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I will continue to beat this drum: this is not about what happens on Election Day, but afterwards.
The key tell is her articulation of the core MAGA belief that the legitimacy of elections is entirely determined by the results: if they win, it’s legitimate; if they lose, it’s not.
The key tell is her articulation of the core MAGA belief that the legitimacy of elections is entirely determined by the results: if they win, it’s legitimate; if they lose, it’s not.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I will continue to beat this drum: this is not about what happens on Election Day, but afterwards.
The key tell is her articulation of the core MAGA belief that the legitimacy of elections is entirely determined by the results: if they win, it’s legitimate; if they lose, it’s not.
The key tell is her articulation of the core MAGA belief that the legitimacy of elections is entirely determined by the results: if they win, it’s legitimate; if they lose, it’s not.
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The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill gave Trump tens of billions of dollars to create a domestic militia and prison system that he was all but certain to employ to assault our democracy, as I said last July.
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
February 14, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill gave Trump tens of billions of dollars to create a domestic militia and prison system that he was all but certain to employ to assault our democracy, as I said last July.
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
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Silverio Villegas González, Keith Porter, Renee Good, Alex Pretti. All killed by ICE. A memorial for them outside Broadview ICE detention center. #abolishice
February 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Silverio Villegas González, Keith Porter, Renee Good, Alex Pretti. All killed by ICE. A memorial for them outside Broadview ICE detention center. #abolishice
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Smile Randy Fine... You're on Candid Camera!
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February 14, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Smile Randy Fine... You're on Candid Camera!
@ogmnews.bsky.social
@ogmnews.bsky.social
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In other words: legitimate voters are those who elect “the right leaders”. That’s the MAGA theory of elections, and it’s flat-out incompatible with democracy.
February 14, 2026 at 10:38 PM
In other words: legitimate voters are those who elect “the right leaders”. That’s the MAGA theory of elections, and it’s flat-out incompatible with democracy.
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Nothing about our current moment is comprehensible without understanding that:
1. Until 1965, white men decided who was president.
2. for the next four decades, every president elected was either a Republican or a white male Southerner.
3. Barack Obama was the first exception to the above.
1. Until 1965, white men decided who was president.
2. for the next four decades, every president elected was either a Republican or a white male Southerner.
3. Barack Obama was the first exception to the above.
February 14, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Nothing about our current moment is comprehensible without understanding that:
1. Until 1965, white men decided who was president.
2. for the next four decades, every president elected was either a Republican or a white male Southerner.
3. Barack Obama was the first exception to the above.
1. Until 1965, white men decided who was president.
2. for the next four decades, every president elected was either a Republican or a white male Southerner.
3. Barack Obama was the first exception to the above.
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Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
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Again, the answer is “10-25 people in Washington, <all> of whom are Republicans, or it’s not going to happen.”
And yet, these 10-25 people get free passes every day & still can leave their houses & go to work with scarcely a question about when they’re going to start fulfilling their oaths 🤷♂️🤦♂️
And yet, these 10-25 people get free passes every day & still can leave their houses & go to work with scarcely a question about when they’re going to start fulfilling their oaths 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Again, I know everyone wants to yell at The Democrats & Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jefferies, but there are 10-25 people in Washington who could literally end all of this tomorrow, & none of them are Democrats, & they continue to get 24/7 free passes for being absolute oath-violating cowards. Focus.
Yes, we’re looking at you, Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins & Thom Tillis, you absolute oath-violating cowards.
February 14, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Again, the answer is “10-25 people in Washington, <all> of whom are Republicans, or it’s not going to happen.”
And yet, these 10-25 people get free passes every day & still can leave their houses & go to work with scarcely a question about when they’re going to start fulfilling their oaths 🤷♂️🤦♂️
And yet, these 10-25 people get free passes every day & still can leave their houses & go to work with scarcely a question about when they’re going to start fulfilling their oaths 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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Once again, a reminder that the "free speech" crusaders were always cynics operating in bad faith
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Once again, a reminder that the "free speech" crusaders were always cynics operating in bad faith
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I think I've woken up to them outside the house twice now? I'm okay with it - time wasted trying to scare me is time spent not kidnapping a vulnerable neighbor.
Anyway if you go out at fuckass o'clock with your phone in one hand and a whistle ready in the other, they see you and leave lol.
