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Scott Horton

@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Ilya Somin on Minnesota 10th Amendment case against Trump's ICE surge, why it deserves to prevail, and why court decision denying preliminary injunction doesn't necessarily mean final decision on merits will or should go same way. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

Does the ICE Crackdown in Minnesota Violate the Tenth Amendment?

Although a federal judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction requested by Minnesota and the Twin Cities, the plaintiffs should still prevail on their claims that the federal government’s action...

statecourtreport.org

February 3, 2026 at 3:50 AM

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@drericding.bsky.social

⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵

February 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@drericding.bsky.social

2) How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps

SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract to funnel tens of billions to ICE for a nationwide "ghost network” of concentration camps—just got a lot bigger.

migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps

SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract is funneling tens of billions into a "ghost network" of detention camps that can materialize anywhere in America overnight.

migrantinsider.com

February 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

Incinerators?

Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 7h

⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵

February 3, 2026 at 3:51 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

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As I suspected, Gabbard was at the FBI raid in her capacity to look into foreign election interference- something Giuliani told Trump he needs to prove in order to have the military seize voting machines. From Hugo Lowell:

February 3, 2026 at 1:40 AM

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Scott Horton

@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Former US allies prepare to resist a US military invasion. US media are not reporting any of this. Shameful.

February 3, 2026 at 3:41 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

February 3, 2026 at 1:26 AM

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Musicology Duck

@musicologyduck.bsky.social

from IG

Instagram post from kcunions

UNITED
kcunions
"At this time, no formal notice or briefing has been provided to the unions of arts workers whose labor sustains the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. We only know of public statements issued by President Trump and an internal message to some Kennedy Center employees that reiterated the President's social media remarks.
A pause in Kennedy Center operations without due regard for those who work there would be harmful for the arts and creative workers in America.
Should we receive formal notice of a temporary suspension of Kennedy Center operations that displaces our members, we will enforce our contracts and exercise all our rights under the law.
We expect continued fair pay, enforceable worker protections, and accountability for our members in the event they cannot work due to an operational pause.
Our members remain steadfast in bringing to life theatrical, music, opera, dance, and other live artistic performances in the nation's capital that speak to and resonate with all Americans."
Kennedy Center Arts Workers
UNITED

February 3, 2026 at 2:31 AM

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Jessica Shortall

@jessicashortall.bsky.social

Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum

February 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM

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Jessica Shortall

@jessicashortall.bsky.social

Introduced a friend of a friend to someone who needed groceries brought to their home. I thought it would just be once.

Just got a message from that friend of a friend: “I'll keep them fed from here.”

Goddamn, I love you, Minnesota.

February 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM

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Harry Litman

@harrylitman.bsky.social

Don’t make the mistake of lumping this in with weekly Trump outrages. This is the knife at the jugular of democracy. It should be an absolute call to maximum resistance for all patriots.

Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections

www.nytimes.com

February 3, 2026 at 12:45 AM

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Gambled And Lost Hat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

You’ve got to FIGHT
For your RIGHT
To PARTY WITH PEOPLE WHO FUCK KIDS

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.

February 3, 2026 at 12:47 AM

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Steve Vladeck

@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].

So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) “damn” countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti’s TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90
Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination).

Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law.

Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary’s decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI.

Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely. Secretary Noem

has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]

Dkt. 100 (§ 705 Reply) at 20–21.4 “Do not travel to Haiti for any reason” does not exactly
scream, as Secretary Noem concluded, suitable for return. And so, the Government studiously
does not argue that Plaintiffs will suffer no harm if removed to Haiti. Instead, it argues Plaintiffs
will not certainly suffer irreparable harm because DHS might not remove them. But this fails to
take Secretary Noem at her word: “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” See Section
IV.B.2.b.
Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not
cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains
unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959
lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our
economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into
the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn
the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of
them.
For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under
5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.

February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Political scientists here have rightly been dunking on other academic fields in which prominent figures appeared in the Epstein Files, but here's a prominent political scientist in the Epstein Files .... shaming the shit out of them.

Lilith Goddess of Rebellion @elo-cin.bsky.social · 8h

This is the standard.
Anything less than this makes you a pedophile.

February 3, 2026 at 1:09 AM

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Scott Horton

@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

The legacy of RFKJr in one chart

February 3, 2026 at 12:58 AM

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Norm Charlatan

@normcharlatan.bsky.social

Explain to me why I’m standing in front of my childrens’ schools in subzero weather trying to make sure none of their classmates are kidnapped by armed, masked goons then.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Corey Lewandowski: "I was really gonna go to the Super Bowl, but then Bad Bunny showed up. Listen -- anybody who is an American has nothing to worry about. It's the rapists and the murderers and the sex traffickers and child pedophiles who are in this country who need to be worried."

February 2, 2026 at 11:06 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

“The aroma of infatuation, the perfume of the forbidden…DOJ is proud to unveil its new signature Jeffrey Epstein fragrance, Crave by Jeff,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said at a press conference

DOJ Releases Jeffrey Epstein Fragrance

WASHINGTON—In the latest government disclosure about the late financier and convicted pedophile, officials from the Department of Justice announced Tuesday that they were releasing a Jeffrey Epstein f...

theonion.com

February 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM

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Liberal Resistance

@liberalresistance.bsky.social

Next “No Kings” day will be March 28th. NoKings.org
If you’ve gone to a No Kings before, please do it again and bring ten people who haven’t. Please comment your events.

January 29, 2026 at 12:34 AM

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Taniel

@taniel.bsky.social

Krasner and Shapiro have been at odds for years, with the governor long looking to undermine the progressive DA.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 11h

Gov. Josh Shapiro called District Attorney Larry Krasner's comparison of ICE agents to Nazis "abhorrent." Krasner responded that Shapiro is "not meeting the moment."

Philly DA Larry Krasner says ‘don’t be a wimp’ after Gov. Josh Shapiro decried his comparison of ICE agents to Nazis

www.inquirer.com

February 3, 2026 at 12:57 AM

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Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.

Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.

The cruelty is endless.

‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond

ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send

www.mprnews.org

February 3, 2026 at 1:01 AM

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News

@froomkin.bsky.social

Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf

VII. CONCLUSION
There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the
facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table.
Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has
ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and
bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).
Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement
junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both
our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS
program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that.
By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay
Under 5 U.S.C. § 705.
Ara C. Regr

February 3, 2026 at 12:36 AM

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Minnesota Star Tribune

@startribune.com

Minnesota prosecutors have formally demanded that the Trump administration turn over any evidence gathered by federal authorities after the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.