1/ Prof. Jeffrey Gerlertner essentially admits that he pimped out his female students who asked him for a rec. Treating Epstein "like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male" 3 years after his guilty plea is vile. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

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

Bondi Spying On Congressional Epstein Searches Should Be A Major Scandal Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Among the more notable exchanges was when Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked some of Jeffrey Epstein's victims who were in the audience to stand up…

“This is why they're cracking down on observers more aggressively these days, because they know that this project – predicated on lies about lawlessness and violence in these targeted communities – cannot survive the simple power of a photograph or, increasingly, a video.”

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I'm assuming it's generally not good when a judge issues an order pointing out that the government was "not interested in participating in this process" and "essentially told the Court to pound sand." But what do I know? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@gabydvj.bsky.social on the namesake of the Whipple building in Minneapolis, where immigrants and their neighbors are being held

JUST IN: Judge BOASBERG has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Venezuelan men illegally deported under the Alien Enemies Act and who are currently in countries other than Venezuela. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing. Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says. Doc buff.ly/rccakD7

📣 BLURBS 📣 (that I had to argue with the press to obtain) & won't show up on the back of my book. You can see under "Reviews" what 4 scholars (2 historians, 2 political scientists) whose work I greatly admire said about my book: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati... More info also at annaolaw.com

The speech is so well known, we often don't absorb its meaning. Lincoln speech opens stating clearly that the Revolution was to preserve equality and ends saying rule of, by, and for the people is what preserves it. See for yourself 2/2 constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

On Lincoln's birthday, it's useful to remember he believed the primary goal of the American experiment was to guarantee "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and the best way to achieve that goal was through free and fair elections. It's basically the thesis of the Gettysburg Address. 1/2

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from 404 Media: we've confirmed cops are buying access to GeoSpy, an AI that can geolocate photos in seconds. Doesn't use metadata, but clues in the photo like soil, architecture, to pinpoint where social media photos taken. Being used in investigations www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

House Judiciary Cmte Democrats "Not only has Atty General Bondi failed to bring a single indictment against a single co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. But now Bondi and her team are spying on Members of Congress conducting oversight"

The towering mountains of the Canadian Rockies emerge and, briefly, nature manifests as art. Nature's endless artistic potential is all around us. It's not always easy to see, but when you do, it brings great joy. #bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #nature

ICIJ has previously reported the secret story of how the tech giant won access to world leaders, cozied up to oligarchs and dodged taxes amid a chaotic global expansion. Read more from The #UberFiles: buff.ly/JZVo7T1

This is something congress can fix and must fix. It's real simple. Pass a law that says "in immigration cases, a habeas petition may be brought in the district of arrest of brought within 3 months of the initial arrest"

In a shocking result, the USA has slipped to a record low on the corruption perceptions index. This is a measure of public sector corruption from Transparency International, a watchdog organization. Despite corruption rising globally, the USA has steadily slid further in the rankings to 29th place.

Nature recovery in the UK is desperately needed so every win must be celebrated.💚 Beavers were once widespread across Britain but were hunted to extinction 400 years ago. These are deemed keystone species helping to shape the natural landscape benefiting.... Read more: 1planet.substack.com

FDA vaccine chief Vinay Prasad (who blocked Moderna's new flu shot) lives in San Francisco area and usually commutes to the FDA Maryland HQ for several days every two weeks. Taxpayers pay for his commute, which according to one estimate costs around $65,000 a year. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

This seems as good an excuse as any for a short thread introducing people to some single moths I've found in my area, looking for fun. 1. Here, for starters, is a Canary-Shouldered Thorn Moth (I didn't make this up).

Sketches from today's hearing: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/bondis-con...

Allt Coir a' Mhadaidh and Sgùrr an Fheadain #Scotland #IsleofSkye #GlenBrittle www.damianshields.com

On 15 January 2026, Trump pardoned a former FBI counterintelligence agent who had refused to testify about his work for Oleg Deripaska and Dmitry Rybolovlev, permanently sealing records of services US officials secretly provided for sanctioned Russian networks. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/11/t...

I am generally skeptical about the efficacy of spoliation instructions. Yeah, the judge is telling the jury they can assume the missing evidence would be bad for the side that had it, but without evidence of bad faith, I think people cut each other some slack. That said…this looks like bad faith.

I had two clients moved within an hour of ICE learning we were looking for them and advising us there was not plan to move them. A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved. 3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions. 20/

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Tonight's beautiful murder of thousands of crows. ❤️

Marimar Martinez is a hero. Please keep her safe. And please remember every time you hear a claim from the DHS that they will lie. Constantly. Blatantly. Without remorse.

I've written about this (in an article still looking for a home). In short, immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, pay substantial taxes. But they may well stop paying if paying taxes means potential deportation. And it may discourage taxpayers here legally, too. 1/

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

That photographer is Kent Nishimura and incredibly talented photographer!

Was "washed up loser lawyer" one of the insults they pre-loaded in her little "burn book"? Because I'm not sure it nails a Harvard law graduate who taught con law for 25 years before becoming a congressman who's now the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee -- and, um, likely its next chair?

"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"

⚡️US military aid to Ukraine dropped 99% in 2025, report finds. European countries stepped in to fill the gap, increasing military aid to Ukraine by 67% and non-military support by 59% in 2025, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Trump has fired the judges pick. I think there's a viable statutory argument that he does not have authority to do so - that he can only remove Kinsella by getting a nominee confirmed to the post

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one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.

Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.

Well this is kind of exciting: The students are coming! Across the nation, young people are walking out of classes to protest ICE. From my Heads Up News newsletter. www.headsupnews.org/p/the-studen...

There’s a term for this experience (which I imagine many of us are having): Moral injury. Moral injury is the distress that occurs in response to betrayal by authority structures and being unable to prevent acts that go against one’s deeply held values and moral beliefs.

We turned our neighborhoods into surveillance panopticons to help Amazon get a foothold in thousands of law enforcement agencies, chiefly because it wanted to cut its annual shrinkage from package theft by a few percentage points.

Ring’s national expansion closely tracked Amazon’s own established growth strategy: ignoring near term profit to secure platform dominance. It did this by subsidizing the devices through police-driven distribution (literally free giveaways for people willing to download its neighborhood snitch app)

"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...