Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.

🚨 Coming Sunday: My interview with Pamela Brown of @cnn.com about her new doc on Doug Wilson, abuse survivors, and the mainstreaming of Christian nationalism:

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Hey @axios.com, it’s actually nine jets, four of them luxury, with another luxury jet on the way. You’re only counting two luxury jets and the one on the way. Please credit me when you confirm and update your story, thank you! gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

"It turns out that democracy really does die in darkness — at 1:30 a.m. Eastern time, to be exact."

This sh'ld be a much bigger story than it’s being treated. Taiwan’s defense is being negotiated like a bargaining chip, not treated as a fixed red line. EU/Canada sh'ld pay attention as they decide how to rearm & Taiwan should worry. Being sold down the river by Washington is as American as 🍎 pie.

Setting the stage for what's next after Iran. "Taiwan Arms Sale Approved by Congress Is Delayed as Trump Plans Visit to Beijing. The package worth billions of dollars & endorsed by lawmakers is stalled at the State Department as the U.S. & China plan an April summit." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now. Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

PAKISTAN: “At least nine killed during pro-Iran protests at the 🇺🇸 consulate in the Pakistan megacity of Karachi…. Hundreds of pro-Iranian protesters tried to storm the consulate following the US-Israel strikes on Iran, an AFP journalist saw.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

New from @splawinski.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: To stymie ICE, look at the sources of its power. That includes money but also co-operative 287(g) agreements with state and local govts. Blocking and reversing those agreements weakens ICE capacity. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-federali...

"More than 200 employees from Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter stating their solidarity with Anthropic in limiting the use of advanced AI for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous warfare."

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

3/ I provide more detailed evidence in support of Part IV in this article, with the support of many legal scholars before me: "An Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship: The Inclusion of 'Temporary Sojourners' and of Chinese and Roma" forthcoming UC L. J. 2026 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

With the outstanding teamwork with Brendan Benedict and Michael Altebrando, @evanbernick.bsky.social & I proudly filed this originalist amicus brief defending birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

'IT ENDS TODAY': A federal judge in NJ says the Trump admin has continued to violate court orders in immigration cases and says he's prepared to haul in DOJ and DHS officials under oath. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

More information and devestating rebukes from the court in ongoing litigation over the IRS sharing taxpayer data with ICE "The IRS violated the [Internal Revenue Code] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to ICE" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

SCOOP: An X account called Johnny MAGA with 300k followers that described the Obamas-as-apes video as "a masterpiece" appears to be a sockpuppet account for a White House rapid-reaction staffer. @makenakelly.bsky.social has all the details:

"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead." To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.

The rare "Even Alito" in a Chris Geidner report ...

"Sorry—we're feeding all the mouths we can." Herblock on Nixon's budget priorities, May 1969.

"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009. The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New: Immigrants in MN are being released from detention without their IDs, work permits, social security cards, and other key documents that prove their status to begin with www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As @JustinWolfers points out — when Trump boasts about the market being up he fails to mention other markets around the world are up way higher in the same period of time 🤷🏼

Should alarm us as much or even more that DHS has spent almost $30 Billion already and includes another $60 Billion in funding for NSA level spyware capable of identifying and tracking the location every immigrant or anyone critical of what they are doing.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

NEW: The Trump administration is easing restrictions on law enforcement agencies sharing information with the intelligence community, raising concerns about the possible violation of laws that bar those agencies from collecting data on U.S. citizens.

NPR: Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Emails and documents in the massive Epstein release not yet reported reveal that Lutnick went on to become a prominent figure in AdFin—not merely a minority investor—and that he and his company were financially interconnected with Epstein in the venture for at least six years.

Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit. n.pr/4s6JWgo

My book will be out on March 24. A huge THANK YOU to all who pre-ordered and/or asked their public or academic library to pre-order. You can read more including an Author's Q&A about why I wrote the book, who it's for, at the end of this page: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

Remember that time the Pentagon's National Defense Strategy declared that the US had "obliterated Iran's nuclear program"? That was **checks notes** January 23, less than 30 days ago.

NEW: Is there really a 'quiet revival' of religion among Gen Z?

ICE just bought a massive warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia for $128.6 million. Call it what it is: an internment camp expansion happening in town across the country. 1/2

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEWS: Sen. Schiff’s new report finds DHS committed at least $144M in one year to expand ICE & CBP’s arsenal: including AR-style rifles, ammo, tear gas, and TASERs. ICE spending surged 360%. Raises alarm over rapidly expanding, heavily armed immi force. www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-r...

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself. A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT

The bishops' conference issued a stark critique of plans to double federal immigration detention capacity: "The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American."

And the administration thinks the trace amounts of mercury in vaccines is deadly. Make it make sense, MAHA. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...

I've interviewed moms like this—moms who won't vaccinate, reassuring themselves that if their child dies, it's God's will. It's almost impossible to change their minds, because they believe God won't let them into heaven if they vaccinate their kids, since vaccinating means not trusting God's plan.

The lede on this story 11 Million Visitors Short: Inside America’s Continuing Tourism Slump www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/t...

1. Here in America, before the royal formerly known as Prince Andrew was arrested in the UK, Reuters reported the results of a new survey. Ipsos, the pollster, found nearly 70 percent of Americans believe the system is rigged, allowing elites to act with impunity. www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

NEW Reign of Error podcast with @mjcressler.bsky.social, on that White House Religious Liberty Commission meeting that went off the rails, and the rank antisemitism of the Catholic far right: redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

NEW: SCOTUS changed the rules for bringing cases to the court because John Roberts won't sell his stocks. Roberts and Alito are the only two justices who own individual stocks. Today, at Law Dork:

EXCLUSIVE: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo. Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access.

Rather than turn former Honduran President Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison just four years into a 45-year sentence for allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S, the Trump administration paid to transport him to a posh NYC hotel.