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Bolts

@boltsmag.org

Christine Woods, a Black resident of Tennessee's Fayette County, sued her county over how it drew local political maps. She says, “Maybe in their mind, the people they were elected to serve—maybe the people they think of don’t look like me.”

Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS.

The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.

boltsmag.org

February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM

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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.bsky.social

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM

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Biff Rendar

@biffrendar.bsky.social

Of course, said anyone with even the slightest bit of common sense: A year in, it’s official: Americans, not foreigners, are paying for Trump’s tariffs….

February 13, 2026 at 12:20 PM

Annie-T-FA

@anniedgmd.bsky.social

Our very humanity is at stake. Thank you for fighting the good fight @whitehouse.senate.gov

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2h

There is no excuse for reckless violence from ICE. That’s why Democrats are demanding obvious, necessary reforms.

February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM

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Rebel with a Cause

@rebelwithacause2.bsky.social

REGULATIONS = PROTECTIONS FOR AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH

DEREGULATIONS = ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO HARM AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH

February 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM

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ronald1walker.bsky.social

@ronald1walker.bsky.social

Respectfully I ask… Where are all the States AG’s suing ICE?
Despite our DOJ being compromised, they have the power & sworn oath to do something!
Where are they in this matter?

February 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. The increased struggle among low-income and young borrowers unable to pay their loans is consistent with elevated unemployment rates ..

“.. The jobless rate for workers 16 to 24 years old stood at 10.4% in December ..”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM

Annie-T-FA

@anniedgmd.bsky.social

Exactement

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

Everyone should call their local election officials and ask them what they're doing to prepare. Our governors should deploy the Guard to protect polling places from voting machine and ballot seizures.

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to ABC about Trump: "I think he intends to try to subvert the elections. He will do everything he can to suppress the vote. If he loses the vote -- I think the Republicans now expect they will get a drubbing in the midterms -- he will take action to overturn the result"

February 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM

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Jim Acosta

@jimacosta.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

February 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM

Annie-T-FA

@anniedgmd.bsky.social

I am reposting this under my first amendment rights

Autism Draws CA 🇨🇦❌🇺🇦🌻💙🌈🦜🌻🐸🇺🇸 @autismdrawscanada.bsky.social · 5d

It’s also worth looking at the mysterious deaths of Virginia Guiffre, Ivana Trump, Dr Bornstein and Jon-Luc Brunel. There is always a serious number of mysterious deaths around Trump. Michael Cohen should make sure his life insurance is up to date.

February 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

NEW: The Department of Justice is falling apart. Attorneys are leaving, courts are overwhelmed with immigration cases, and actual crimes are slipping through the cracks. Is that by design? Andy McCabe and I cover it all on today's UnJustified. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

"This Job Sucks" - UnJustified - Apple Podcasts

Podcast Episode · UnJustified · 02/08/2026 · 59m

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February 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM

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Eoin Higgins

@eoinhiggins.bsky.social

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

www.pressherald.com

February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM

Annie-T-FA

@anniedgmd.bsky.social

I admire Michelle and Barack Obama. Many more people admire them than the racist narcissist who posted about them today. Why did he do that? Because he thinks that by dragging them down he will be boosted up. Imagine the surprise when he finds out it had the exact opposite effect!

February 7, 2026 at 1:10 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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Randi Mayem Singer

@rmayemsinger.bsky.social

Don't know who this quote is from, but man...

Entering America illegally is a misdemeanor.
Abusing children is a felony. We got the wrong folks in cages.

February 3, 2026 at 3:05 AM

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IndivisibleRI

@indivisibleri62.bsky.social

January 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

🚨 Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.

February 2, 2026 at 5:06 PM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

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February 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM

Annie-T-FA

@anniedgmd.bsky.social

Time to pin this crime on the criminal in chief

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11d

The death of Alex Pretti has been ruled a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office said. Pretti was shot Jan. 24 during a chaotic encounter with federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez were named as the two officers who fired at Pretti.

Alex Pretti’s death ruled homicide after Minneapolis shooting by federal agents

The death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis man killed by federal agents, has been ruled a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office said.

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February 3, 2026 at 1:59 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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Indivisible ❌👑

@indivisible.org

Minnesota organizers want us to help turn up the heat on the state's biggest regime-friendly corporations. Contact Target, Hilton, Enterprise, Home Depot, and Delta Airlines to demand they take action to get ICE out of our communities FOR GOOD.