The Justice Department has long been a magnet for premium legal talent. Its politicization under the Trump administration has changed that.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

The biggest halftime audience for a Super Bowl of all time. Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

Yes. They did. Could not pay me to get a Ring.

And these words on Bad Bunny’s football held up to the camera at the end: “Together We Are America.”

People who speak Spanish and accept LGBTQ+ people represent America! Loving this.

Did not even know Lady Gaga would be performing. This is so overtly political. People gonna lose their minds more than they have already.

If Juan Jamon makes an appearance in his matching Hawaiian garb and bucket hat I’ll even watch the Super Bowl again next year in thanks.

“Before the game, activists clandestinely distributed 15,000 of them to fans entering Levi’s Stadium for the Super Bowl, seeding grassroots support toward a performer who spoke up for Latinos and immigrants at the Grammy Awards last week.” LOL

Pre show over and it’s time for the Bad Bunny concert!!!

"I saw people laying in feces. People throwing up, people laying in urine." The former worker provided WUSA9 with what they claim are internal head count sheets from December showing…47, 50 and 56 detainees in the same cell…and as many as 50 in an even smaller cell. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

My parents had the 5 & 3yo grandchildren for more than 24 hours, including at least one meal out at a restaurant, and a college basketball game. Papa and Gaga have not answered their phones this evening. They are absolutely asleep at 8 missing the Super Bowl, aren't they?

Bad Bunny's Superbowl halftime show isn't just about the rise of one artist, or even one genre. It's a symbol of how America's pop culture has completely changed into something multilingual, poly cultural and international at its core. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

YES 100% — but even bigger, he wants to destabilize US democracy for same reason. “Bezos wanted the Post to die, because a vigorous, well-resourced Washington Post does not suit his vision for the world or his own bottom line.”

Minnesota Star Tribune interviews with denomination leaders, churchgoers and former churchgoers in the wake of Operation Metro Surge found that while support remains strong for the president, cracks in the alliance have emerged.

TFW you wake up on a Saturday and the forecast is “blowing snow” and it’s -10 so you decide to sleep for another … 6? 10 hours? More?

An oldie but a goodie. Excited to be rereading this for the next Politics & Prose book club cc @zackhale.bsky.social @marykpowers.bsky.social

Margery said she can’t help but think sometimes about one of her favorite musicals, “Fiddler on the Roof.” In her present-day reimagining, Springfield is Anatevka, Haitians are the persecuted people and the U.S. is the country they must consider leaving to find safety. 19thnews.org/2026/01/moth...

Fun fact- if you take AIPAC money you can’t get an Indivisible endorsement in your primary.

Sir, you are reposting the verified "America First" account that has reshared the post of its figurehead. I think you can stop praying and start making peace with the fact you, yourself, as NRSC chair, just acknowledge by using the word "most" we see a lot of racism from this president.

“No case so far has successfully halted telehealth abortions… But the scope of Texas’ law, authorizing private lawsuits from countless private citizens, and its direct targeting of shield laws means that this case offers abortion opponents a novel chance to block telehealth.”

Older gay men built their own hockey fandom. Then came 'Heated Rivalry.' 19thnews.org/2026/02/heat... via @19thnews.org

Red Wine & Blue Founder Katie Paris gave the group its name because she is “all about leaning into the tropes” that are put on women to “regain our political power.” 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine... via @19thnews.org

Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...

In 2024, Trump repeatedly targeted the Haitians in Springfield with lies and said he would “protect” women from immigrants, “whether the women like it or not,” despite women not ranking immigration among their top concerns, nor trusting Trump the most on the issue 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine...

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

The original ‘wine moms’ are in Ohio. They’re mobilizing their 600,000-strong network of suburban women to support Haitians in Springfield. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine... via @19thnews.org

Red Wine & Blue now has more than 600,000 members. Its members and affiliated groups held 4,000 events last year, most of them in person. On Tuesday, they raised more than $100k in less than an hour to support Haitians in Springfield, OH & oppose ICE. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine... via @19thnews.org

“America has been the beacon of democracy, a champion of human rights,” said Viles Dorsainvil, who leads the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield. “The American people should open their eyes to see what is happening.” www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

A PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll released Thursday showed that nearly two-thirds of Americans now believe Trump’s ICE has gone too far in its methods. When broken down by gender, just 26 percent of women said they approved of how ICE was doing compared to 40 percent of men. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine...

OH DeWine says Ramaswamy-backed plan to abolish property taxes "devastating," diverges sharply w/ him on immigration, yet backed him uber early in non-existent GOP primary, while presumed D nom, Dr. Amy Acton, health dir in his admin & he admires her — 🤷‍♀️ politics www.cleveland.com/open/2026/02...

Red Wine & Blue now has more than 600,000 members. Its members and affiliated groups held 4,000 events last year, most of them in person. On Tuesday, they raised more than $100k in less than an hour to support Haitians in Springfield, OH & oppose ICE. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine... via @19thnews.org

The original ‘wine moms’ are in Ohio. They’re mobilizing their 600,000-strong network of suburban women to support Haitians in Springfield. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine... via @19thnews.org

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Ohio had Harriet Beecher Stowe's house. John Parker's house. John Rankin's house. The John Brown house. Just to name a few. Cincinnati's National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a lovely place to learn about all of this.

Love to see Ohio covered in the news. But if you get OH details incorrect, I WILL email you. 😂 For example, to clarify that OH did not have "only a few" stops on the Underground Railroad. Seriously? It was the first stop on the Underground Railroad for many! Plz appreciate our abolitionist history.

The Epstein fallout has claimed its latest high-profile casualty: Brad Karp, a consigliere to many powerful C.E.O.s, has stepped down from his longtime role as chairman of the law firm Paul Weiss (aka the firm that was the first to capitulate to the Trump admin) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

Current economic conditions and Trump administration policies could lead to “a widespread collapse of American agriculture,” a bipartisan coalition of former Agriculture Department officials and leaders of farm groups warned in a letter on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

I saw this at Cincy World Cinema in December with my parents and it was *excellent*

A lot of car time means going deep into my music catalog. And it occurs to me many years after the fact that R Kelly’s Trapped In the Closet was merely a cheap cheap knockoff of the Isley Brothers’ Contagious.

Is anything more 2026 than fundraisers for the slashed newspaper staff of a formerly great newspaper driven into the ground by its billionaire owner - while dropping tens of millions on producing crap documentary vanity projects on the First Lady - determined to turn it into a propaganda rag?

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

The requirements for both Blaska and the man to graduate were exactly the same. He failed. She didn’t. Blaska never saw him again. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wome... via @19thnews.org

A "rare misstep"? And you're gonna put this completely false description that an innocent - and slain - man was a "domestic terrorist" but not also note it's completely false?

You run a real classy shop, Bezos.

The great thing about putting my entire digital music library on shuffle is that gems pop up like Sinead O'Connor singing "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina."

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

Ohio’s 2026 race to become governor is set to become one of, if not the most expensive in state history.