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End Deportations Belfast@enddbelfast.bsky.social · 2d ago

Earlier this year BelTel reported Ian Paisley Jr backing the launch of Turning Point UK in NI. In the doc, TPUK's CEO Jack Ross introduces Al Jazeera’s reporter to Allan Nesbitt, a convicted criminal and UVF member. Ross is also filmed talking about people paid to commit murder and violent attacks.

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Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Important Context has a new story published in partnership with @theguardian.com. Anti-vaxxers, including Robert Kennedy Jr.’s former group, Children’s Health Defense, have been going after doctors professionally to cast doubt on measles deaths. www.importantcontext.news/anti-vaxxers...

Anti-Vaxxers Target Doctors to Deny Measles Deaths in Widening Outbreak

Children’s Health Defense boasts that it sparked malpractice inquiries into two doctors who treated deceased unvaccinated measles patients.

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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2w ago

7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.

The Hill Times@hilltimes.com · 4w ago

Ken Rubin: The feds are opting to diminish the public’s access to information and privacy, ending any pretence of consumer and taxpayer protection, and introducing data centres that generate too much misinformation. www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/23/c...

Carney’s shaky digital and AI government initiatives a blow to transparency and accountability   - The Hill Times

The feds are opting to diminish the public’s access to information and privacy, ending any pretence of consumer and taxpayer protection, and introducing data centres that generate too much…

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Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 2w ago

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.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing. Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 2w ago

It'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.

DHS's position on the protective order: "We cannot agree to the striking of this provisions. The phone numbers, physical addresses, full legal names, and email addresses of current and former employees in the federal government ... should be confidential."
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 3w ago

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 3w ago

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced. It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into. So why have I now removed her information? Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket. Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle. Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸@lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · last mo.

In 2025, DOGE eliminated USAID screwworm monitoring in Central America and cut USDA staff by 20,000, including 23 percent of the division handling animal disease response. In June, screwworm returned to U.S. livestock for the first time in 60 years. It has since spread to at least 45 cases.

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · last mo.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get even more FUBAR: DOGE Staffers Are Back—and Leading AI Takeover of Government Services! The DOGE goons who drove federal agencies into the ground last year are back, including that dude who goes by “Big Balls.” newrepublic.com/post/215538/...

DOGE Staffers Are Back—and Leading AI Takeover of Government Services

The DOGE goons who drove federal agencies into the ground last year are back, including that dude who goes by “Big Balls.”

newrepublic.com

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 2mo ago

"Wherever Russian troops arrive, Ukrainians cease to exist." At an official event in Moscow, Russian Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Selivanov openly admitted their true goal is the total erasure of Ukrainian identity.

olive consumer's floating skull@machete.gay · 2mo ago

I would make the case that opposing USAID's existence on (purportedly) left-wing ideological grounds is a position that necessitates viewing the lives of people in developing nations as more of a number on a spreadsheet than the creation of USAID does.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2mo ago

So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.