holy shit

Who’s responsible for the snow mess in Montgomery County? Everyone and no one, it turns out: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

The council will receive a briefing at 1:30 p.m. today on the county's snow removal response. You can watch this discussion here. www.youtube.com/c/MoCoCounci...

ALRIGHT SO I KNOW YOU SAID WE DON’T HAVE AN EXTRA $200 BUT HEAR ME OUT.

On the one hand this feels like a mischaracterization, on the other hand I'm here for it.

There is a certain freedom in no longer giving a flying fuck about keeping your job working for the worst people imaginable, as Attorney Le has shown us.

I couldn't download the video, so excuse the link, but a white guy in a MAGA hate in Kyle, Texas put his hands on two teenage girls who were protesting and soon all the kids were ready to fight. www.instagram.com/reel/DURnRRf...

Presumably, this guy considers himself part of the party that keeps insisting their top priority is "protecting women and girls"

I’m going to turn this up for the boys in the back with comprehension troubles.

I really wish political reporters defended each other in the Oval Office when Trump attacks one of them as vigorously as they do online when they're criticized by the public for lackluster journalism.

Here's Soon-Yi Previn, wife of Woody Allen, who was groomed by Allen as a teenager, defending Anthony Wiener and saying the 15-year-old girl he preyed on should "feel ashamed of herself" for manipulating him into a sexual relationship.

9p Tues: Radar detecting some spotty snowflakes, mainly south of Beltway, but they may be evaporating before hitting the ground. Any reports of snow out there? It looks like mostly a non-event for the Beltway area. Could we see some flurries overnight? Sure. But accumulation doesn't appear likely.

Apparently morale at DOJ is so low that line attorneys are asking to be held in contempt so they can get some sleep yikes

We’re gonna need more hats aren’t we thelawfarestore.com/listing/4316...

WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DHS?????

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

A federal judge in Minneapolis has ordered Anthony Kazmierczak detained pending future proceedings in the assault case against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

French police have raided the Paris offices of X and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of a cybercrime investigation into artificial intelligence-generated pornographic deepfakes and Holocaust denial. www.ms.now/news/french-...

Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"

Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”

Pathetic. Remember when the RNC bought 400K copies of Don Jr's book? Or when they bought a bunch of copies of Dan Crenshaw's book? Or when the bought a bunch of tickets to Dinesh D'Souza's movie? Or Melania? What a bunch of weirdo losers.

The messaging is already starting for whatever evidence Tulsi Gabbard is about to fabricate. REMEMBER: Every person in the Trump administration 1.0 said there was NO outcome determinative FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE in 2020.

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Didn't this happen in My Cousin Vinny?

JUST IN: Judge limits tactics against anti-ICE protesters in Portland OR. Judge Michael Simon (Obama) sees chill on 1st Amendment activity & says DHS has a "culture...to celebrate violent responses." w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social @natsfert.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Vietnam's military planners are concerned about a second invasion by the United States. the88project.org/research/han...

Update: The US shot down an Iranian drone targeting the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, and an American-flagged ship evaded an attempt by armed Iranian gunboats to force it to stop, as tensions escalate in the Persian Gulf. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The House has voted to approve a five-bill minibus and two-week continuing resolution to fund DHS, sending the package ending the partial government shutdown to President Trump's desk for his signature. thehill.com/homenews/administ...

"Trump's policies on aid and democracy deeply endanger America's traditional allies in the post-Soviet world such as pro-democracy NGOs and independent news media." harriman.columbia.edu/pulling...

(AP) — Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya's late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in the northern African country, Libyan officials said Tuesday. apnews.com/article/libya-seif...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, (R-Kentucky), who is 83, hospitalized with "flu-like symptoms," according to his office.

CBC - Former prime minister Harper urges Liberals and Conservatives to come together as Canada stares down two potentially existential threats to its sovereignty: an imperialist president to the south and separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec. www.cbc.ca/news/politics/step...

Wonderful tribute by @jackohman.bsky.social to @anntelnaes.bsky.social exit from WaPo

Donald Trump invites Americans to believe there’s no money left to make health care affordable while he spends billions of taxpayer dollars to hire masked ICE & Border Patrol agents to intimidate, attack, arrest & even kill our people. Mr. President, we reject these authoritarian priorities.

I commend County Executive Ball & local leaders in Howard Co for working to block ICE's attempt to set up another detention facility in Maryland. We saw the inhumanity of ICE's operation in Baltimore & Marylanders have made clear: we do not want these facilities in our state.

Many said we were exaggerating a year ago when we argued that Trump is a clear and present danger to our democracy. A year later they are eating their words. It’s up to every single one of us to save our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Watch closely: Donald Trump is plotting to rig the midterms. In just the past 2 weeks, his AG demanded that Minnesota turn over voter rolls, his DNI raided 2020 election ballots in Georgia, & he called to 'nationalize' our elections. We must mobilize to protect our democracy.

The whole reason this is being discussed is because ICE unilaterally decided in a memo last year that they could operate outside of the Fourth Amendment.

This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen. It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).

Anaïs Mitchell weeps.

BREAKING: The Senate just confirmed this man to be a lifetime federal judge in Texas. Vote was party-line. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/nick-ganje...

Here's the actual dismissal of Chad's complaint: media.cadc.uscourts.gov/conduct/docs...

Here's the D.C. Circuit order in one of the four law firm cases (though it was filed in all four): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

tl;dr: After slow-walking the law firm appeals for months, DOJ tried to rush the Zaid case to the front of the line. Presumably, they think they have a stronger case for a single revocation than the firm-wide efforts in the EOs. But, the lawyers called it out and the D.C. Circuit isn't OK w/ it.

NEW: D.C. Circuit proposes a briefing schedule for the law firm EO challenge appeals and holding arguments on the same day and before the same panel as the Zaid case appeal (over security clearance revocation). Parties are to respond by noon Thursday if they have any arguments against this plan.

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

[PS: Obviously I love breaking news, and am constantly posting breaking news here. I just meant, like, “I’m not the AP or Reuters; I don’t need to be doing a breaking news report for things when a more considered report would be better for me and my audience.”]

One of the things that I most like about the way that I am able to operate at Law Dork is that when I want to spend time looking into something before I write, I just do it. When I think I need to spend more time on the law behind something before I tell you what’s going on, I just do it.

I feel like there is no such a thing as financial aid anymore. I don't think giving my kid a loan to cover 2% of her education costs for the year is really going to help her out, or me. You read that right, 2%. Now she just needs to figure out the other 98%.