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The new press secretary is a right wing conspiracy theorist. No big surprise. newrepublic.com/post/216488/...
Trump’s New Press Secretary Says Abortion Pill Came From Nazi Germany
Katie Zacharia will be the next White House press secretary—and she has some extreme opinions.
newrepublic.com
Update:
Jonathan Diaz@jonathandiaz.bsky.social · 7h agoAfter pressure from the DC Board of Elections and Election Protection organizations, a spokesperson for the Guard said that they are addressing this specific incident, and that National Guard members are "directed not to monitor or secure polling locations" www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...
Here's what W appointed judge Brian Cogan said about Cuni on August 26. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's what Trump judge Gary Brown said in a filing ON MONDAY about Brenan Cuni, who almost shot a kid in NYC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![After the Court required a further submission to explain this incongruity,
respondents submitted an affidavit from Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and
Deportation Officer with ICE, who was responsible for conducting the background
searches. DE 20-7. Cuni was notified “some time before 5:50 PM” that “Petitioner was detained.” Id. ¶3. He searched five separate federal databases, all of which “yielded
negative results.” Id. ¶5 (emphasis added). Cuni then “issued and signed the I-200,
Warrant of Arrest, and checked off the boxes relating to ‘biometric confirmation of the
subject’s identity and a records check of federal databases . . . .’” Id. Of course, since the
records checks were negative, it was undeniably false, though represented as true in the
warrant, that “biometric confirmation [and] records check of federal databases
affirmatively indicate” that the petitioner lacked immigration status. DE 7-1. Cuni
explains that ICE then processed the petitioner, and in so doing, entered his data into
those various databases. After processing (and after the warrant was signed and
executed), Cuni ordered another officer to run “a second records check of the electronic
federal databases, which then yielded positive results . . . because Petitioner’s information
was now part of the system.” DE 20-7 ¶7 (emphasis added).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreidqylhmhwshnfs3a5dq2g3wiulejbwwwgoia34tsntiszybms4j6m)
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's been a struggle for reporters to get DHS to provide the names of officers who violate people's civil rights. Now, in our case against DHS's construction-site raids, the government is arguing in court that its employees names are "confidential" and should not be made public during litigation.
The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.
Not to mention, the Pulse attack, which was also Islamist terrorism, had triple the body count to the Fort Hood attack. And there have been multiple worse mass shooting incidents since 2009; Las Vegas, Sandy Hook, Sutherland Springs, El Paso, Uvalde, and Parkland were all deadlier attacks.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 9h agohuh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
When someone is a true degenerate malefactor it can be pretty hard to keep up with all the different kinds of misbehavior they're either committing or proximate to.
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 8h agoSCOOP: Rep. Max Miller's girlfriend of nearly two years was just indicted by a grand jury on three charges, including grand theft. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ
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Today, The Cook Political Report is moving 18 House races, all in Democrats' direction. With these new moves, we’re also adjusting our range: the most likely outcome is now that Democrats will pick up nine to 19 seats. Read more from @erincovey.bsky.social:
Eighteen More House Race Ratings Move in Democrats’ Favor
In the final weeks of the election, Republicans have hoped that a massive ad campaign effort could dent Democratic candidates' images and shore up Republicans struggling to free themselves of the anch...
cookpolitical.com
Have always been mesmerized by Mike Ditka's rookie season. 56 catches for 1,076 yards and 12 touchdowns in 14 games, averaging 19.2 yards per catch. From the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 20, 1961⤵️
"[The Office of Professional Responsibility] has a particular need to interview former Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Sheri Mecklenburg and AUSA Matthew Skiba."
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h agoNEW: The feds' petition has been made public in unredacted form. Here's the full filing (with signature blocks below): cst.brightspotcdn.com/58/76/38fc5d...
NEW: RMS @raskin.house.gov, @jahimes.bsky.social urge FBI Director Kash Patel to abandon Russia trip hosted by Putin’s security service amid espionage concerns. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Why Is Kash Patel Planning to Visit Russia?
