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"The Riley Gaines Act." "Cis girls would be able to sue schools and organizations that let trans women compete in sports, for any imagined harm they can drum up." "The bill still has to go before a committee and be voted on [..] in both congressional chambers." #USA #Sports #Education

Today, longtime CBS News producer Mary Walsh told her colleagues that she's leaving the network. "It's too soon, even after 46 years. But maybe its for the best. We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don't know how to do that."

If the U.S. Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act, it would radically alter the country’s voting maps, unwinding political representation for Black voters. Our new story with The Marshall Project unpacks what this would look like in Mississippi:

Virginia's Supreme Court has yet to rule on the fate of the redistricting referendum, with early voting set to start in a week. And SCOTUS has yet to make its move on New York's map (after state courts ordered Staten Island district struck down) even as filing is about to start.

#PDX meltoregon.noblogs.org

Frost: I saw about an hour ago that Donald Trump said Howard Lutnick is a "very innocent guy." Donald Trump has asserted many times that he knew nothing of Epstein's crimes. If he doesn’t know anything about Epstein’s crimes, how would he know Lutnick is an innocent guy?

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New: Radiohead tells Trump's ICE to take down a video using their song "We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down," the band says. (DHS/ICE didn't immediately return a request for comment.) www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

Rep. Jamie Raskin has opened an investigation into potential conflicts of interest between Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and his former firm, Cantor Fitzgerald — following the Supreme Court's ruling Trump's emergency tariffs illegal. www.notus.org/congress/jam...

By sticking together we will outlast and rise above our oppressive federal government. Give if you can: givebutter.com/neschool

This law is a dangerous attempt to deny transgender people autonomy over our own identities and lives. We'll see the state of Kansas in court.

Regular reminder that AZAG Kris Mayes won her election by only 280 votes in a state of 7 million people. One of those votes was mine. Your vote matters.

Hell is too good for these people.

⚠️DANGER: Military buildups create momentum towards conflict. Trump feels unrestrained, and is overly optimistic after the “easy” capture of Venezuela’s Maduro. For Trump to back down on Iran now would require a degree of reflection and restraint we’ve never seen him demonstrate. 😧

This ICE deportation flight operated by Omni Air International is now landing in Sri Lanka. This is the plane that earlier this week sat on a tarmac for almost eight hours before returning to Louisiana. Unknown why but flight data shows it may have had a pressurization problem.

Still true

Leander, Texas! You might want to know about this before voting. Book-banning anti-LGBTQ ex-school board republican changes party AND NAME to run for Congress as Democrat. PS- Today is last day for early voting. Polls open until 7 PM

So Hegseth is attacking Scouting America for treating trans kids with respect, including respecting their chosen names... at the same time he demands you respect the made up name for his department, which he changed illegally without congressional approval.

A lot of obvious stuff in this poll (people want Dems to act with more conviction and stop tearing their ACLs trying to reach across the aisle), but the thing I learned is that Republicans are viewed as the elitist ones now! Run with that! Usain Bolt with that shit!

A bipartisan pair of Ohio lawmakers defended their bill that would make hate crimes illegal, increasing penalties for assaulting or terrorizing someone based on their race, sex, and even political affiliation. via @ohiocapitaljournal.com

I wouldn’t use the word “retribution.” I’d use “justice.” “Rule of law.” A word like that. Undoing these ill-gotten gains isn’t “retribution” no more than a criminal conviction is. It’s the legal punishment for impermissible actions.

You don’t have the votes, you don’t have the votes. You’re gonna need congressional approval and you don’t have the votes. (Write your Senators anyway).

for those (like me) who aren't sure what that is ... uslawexplained.com/depraved_hea...

Americans have spent at least the last 50 years learning to associate organ meat with being poor/ethnic

Thinking of the guy waxing on about how awesome the AI tool for doing labor/union cases is...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 27 ABA EEOC rules 2-1 that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 allows federal agencies to exclude trans employees from using correct bathrooms, reversing a 2015 ruling that held the opposite.

The reactions to ICE’s mandatory detention from judges in all districts, regardless to which president appointed them, is unlike anything I’ve seen before — and their responses are escalating.

7th Cir. affirms liability of prison officials who used an inmate who they knew had been sexually assaulted by another prison official as bait to try and catch him, which led to an additional sexual assault, but remands for new trial on damages. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 27 EITM SecDef Hegseth, staring down war in Iran, declares victory over Scouting America. After threatening to cut all govt ties. SA agrees to end DEI merit badge & that its coed membership will be "based solely on biological sex at birth and not gender identity."

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

So the US is killing Caribbean "drug smugglers," just invaded Venezuela, is embargoing Cuba, and half our Navy is off the coast of Iran ready to strike, but our SecDef is obsessing over kiddie merit badges and trans kids who want to go camping.

🧊✈️ OMNI GLOBAL RENDITIONS⛓️🌏 😲 An Omni 767 (tail: N351AX) on a long-range ICE mission transports humans in chains to Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

The apparent Scouting move announced by Pete Hegseth today is more unacceptable capitulation. It is a truly embarrassing move by the Scouts in particular. The Scouts capitulating to a lawless murderer is the opposite of the lessons I learned during my time in Scouts.

SCOTUS has finished writing some opinions, but it won't tell us anything about them, because its performances of Sage Judicial Theater are an important way it tries to convince us we should follow its (general unenforceable) rulings.

President Trump needs to man up and come before our committee to answer questions.

This is the sort of pre-emptive attacks we need to see more of. Telling those who pander to Trump NOW that their gains will be reversed THEN. Which makes the expected gains lower NOW, and thus lowers the incentives NOW to do the bad things. See also: ICE/CBP employment.

Yglesias & co are now adopting the position that what makes “moderates” electorally successful is that they are fighters, not that they are moderates. Finally they come around to the point in the original article I wrote last year that moderation is not a panacea and “moderate” is mostly vibes

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender. The policy is the latest cruel capitulation. www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

Making them pay to have their licenses invalidated and then reissued is yet another thing they can sue about.

Major thanks to @melodyschreiber.com for interviewing me about what biology actually says about sex & gender Unscientific attacks on trans rights are fueled by fascism, not science, and harm all of us - cis or trans Excellent reporting 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans threatened that the Democrats wouldn't let you eat beef anymore.

"I’d promised the tenants that we would not let up on this story, especially when many of them got in touch to ask us, in the absence of any clear communication from their landlord, whether they still had a place to live." Journalism is a public good.

The U.S. officials planning to attack Iran are the same ones who mistakenly brought a reporter into their Signal chat where they discussed an upcoming attack on Houthi rebels. Nobody got fired and they moved on to new misadventures, such as murdering 150+ people on the high seas and now … Iran.

Excellent report by Chicago's WBEZ public radio about how AIPAC is trying to fly under the radar to back candidates for Congress who will keep funding Israel's corrupt Netanyahu government as it kills Palestinians and steals their land.

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Five months after his Operation Midway Blitz case fell apart, Ray Collins still has to warn potential employers, "I was arrested for a felony." Still, he says "they can't tarnish who I am." On the people left to pick up the pieces after winning in court: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

DOJ keeps having to release dangerous criminals in MN bc they don't have lawyers to prosecute them, but they found time to supersede Don Lemon et al. (The superseding has not yet been unsealed; I suspect it attempts to show more evidence of conspiracy.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...