Every lawyer. Every bar president and state supreme court justice. Every city and state prosecuting attorney. They all need to read this transcript and @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's reporting.

Grand Ole Pedophiles

Time machine. It’s important that Democrats start using publicly available information like this to hold Republicans accountable every single day. Just because some years ago by doesn’t mean something changed.

Why is the Trump Administration fighting harder to arrest 5-year-old children than pedophiles in the Epstein files?

Trump sure wants to send 5 year o lull d kids to prison

She was asking a question about whether the Epstein survivors have received justice. But Vance wants her to “smile and have some fun” while asking the president a question about trafficking victims. bsky.app/profile/fact...

The CIA is up to something and Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is the longest serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, doesn't like it but can't tell us about it.

No. It wouldn’t.

omg

Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.

"Really hard criminals"

Speak what's a fact and get fired by Trump. Could they have fired her after she resigned? Who will do the lawyering for her 88 cases? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."

“The manufacturing boom President Trump promised would usher in a golden age for America is going in reverse… fewer Americans work in manufacturing than any point since the pandemic ended.” www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

Thank you for putting this so plainly, @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Man in plaid jacket up his phone to. An agent points at him, two agents charge. They get him on the ground. An agent has weapon out. The man tries to get away. "They have their gun *out,*" says the woman making this video. She repeats this. "They have their gun *out.*" www.tiktok.com/@apnews/vide...

The Treasury Sec does seem to lack a clear explanation for the legality of whatever it is the government is doing in Qatar with Venezuelan oil money

the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.

Insane thread

When a whistleblower’s lawyer gives you a deadline and cites the statute, that is not posturing. That is the last stop before Congress. And they just pulled the trigger.

Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED our motion to compel in our DOGE FOIA case involving Musk's phone(s). The government must now reach out to Sean Duffy and multiple Republican Senators to comply. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-j...

Bessent selected option three: Endure righteous wrath.

This is it.

Almost unimaginable, if true:

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Le's cases are the tip of the iceberg. In recent weeks, an overwhelmed DOJ has dropped the ball in dozens of cases, missing deadlines, botching filings, violating orders. Judge say the local DOJ attorneys aren't at fault — but blame their DC leaders. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Some recent examples of courts grappling with errors, misinformation and missed deadlines by the government in immigration cases. This is just in MN, but it's happening around the country too: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Ana VOSS, the civil chief in the Minnesota US attorney's office, has repeatedly had to apologize in court for the office's missteps. She told Judge Blackwell sepcifically that a "lack of training and communication" w ICE's field office was a problem. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

NEW: Children are developing encephalitis as the South Carolina measles outbreak continues. @emilymullin.bsky.social has more:

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

NEW: South Carolina's measles outbreak has reached 876 cases, and for the first time, the state has confirmed encephalitis—brain swelling—in some children who have gotten measles. Encephalitis can cause long-term neurological damage, including intellectual disability. www.wired.com/story/measle...

Part 2 of the exchange.

At what point does a misrepresentation become a lie?

Judge Blackwell continues: "Having what you feel are too many detainees, too many cases, too many deadlines, and not enough infrastructure to keep up with it all, is not a defense to continued detention. If anything, it ought to be a warning sign."

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Who is antifa? Pretty much everyone it turns out

The Senate report: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

These numbers are simply incredible. It's very clear that most ordinary people have figured out that ICE is not remotely functioning as a law enforcement agency any longer and that none of this is about enforcing the law in any recognizable sense.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

I don’t like this

Reporter: There’s a call from Epstein survivors to have Ghislaine Maxwell moved to a high security prison. What do you want to have happen? Melania Trump: We are here to celebrate the release and the life of those two incredible people. Let’s honor that.

We did an accounting of the first year of Trump's pardons. It's ugly, corrupt, and unprecedented: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Q: Has President Putin agreed to release more Ukrainian children? MELANIA TRUMP: I'm working on it

Q: Why do you feel it's appropriate to use an official White House event to promote your movie? MELANIA TRUMP: This is not a promotion (She promoted her video literally 5 minutes ago during this same event)

"The pretext for this war has always been a bogus premise. Yet federal agents treat it with the dogma of settled fact: They dress for the war they want. Agents march into town in the costume of a foreign invasion."

Here’s the clip of Melania promoting her movie minutes before she denied promoting her movie

CASTEN: I want to read you a quote -- 'tariffs are inflationary and would strengthen the dollar.' Do you recognize it? BESSENT: You're referring to a letter a wrote. Tariffs could be inflationary CASTEN: No no. It says 'tariffs are inflationary.' Do you want to correct the record?