Haha why bother? Trump will just pardon him in one of his waves of pardons for white collar fraudsters

A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. @micarosenberg.bsky.social

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.

NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs' top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign after emails show close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

My god, this thread by a Minnesota lawyer who handling pro bono cases for DHS detainees is horrifying. DOJ's complicity in ignoring court orders shouldn't be shocking anymore yet somehow it still is.

It's unusual when the government can't persuade a sufficient number of grand jurors to return an indictment. But this is a whole other kind of unusual.

The Trump administration’s decision to remove the Pride Flag from the Stonewall National Monument is despicable.   This administration’s bigotry will not erase the history of Stonewall.   I'll always stand with our LGBTQ+ community.

The Star Tribune reports that former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, in one of his first acts since joining private practice, will be representing Don Lemon.

It almost brings tears to my eyes [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Must read reporting for @propublica.org by @micarosenberg.bsky.social, who spent weeks speaking with parents and children detained at Dilley about conditions there.

Real show coming up 🐰!

Breaking: A divided 5th Circuit panel upheld the Trump administration's policy of placing people arrested in its immigration crackdown in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond. It's the first appeals court to uphold it. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The extent to which this administration personally targets and continues the assault on people who embarrass and shame it is particularly despicable.

So powerful. Just watch it.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

But please, tell us again about how it’s white men who are the true victims of discrimination.

💯 Perfectly stated.

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ... 1/7 www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The schadenfruede is strong on this here site

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

Brad Karp has resigned as Paul Weiss chair per NYT

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Good story!

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES California GOP request to nix Dem-friendly maps in midterms The decision aligns with Dec ruling that Texas’ new maps couldn’t thrown out “on the eve of an election” @courthousenews.bsky.social

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

Important reporting here from @charliesavage.bsky.social ⬇️

Tragic

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Too corrupt for Trump’s DOJ lol

Inexcusable

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Man. Women are picking up the pieces after some seriously sorry-ass men right now. Says something that this enormously philanthropic woman immediately pivots to the wrongs done to the girls and women who were Epstein and company’s prey

Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent. In 17 tests, Grok generated images after being told they would be used to degrade the person. www.reuters.com/business/des...

"The indictment of Don Lemon is both pernicious and unprecedented. The indictment and the process that led to it implicate both prosecutorial practice and the limits of criminal law."

Breaking: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending legal protections for more than 350,000 Haitians, preventing them from being exposed to deportation to a country ravaged by gang violence. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

Such a telling contrast this week. We saw regular folks risking their jobs and safety to stand up for decency and principles -- and "elite" men with all of the money in the world kissing up to Jeffrey Epstein after he was already exposed as a pedophile

BREAKING Star Tribune: Eight additional federal prosecutors are in the process of leaving the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The departures follow the mass exit of six veteran prosecutors who left the office last month.

US law firm Fenwick & West on January 30 agreed to settle a lawsuit by FTX customers who alleged the firm helped the crypto exchange's CEO carry out one of the largest financial frauds in US history. The firm advised FTX before its 2022 collapse and bankruptcy reut.rs/4rvXtOk

In the #TwinCities #Minneapolis and #StPaul, protesters sing outside hotels that house ICE & Border Patrol: "It's okay to change your mind. Show us your courage. Leave this behind. It's okay to change your mind. And you can join us, you can join us anytime."

Bad Bunny won Best Música Urbana Album at the 2026 Grammy Awards, and took the moment to get political. “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we are humans, and we are Americans,” he said.

Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and now wants $10 billion because a leaker pointed that out www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

US District Judge Fred Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration detention in Dilley, Texas. Read the full order here. https://cnn.it/3NOBZO1

It should be a red flag to everyone that the notion of being hired by DOJ is predicated on supporting the president as an individual— not the country, but DT’s agenda