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OG blogger at digbysblog.net
columnist for Salon.com

@thebulwark.comReposted by @digby56.bsky.social

Trump: "I'm very popular. I really am…I'm really popular. I mean, CNN just did a poll. I'm at 99%, the highest ever, in the Republican Party. I'm popular. I'm very popular."

@thebulwark.comReposted by @digby56.bsky.social

Trump: "When you stand up here, it's just like the love. I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap. You know, I love you so much."

@atrupar.comReposted by @digby56.bsky.social

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

@digby56.bsky.social

FOX Business obtained the response from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to the latest request for information from Senator Elizabeth Warren. He's really a snotty little bitch isn't he?

"Finally my offer of a Foreign Exchange for Dummies tutorial still stands and if you receive a passing grade in the Yale metric not the Harvard curve, I would be happy to include a Fixed Income for Dummies. Sincerely, Scott Bessent Happy Indigenous Day in advance to you and your family.
@digby56.bsky.social

Trump said today that he may change the name of the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean to “Trump Ocean”. You'd think he's just trolling but since he's regularly "renaming" bodies of water, he may actually do it. It's one of his dumber stunts but he seems to really enjoy making his stooges go along with it.

@aprilglick.bsky.socialReposted by @digby56.bsky.social

she is phenomenally bad at this

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia on Fox & Friends: "People need to start giving him credit for his multifaceted approach and how he's trying to bring down prices almost unilaterally all by himself"

@digby56.bsky.social

He's hated him since the first impeachment and he's hated Ukraine generally since Rudy convinced him that Hillary Clinton had colluded with them to push the Russia scandal. And we know he really digs Vlad.

@mcopelov.bsky.socialReposted by @digby56.bsky.social

Again, the platform must be institutional reform, not just Democrats winning every election forever & Doing an Abundance of Moderate Popularism.

@edroso.bsky.socialReposted by @digby56.bsky.social

It's a hanging curve! Democrats with brains will side with the popular consensus against data centers and AI in public services. They'll associate all techlord and GOP AI hurry-up with the ugliest and stupidest examples of AI failure. At this point it's political malpractice *not* to do so.

@maggiemcneill.bsky.socialReposted by @digby56.bsky.social

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social

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);
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@digby56.bsky.social

He's really fuming. One epic Truth Social rant, another smaller one, a long diatribe at his rally last night, more whining in front of the White House and probably more today in Tennessee. (Why is he campaigning in Tennessee?) Such a deep cut. They gave it to a Black woman judge.

@nameshiv.bsky.socialReposted by @digby56.bsky.social

this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

@digby56.bsky.social

And here I thought the U.S. was the world's biggest oil exporter and we didn't need it from anyone. Isn't that what he's been saying?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I think you heard about the oil deal with Russia. That is a big deal. That is massive amounts of oil coming into our country, and I want to thank President Putin to be honest with you."

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