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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, 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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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:43 PM

For those pushing Dems to start making a stink about Elon's fundraising @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social is now doing that.

Josh Turek vs. Elon Musk.
Working-Class Underdog vs. World’s Richest Man. 🥊💥🥊

Who’s your money on?

For context: Elon Musk is unleashing a firehose of cash to boost vulnerable Republicans in the battle for the Senate majority, including my MAGA opponent here in Iowa.

Why’s he so focused on this race in particular, you ask?

Well, I’m what MAGA billionaires like Musk fear most:

A candidate who’s not a millionaire and isn’t trying to become one.
A leader with a well-calibrated moral compass and strength of character.
A senator who can’t be bought.
Basically, an honest and up-sitting public servant.
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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:23 PM

The ones Harmeet Dhillon fabricated a conspiracy against?

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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 5:12 PM

So are you running this as an average? Which is to say, at some point won't Trump surpass Biden?

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@abdulelsayed.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:13 PMReposted by @emptywheel.bsky.social

Mike Rogers knows how to deliver BIG results: bigger hospital bills, bigger access to opioids, bigger war with Iran, and bigger gas prices.

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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:51 PM

And he's even lying about Chinese spying on US elections.

emptywheel.net/2026/07/22/i...

emptywheel.net"I rest my case:" John Solomon, Intelligence Expert - emptywheelThe more you unpack John Solomon's pathetic effort to defend his election stunt from last Thursday, the more the intentionally obscured timeline is of interest.
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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:50 PM

This one shows how he's trying to resuscitate the Hunter Biden bullshit.

emptywheel.net/2026/08/17/j...

emptywheel.netJohn Solomon's Propaganda Technique: Keeping the "Who" "What" "When" Secret to Fool the Rubes - emptywheelJohn Solomon's propaganda continues to fail the most basic rules of journalism: Who, What, and When.
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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:49 PM

I did a story on how Solomon's attempt to undermine the Russian investigation actually COVERED UP anew the Egyptian angle to it.

emptywheel.net/2026/09/10/b...

emptywheel.netBig John Solomon Expose!!!! He's Covering Up Trump's Egypt Corruption! - emptywheelIn his latest Russian propaganda, John Solomon faceplanted in his effort to cover up Trump's related Egyptian corruption.
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