A federal judge rejected Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's attempt to demote Sen. Mark Kelly over a video reminding the military of unlawful orders. The judge's fiery decision against Hegseth included 15 exclamation points (!) and a quote from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues."

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

BREAKING: A judge rules Pete Hegseth violated Sen. Mark Kelly’s First Amendment rights by moving to strip him of his retired military rank for reminding troops to refuse illegal orders. The judge called the defense secretary’s actions a threat to “the constitutional liberties of military retirees.”

Scholars of genocide have written so much about this kind of dehumanizing propaganda. Now it's happening here.

Tom Homan: Did someone say $50,000?

BREAKING: House Republicans just passed the SAVE America Act — a sweeping federal bill that could disenfranchise millions. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it faces long odds amid unified Democratic resistance.

If the DOJ is operating in good faith, why would it need this information?

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

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You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

In response to a question about the Justice Department's mishandling of the Epstein files' release, Attorney General Pam Bondi said people should instead focus on the stock market. "Americans’ 401k and retirement savings are booming right now,” Bondi said. “That's what we should be talking about."

Please note that she's READING this. She PREPARED this as a rebuttal for questions about Epstein. She planned this, had someone write it down, and read it.

it's moments like these when I rebel against my predisposition for doomerism and refuse to believe we're going to be brought down by some of the dumbest people to ever live.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

The state of US civil-military relations we need a purge tracker

I’m personally fine with Naughty Rabbit performing at the Super Bowl

“Help!” cried Toad. “My best friend is trying to kill me!” “I’m only getting you ready for winter,” said Frog.

I needed this update

This comparison is unfair to the Grinch

Neither the President nor Vice President of the United States can make a public appearance in front of a non-partisan crowd either in America or abroad without being booed.

Isn't the President technically a White House staffer?

The so-called Unitary Executive can personally fire every single person in the executive branch, but he has no control over the blatantly racist posts to his social media account, apparently.

It remains very funny that people are scared of this guy and the evils they imagine him wanting to inflict

There were 89,000 polling places in 2022. 8 states have all-mail elections. At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations. They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.

I think this would have the opposite effect of what is intended. Instead of supressing the vote you’re going to end up with angry people even more determined to cast a ballot bsky.app/profile/marc...

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I don’t like this

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Headed for some real Al Pacino And Justice For All energy here. But in all seriousness, Trump and Bondi have done a pretty good job of ransacking the Justice Department. It will take enormous work to build a new DOJ that reflects our best traditions once we drive this regime out at the polls.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

You know this is all content because doing this actually makes it far harder to secure any type of indictment.

Govt—citing "national security implications"—asks Judge Leon to stay any preliminary injunction he might be contemplating that would stall his Ballroom project. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's no coincidence that Trump is saying this just after Republicans were trounced in Texas over the weekend.

what is even happening anymore. completely insane. trump: ‘we should take over the voting’ www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There’s a highly classified whistleblower complaint about Tulsi Gabbard that’s been held up and not sent to Congress for 8(!) months And a former aide to Gabbard runs her agency’s watchdog office & she got rid of the top attorney in that watchdog office www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

February 2. One month ago today (January 2), Renee Good and Alex Pretti were alive, and the U.S. military hadn't attacked a Latin American nation in decades.

BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.

Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them

Oh. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

If he does this, and isn't impeached and removed, it's a Rubicon moment where we are no longer a republic. Sorry, I don't care how much Republicans like his policies or fear his wrath, you can't just let a president cut checks to himself from the Treasury.

“This case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”

"Demonic," "Godless," "Un-American:" Harmeet Dhillon's Own Misconduct Will Be an Issue in Don Lemon Case emptywheel.net/2026/01/31/d...

Trump DOJ folks are down so bad they are soliciting applicants like they’re trying to sell them a 1997 Toyota Corolla.

2020 never really ended

No, DOJ, I am NOT A ROBOT!

I don’t want to think about Trump’s latest post about Alex Pretti, but we all must, esp. as funding discussions continue. The president is talking about the “stock” of a man subjected to an extrajudicial killing by federal agents who threw him to the ground and shot him repeatedly in the back.

Note the survey was conducted mostly (88%) before Pretti's shooting. Pew looked at how responses differed for those taking the survey after that, finding Republicans a bit more critical of immigration authorities www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Trump’s approval rating stands at 37%, down from 40% in the fall, according to a new Pew survey with 8,500+ respondents.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping deployment of National Guard troops to several major cities across the United States cost taxpayers approximately $496 million from June through December last year, according to an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. https://cnn.it/45B7Ckc