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Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New in @dmagazine.bsky.social "In June 2025, DHS waived the original 12-hour limit on holding people at field offices, increasing it to 72 hours...between July and October 15, at least 336 people were held at the Dallas ICE field office for more than 72 hours." www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

just not Matthew 19:21

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The Trump-Streisand Effect

I surely haven't read EVERY story about the Orban visit, but none of them I've read have mentioned this turnabout. They should've

if there's no federal law preempting state law, then Selig is gonna lose in court.

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

Yeah, shoutout to Carr for making Talarico a national figure.

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And China is embedded in US telecom networks, with some providers not even trying to dislodge them anymore.

This is a direct violation of long-standing US policy toward Taiwan. Beginning with the 1982 version, the Six Assurances to Taiwan explicitly states that the U.S. will not consult with China on arms sales to Taiwan. Nor will the U.S. set an end date of arms sales to Taiwan.

Sociologist of conspiracy theories Ted Goertzel's son turned out to be a grifty AI/blockchain researcher who was pals with and was funded by Jeffrey Epstein. (And was behind the "Sophia the robot" project that was pointedly parodied by "Silicon Valley.")

This should simply encourage more people to criticize ICE on social media.

thread about AZ AG response to Kristi Noem press conference in Phoenix a few days ago, yep

“In less than a year, DHS has attacked the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 14th amendments to the US Constitution, the writ of habeas corpus, the independent judiciary, and much more,” states David Bier before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. Read full testimony: https://ow.ly/z2aT50Yfcri

To my surprise, CDC is still tracking how many children RFK condemns to measles. Cases are getting younger and, of course, it is spreading faster. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Also really useful as Trump's favorables go underwater with white people (!!!). Build some momentum.

According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.

The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched. 1/8 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you have a SecureEnclave key AND a separate ED25519 key, and a host configured to use the latter, with IdentitiesOnly no and IdentityAgent none, the SecureEnclave key will STILL try to override and you get a fingerprint prompt. If you hit "Cancel" instead of using TouchID ...

Great piece that matches my view substantively. Articulated from my more pro-rational choice perspective: MVT is a theory with assumptions. The problem isn’t MVT but that people don’t know the assumptions, how uncertain they are, or their implications. It’s like Econ 101 supply and demand.

they're not exactly the same, but they are extremely close

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Reposting the letter put out by Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi today, because had misunderstood what they're claiming. They claim the only redactions in the Epstein files are for victim protection, legal privileges, and CSAM. But we know that's wrong, because the redactions aren't consistent... 1/

The president of the United States and many of the people he interacts with are kooks.

Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...

This story continues to a fascinating window into sociopolitical construction of scientific knowledge and also SIR, no! Do not— www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Glad this is getting covered, but also… Completely surreal to read the NYT report on this as recently disclosed info, and just an allegation. This happened to every observer I know! It happened to me twice! I have it on video both times! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

This was one of the concerns with our paper on disclosable ties to industry. Somewhere around 200 or so authors in our dataset are indicated as tied to industry, which is a lot of opportunity for a SLAPP suit. www.science.org/content/arti...

Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org mandamus petition—second one in this case—asking Eleventh Circuit to bar Judge Cannon from ordering the destruction of Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report, as Trump’s co-defendants have asked her to do. knightcolumbia.org/documents/z8...

Vinay Prasad has blood on his hands.

Hi everyone, switching gears for a personal request: my friend's cousin has been detained while trying to check in at an immigration office in Wisconsin, and is now at risk of deportation. If anyone has links to immigration resources in Green Bay or Milwaukee, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!

"BforeAI | The PreCrime Company" -- that seems incredibly grifty.

Heading out to an undisclosed location (condition of attendance by DHS) for a press conference with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem that is alleged to be about elections.

The @wsj.com just posted my response to Peter Navarro's evidence-free claim (also in the WSJ) that foreigners are paying US tariffs. You can read it here: www.wsj.com/opinion/who-...

Todd Blanche says “You are fired, Donald Kinsella.” Kinsella was just selected as the US Attorney for the Northern District of New York by the district’s judges, as permitted by statute.

They will release glasses to help creeps identify teenagers while people are too busy fighting other crises.

This is a crazy, great scoop by @jeremyduda (with great background digging for each detail)! (I'm guessing there'll be new shoes to drop in this, given changes in leadership since Kelli Ward apparently approved the scheme, given the ongoing nature of the case, etc.) www.axios.com/local/phoeni...

Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort

The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner. I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.

Looks like macOS Tahoe 26.3 breaks KeePass XC SSH agent functionality (as of 2.7.11, the current version).

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

Not sure what these Redditors are on about -- there is no known connection between Al Seckel and the NY Masters of Deception hackers, and he was no hacker. www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/co...

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

Some personal news

Clay Parikh is a crank.

some great photos from St Paul

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.