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Relapsed doomscroller. Occasional insightful and humorous comments. Prolific typos.
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Hegseth has radicalized Richard Leon, the most conservative partisanly Republican judge not appointed by Trump I've ever met.
BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly.
"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...
"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MARK KELLY,
Plaintiff,
Civil Case No. 26-81 (RJL)
V.
PETE HEGSETH, et al.,
Defendants.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
February 12, 2026 [Dkt. #2]
United States Senator Mark Kelly, a retired naval officer, has been censured by
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for voicing certain opinions on military actions and
policy. In addition, he has been subjected to proceedings to possibly reduce his retirement
rank and pay and threatened with criminal prosecution if he continues to speak out on these
issues.
Secretary Hegseth relies on the well-established doctrine that military
servicemembers enjoy less vigorous First Amendment protections given the fundamental
obligation for obedience and discipline in the armed forces. Unfortunately for Secretary
Hegseth, no court has ever extended those principles to retired servicemembers, much less a retired servicemember serving in Congress and exercising oversight responsibility over
the military. This Court will not be the first to do so!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiclbgaenrhgnor6zvmnfql4d3olwzqp7zikm3maum5ylc4m6epys4@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Hegseth has radicalized Richard Leon, the most conservative partisanly Republican judge not appointed by Trump I've ever met.
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BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly.
"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...
"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...
February 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly.
"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...
"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...
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The White House is making a lot of strategic mistakes lately — my theory is that none of them have a good understanding of the electoral conditions right now because they're all just trying to perform their loyalty to Trump for followers on X and Fox News
Whoa. Two vulnerable House Rs in Michigan have still not commented on Trump's threat to block Detroit-Windsor bridge, per Michigan Advance.
Trump/MAGA miscalculated badly, assuming people would thrill to this idiocy because it hurts Canada and a state that didn't vote for Trump (see my piece below)
Trump/MAGA miscalculated badly, assuming people would thrill to this idiocy because it hurts Canada and a state that didn't vote for Trump (see my piece below)
February 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The White House is making a lot of strategic mistakes lately — my theory is that none of them have a good understanding of the electoral conditions right now because they're all just trying to perform their loyalty to Trump for followers on X and Fox News
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under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
February 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
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Reading this headline, I imagined the author saying in the Gollum voice, “Filthy little tenants. You ruins it.”
![Atlantic Story:
[picture of Mayor Zohran Mamdani talking to a tenant in a small kitchen]
What Mamdani Doesn't Know
About Tenants
MICHAEL POWELL
FEBRUARY 11, 2026](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pxnzkp3nizm7yp7c2djc6b6w/bafkreifmrwjfunhzeeig42a5doimac2qufn4hfmzbnhbvsfljlq72pt54i@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Reading this headline, I imagined the author saying in the Gollum voice, “Filthy little tenants. You ruins it.”
I don’t think my wife and I have exchanged this many texts in the last decade.
I don't talk to anyone this much
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
February 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I don’t think my wife and I have exchanged this many texts in the last decade.
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“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”
How dare this sack of shit try to blame the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti on Democratic office holders in Minnesota.
Alex Pretti was shot ten times in the back after being beaten and disarmed by violent CBP thugs.
The goon that murdered Renee Good drew his gun before her car even moved.
Alex Pretti was shot ten times in the back after being beaten and disarmed by violent CBP thugs.
The goon that murdered Renee Good drew his gun before her car even moved.
Ron Johnson to Keith Ellison: "Two people are dead because you encouraged them to put themselves into harm's way! And now you are exploiting those two martyrs. You ought to feel damn guilty about it. Yeah, sit there and smirk. Smirk. It's sick! It's despicable. You disgust me."
February 12, 2026 at 3:32 PM
How dare this sack of shit try to blame the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti on Democratic office holders in Minnesota.
Alex Pretti was shot ten times in the back after being beaten and disarmed by violent CBP thugs.
The goon that murdered Renee Good drew his gun before her car even moved.
Alex Pretti was shot ten times in the back after being beaten and disarmed by violent CBP thugs.
The goon that murdered Renee Good drew his gun before her car even moved.
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One of the Minnesotans who stood up was Gust Johnson, a Vietnam war vet and nurse
He went to scene after Alex Pretti was killed
Agents repeatedly sprayed him in face
They tackled him (knocking out hearing aid and cutting arm)
They shackled him.
They held him ten hours.
They kept his phone.
He went to scene after Alex Pretti was killed
Agents repeatedly sprayed him in face
They tackled him (knocking out hearing aid and cutting arm)
They shackled him.
They held him ten hours.
They kept his phone.
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
One of the Minnesotans who stood up was Gust Johnson, a Vietnam war vet and nurse
He went to scene after Alex Pretti was killed
Agents repeatedly sprayed him in face
They tackled him (knocking out hearing aid and cutting arm)
They shackled him.
They held him ten hours.
