Tomi Tee

Tomi Tee

@tomitee.bsky.social

Wanderer. I do the artings and the writings.

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The chips staled long ago, and the jerky has turned. It’s quieter now that the sun has fallen. I nabbed a piece of charred kindling. Maybe I’ll draw again when the light comes back. #flashfiction #sketchbook

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NEW: A federal judge has now ruled that former SDNY prosecutor, Maurene Comey, was UNLAWFULLY fired by the Trump DOJ. He orders her retroactive reinstatement and back pay. Comey alleged in her lawsuit that she was fired for politically motivated reasons. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

cnbc.comTrump DOJ unlawfully fired Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, judge rulesThe judge ordered that Comey, the daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, be retroactively reinstated to her job as an assistant United States attorney.

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BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

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Watch this with Trump at his side, remember the dissents in the birthright citizenship case — www.lawdork.com/p/six-opinio... — and understand there are no limits, no places they wouldn’t go.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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Trump's DOJ told a judge how to rule. Then it pulled her from court. Karen Donoso Stevens' allegations, which she's sharing publicly because of her deep concern for the court's integrity, were corroborated by contemporaneous notes as well as colleagues, family and attorneys interviewed by WaPo.

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Attn: USPS changes mean your ballot may not be postmarked the same day you mail it. Don’t wait until Election Day! Deadlines vary by state. Some require ballots to ARRIVE by Election Day, not just be postmarked.

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Yeah, this man should not be allowed to practice law, and any failure to take away his ability to practice law after all of this would be a part of the end of the rule of law in America.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)

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So if you’re furious as you fill up your tank, just remember Exxon is making a lot of money off you.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Trump & co said the quiet part out loud today: these BOGUS lawsuits are about subverting elections & it’s because he’s scared of YOUR vote Suing now bc your guy might lose later? Like all their election shenanigans: sow chaos & cling to power It's not going to work -TN

reuters.comUS Justice Dept sues to block possible Alaska election of Democrat to SenateControl of the US Senate could come down to Alaska, where incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan is ⁠running a closely contested race against Democrat Mary Peltola.

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Replying to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEW, NYT: More action from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of California that is not based in law and runs counter to DOJ policy. DOJ is threatening local elections officials in CA after DOJ did not get what they wanted from their BS lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

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Revelations about WH's involvement in Epstein memo in files pried loose by @democracydefendersfund.org lawsuit Trump was briefed his name was in the files--Weeks later his deputy chief of staff was editing the DOJ-FBI memo that declared the matter closed Patel sent the draft: "Here you go"👇 -TN

rawstory.comSecret email puts White House fingerprints on Epstein memo: 'Someone needs to own this'Following a briefing in June 2025 to inform President Donald Trump that his name was in the Epstein files, the Department of Justice and the FBI quietly issued a joint memo that shook the administrati...

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Carter has since issued a scheduling order that... basically ignores the DOJ shenanigans and moves forward with his hearing set for next week.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEW: After appealing Judge Carter's failure to rule on a TRO request (w/out mentioning the hearing date he set) in DOJ's "likely noncitizens" voting case, DOJ has now requested that Carter issue a preliminary injunction pending that appeal.

Hate him to my very fkn core.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Telling a woman to shut up when she’s asking about the attack ad you’ve backed calling a pedophilia victim a loser is like a turducken pf misogyny

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They’ve already started. They filed a suit today to effectively throw out Alaska’s election results if Dan Sullivan (the incumbent) doesn’t win

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

Trump’s personal Attorney General Todd Blanche doesn’t rule out challenging election certifications in various states (You are not alarmed enough)

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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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A victory for ordinary people & a rebuke of the Trump admin & Elon Musk, the billionaire it put in charge OPM had no business giving DOGE data on tens of millions of people @democracydefendersfund.org, EFF & partners stand w/ AFGE & federal workers. Full statement 👇 -TN

democracydefendersfund.orgBig Win for Federal Workers: Federal Court Rules OPM Broke the Law by Handing DOGE Access to Sensitive DataA federal judge ruled OPM violated the Privacy Act, unlawfully disclosed records belonging to tens of millions of current, former, and prospective federal workers.

