Michael Anderson
@michaelander45.bsky.social
Attorney, Views are my own and not intended as legal advice 😁
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Correction 👇🏽
Someone should edit this on Wikipedia
Someone should edit this on Wikipedia
fwiw, since I saw this going around in my reporting, he never served on the AIPAC board, it was misreported several times by the same reporter but you can check the 990s
February 13, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Correction 👇🏽
Someone should edit this on Wikipedia
Someone should edit this on Wikipedia
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SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com
wired.com/story/social...
wired.com/story/social...
Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE
The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.
wired.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com
wired.com/story/social...
wired.com/story/social...
Oh boy (laudatory)
February 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Oh boy (laudatory)
Yes! And the media is like this in part BECAUSE they know dems wont give the push back on “bias” or coverage decisions like they get from Rs.
This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
February 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Yes! And the media is like this in part BECAUSE they know dems wont give the push back on “bias” or coverage decisions like they get from Rs.
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This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 PM
This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
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i would like to see impeachment articles filed against Noem at this point.
there was maybe a case before we hit shutdown for not doing it because it might negatively affect chances of a deal; that case no longer exists.
there was maybe a case before we hit shutdown for not doing it because it might negatively affect chances of a deal; that case no longer exists.
Bovino gone for real is the minimum personnel outcome and if that's all we get I will be unhappy.
Bovino+impeach and miss on Noem is an L but an acceptable one.
Bovino+Noem quits or gets fired or gets successfully impeached+removed is a W.
Bovino+Noem+Miller is a big W.
Bovino+impeach and miss on Noem is an L but an acceptable one.
Bovino+Noem quits or gets fired or gets successfully impeached+removed is a W.
Bovino+Noem+Miller is a big W.
February 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
i would like to see impeachment articles filed against Noem at this point.
there was maybe a case before we hit shutdown for not doing it because it might negatively affect chances of a deal; that case no longer exists.
there was maybe a case before we hit shutdown for not doing it because it might negatively affect chances of a deal; that case no longer exists.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
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 8:54 PM
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
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WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side.
Will DHS retract the prior claims?
Will DHS retract the prior claims?
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side.
Will DHS retract the prior claims?
Will DHS retract the prior claims?
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Generic Ballot Polling:
DEM: 51%
GOP: 44%
Focaldata / Feb 10, 2026
DEM: 51%
GOP: 44%
Focaldata / Feb 10, 2026
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Under appreciated factor is the Panic of 1873. If the Republicans had had a more successful domestic economy they might have been able to maintain reconstruction
We killed a quarter of the South’s male population and reduced it to the brink of famine.
It wasn’t a lack of ruthless violence that caused us to fail at Reconstruction later on (we crushed the Klan). It was just plain old exhaustion from war and an economic depression.
It wasn’t a lack of ruthless violence that caused us to fail at Reconstruction later on (we crushed the Klan). It was just plain old exhaustion from war and an economic depression.
👇🎯 @willbunch.bsky.social is right. The reason all the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from 1865 to now - is because there are never any actual legal, personal, & professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. That must change this time.
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Under appreciated factor is the Panic of 1873. If the Republicans had had a more successful domestic economy they might have been able to maintain reconstruction
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This sounds like a crime (Antideficiency Act) and Congress should let everyone involve understand Congress will vigorously pursue accountability.
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
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 2:25 PM
This sounds like a crime (Antideficiency Act) and Congress should let everyone involve understand Congress will vigorously pursue accountability.
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Brand new polling from Data for Progress, shared first with Strength In Numbers, shows voters back Dems in the DHS shutdown over ICE — and overwhelmingly favor key reforms such as preventing mask-wearing (+23) and requiring judicial warrants for arrests (+34): www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...
February 13, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Brand new polling from Data for Progress, shared first with Strength In Numbers, shows voters back Dems in the DHS shutdown over ICE — and overwhelmingly favor key reforms such as preventing mask-wearing (+23) and requiring judicial warrants for arrests (+34): www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...
