PRRI President and Founder @robertpjones.bsky.social announces a new name for his newsletter - Redeeming Democracy - where he will continue to write about the toxic mix of white supremacy and Christian dominionism that has coalesced in the contemporary Christian nationalist movement.

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

Moskou reageert als gestoken op nieuwe Navo-missie in Arctisch gebied

Political scientists, lol, on many levels

Pete Hegseth’s attacks on Harvard aren’t really about what’s being taught there, but rather “to express the generic social anxiety and status-based resentment that drives much of the MAGA movement,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

Al die framing rond de nieuwe werkgelegenheid cijfers uit Amerika doet je duizelen…..

UK steps up troops in Norway to deter Putin trib.al/HnWQvxF

Is de EU zelf wel goed bezig in het vasthouden van migranten?

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

So a Trump attorney that aided his 2020 campaign (and wrote a memo encouraging Pence to skip counting electoral votes) was given an "election integrity" job in the administration, where he made a referral to investigate Fulton County. 1/2

(CNN) - The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/b...

Rasmussen Polls are widely regarded as one of the most Republican-leaning, Trump-friendly major pollsters in the U.S., particularly in presidential approval ratings and election polling.

VAN HOLLEN: Why do the Epstein files show you coordinating a meeting and planning a visit with Jeffrey Epstein on his private island in December 2012? LUTNICK: I barely had anything to do with that person, okay?

Van de denktank die u oa Project 2025 bracht: een 250 jaren plan om trouwen, kinderen krijgen en het gezin tussen man en vrouw te bevorderen, en daarmee het bevolkingsaantal op peil houden. Het is stap 2, na de massa deportatie van ongewenste migranten. www.heritage.org/marriage-and...

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Goedemorgen! ICYMI:

Van de denktank die u oa Project 2025 bracht: een 250 jaren plan om trouwen, kinderen krijgen en het gezin tussen man en vrouw te bevorderen, en daarmee het bevolkingsaantal op peil houden. Het is stap 2, na de massa deportatie van ongewenste migranten. www.heritage.org/marriage-and...

Nu online verkrijgbaar en vanaf morgen in de boekhandel. Visionair en vlijmscherp essay van Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Hoe nieuwe technologie in handen van machthebbers tot surveillance en onderdrukking leidt en de macht in handen geeft aan zgn 'boy gangsters'. Vert Thomas Heij. Inleiding van mij.

U.K. Business and Trade Secretary Peter Kyle is heading to Brussels to dissuade the European Commission from shutting Britain out of its proposed “Made in Europe” initiative.

NEW: Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions. In their Friday night ruling, Judges Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan split with more than 150 judges who have ruled against the Trump admin's unilateral, harsh interpretation of a 1996 law. Law Dork:

Heeft een besluit als dit te maken met het feit dat Portugal zich een dictatuur nog kan herinneren?

Bikelanes, people, bikelanes

Food to Italy.

Hoe Trump te stoppen? Europa kan het antwoord geven Mijn column in @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

NEW: The plaintiffs in the original Utah gerrymandering case in state court have moved to intervene in the new federal court case by Republicans that seeks to block the state’s new in-gerrymandered congressional map. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Zou er niet gewoon zo'n ouderwetse, grootse, avondvullende tv-actie moeten komen voor 'Help Oekraïne deze winter door'? Goed idee, NPO? vvodiel.nl/winteractie-...

Er wordt veel gespeculeerd over het eerlijke verloop van de tussentijdse verkiezingen dit jaar. Gisteren schreef ik in de nieuwsbrief een uitgebreide beschouwing over de vraag of zorgen terecht zijn. Deel, abonneer, doneer, allemaal fijn! open.substack.com/pub/amerikaa...

@kennethmanusama.bsky.social Ik las je Amerikaanse Toestanden email en je referentie naar de Voting Rights Act of 1965. Bijgaand foto van het origineel! Misschien leuk voor de lezers.

Journalist was er vroeg bij vanochtend: mijn 2 centen over TrumpRx.

VS gaan in Europa het soort beleid toepassen dat ze voerden in bijvoorbeeld Centraal- en Zuid-Amerika. Daar steunde Washington ook decennia rechts-radicale regimes, al dan niet militaire dictators die de VS (in-)direct aan de macht geholpen had. Men streeft naar een soort Witte Internationale.

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Nieuwe regels: alle hoger beroep zaken in immigratie processen worden na 9 maart automatisch afgewezen, ondanks het feit de verzoeker 1000 dollar betaald, en tenzij de Board of Immigration beslist de zaak wel te horen. Geen Due Process of eerlijk proces dus, tenzij. Het is een poging het proces >

A great piece from @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social on how Charlie Kirk’s assassination unleashed infighting among maga elites www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

NEW: Trump to launch TrumpRx drug discount site tonight

Job openings sink in December to lowest level since 2020

Remember that this is one of ICE’s own immigration attorneys (not a federal practitioner) grabbed to fill in holes because qualified DOJ lawyers have quit en masse over gov’t conduct, and even she is now losing it at her own agency’s flagrant and deliberate flouting of the law.

‘Sovereign borders are biblical’. Recht uit Yoram Hazony’s boek ‘The Virtue of Nationalism’ zo ongeveer. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Authorities search for Savannah Guthrie’s mom, 84, abducted from Tucson home; ransom notes under review. Follow live.

China is set to have more solar power capacity than coal for the first time this year, marking a “historic” milestone in the country’s energy transition. @stuti.bsky.social

New from me: I wrote about the Clicktatorship at @theatlantic.com. "Poster brain and authoritarianism reinforce each other: They thrive on conspiracy theories, lack all restraint, and jump to extreme solutions." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Ik word een beetje zenuwachtig van het relatief explosief stijgende aantal abonnees op mijn nieuwsbrief 'Amerikaanse Toestanden'. Het onderwerp deze vrijdag: Zijn er nog wel eerlijke verkiezingen in november? Abonneren kan alvast hier: amerikaanstetoestanden.substack.com

criminal law prof here. There are laws against homicide, and federal agents are not in fact above them. Supremacy clause immunity is limited in scope, not an absolute barrier to state prosecution.

I have read entirely too many Epstein files at this point, but here is what's in there about the tech billionaires (and how often each of them shows up):

A group of nonprofit organizations and U.S. citizens Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's sweeping suspension of immigrant visa processing for people from nearly half of the world's countries. n.pr/4tfrVh4

🚨BREAKING: The Court just granted a restraining order against the Trump administration in my lawsuit, Neguse et al. v. ICE et al. The decision is a victory for accountability, congressional oversight and for the American people. I’ll keep fighting to ensure the rule of law prevails.

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.

Geen lekken meer uit het Hooggerechtshof. Geheimhoudingsverklaringen na oa het debacle rondom het uitlekken vd anti-abortus Dobbs-zaak uit 2022.