Democrats in Congress are asking the FBI director to cancel the reported trip.
theatlantic.com
Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoMARKWAYNE MULLIN: We had to put him to a more secure facility outside of New York because we wanted to make sure he was highly secured REPORTER: Where is he? MULLIN: That I won't release
So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoMARKWAYNE MULLIN: We had to put him to a more secure facility outside of New York because we wanted to make sure he was highly secured REPORTER: Where is he? MULLIN: That I won't release
“All Americans should probably watch this film like their life depends on it.” Sheelah Kolhatkar reviews the new Elon Musk documentary. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology
“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”
newyorker.com
ICC judge Navi Pillay worked on human rights violations in Rwanda and Myanmar, and more recently chaired the UN Commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza. She received the news while in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, and joked about sharing the prize with Trump.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12h agoNavi Pillay receives the news while at the Courtroom 600, Nuremberg Palace of Justice The speech is worth listening to. Video by Sec Gen, Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard
BREAKING: A federal court just sided with us in our lawsuit representing @commoncause.org and voters challenging DOJ's illegal voter roll consolidation attempts. This is a huge win—protecting eligible voters’ freedom to cast a ballot without fear that their data will be misused.
NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.
In which Judge Ho writes that publishing a pic of someone in a restroom is protected speech. Real sicko shit. (The person photograghed was a trans woman washing her hands.) He also protests that anti-trans viewpoints are a minority view opposed by "elites." www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
NEW: A Chicago police sergeant & 2 officers repeatedly accused of improperly stopping and searching Black people should be suspended for a combined 330 days for their actions during an improper traffic stop, CPD leaders agreed, records show. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2026/10/09/s...
Suspend CPD Officers, Sergeant Repeatedly Accused of Making Improper Traffic Stops for a Combined 330 Days: Police Brass
To date, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability has determined members of that tactical team violated department policy during 23 separate traffic stops, according to a WTTW News analysis of COP...
news.wttw.com
The Fraud Task Force is important bc: 1) It chases peanuts while Trump steals orders of magnitude more on a daily basis 2) It is largely propaganda 3) It was the excuse to destroy white collar policing news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
DOJ Fraud Division’s Rise Diminishes Premier White Collar Unit
The Justice Department’s corporate crime enforcement hub has lost the bulk of its market manipulation and securities expertise over the past few months, accelerating what former officials call a downg...
news.bloomberglaw.com
“We are enforcing the nation’s laws. Why is that controversial?” The Fugitive Slave Act. The Three-Fifths Compromise. The Nuremberg Laws. Dred Scott. The Indian Removal Act. The Law for Protection of German Blood. Anti-miscegenation laws. The Defense of Marriage Act. The Reichstag Fire Decree.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h agoMullin began the press conference by saying "We are enforcing this nation's laws. Why is it controversial? Why would that be controversial?" As if all of human history doesn't show that laws and their enforcement can be very controversial (e.g., the 1765 Stamp Act and its impact on U.S. history).
JUST IN: Judge April Perry has made her requests for U.S. Attorney's Office communications in the Broadview Six case, including the email sent to US Atty Andrew Boutros with the grand jury transcript from Oct. 9
Jason Meisner@jmetr22b.bsky.social · 14h agoThe U.S. attorney's office has flied a public version of their motion to disclose grand jury materials in the "Broadview Six" case that includes some heavy redactions, including one of the attorneys in the signature block at the end. 🤔
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
variety.com
Among other things, Perry asks for "the October 14, 2025 email sent to U.S. Attorney Boutros attaching the October 9, 2025 Grand Jury transcript and any replies to or forwards of that email." She also wants metadata.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h agoJUST IN: U.S. District Judge April Perry lays out her demands for federal prosecutors in Chicago as she decides how to proceed in the "Broadview Six" litigation:
awarding the nobel to navi pillay is 100% merited. her career/views is a rejection of trumpism, eg: - international law at center of her career - deep commitment to human rights institutions - leadership of int'l justice (ICC, ICTR) - foreign student earned JSD at Harvard so much to celebrate.
David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 18h agoactually . . . wow! navi pillay, one of the most prominent human rights leaders of our time, former UN high commissioner for human rights . . . so richly deserved. three cheers!