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Watch this clip of @booker.senate.gov masterfully question white nationalist Jeremy Carl. Even as Carl tries to distance himself from some of his own racist statements, he defends the white nationalist great replacement theory! (3:40 mark.) Very important to expose this.
youtube.com/watch?v=7VYq...
youtube.com/watch?v=7VYq...
'It Sounds Like You Have A Racial Hierarchy': Cory Booker Shows Absolutely No Mercy To Trump Nom
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Watch this clip of @booker.senate.gov masterfully question white nationalist Jeremy Carl. Even as Carl tries to distance himself from some of his own racist statements, he defends the white nationalist great replacement theory! (3:40 mark.) Very important to expose this.
youtube.com/watch?v=7VYq...
youtube.com/watch?v=7VYq...
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Just noticing that the Fulton Co election records search warrant affidavit entirely omits the mental state (“willfully”) required to commit the 1st of the 2 crimes cited. The FBI agent makes it sound like a strict liability crime, which it's not. (Sorry if this has already been widely reported.)
February 13, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Just noticing that the Fulton Co election records search warrant affidavit entirely omits the mental state (“willfully”) required to commit the 1st of the 2 crimes cited. The FBI agent makes it sound like a strict liability crime, which it's not. (Sorry if this has already been widely reported.)
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Man who called it? Everyone literate who had glanced at the news?
BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Man who called it? Everyone literate who had glanced at the news?
This kind of thing (e.g., loss of model weight control) is probably up there on the list of things that could cause the AI investment bubble to burst.
a model reveals its empirical distribution when it is prompted. this is not a security problem, as much as Google tries to make it one. it does not own what it claims to.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
Google says attackers used 100,000+ prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini
Google says private companies and researchers are trying to copy Gemini’s capabilities by repeatedly prompting it at scale.
www.nbcnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM
This kind of thing (e.g., loss of model weight control) is probably up there on the list of things that could cause the AI investment bubble to burst.
Oh no
Absolutely floored by the quality of an appellate brief I just got. FLOORED.
I mean, if the judge dismisses your lawsuit, and cites a case as the basis, and CITES THAT CASE IN THE WRITTEN JUDGMENT, do you think, maybe, you should discuss the case in your appellate brief?
I mean, if the judge dismisses your lawsuit, and cites a case as the basis, and CITES THAT CASE IN THE WRITTEN JUDGMENT, do you think, maybe, you should discuss the case in your appellate brief?
February 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Oh no
Does anyone know what the ACAB crowd's position on the "tax police" is, because I imagine there to be some cognitive dissonance there.
February 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Does anyone know what the ACAB crowd's position on the "tax police" is, because I imagine there to be some cognitive dissonance there.
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BREAKING
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
February 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
BREAKING
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.
Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.
Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
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This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost
Homan in Minnesota: "I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue."
February 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost
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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”
These people have not at all thought hard about what “scarcity” is or how it operates in todays economy. Even a super intelligent AGI system (which we are unlikely to get soon IMO) would face PHYSICAL resource constraints to truly ending scarcity
Still all in on this TBH.
I am not an ostrich. AI obviously is having a material impact on a few sectors of the economy, but it's going to take more than a breathless blog post by someone who WORKS FOR AN AI START-UP to make me go full Butlerian Jihad.
I am not an ostrich. AI obviously is having a material impact on a few sectors of the economy, but it's going to take more than a breathless blog post by someone who WORKS FOR AN AI START-UP to make me go full Butlerian Jihad.
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
These people have not at all thought hard about what “scarcity” is or how it operates in todays economy. Even a super intelligent AGI system (which we are unlikely to get soon IMO) would face PHYSICAL resource constraints to truly ending scarcity
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Lincoln’s words I come back to right now are
“We cannot escape history…We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves…We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it…We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.”
“We cannot escape history…We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves…We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it…We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.”
February 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Lincoln’s words I come back to right now are
“We cannot escape history…We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves…We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it…We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.”
“We cannot escape history…We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves…We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it…We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.”
You are though
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 2:49 PM
You are though
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damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?
February 12, 2026 at 1:34 PM
damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?