As @brendannyhan.bsky.social says on repeat, what would you say if you saw it happening in another country? Source: x.com/HBRabinowitz...

French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel was negotiating to provide prosecutors with evidence against Epstein in 2016—three years before he was finally arrested—but ultimately backed out Must-read WSJ scoop www.wsj.com/us-news/epst...

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

"Eighty percent of Americans said voters have a responsibility to keep up with the news, but just 8% said they had a responsibility to pay for it." www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

Lee Gelernt: The United States government obviously knew that was what was gonna happen to these men

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

Hegseth's unconstitutional retaliation against Sen. Kelly was so brazen that an exasperated federal judge used more than a dozen exclamation points! Highlights from the ruling: "Horsefeathers!" and "Please!" "That is a troubling development in a free country!" buff.ly/YY60KWM

“We can outlast an occupation”: Frey celebrates as Minneapolis ICE surge ends

What's next? Encouraging people to vote?

Judge Boasberg seems happy: "Apparently not interested in participating in this process, the Government’s responses essentially told the Court to pound sand."

BREAKING Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing. Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says. Doc buff.ly/rccakD7

UPDATE: Kinsella has been fired.

Typically, the humiliation of a no-bill is that prosecutors could not persuade a *majority* of grand jurors to indict on a relatively low burden of proof. Every single grand juror knew this case was a disgrace, per this reporting. 🔽

Rep. Becca Balint's grandfather died in the Nazis' Mauthausen concentration camp. Pam Bondi just suggested Balint was antisemitic.

Rep. Balint: This is not a game, Secretary. Bondi: I'm Attorney General. Balint: Apologies, I couldn't tell.

The word “undignified” doesn’t have nearly enough circulation.

Before last year, attorneys general didn't read political opposition research from a binder to attack the party out of power during House Oversight hearings, entirely disconnected to any question asked by any lawmaker.

Given repeated opportunities, AG Bondi repeatedly refuses to apologize for exposing the identities, sensitive information, and photographs of Epstein victims, attacking lawmakers for asking the question.

Jeanine Pirro tried to jail six Democratic Congress members for accurately stating the Uniform Code of Military Justice. She will forever be a person who has done that and must always be viewed through that prism.

It’s great that the grand jury said nix, but the attempt was a significant escalation.

Grand juries keep seeing through the Trump DOJ's naked attempts to intimidate critics and political rivals — this time for accurately stating that illegal orders must be disobeyed. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

I’m at Denver airport, connecting to a second flight, but reading the affidavit on the first one flight has so pissed me off that I’ve asked the great @klasfeldreports.com to do a Substack live during my layover. Coming your way in 15 minutes at 8 pm ET.

The great @harrylitman.bsky.social and I will be speaking live soon about that Fulton County affidavit. Watch us at 8 p.m. ET. buff.ly/6sbVcE6

The probe behind the Fulton County ballot seizures came on the direct referral of Trump's 2020 Big Lie lawyer Kurt Olsen, unsealed affidavit reveals. Doc buff.ly/FvGkm8h

Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey reut.rs/4kqhinI

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

The Freedom of the Press Foundation files a disciplinary complaint against the federal prosecutor who signed the search warrant of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson, arguing he failed to cite a federal law barring the application. Letter buff.ly/xDHJIy4

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions on Jeffrey Epstein from a House committee, citing 5th Amendment rights.

A hearing in the case of J.G.G. v. Trump is about to begin: Judge Boasberg will consider what relief is available to immigrants whisked out of the U.S. in March 2025 without notice or a hearing. Some background below the main story here at All Rise News

Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says. The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.

Whew, this new ending to the updated story

@klasfeldreports.com notes something others are missing: Even the beginning of Trump's super racist meme is racist. www.allrisenews.com/p/big-lie-ra...

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

This is a really good piece and a quick read that connects some dots that will enrage you and break your heart. We have got to keep fighting this darkness in all the meaningful ways we can find.

The Big Lie was always a racist project Trump's racist video had two parts: a Big Lie rehash and a Jim Crow cartoon. They’re not separate stories. www.allrisenews.com/p/big-lie-ra...

Except for the names of countries he wants to annex.

The fact that Trump’s racist images of the Obamas came at the end of a Big Lie video illustrates why he was sued and prosecuted under the Ku Klux Klan Act. His election subversion tried to erase votes in a handful of diverse cities.

Mr. Musk, while supporting DOGE and serving as an SGE, did you use any substances that are not legal under Federal law?

NEWS Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation. Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service." Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES California GOP request to nix Dem-friendly maps in midterms The decision aligns with Dec ruling that Texas’ new maps couldn’t thrown out “on the eve of an election” @courthousenews.bsky.social

"Trump likely to lose latest fight over felony convictions" After roughly three hours of oral arguments, Judge Hellerstein seems no more likely to transfer Trump's criminal case to federal court than he was the last two times he rejected similar efforts. My recap at All Rise News buff.ly/JpC0Bge

this is pretty wild. good argument for lockdown mode if your threat model is one where you might have your phone seized by the Feds: www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

The @StarTribune.com reports: "Eight more federal prosecutors set to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office" Trump DOJ's hollowing out of experienced prosecutors with integrity continues. buff.ly/nBOCLxt

One of the most prominent firms repping Epstein survivors identified "thousands of redaction failures on behalf of nearly 100 individual survivors." The lawyers rip DOJ's "institutional incompetence."

Counsel for civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong, lead defendant in the St. Paul church protest case, notified the court of the White House’s deepfake image of his client. It’s evidence the government’s “nakedly obvious bad faith.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge DENIES Minnesota’s request to halt Operation Metro Surge. Noting the 8th Circuit vacated her “much more circumscribed” injunction, Judge Menendez notes that one “halting the entire operation” wouldn’t fare better. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Let's speak plainly. In a legitimate criminal cases, political appointees don't have to first hollow out U.S. Attorney offices of objecting career prosecutors with integrity; federal judges don't kill the cases at the cradle, and the government doesn't fight tooth and nail to revive them.

If Dhillon is suggesting Lemon was criminally charged under the Ku Klux Klan Act, and that supposedly makes him a "klansman," then he has company: Donald J. Trump, who was charged under that statute for his attempt to subvert the 2020 election.

"News outlets across the political spectrum need to loudly defend [independent journalists Don] Lemon’s and [Georgia] Fort’s rights. Journalists are not making themselves the story, Trump is.” Full Freedom of the Press Foundation statement below.