What's that old saying about a guilty dog barks loudest? Patel fires FBI agents, analysts, and support staff because he claims Jack Smith secretly subpoenaed his phone records based on a "flimsy pretext." I wonder if he is aware of the flimsy pretext for seizing voting records in Fulton County?

Oh, come on. I'm unsure if she is just a habitual liar or mentally ill. Recall that she previously said (falsely) that a detained immigrant was a cannibal who ate his own arm.

Another five alarm fire. Trump wants to use a bogus national security emergency to ban mail voting. It's unconstitutional and not supported by any facts, but that never stops him.

Is she wearing her favorite coat to the Security Council?

Austin-based anti-vaccine activist Del Bigtree says he wants children to catch measles and polio www.statesman.com/news/politic... We live in the worst of times and the stupidest of times. Austin based ally of RFK Jr. wants children to catch measles and polio.

The White House Propaganda machine is in full overdrive after the State of the Union. NY Post falls in line with Ministry of Truth.

America is now part of the Axis of Evil?

Oh, nothing to see here. AI recommends use of nuclear weapons in 95% of war games.

This is insane. This madness has to stop.

A 2.5 - 3 hour speech by Trump is torturous. I'm sure he thinks "longer is better." Untrue. Lincoln's famed Gettysburg Address was 3 minutes long (272 words). 15,000 people showed up, expecting a speech that would last hours and were stunned by Lincoln's brief but powerful speech.

Hegseth threatening to use force to make AI facilitate mass surveillance and shoot weapons autonomously. Will Anthropic give in to the threats? Or are we just hoping that the future has time travel and the Terminator will come back to save us?

Lovely image from Elon Musk. The psychopaths are in charge.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

If you are ambassador to France and the French ministry finds it necessary to ban you from meeting with government officials, is that bad?

The U.S. military is now employed for daily murder. I'm not sure you could find a person who would be a worse Secretary of Defense.

Ha, ha. Noem's new luxury jet is a "flying deportation and fuck bunny palace."

Border patrol agent at Minnesota Hampton Inn accidently discharges his Glock, sending a bullet through his wall and lodged into the headboard of the adjacent room. "He almost killed me," says hotel guest, who heard the agent yelling and cursing after the shot.

Ellison: I’ve been hearing a lot about paying rappers/influencers, offering them pardons, and not disclosing that they’re being compensated. They don’t even need to say, “Vote for Trump.” What they can say is, “None of these elections really matter anyway.” That kind of talk can swing an election.

Plans for ICE Concentration Camps is reminiscent of slave ships. No recreation space for inmates but gun ranges for guards.

Denmark is sending Hospital ships to Washington...

“The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed in the suits they bought for themselves, two sources familiar with the matter told @CNN.” w/ Holmes Lybrand

This is a really good point. Even beyond the Venezuela stuff, this drumbeat to Iran has weirdly excised Congress and focused solely on whether Trump had made the personal decision as though that’s all that governs it.

Just the normal Crazy from Trump.

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Elon Musk's PAC committed 2024 voter fraud in Georgia, but the mainstream media refuses to say anything about it.

New piece: The shutdown helps Democrats by changing what "immigration" means to voters. "Border security" is much better territory for Trump than "deportations," or "maked federal agents have been deployed to your community to disappear long-term residents" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-shutdo...

…AI? If there ever was someone who would cheat on a law school exam with AI, it's Kavanaugh.

Oh cool. DOGE allowed Russian and China access to federal personnel documents. They must have been real whizzes at cyber security.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

WaPo building momentum for war with Iran. I guess a war would be big fun for reporters.

Trump now bringing the criminals he pardons to M-a-L to better network with them. But then, I guess he already did that with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon. Hell, Stone got him to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

U.S. State Dept. loves authoritarian third world countries. Dark tale of deportations to a country that beats up and detains reporters trying to investigate. Deportees threatened with indefinite detention. Reporters' cameras and laptops destroyed. What kind of deal was made with Cameroon?

Big Balls is designing the State Department portal that will spread Nazi speech into Europe.

More of this, please.

Tesla's Robotaxi service has had 14 crashes in Austin since taking to streets last year (12 of the crashes were in Dec/Jan. when Tesla lifted safety monitors.) www.statesman.com/business/art...

Off with the economists' heads! Trump chief economist Hassett says Fed research economists should be personally punished because their paper found that foreigners don't bear tariff costs. The economics profession needs to wake up. Trump will destroy America's base of knowledge.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Jesse Jackson's 1984 Democratic Convention speech is historic and profound. Very inspiring. It is still relevant as ever, perhaps more so, to the nation's current political predicament. Rest in peace, Jesse Jackson. youtu.be/nGJ7btYJPPA?...

Wow.

Federal judge begins opinion with a passage from Orwell's 1984. Trump tried to erase history.

"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances. reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...

Oh cool. Since the Trump administration is using AI to determine voter eligibility and whether you are in the country legally, I'm sure nothing will go wrong.

Watched the HBO documentary , "The Dark Money Game." Highly recommend it. Two episodes "Ohio Confidential," and "Wealth of the Wicked." Relevant to how we got to where we are. But also quite disturbing and makes me wonder how we reverse the billionaire control. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dykZ...

In November an Austin college student was whisked by ICE to Honduras as she entered Boston's airport to fly home for Thanksgiving. Still in Honduras, a federal judge has ordered her return. DOJ admits that her deportation was a mistake but would not return her. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...

In 13 months of unremitting democratic backsliding, no one in the Trump administration has said anything nearly as chilling as this.

OpenAI president says he gives Trump lots of money in order to save humanity. I'm sorry, this is not a rational thought.

Trump appointed Judge: DHS forgot to plan for providing constitutional rights to Minnesota detainees.

The cause for closure of airspace in El Paso just gets worse and worse. DHS tried to use laser weapons, given to them by Hegseth, without telling anybody. A party balloon is dead, a major city's air traffic is shut down, and the military is mad.

Richard Leon's opinion ruling against Whiskey Pete Hegseth in Mark Kelly's lawsuit is a 14-exclamation point opinion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...