'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...

hey, remember when the transphobes started coming for gender-affirming care for minors and it was framed as “concern for children” and trans folks said “lol they just want us to not exist” and our society full of rubes and people with turnips for brains took the transphobes’ arguments at face value

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

I really want to push back on the idea that people who flee the state where they live because of anti-trans laws are privileged because they were able to leave these are fucking refugees they are internally displaced people I have seen some of the most broke people Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Unfair and maddening.

This cannot be constitutional. An obvious equal protection violation given that if they knew who to send letters to they could just as easily have issued replacement licenses

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

Courtney Barnett has a new album dropping next month! Creature of Habit releases March 27. 4 tracks are streaming now. https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/album/creature-of-habit

Every single story about every aspect of U.S. dysfunction should have some reference to the fact that the country is generally too corrupt to function in the public interest thanks to unchecked corporate power

Mazel Teeth.

So, which two of these guys are having a Heated Rivalry?

So, this hockey game is pretty good.

Justice Kavanaugh said sorting out illegal tariffs would be a “mess”. That’s why you don’t let the President do illegal things in the first place.

"The Court is corrupt. There’s no future for the America republic without thoroughly reforming it of its current corruption. Today’s decision is simply one of those cases where the Constitution happens to coincide with the Court’s partial and illegitimate self-interest." — @joshtpm.bsky.social

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Normally not a fan of cute names for bills but there are exceptions to every rule

Akhil Amar on birthright citizenship: ”Unless and until our Constitution is amended, our government is simply not allowed to punish innocent babies guaranteed full and equal citizenship by the Constitution itself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

Footnote 2 is high quality.

This is the reaction gif I NEED

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

One of these things is not like the other. Why?

YOU DO LOVE TO SEE IT. Here was Monday's Law Dork report on the court ruling: www.lawdork.com/p/a-presiden...

Skimo is a perfectly ridiculous Olympic sport, with its combination of uphill cardio madness and downhill speed in tech bindings. The sprint format was mostly transitions. Maybe next time, also include a longer endurance event that isn’t totally determined by the transitions.

Democratic consultants seem to believe that they have secured the entirety of voters on the vague left and the only room for growth is to convert Republican voters. They fail to consider the large number of non-voters to the left and up/down. Trying to be more like Republicans further alienates them

Lord I have seen what you have done for others and I want that for myself

Tfw an actual monarch understands the rule of law better than your own Supreme Court

Thursday! What a concept.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Good morning to, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, the Fifth Circuit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ring my Bell: https://raffcast.com/2026/02/18/ring-my-bell.html

Here’s my list of 50 reasons why Trump is mentally unfit to be president. Share this with any family and friends who still make excuses for the mad king.

Fund NYC libraries! Tell Mayor Mamdani that you want 0.5% of the city budget for libraries. This is a VERY short form where you can do so. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... @nycplan.org

Fun fact: when I run DEI workshops about trans stuff (it happens occasionally) one of my strategies is to start by getting people to talk about cyclists and their experiences. This usually works to build empathy, but occasionally it turns out that people actually hate cyclists more than trans people

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

"It is not so much an anti-democratic world — though it is certainly that — as an anti-civic world. It’s a world of private, one-off deals, mutual pledges of secrecy, often enforced by soft, mutual extortion, and above all, a rejection of democratic accountability." — @joshtpm.bsky.social

this is a really important point. the district courts are trying to contain this administration. the circuits, by and large, are still working, with the occasional exception of the 5th, 8th, and DC circuits. the Supreme Court is on an island. lawless and completely rogue.

One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

Morons Morons are in charge www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

it’s very annoying how badly I want to actually be excited about the areas where machine learning (there is no “AI”) can actually be transformative, like drug development and backstopping underfunded healthcare systems by reducing busywork like appointment changes, but they keep doing this nonsense

the main story of the last 10 years is a tiny handful of very rich racists paying vast sums of money to manufacture the illusion of popularity

You can’t build a Jetsons future with a Flintstones government

They are building concentration camps. They intend to turn a former warehouse twenty-five minutes from us -- between LEGOLAND New York and the Woodbury Common Premium Outlets -- into a concentration camp. ICE is now in our community, too. Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers. ICE out.

hi, judge expert here, judges only do this when they're in extreme distress! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How to photograph bikes and bicycling escapecollective.com/how-to-photo...

NBC Olympics coverage crosses venues across Italy and then is sound mixed 4,000 miles away in Connecticut. www.youtube.com/watch

Let’s wait for things to get bad enough that our privacy nightmare won’t be the headliner: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/tec…

Under California privacy law, businesses must offer consumers the ability to easily opt-out of all sale or sharing of data. Services must allow for global opt-outs, not just preferences that only affect a single device o... https://raffcast.com/2026/02/13/under-california-privacy-law-businesses.html