The ethic that the Trump administration is instilling in government agencies is one of evasion, defiance and dishonesty

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...

This explains why they had people dressed as bushes. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

We saw this pattern in infrastructure cuts during the shutdown, cuts alleging social services fraud, cuts to contractors under DOGE: all targeted to blue states. It is an obviously partisan abuse of power, brazen and on a scale we simply have not seen before. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters

Bad Bunny > Puppy Bowl > TP USA/Kid Rock

Over the weekend, I tested a hypothesis that because Trump made the right wing culture that is the core of Red State support for Republicans toxic, his OWN toxicity may make those areas contestable. emptywheel.net/if-magat-pol...

404 Media bought a superbowl ad, and it’s the charming, feel-good story you need today https://www.404media.co/watch-404-medias-super-bowl-ad/

The Coinbase karaoke ad is the most honest crypto ad ever made. 1. Lure people in with something fun and exciting. 2. Hide what it really is. 3. Reveal it at the end. 4. Listen to the groans. A rug pull singalong! At least no one lost their life savings this time.

“LESS THAN 14%” They have been lying all along www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

Confirmed: Todd Blanche Locked Ghislaine Maxwell into a False Story, Then Rewarded Her emptywheel.net/confirmed-to...

I guess I should add that it's GOOD these guys are trying to retcon with the NYT's help, even if you shouldn't believe that it's driven by any real honest introspection. It means the delicate alliances that propped up this deadly kakistocracy are fracturing and they know shame is returning.

again I know a lot of them, and unless I missed it, I've yet to see a single one of these free market think tank knobs face ANY meaningful reputational impact whatsoever in the Loper Bright, Supreme Court-driven, corruption free for all their policy proposals directly enabled

most of these "libertarian free market think tankers" were paid covertly under the table by America's shittiest companies to argue for ZERO functional oversight of corporate power, then when the corpses, rampant fraud, and mass suffering appear, they're just completely intellectually fucking absent

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Even among Trump's core constituencies, opposition to ICE is strong. Turns out that most people don't like living in a police state. From @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2062...

Republicans have literally taken money that previously provided VA care and used it to pay thugs to murder a VA nurse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3U...

This week Section 230 turned 30, and you'll see a bunch of posts on Techdirt today and the rest of the week about the importance of Section 230, but my first contribution this week is how the arguments against 230 are so contradictory that it should give everyone pause to consider why.

WATCH - @repstansbury.bsky.social : “The 🇺🇸 government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking and influence-peddling scandal in history, and Trump is right at the center of it— and the person who knows what’s going on is trying to invoke the 5th to buy her clemency.”

"Purchasing and converting these warehouse detention camps will cost the US #government billions of dollars. So far ICE has purchased at least half a dozen warehouses at a cost of $70-$110 million each. It'll cost billions more to refit them into detention […] [Original post on newsie.social]

Hundreds of millions spent on human misery

A lawyer explicit requesting a quid-pro-quo reward for clearing Trump is what we get given an openly corrupt pardon system donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

Coinbase Super Bowl Ad Tells Truth About Crypto—Accidentally. About that “Rug Pull Singalong”... www.theframelab.org/coinbase-sup...

CNN: “Maxwell can clear Trump’s name in exchange for clemency, attorney says” 🤔 Translation: they think we are all idiots

I remember Trump suing CBS and the BBC about "unfair" edits. MAGA insisted they had to do this because such edits are illegal (they're not). But of course they have nothing to say about @nbcnews.com editing out the boos of JD Vance

I have a new post at Techdirt that is both a look back at just about everything I've written about Section 230 since its 20th birthday, and a crash course in how it works and why we need it.

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

New: Binance holds 87% of the Trump family's stablecoin—$4.7 billion—a higher concentration than any other major stablecoin has at any single exchange. Its U.S. affiliate holds $1,119. me, for @forbes.com

The largest investor in the Trump's BribeCoin was also pardoned by Trump. What are the odds?

"But in July 2006, just as Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case became public, Trump called then-Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter to tell him that Epstein’s activities with teenaged girls were well known in both New York and Palm Beach." #EpsteinFiles

Currently, the outrage to the visible contents of the Epstein files is so mild that I have to think the majority of people just aren’t even casually checking them. I can’t think of a phrase to describe what I’ve read even as a forensic analyst. “Cartoonishly evil” is too gentle. Horrific. Inhuman.

Benito Bowl Explained: All the Hidden Symbols and Meanings You May Have Missed in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Set: From the colors on set to a proud display of flags, here are the details of Bad Bunny’s halftime Show explained […]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116040136897752985 It's always hard for me to accept that the kind of people that actively profit off the misery of others not only exist, but how much overlap there is between power and these kind of psychopaths

NEW EPSTEIN SURVIVORS AD: “3 million files still not released — stand with us. Tell AG Pam Bondi to release the files. It’s time for the truth.”

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WATCH: @harryjsisson.bsky.social asks @tomilahren why she suddenly seems to have lost interest in the Epstein Files (now that Trump is mentioned in them more than Harry Potter is mentioned in all 7 books)

"What about that 5-year-old citizen?" The 5-year-old citizens who know Ramos best are literally asking for his return. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

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Perfect

Yep

I keep trying to figure out wtf he means by "I also think what about that 5-year-old US citizen?" Because I think that 5 year old US citizen is much more harmed by the knowledge that their friends could be kidnapped & disappeared than the fact that a kid in their class's family is seeking asylum.

My first grader (a US citizen) came home from school crying because a friend from class (also a US citizen) hasn’t been coming to school because his parents (one of whom is not a citizen) are afraid of ICE. Little kids don’t have concepts of racism and xenophobia. That has to be taught. Or imposed.

"The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home," writes Cengiz Yar in his ground reporting from Minneapolis for @ProPublica, where he and colleague Peter DiCampo witnessed ICE raids, protestors enduring cycles of tear gas, detentions and regrouping, and more. "I do not have the […]

At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #borderpatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #losangeles, #chicago & #minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was […]

Prosecutors Began Investigating #reneegood’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. The orders, they said, came from senior ofcls, including #kashpatel, #fbi director, who worried that pursuing a #civilrights investigation—by using a warrant obtained on that basis—would contradict #trump’s […]

"We now live in a country where five-year-olds get arrested and pedophiles don’t." ~ Marcie Jones https://www.wonkette.com/p/epstein-files-news-fbi-caught-lying #ice #epstein #dhs #epsteinfile #cbp #jeffreyepstein #DonaldTrump #trump #gop #politics #us #usa #UnitedStates #america

ICE officials said he ran into a wall, which doctors immediately rejected as inconsistent with the wounds. The immigrant's account - that he was beaten in the head by steel batons, contrary to DHS guidelines - is more plausible. But no accountability exists for him, or us. apnews.com/article/immi...