Turns out the “brief period” equaled 17 whole minutes.

I'm reading a book where two girls find out the FMC's secret. One rats her out, the other doesn't. What does the evil man holding them all captive do? Kills the girl who kept the FMC's secret and rewards the one who told. We are not (yet) to that point.

"This is not who we are" is the retort to some of the most egregious actions of this administration. But ordinary Americans are collaborating eagerly with Trump and his ilk. This is EXACTLY who we are. Accountability demands we recognize this, write it down, keep the receipts.

Note, NYT assumes that DHS told the truth about what happened, which would be crazy because they literally Never Have when they shot someone, especially an American.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/metada...

Always the latter where corporate greed is involved

Will the Trump administration even bother to refund the tariffs if SCOTUS told them to? Or will this lead to more lawsuits?

In dissent, Thomas debuts a new, Trump-friendly theory that the non-delegation doctrine does not apply to former "powers of the Crown," including tariffs, which are ostensibly not "within the core legislative power." This seems brazenly gerrymandered to accommodate Trump's wishes ...

Gorsuch also tries to conscript Kagan to the major questions camp in his concurrence, prompting Kagan to write this very funny footnote saying she is not, in fact, a convert to his cause. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Hilariously, Gorsuch and Barrett have a side-battle over the major questions doctrine, with Gorsuch writing a 46-page solo concurrence saying it's a substantive canon and Barrett saying it's a mere tool of statutory interpretation. So these two can't even agree on what the "doctrine" actually means.

This was exactly the outcome that the justices telegraphed at oral arguments FWIW. slate.com/news-and-pol...

On a happier note, I've been strict with my first year university students and banned all phone use during practical lessons. Today's lesson had some downtime as they waited for equipment to be available. They all ended up chatting and speaking to each other and it was lovely. Less phone time ftw!

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The details are making me more and more angry.

When the judge is an experienced mountaineer 😶 I cannot cannot canNOT fathom some of the choices the couple made, before they even began their ascent. She was in *snowboard boots* to summit a 3,798 m peak. They passed the last hut too late. The helicopter was in the air. We may never know.

Yes, that’s why my family left Germany because they really wanted to go to Great Britain and sort of missed it by thaaat much

This is how empires speak.

Considering how many MAGA people went to some of these, especially the Ivy Leagues - including Hegseth himself - this is silly.

Ahn Bo-Hyun in endless knit henleys in Spring Fever is sending me.

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1/ SCOOP: The process that led to the FBI’s seizure of 2020 election materials from GA has been going on longer than previously known – with meetings among top Trump administration lawyers about election integrity dating back to at least last fall. www.propublica.org/article/thom...

11/ Read on for the full story of how a small, interconnected group of Trump administration lawyers from Missouri played a behind-the-scenes role in the raid in Georgia… www.propublica.org/article/thom...

"Der Führungsanspruch der Vereinigten Staaten jedenfalls ist angefochten, vielleicht schon verspielt." Das sagte Kanzler Friedrich Merz in seiner Eröffnungsrede der dreitägigen Konferenz in München. #EuropeNews

Loving the WSJ, of all papers, bringing these stories.

How is Congress feeling about this misappropriation?

“Car infrastructure first” has failed—loud, polluted, and dangerous streets are the result. Build people infrastructure (sidewalks, protected lanes, safer crossings, transit priority) and we get calmer traffic and healthier communities. Newton is the latest proof.

They've even lost Nancy Mace on this one. Johnson is being a typical Trump stooge. "If it happened, but I haven't seen that it has" 🙄

Burn it all down.

This will feature for not even 2 seconds then disappear

Marimar Martinez was shot by Border Patrol five times. DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist. She went to court to get the body cam footage released. It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn. Saying “do something b*tch”. Ramming her car. Shooting her. It shows DHS lied.

Transparency and accountability. After DHS shot Marimar, they lied about it and then tried to criminalize her. Now, it is time they release the footage because Marimar deserves justice.

BBC better be angry right now

Damn i remember some big lawsuits of broadcasters over editing of events showing WH figures

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

The Trump Administration again and again reduces America to Donald Trump. Tusk speaks in terms of country to country. Amb Rose speaks in terms of POTUS and his power. Pathetic.

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

Why make overtures to a country supplying arms to Russia that kill Ukrainians, while breaking down relations with every other country that has come to aid the US in the last 2 decades of foreign wars?

Bizarre choice

What a journey in local politics, in support of bike lanes.

Italians not loving the idea of ICE anything on Italian soil

Names and info are indeed in this article. Curious that it is labeled "opinion" then.

Spring Fever is just an Ahn Bo Hyun thirst trap. Lmao

It's not enough.

Throwing out the 2nd amendment

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This country is in crisis because of its reckless and deranged leadership, something a majority of Americans are coming to understand. That is worth stating plainly and clearly in an editorial. It does not require both-sides-ism, false equivalence, blame-shifting, or rhetorical ass-covering. x

Throwing out the 1st amendment

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...