They kept his phone.
He went to scene after Alex Pretti was killed
Agents repeatedly sprayed him in face
They tackled him (knocking out hearing aid and cutting arm)
They shackled him.
They held him ten hours.
They kept his phone.
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It's amazing that the biggest cloud over Obama's Presidency are the hiring decisions save the Vice Presidency.
this is a fascinating piece because it shows what Ruemmler - clearly the source here, probably through an intermediary - thinks is exculpatory and it's real Chinese official 'well I *have* to go to the brothel for work' stuff. which is to say, both true, corrupt, and revealing.
Over at Puck, Bill Cohan writes that the "truth" about Kathy Ruemmler and Jeffrey Epstein "is often more complex than the blinkered narrative gleaned from large email dumps".
It's a take, I guess!
puck.news/why-goldman-...
It's a take, I guess!
puck.news/why-goldman-...
February 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
It's amazing that the biggest cloud over Obama's Presidency are the hiring decisions save the Vice Presidency.
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RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
February 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
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How scared are they by this upcoming DHS shutdown? Here's one possible answer.
Border czar Tom Homan announces end of the aggressive immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that began late last year and resulted in thousands of arrests, as well as the shootings of three people. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Border Czar Says Minnesota Enforcement Surge Is Ending
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
How scared are they by this upcoming DHS shutdown? Here's one possible answer.
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first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed
February 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM
first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed
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Pam Bondi is now freeing accused drug dealers bc her demand that AUSAs do unethical things got all the prosecutors to quit.
www.startribune.com/case-dismiss...
www.startribune.com/case-dismiss...
February 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Pam Bondi is now freeing accused drug dealers bc her demand that AUSAs do unethical things got all the prosecutors to quit.
www.startribune.com/case-dismiss...
www.startribune.com/case-dismiss...
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Happened to catch this great snowboard race ..
February 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Happened to catch this great snowboard race ..
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
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Pam Bondi couldn’t even come prepared for her own staged temper tantrum. this is the nation’s “top law enforcement” official btw 🤡
maybe she became a lawyer because the acting career didn’t work out!!
maybe she became a lawyer because the acting career didn’t work out!!
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Pam Bondi couldn’t even come prepared for her own staged temper tantrum. this is the nation’s “top law enforcement” official btw 🤡
maybe she became a lawyer because the acting career didn’t work out!!
maybe she became a lawyer because the acting career didn’t work out!!
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@schumer.senate.gov
Stop trying to “reform” ICE.
If they don’t care about the constitution and laws now, they won’t care about your “reform” after.
Abolish ICE and start over.
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Stop trying to “reform” ICE.
If they don’t care about the constitution and laws now, they won’t care about your “reform” after.
Abolish ICE and start over.
👇👇👇
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 3:52 AM
@schumer.senate.gov
Stop trying to “reform” ICE.
If they don’t care about the constitution and laws now, they won’t care about your “reform” after.
Abolish ICE and start over.
👇👇👇
Stop trying to “reform” ICE.
If they don’t care about the constitution and laws now, they won’t care about your “reform” after.
Abolish ICE and start over.
👇👇👇
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Embarrassing. For all of us.
"Sir, to show our appreciation, the trophy says 'the undisputed champion of beautiful, clean coal'"
February 12, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Embarrassing. For all of us.
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Trump is a weak bitch who backs down when pushed.
Breaking news: President Trump backed down from his decision to exclude Democratic governors from an annual White House meeting that has long been bipartisan, according to the National Governors Association.
Trump allows Democratic governors to White House meeting after initial snub
Trump had initially excluded Democrats from the traditionally bipartisan meeting.
wapo.st
February 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Trump is a weak bitch who backs down when pushed.
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It was obvious from the outset that the Fulton County elections search was bullshit. But now we know just how bullshit: contrived, contradictory "evidence" aimed at the theoretical crime of intentionally mucking up a system in which no fraud occurred.
It is, as assumed, all about sowing doubt. READ:
It is, as assumed, all about sowing doubt. READ:
Opinion | The Fulton County search affidavit makes claims about the 2020 election. None of them add up.
Philip Bump: A brief debunking of the bogus 2020 election claims in the FBI’s affidavit.
www.ms.now
February 12, 2026 at 4:14 AM
It was obvious from the outset that the Fulton County elections search was bullshit. But now we know just how bullshit: contrived, contradictory "evidence" aimed at the theoretical crime of intentionally mucking up a system in which no fraud occurred.
It is, as assumed, all about sowing doubt. READ:
It is, as assumed, all about sowing doubt. READ:
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This website has the juice.
February 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
This website has the juice.
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Another victory for Bari Weiss, lifelong McCarthyite and consigliere of the most openly Nazi presidency in the history of the U.S.
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Another victory for Bari Weiss, lifelong McCarthyite and consigliere of the most openly Nazi presidency in the history of the U.S.
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