This is really amazing - a conservative instructor at a right wing center recently created by the Ohio GOP attacks a lefty gadfly journalist and MAGA is acting like the assailant is a left wing professor. Just an impossible information bubble.

This is exactly the kind of b.s. that makes me worry about the midterms. In some places these judges will be making consequential decisions about whether Trump can steal elections by deploying ICE around polling places, baselessly claiming fraud and seizing ballots, etc.

a climate of #corrutrumption 🏔️☀️⛰️

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I gotta say things are not looking good for white culture if we’ve got this guy out here as our spokesperson

So remember kids... Bullying works.

This is actually an ESSENTIAL articulation of this admin’s immigration policy. Policymaking is about weighing equities. In normal policymaking, the rights of the people you’re going after count as an equity. It appears for all the world that this administration’s decisionmaking simply ignores them.

In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).

Pam Bondi is Doing Politics Right By Ezra Klein

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I can think of several dozen historians who would be happy to lecture @jaketapper.bsky.social about why "concentration camp" is, in fact, an apt term.

Yes, NBC out-rated us this week, but it’s completely unfair to compare us when one of their anchors’ mothers was kidnapped and none of ours were. by Bari Weiss

In 20 years the world will recognize the pivotal role the US had to play was providing inspiration and stern resolve to not be like us. Will they even say Thank you?

Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?

Kinda feels like this should be a bigger scandal. I know that every day there are a dozen things that should be a scandal. But this one should be bigger.

This is just unconscionable man

laughing #LawlessICE goons

My favorite part of the lost blankie story is that they had to re-hire the pilot because there was no one else to fly them home

a fun side-effect of europe losing trust in its old ally america is behind-the-scenes discussions about a european nuclear deterrent www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lots of bizarre anecdotes about Noem-Lewandowski DHS dysfunction in this WSJ story, but among them are more details about how CBP director Rodney Scott has been marginalized so that CBP field commanders like Bovino can report directly to the top: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

First 4yrs are the most intense, and so much more intense than yesteryear. [If grandparents think parents are doing it wrong, this chart might be instructive as to the size of the cognitive gap.]

But also that total amount of childcare had risen substantially over last 40yrs. Chart splits by hhld income, where Q1 is lowest and Q4 is highest.

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Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading. homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...

so if this were happening in a municipal police department--multiple shootings, including two fatal, in a matter of months with repeated instances of official accounts falling apart--it would be a "time to dissolve the department" level scandal

February 12, 2026

Huge fan of Kinga Glyk's bass playing. Thanks to Rick Beato for another fantastic video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruez...

Everyone in the Epstein emails is making a pubic statement like, “You have to understand: at the time, nobody CARED that he was raping girls!”

Turning Point USA is allegedly "purging" staffers, after Candace Owens's crazy theories about TPUSA's involvement in Charlie Kirk's murder started to catch on with their own employees. My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-ow...

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The GOP has completely invented this fear. It has never happened to an ICE officer. Working as an ICE officer for Trump is safer than being an elementary school student or retail worker: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

No they haven't. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

The lack of national coverage of Border Patrol and Operation Midway Blitz in Chicagoland is perhaps the most profound failure of the media in 2025.

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

"ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation in the Twin Cities may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows." www.theverge.com/policy/87710...

Judge grants Senator Mark Kelly’s preliminary injunction against Secretary of War Crimes Hegseth: “Defendants have trampled on Kelly’s 1st A freedoms… and threatens the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees.”

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My money has long been on Oldham, who wrote a completely unprincipled opinion in the Watson mail-in ballot case before the Supreme Court. He's one of the few people who I think would be worse than Alito on the Court (Bove too, for corruption reasons) electionlawblog.org?p=152986

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

Andy Oldham is NOT a criminal as far as I know, just a far-right MAGA bomb-thrower in robes. That's what Trump will be looking for this time—he views Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett as disappointments. Oldham will also "look the part" for Trump, which we know is a key factor in his selections here.

Pure speculation, but to my mind the top two contenders right now are Emil Bove (3rd Circuit) and Andy Oldham (5th Circuit). Bove is a corrupt partisan who flouted court orders to further Trump's agenda before joining the bench. Oldham is hardcore MAGA extremist who's been auditioning for years.

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gaslighting by #LawlessICE

Hmmm. Louder then.