JUST IN: Citing "onslaught of unlawful and irregular practices" and prolific media interviews by DOJ, lawyers for Don Lemon & Georgia Fort demand release of grand jury transcripts in church protest case. Presumption of regularity is gone, they say. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Andy Pages will always have a special place in my heart for inexplicably swinging at one of these and costing them money.

NEW: it seems SCOTUS has been busy writing opinions during its mid-winter recess. Decisions coming down on Feb. 20, 24 and 25.

This is all due to the incredible resistance of the people of Minnesota. Their resilience - and their determination - helped enforce the Constitution in a way that political elites in Congress and the courts did not or could not. I have never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

Good indicator of how far the needle has moved. You’ll never hear the heads of the Park Police or the Postal Inspection Service saying this.

I would personally not give equal weight to these two rationales, especially since the latter one isn’t true. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

This is something congress can fix and must fix. It's real simple. Pass a law that says "in immigration cases, a habeas petition may be brought in the district of arrest of brought within 3 months of the initial arrest"

I’ve wondered since last September if/how DOJ would try to engineer a challenge to the statute.

RFK Jr/MAHA world say they're not reducing access to vaccines for anyone who wants them, only giving people "choice" to opt out. But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.

I am in search of an Uzbek writer for a project. If you are aware of one that is particularly good, please let me know! I'm casting a wide net—or at least as wide a net as one can cast in the world of Uzbek literature

Welcome back, baseball.

Someone got yelled at.

Woke up to one of the weirdest TFRs I've ever seen. Shout if you know anything, AlexJamesFitz.58 on Signal. www.axios.com/2026/02/11/f...

NEW: Trump DOJ tries, fails to secure indictment over Democratic lawmakers' social media video on unlawful orders. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Barnburner of a curling match right now between the U.S. and Sweden. 8th end is coming up.

HOOOOOO boy. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?" Lyons: "Yes ma'am." McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?" "Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

The administration is shooting people and then lying about them www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

I can’t speak for other writers or publications, but one explanation is that the conservative legal movement is a discrete ideological project that doesn’t really have a liberal counterpart.

MAGA lobbyists are demanding that Trump's antitrust division settle the monopolization case against Live Nation/Ticketmaster. The top lawyers in the department don't want to do it. So now the #2 at DOJ Antitrust just quit.

If New England comes back to win this I’ll name my second son Drake.

he didn't watch Kid Rock either lmao

punting there is unfathomable

One of the last competent American elites. It also helped that every single person complaining about it was supposed to be nearing the tenth year of their Colin Kaepernick boycott.

I think the halftime show crashed Twitter.

Dickson is at worst a top-three option for MVP right now. Media in the press box have gotten very Punter Woke the past few years, too. I'm watching this space closely

This is unironically a great game by the punters.

Is there a term for the entire genre of ads where random actors from 2000s NBC comedies play thinly veiled versions of their characters to avoid licensing fees?

Vibe shift alert.

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

The entire point of sports betting is that you can’t truly know the outcome in advance. If you’re putting money on things like this, you’re just signing up to be on the losing side of insider trading.

Ouch

Contrast this with the WSJ ed board, which semi-trollingly framed it as vindication for John Roberts for taking the federal courts out of gerrymandering. Pros versus amateurs.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

It’s crazy that biathlon was only invented in 1978 to promote The Spy Who Loved Me but it’s stuck around as an Olympic sport ever since

If they do it by delivering another crushing defeat to the Seahawks, I’ll be the first to congratulate them.

Breaking: A divided 5th Circuit panel upheld the Trump administration's policy of placing people arrested in its immigration crackdown in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond. It's the first appeals court to uphold it. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

my poor kid doesn't know what's going on, he just woke up and is trying to eat cheerios and his dad is just bursting into tears and is like "no, no, everything's fine, i'm happy actually"

Hall of Famer Roger Craig! Finally!

ok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ

Trainor admitted this after Trump endorsed someone else for the seat. A stunning lack of both ethics and basic self-respect.

lol wholly endorse. same same same.

I don’t think a different AG would necessarily get better results because so much of this is downstream from Trump/Miller, but it is still really stunning how diminished and weakened DOJ is under Bondi.

There are no atheists in foxholes.

BREAKING: Supreme Court denies California Republicans’ emergency request to block their state’s newly redrawn House map

Meanwhile, still no tariffs ruling from SCOTUS.

The next topic in our sports issue is gambling, the 2nd-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024(!). It has taken over games, leagues, state treasuries, and of course the mostly male bettors, who trend young. Really young. Middle school young. prospect.org/2026/02/04/f...

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...