Staci D. Kramer

Shabbat shalom all y'all.

>>…the Court should promptly dismiss the complaint with prejudice so that Alaska can proceed to administer its elections consistent with state and federal law and without unwarranted interference by the United States.<<

Brazil's advice on ignoring far-right trolls: don't even give water

%>>While he says Mr. Bezos has not interfered in news stories, Mr. Woodward writes that the billionaire owner’s sweeping staff cuts, reorientation of the editorial page and personal ingratiation to the president have betrayed the legacy of a newspaper known for courageous coverage.<<

Ballhalla is the sixth player.

Zendaya in the seats for the WNBA Finals (via WNBA)

Bennett literally states that he wrote a concurrence because Bumatay insisted on going as far as he did in his dissent. This, also, is something that I highlighted — bsky.app/profile/chri... — was happening yesterday during oral arguments.

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“I don’t want any of us to be or feel un-housed in our bodies our towns our movements ever again. This book is my prayer; if you need to use it as shelter, it’s yours.” My memoir HOME OUT THERE is available for preorder now! bookshop.org/p/books/home...

Just noting that during *both* game 1 and game 2 the broadcast of the World Series I watched in Toronto aired long, pre-recorded video sequences that only made sense if the LA Dodgers were playing — even though LA was eliminated 4-0 by the Brewers and is not in fact playing.

There's an interesting and dismaying timeline here, in which the company, the FDA and USDA identified the problem weeks ago but no public recall of the tainted chicken wraps was ordered by the government. The information they've shared appears to be due to excellent reporting by @usatoday.com.

Alt text: This is a terrible look for the WNBA -- and there is no way spin it. I realize all the potential solutions sucked but the prospect of crowning a champion on a Thursday afternoon is just brutal optics (and will be brutal television ratings.) If you are the league, you are praying for a G7.

this is a dream job for one of you, I know it

I don’t care how much you like the quote or the clip or the graphic. Pls Pls Pls don’t share if it’s unsourced and undated. And, hey, maybe try holding out for alt text, too, so whatever you think is worth sharing reach more people.

Vivek Ramaswamay, The Great Unifier:

Complaint: knightcolumbia.org/documents/gx...

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Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Eric Bauza. Legend.

“After nearly two hours of rare Sunday arguments at the West Coast federal appeals court, there did not appear to any path to the panel siding with the Justice Department at this time.”

Bluesky elders know that @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social was the first head of state on the platform!

I don’t care how much you like the quote or the clip or the graphic. Pls Pls Pls don’t share if it’s unsourced and undated. And, hey, maybe try holding out for alt text, too, so whatever you think is worth sharing reach more people.

If you had told me at any point in Lula's 1st or 2nd term not only that I would be rooting for him in the future ... but also that I'd be rooting for his *4th* term, when he's *80*, after multiple corruption convictions... and that I would think it was of *urgent global importance* for him to win...

At the Ninth Circuit in a rare Sunday argument over the request for an injunction pending appeal, Bennett says this US v. CA TRO situation is "far, far, far different than A.A.R.P. ... I don't see how we have jurisdiction." Oral argument here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIrq...

Our research team is doing real-time coverage of emerging news and rumors related to election integrity. We put out several outputs this week. Several of the rumors we covered are still percolating. Some of the stories may become seeds for conspiracy theories later in the cycle. Some highlights...

wellstone was the first politician i ever got to volunteer for. people love to quote “we all do better when we all do better” but i try to live by this one: “If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”

It is ridiculous that we went from Obama to Trump. It’s even more ridiculous that 80 million people decided that a second Trump term would be a good idea. Two versions of America, indeed.

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Shout-out to @archive.org’s @mark.bsky.social, the Wayback Machine’s director, who has long helped steady this ship.

I voted! 🗳️ (absentee, online) Before I moved to Canada, I lived in Raleigh, NC. So as an overseas citizen voter, I'm a Wake County North Carolina voter forever (unless I move back to the States). If you're eligible to vote in the US midterms, I hope you voted too!

Obligatory xkcd:

Hello, new followers. I track ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. This is what the ICE Air operation looked like yesterday, Oct. 23, 2026. --88 flights --14 removal stops --3 third-country removal stops --Nearly all adult passengers shackled at the ankles, wrists & waist.