JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

GIVEN HIS LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS, I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, GOVERNOR OF THE FREE WORLD, AM EXPLORING RENAMING THE VALLEJO REST STOP IN THE BAY AREA THE DONALD J. TRUMP REST STOP AND RELIEF STATION. DOZY DON’S FRAUD AND WASTE WILL FINALLY BE ADDRESSED! — GOVERNOR GCN

Bari Weiss’s lecture at UCLA on “the future of journalism” canceled

NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Es tut mir leid Thomas Matter hier korrigieren zu müssen, aber die SRG ist 40 Jahre älter als die Demokratie. Sie wurde 1931 gegründet, das Frauenstimmrecht kam erst 1971. Könnte die Verwechslung etwas mit seinem Welt- und Frauenbild zu tun haben? Frage für eine Freundin. #srg

Late in '24 London-based @amelia-nierenberg.bsky.social was assigned to cover the 'Grate Cheese Robbery', now she's contributing to the NYT's obit section. My only criticism: An Oxford comma, carefully placed by the BBC, has gone missing in a quote. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...

In vielen vermeintlich hippen oder seriösen Branchen hat man es nicht so mit der Zeiterfassung. Während der Zoll Gaststätten abklappert, müssen Beschäftigte in Fintechs, Krankenhäusern und Biotechs oft auf eine vorgeschriebene korrekte Arbeitszeiterfassung verzichten. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/d...

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Peter Baker describes what looks like the cardinal symptoms of megalomania. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...

Paul Biya has been ruling Cameroon since the early 80s. That pretty much says everything you need to know when wondering whether Cameroon is an acceptable country to receive and hold your deportees. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Let's ignore aviation safety protocols and then play the blame game when the FAA has to restrict airspace with major consequences. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

As the NYT explains, the recent job growth is mostly driven by the health care sector. Many other areas are still shedding positions. If you're not working in healthcare, finding employment hasn't become significantly easier. www.nytimes.com/video/busine...

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Boasberg deserves more admirers than the average rock star.

Instead, Kari Lake has badly damaged America's international broadcasters and wasted millions of dollars of taxpayers money www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A whiskey company is in deep financial trouble. I find it astonishing that you can run a very visible business and not file taxes since 2018. How can you fly under the radar for so many years? @risenc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/d...

Father of the Year goes to Howard Lutnick for taking his wife and kids to lunch on Epstein's sex island

More pettiness, more vindictiveness.

When you have no clue about history and its relevance for foreign relations. www.reuters.com/world/us-vic...

The Kid Rock "concert" was such a failure, it has ruined the prospects for future white kids who start out appropriating hip-hop and then segue into a lukewarm version of southern fried rock. Think of all we will lose.

The high proportion of US scientists among those recruited by France shows that “enthusiasm and morale for doing science is low” in the US, says Sharon Milgram, who led early-career researcher programs at NIH for nearly 20 years, until she retired in December. By @lizziegibney.bsky.social and me

As a former resident of both Brookline and Jamaica Plain, I find warm weather and a local population that pronounces the letter R correctly, much less important than a mayor who gets a lot of things right.

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn. Erasure. Just like the Nazis. gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...

'Social justice' is 'garbage', according to SecDef Pete Hegseth. Rarely has a man with this little intellect and foresight so arrogantly stated his baseless claims.

It cost about $10 million to send the Vice President to the Olympics to get booed. We can do it from home for free.

Republicans getting destroyed by a bunny at halftime

This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

As someone who once rented a fully furnished flat in teh HD area, I can assure you that this initiative needs to become law in Germany sooner than later. Furnished flats are often used successfully to subvert permitted maximum rent levels. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...

This is seasonal culinary gold. As I live just outside Freiburg, I had to place a special order to obtain the real thing via a local shop from our French neighbours. Hopefully, the selected recipe will work out tomorrow. What did I get?

During my PhD, an ice-cream parlour in Harvard Square provided solace whenever I ventured across the Charles River. The shop closed in 2009. So it probably comes as no surprise to anybody that it's time to say goodbye to a T-shirt from that very store. Still, I'm having a hard time parting with it.

Die deutsche Delegation um Norbert Röttgen sagte ein geplantes Treffen ab, nachdem das US-Außenministerium der Deutschen Botschaft in Washington mitteilte, es sei bereit nur Abgeordnete von Union und AfD zu treffen, nicht aber die von SPD und Grünen www.politico.eu/article/dona...

No one has ever sat in a parked car with the radio on waiting for a Kid Rock song to finish.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

The Washington Post became famous for exposing corruption—and is now being destroyed by it.

Lehren aus dem Vorgehen von US-Beamten gegen Journalisten; hier Gerichtsdokumente zur Durchsuchung bei einer Washington Post-Reporterin: Niemals biometrische Merkmale für den Zugang zu Smartphone oder Laptop einrichten. (S. 13)

Mann unterbricht Stuhlgang, weil er Smartphone im Wohnzimmer vergessen hat www.der-postillon.com/2018/01/smar...

Gerichtsurteil: Deutsche Bahn muss für Winterfahrplan Glücksspiel-Lizenz beantragen www.der-postillon.com/2017/12/bgh-...

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Wir Älteren erinnern uns: Der Mann, der lautstark Teilzeit-Arbeitende verachtet, hat einmal für ein laufendes Honorar von 5.000 Euro pro Tag (!) eine landeseigene Bank beerdigt. Das war sicher sehr anstrengend. www.deutsche-handwerks-zeitung.de/gruene-und-s...

Link to video: youtube.com/shorts/gPssc...

my god it's like rats deserting a sinking rat

👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Bovino openly says that we are never learning the identity of the murderer because that would be "doxing." He says he has already gotten the agent out of Minnesota's jurisdiction. He put him back on the job. He is part of an extensive, open criminal coverup.

You know your bench is deep when your answer to a trust crisis is the guy who literally accepted a bag of cash.

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.