SPAN)
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matt stoller fully embracing his role as sexual assault denialist
Sheriff Edwin Raymond. Yesterday, at Brooklyn College, Attorney General Letitia James administered the oath of office, and Edwin Raymond became Sheriff of the City of New York, a job Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose him for. 🧵
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I never thought I'd agree with Andrew Tate. Solitary is torture—abolish it. No exceptions. youtu.be/fD_a24DTGdc
Andrew Tate Is Right About One Thing
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I never thought I'd agree with Andrew Tate. Solitary is torture—abolish it. No exceptions. youtu.be/fD_a24DTGdc
Andrew Tate Is Right About One Thing
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The Trump Reich (and specifically #Texas wants us all 💀. 🥚🚫
Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins.bsky.social · 2w agoNINETEEN MILLION EGGS recalled for salmonella. We’re paying luxury prices for groceries and still have to Google whether breakfast is going to poison us. “Make America Healthy Again” my ass. Fuck Trump. Fuck RFK Jr.
I am having trouble coming to any conclusion other than that they want us dead.
Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins.bsky.social · 2w agoNINETEEN MILLION EGGS recalled for salmonella. We’re paying luxury prices for groceries and still have to Google whether breakfast is going to poison us. “Make America Healthy Again” my ass. Fuck Trump. Fuck RFK Jr.
NINETEEN MILLION EGGS recalled for salmonella. We’re paying luxury prices for groceries and still have to Google whether breakfast is going to poison us. “Make America Healthy Again” my ass. Fuck Trump. Fuck RFK Jr.