Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

We have a federal administration led by idiots and criminals.

The common-sense reform, of course, being to shut the whole thing down.

Finished my re-read of JURASSIC PARK, by Michael Crichton. Better than the movie. Works as a science fiction cautionary tale, and as a page-turner. 💙📚 #booksky 🪐📚

NEW: Debunked claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election made by notorious conspiracy theorists and election deniers were the basis of the evidence used by the Trump administration to obtain a search warrant for the FBI to raid a Fulton County, Georgia election hub earlier this month.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to gain access to Michigan’ unredacted statewide voter registration list. Another BIG victory for our clients and voters. Another stunning defeat for Pam Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

A federal court just upheld California’s law REQUIRING federal agents to identify themselves. California will keep standing up for civil rights and our democracy.

A thread for writers and readers.

If you're a judge or work in law and still want to get up to speed on climate science and its legal implications, check out the excellent Climate Judiciary Project cjp.eli.org

Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.

It's been almost two months now and they *still* haven't fully released the Epstein files as required by law, and they've overly and suspiciously redacted what they have released, because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

CURRENTLY READING: Michael Crichton’s JURASSIC PARK. I read it long ago, before the movie was made, but have not read it since. The book came up in a Discord discussion today and I remembered how much I liked it, so I nabbed an e-book and boom, here we go. 💙📚 #booksky 🪐📚

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Finished reading JHEREG, by Steven Brust. A little too much easy magic for my tastes, but I liked the first-person narrative and the situation was complicated and unusual. 💙📚 #booksky 🪐📚

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

I sure do miss the days when the U.S. president didn’t do blatantly horrific things every fucking day. Every. Fucking. Day.

Comer said no to the Clintons for a public hearing. The committee will only allow a closed‑door depositions, so the public won’t see the testimony.

A Red-tailed Hawk getting in a good wing and leg stretch before going on the hunt.

But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.

A Great Blue Heron takes off from the icy shoreline to head upstream.

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Trump said Monday the Republican Party should “nationalize” voting in the United States, as he continued to make false claims about alleged illegal voting and his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden.

James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.

"An FBI affidavit issued following the incident also suggests that in the previous shooting cited by DHS, Zambrano-Contreras was not a suspect, but rather a reported victim of a sexual assault and robbery." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

I can’t believe how stupid everything is. I just hate the stupidity.

Sure, give ICE body cams, but realize it won’t really fix anything. Yes, we’ll have more data, but this administration has already shown us it won’t rein in ICE no matter how much video evidence exists. Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE. Shut the whole fucking thing down.

Trump blamed illegal immigration for skewing elections toward Democrats, though there’s no evidence to back up his claims.

ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards

Seriously, it shouldn't be hard to identify the other reporters in the Oval Office and to ask them why they remain silent when the president of the United States verbally attacks one of their colleagues.

“With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for ‘the positive affirmation of peace.’” — The Nation

Rather than "shoot first, ask questions later," Trump's DHS follows instructions to "shoot first, deny what happened." It should come as no surprise to anyone who has some sense of the reality of America under Trump that the DHS claims about shooting two dangerous criminals in Portland are false.

Donald Trump didn't break the political system on his own. Our broken political system is why we have Trump.

I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

There has to be an investigation into the many individuals who committed heinous crimes alongside Epstein. There should be a special prosecutor, or a congressional investigation, that looks into the crimes and the ongoing cover-up. It has to happen.

Tyrant Trump doesn't just want to nationalize the vote, he wants to take-over the vote to control the outcome.

Complicit repukes, that’s how.

Wait … so NOW right-wingers worry about private gun ownership?

I can hear the replies now: 'He can't do that; it's against the law' 'He can't do that; States run elections' Laws have no power without enforcement. So, who is going to enforce those laws? Not generally, but specifically: Who? Bondi's DOJ? Patel's FBI? Hegseth's DoD? Curran's Secret Service? Who?

The phrase "professional activist" is functionally meaningless. It's a term that politicians and corporate targets have used for generations to discredit anyone who's effectively challenged them. Anyone who deploys it in earnest to discredit deeply committed people is broadcasting their ignorance.

NEW: The Clintons have agreed to testify about the Epstein Files before the House Oversight Committee www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

Last night, GOP Senator Rand Paul went on national TV to flatly reject DHS's lies about the Pretti execution: "My advice to [DHS], if they're watching: If you come into [our hearing] and try to justify that [Pretti] was assaulting a police officer, that cannot be acceptable."

Hmmm. I wonder if this will piss off conservative Christians the way the church protest in Minnesota did? Hmmmm.

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

I was pretty fortunate to get a couple of shots recently that are on theme for today #BirdOfTheDay #OpenBeak #OpenWings #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueSkyPhotographer #NatureLovers #Birds #Wildlife

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...