Anyway if you go out at fuckass o'clock with your phone in one hand and a whistle ready in the other, they see you and leave lol.
I’ve talked with two different people who’ve experienced this (and are aware of it)
ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:58 AM
I think I've woken up to them outside the house twice now? I'm okay with it - time wasted trying to scare me is time spent not kidnapping a vulnerable neighbor.
Anyway if you go out at fuckass o'clock with your phone in one hand and a whistle ready in the other, they see you and leave lol.
Anyway if you go out at fuckass o'clock with your phone in one hand and a whistle ready in the other, they see you and leave lol.
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Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.
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“.. Trump disparaged his predecessors as commander in chief. “You’ve had a couple of good ones, not that many if you want to know the truth,” he said. “But we support you more than any of them.”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
February 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
“.. Trump disparaged his predecessors as commander in chief. “You’ve had a couple of good ones, not that many if you want to know the truth,” he said. “But we support you more than any of them.”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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🚨 #AltCitizen Alert:
Chief Shultz advances proposal to limit public comment:
⏳just 10 days for actions requiring an environmental assessment (EA)
⏳just 20 days for actions requiring an environmental impact statement (EIS)
🗣️ Speak up by March 9.
Details on how in quoted post👇
Chief Shultz advances proposal to limit public comment:
⏳just 10 days for actions requiring an environmental assessment (EA)
⏳just 20 days for actions requiring an environmental impact statement (EIS)
🗣️ Speak up by March 9.
Details on how in quoted post👇
More: www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...?
The changes gut public comments; bills in Congress gut NEPA and judicial review. Clearly, the purpose is to facilitate logging, drilling, mining, other development of our public lands. It's always corporations over Americans. You can speak up below. 🌎
The changes gut public comments; bills in Congress gut NEPA and judicial review. Clearly, the purpose is to facilitate logging, drilling, mining, other development of our public lands. It's always corporations over Americans. You can speak up below. 🌎
The Forest Service Wants to 'Streamline' How Your Public Lands Are Managed by Giving You Less Opportunity to Comment
A new rule proposed by the U.S. Forest Service would give the public less opportunity to comment on the agency's projects and decisions.
www.outdoorlife.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:12 PM
🚨 #AltCitizen Alert:
Chief Shultz advances proposal to limit public comment:
⏳just 10 days for actions requiring an environmental assessment (EA)
⏳just 20 days for actions requiring an environmental impact statement (EIS)
🗣️ Speak up by March 9.
Details on how in quoted post👇
Chief Shultz advances proposal to limit public comment:
⏳just 10 days for actions requiring an environmental assessment (EA)
⏳just 20 days for actions requiring an environmental impact statement (EIS)
🗣️ Speak up by March 9.
Details on how in quoted post👇
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The Cabinet this week
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 AM
The Cabinet this week
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
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Hey remember the shooting in Minneapolis that happened between Renee Good and Alexi Pretti, the guy they claimed was shot by an agent after he had attacked that agent with a shovel? I know it's hard to believe but the agents' story fell apart and charges were dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
February 14, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Hey remember the shooting in Minneapolis that happened between Renee Good and Alexi Pretti, the guy they claimed was shot by an agent after he had attacked that agent with a shovel? I know it's hard to believe but the agents' story fell apart and charges were dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
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I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM
I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.
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So infuriating.
DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:36 AM
So infuriating.
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Hundreds of students outside the MDC in DTLA right now, facing off against DHS agents. Bit chaotic here will post am able
February 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Hundreds of students outside the MDC in DTLA right now, facing off against DHS agents. Bit chaotic here will post am able
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
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NEW: Ahead of the FBI’s raid of an election center in Georgia, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation met with several Trump lawyers, including Ed Martin and Kurt Olsen, who helped the president try to overturn the 2020 election.
What Meetings Among Trump Lawyers Reveal About the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
The federal prosecutor from Missouri, who is overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Georgia, had several meetings set up with top administration lawyers last fall to discuss election integr...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:52 PM
NEW: Ahead of the FBI’s raid of an election center in Georgia, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation met with several Trump lawyers, including Ed Martin and Kurt Olsen, who helped the president try to overturn the 2020 election.
