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So my credit card is expiring, and I got the new one, and am updating all the various services... and seeing that a good percentage of them use something called "Link" but I have no idea what "Link" is, but I have to keep getting texts from Link.
I wrote a thing about the whole shipping people to South Sudan nonsense. RE:
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Homeland Security Defies Orders, Engages In More Human Trafficking Eight men were put on a plane from Texas, bound for South Sudan — a country ...
When Paul Weiss caved, you knew a bunch of their lawyers were going to leave. I'm honestly a bit surprised it's taken this long, even though I know it takes some time to get a new firm spun up and everything. RE:
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The holiday weekend legal news keeps coming. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/karen-dunn-paul-weiss-partners.html?smid=nytcore-ios-sha...
Service journalism. RE:
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I did some shoe-leather reporting on the story that has all of America buzzing. And what I found, will shock you. https://defector.com/is-jon-heyma...
He is not wrong. The first part of the story I was like "okay, yeah, a little weird, but nothing too crazy." And then... RE:
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Me writing up the stuff about Harvard. "Oh, I'm sure a lawsuit will be filed soon." Finish writing and look. Lawsuit filed. Finish edit and get ready to post. Look one last time. TRO already entered. Things move fast these days. RE:
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DHS Strips Harvard’s Foreign Student Program Just As Judge Blocks Separate Mass Student Expulsion Scheme DHS announced yesterday that Harvard c...
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Note that courts have already thrown out similar investigations by both Missouri and Texas as an obvious and blatant attack on [@mmfa.bsky.social](
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Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
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The FTC is investigating Media Matters, questioning whether it colluded with advertisers for a boycott against X https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22...
Hmm. Working on a fun little side project. Came up with the perfect domain name for it. Go to [@namecheap.com](
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