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@emptywheel.bsky.social

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Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland. Legendary potty mouth!

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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:35 PM

We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:08 PM

AGAIN, if you read the post then you appear to have missed the import of the line, "There are so many avenues via which there could be legal discovery into the dick-stepping that went into this smear."

@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:29 AM

Trump has never been psychologically capable of ending the war, bc it would require admitting he is inferior to Obama. But he will likely make a deal with Russia that will at least stabilize the region but end US hegemony.

@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:27 AM

Fake account. E instead of O. He's still there, tho Xitter says fraudulent posts will get you demonetized, and both are getting Xitter bucks.

@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:16 AM

I hope the health facility sues, first. Bc their injury is pretty grave.

@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:15 AM

It's not a Volume II doc (I thought it might be too, but it's not).

It was provided in discovery to Trump. And (as @charliesavage.bsky.social notes) was related to the subject of a discovery fight. We knew some of these details in April 2024, b4 she threw out the case.

@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:11 AM

I'm not sure you read the post that laid out the multiple ways to get to discovery on this. Or considered that both Ohio and Texas may be run by Democrats in a few months.

@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:07 AM

@nicolesandler.bsky.social reconstructed the Fridays with Nicole Sandler show we did on Friday. It's here now:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQJV...

@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:06 AM

The James Talarico HIPAA Crime and Stephen Miller's Apparent Advance Knowledge

emptywheel.net/2026/10/12/t...

@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:01 AM

Turns out the self imagined supreme man is also a coward.

A picture of Bo French's Xitter account. He has blocked me.
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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:46 PM

The Kimberly Guilfoyle situation could get interesting quickly. Probably the reason she GOT the Ambassadorship is to keep her quiet while Jr looted things.

She knows a good deal of incriminating shit.

edition.cnn.com/2026/10/11/p...

edition.cnn.comTrump considering whether to fire Guilfoyle, source says | CNN PoliticsPresident Trump is weighing whether to dismiss Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece after a string of embarrassing revelations about her conduct.
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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:57 PM

I think it takes some time for Ireland to adjust that location. But since I signed up in the US and so have a US app shown I could fake it with ease.

@ericumansky.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:08 PMReposted by @emptywheel.bsky.social

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

MRachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:13 PM

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

abc7.comICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEOSurveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:36 PM

No, the truly weird thing is they don't understand what losers they look like, inventing this conspiracy theory bc their own candidate's polling went DOWN when Talarico was out for a week.

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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:18 PM

Turns out that Bo French is not just a gutter racist but he's too stupid to understand that US citizens can live overseas. He's also pushing the Talarico conspiracy theory. So, yeah, white, but in no way supreme.

EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check
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@sethcotlar.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:28 PMReposted by @emptywheel.bsky.social

This right wing ratfucking effort is blowing up over on X and will almost certainly be all over Fox and other outlets tomorrow. Steven Miller and Benny Johnson are already pushing it. Two "journalists" claim to have called a rehab center in Ohio who told them that Talarico checked out recently.

MMatt Royer 🤘🏼@mattroyer.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:50 PM

We spent too much energy telling people that they could be anything they wanted to be if they just believed and making people think that the 1st amendment allows you just to say whatever you want to. And the result is Nick Sortor who thinks he’s journalist making stuff up.

Nick Sortor
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Good morning, @JamesTalarico! Would YOU like to reveal where you *actually* were these past couple weeks, or should me and @RheinAmacher do it?
Please let us know by 1pm ET today!
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:54 PM

You're not the only one!

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@samwang.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:11 PMReposted by @emptywheel.bsky.social

Today I want to talk about my favorite dummymanders. In a dummymander, the geniuses behind the map have cut margins too close, and create vulnerabilities for themselves. tl;dr: pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. Here are four states that took it too far - and where you can make a difference.

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@katestarbird.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:29 PMReposted by @emptywheel.bsky.social

Here's a link to an interactive graph where you can go in, size and color by different properties, click on posts to see their text and even navigate to them in the X platform, and create your own screenshots.
faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...

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