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NEW: New Mexico AG, @nmdoj.bsky.social, just announces that a judge has issued a judgment in the amount of $25 BILLION against Meta for lying to consumers and users about how Meta collected, protected, shared, and used their personal information.

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50 years ago, the Attorney General went to prison for committing crimes to cover up the criminal actions of the President of the United States. The fallout from Watergate led to the building of a wall of independence at DOJ that lasted half a century. That wall has been shattered by Trump's people.

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

Attorney General Todd Blanche says there's a "misperception that there's this separation and independence between the Department of Justice and the White House." "I work for President Trump."

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Great news! The Trump admin went to the Supreme Court looking for permission to forcibly detransition inmates who have been on hormones for decades, deliberately denying them medical care that their doctors prescribed. Thankfully, the Court refused to grant the request. Alito and Thomas would have.

Kelsey Reichmann@kelseyreichmann.bsky.social

Breaking: Supreme Court denied Trump’s emergency application to restrict gender-affirming health care for transgender inmates @courthousenews.bsky.social

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This has been the fundamental mechanism through which political media operates my entire life. The right makes a bunch of noise about a fake scandal, the mainstream media "covers the controversy," & normie voters get the vague impression that Dems are constantly involved in scandal.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

This awful saga is a good glimpse into how MAGA gets propaganda laundered into mainstream discourse by making just enough noise to get news outlets to treat their outrage as a "controversy," which then requires even-handed treatement of both sides' stances: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

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Under previous admins, a green card holder reentering the US who had a flag for a possible fraud issue re: an arrest which occurred TWO DECADES in the past would have, in most cases, been released with a Notice to Appear. But the Trump admin mandates detention. So a man is dead.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

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Think our effort to address the damage done by DOGE Is over? Not at all! We just won summary judgment proving that they abused our data And we are also litigating in fed court on behalf of the countless people they injured at USAID

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Ouch. LA County files response to DOJ in court. LA County ran a sample of the DOJ list of so-called noncitizens registered to vote. 42.9% of sampled voters were canceled 71.2% of sampled individuals have never voted 25.8% of sampled voters record a place of birth in U.S.A.

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the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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Ricardo Gonzalez, a 40-year-old U.S. citizen, was riding his e-bike in Long Beach, California, when ICE agents struck him with an unmarked vehicle and tased him twice. ICE thought he was someone else.

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That’s Micah Bock, communications director for disgraced former congressman Madison Cawthorn, and who himself was accused in college of rubbing his genitals on a sleeping woman and then defending himself later with the argument that “she was asking for it.”

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

The new flack at DHS openly pushing "remigration."

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Replying to @altnps.bsky.social

Meanwhile, Europe is developing its own satellite communications systems, and Ukraine is seeking alternatives to Starlink as trust in Washington continues to deteriorate. Threatening our allies over Musk’s business interests only gives them more reason to reduce their dependence on it.

ft.comUS threatens Europe over Starlink restrictionsAmbassador Andrew Puzder warns about ‘devastating’ retaliation if Brussels goes ahead with plans to limit spectrum access for non-EU companies

😭🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

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This is pathetic. Ukraine tested Starlink speed restrictions in Europe and had no issues - the restrictions only exist in Ukraine. The Trump administration is actively helping Russia kill Ukrainians - and risking the lives of US and NATO advisors in Ukraine.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?

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Nine former FBI employees who worked on Trump’s classified documents case sued FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche today, they were unlawfully fired for doing their jobs.

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The Trump admin claims it found 20,000 possible noncitizens on the voting rolls in California and is seeking a court order forcing the state to segregate every ballot sent to those individuals. Remember what happened the last time they made wild claims like this? DHS has ZERO credibility here.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: DOJ sued California on Thursday just moments after the 48-hour deadline it gave election officials to review an unverified list of thousands of alleged noncitizens the Trump administration claims are illegally registered to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Exactly as expected.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'

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Zelensky: It's a pity that we are losing a strong partner. Morgan: You think you're losing America? Zelensky: Yeah, but not because of us. We can’t be weak. Otherwise, we can’t survive… This is why it’s painful when Trump chooses to be on Russia’s side. This is not the right side of history.