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This man is a thief, coward and hypocrite. He argues the U.S. can't afford to protect workers from scammy corporations through the CFPB, but it CAN afford to pay millions and millions robbed from three different agencies to pay for his imperial guard. #stopvought
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This man is a thief, coward and hypocrite. He argues the U.S. can't afford to protect workers from scammy corporations through the CFPB, but it CAN afford to pay millions and millions robbed from three different agencies to pay for his imperial guard. #stopvought
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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New: District Judge Robert Gettleman issued an order yesterday mandating clergy be allowed inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility on Feb. 18 to offer those inside ashes and communion for Ash Wednesday.
Gettleman found the govt has "substantially burdened plaintiffs’ exercise of religion."
Gettleman found the govt has "substantially burdened plaintiffs’ exercise of religion."
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B. Preliminary injunction
To obtain a preliminary injunction, the plaintiff “must establish that he is likely to
succeed on the merits, that he is likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary
relief, that the balance of equities tips in his favor, and that an injunction is in the public
interest.” Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7, 20 (2008). Of these
four factors, “[t]he two most important considerations are likelihood of success on the merits and
irreparable harm.” Bevis v. City of Naperville, Illinois, 85 F.4th 1175, 1188 (7th Cir. 2023). In
establishing a likelihood of success on the merits, the plaintiff “need not demonstrate likelihood
of success by a preponderance of the evidence,” but must “nevertheless make a ‘strong’ showing
that reveals how it proposes to prove its case.” Id. In addition, a plaintiff seeking a preliminary
injunction must show more than “a mere possibility of irreparable harm.” Id.
1. Likelihood of success on the merits
The court finds that plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success on the merits of their
RFRA claim. Under RFRA, the “Government shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise
of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.” 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-
1(a). The statute provides a single exception that applies if the government demonstrates that the application of the burden to the person: “(1) is in is in furtherance of a compelling governmental
interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental
interest.” 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-1(b); see also Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do
Vegetal, 546 U.S. 418, 430 (2006) (explaining that RFRA adopted a “strict scrutiny test”).
The court finds that the government has substantially burdened plaintiffs’ exercise of
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Plaintiffs argue that prayer and ministry to the migrants and detainees at Broadview is an
important religious practice. Defendants concede that “ministering to vulnerable Catholic
immigrants is part of [plaintiffs’] religious exercise,” but argue that doing so at Broadview “is
itself not essential to the practice.”1 RFRA requires a court to analyze if a government practice
substantially burdens a person’s exercise of religion, not whether the religious practice burdened
is “essential.” West v. Radtke, 48 F.4th 836, 845 (7th Cir. 2022) (holding that the assessment of
whether a burden is substantial does not focus on “the centrality of the religious practice in
question”). The Seventh Circuit has “identified three ways plaintiffs can prove that a law or
regulation substantially burdens their religious practice.” Soc’y of Divine Word v. United States Citizenship & Immigr. Servs., 129 F.4th 437, 450 (7th Cir. 2025). Plaintiff can show that the
law or regulation, “(1) compelled them to perform acts undeniably at odds with fundamental
tenets of their religious beliefs, (2) put substantial pressure on them to modify their behavior and
to violate their beliefs, or (3) bears direct, primary, and fundamental responsibility for rendering
a religious exercise effectively impracticable.” Id. (cleaned up). Here, defendants’ denial of
plaintiffs’ access to Broadview satisfies at least the third category. Defendants’ bar on plaintiffs’
visitation to Broadview is fundamentally responsible for rendering plaintiffs’ religious practice
of providing ministry to detainees and migrants effectively impracticable.
Because plaintiffs have shown that defendants have substantially burdened their exercise
of religion, the burden shifts to defendants to show that the burden is in furtherance of a
compelling governmental interest, and that it is the least restrictive means of furthering that
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February 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
New: District Judge Robert Gettleman issued an order yesterday mandating clergy be allowed inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility on Feb. 18 to offer those inside ashes and communion for Ash Wednesday.
Gettleman found the govt has "substantially burdened plaintiffs’ exercise of religion."
Gettleman found the govt has "substantially burdened plaintiffs’ exercise of religion."
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sharing this as if it just happened (this story is from eight years ago) really hides the important reminder that DHS was broken way before the current administration.
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 AM
sharing this as if it just happened (this story is from eight years ago) really hides the important reminder that DHS was broken way before the current administration.
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