NewportWonk
@newportwonk.bsky.social
Views are entirely own +anti-racist, anti-bigotry, pro: #democracy, US #Constitution + #ruleoflaw
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JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.
February 19, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Why can disbarred lawyers file anything with SCOTUS, much less be read by them ?
John Eastman, who is up for disbarment in California and currently cannot file cases in CA courts (apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Lic... ) has filed this amicus brief in the US Supreme Court seeking to stop states from accepting ballots arriving after election day:
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
www.supremecourt.gov
February 17, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Why can disbarred lawyers file anything with SCOTUS, much less be read by them ?
No commitment to NATO’s Article 5
No real commitment to US allies, partners or friends in Asia
No world order at all, apparently…
just a might-makes-right rapproachment among strongmen (who are unlikely to maintain “stability” in Europe or Asia)
thinking they’ll just go along with US is naive
No real commitment to US allies, partners or friends in Asia
No world order at all, apparently…
just a might-makes-right rapproachment among strongmen (who are unlikely to maintain “stability” in Europe or Asia)
thinking they’ll just go along with US is naive
Elbridge Colby Discusses NATO and China With Ravi Agrawal of Foreign Policy Magazine
https://www.europesays.com/2779399/
If a European member of NATO invokes the military alliance’s call for help, will the White House pick…
https://www.europesays.com/2779399/
If a European member of NATO invokes the military alliance’s call for help, will the White House pick…
Elbridge Colby Discusses NATO and China With Ravi Agrawal of Foreign Policy Magazine - EUROPE SAYS
If a European member of NATO invokes the military alliance’s call for help, will the White House pick up the phone? Has the United States suddenly become less
www.europesays.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:32 PM
No commitment to NATO’s Article 5
No real commitment to US allies, partners or friends in Asia
No world order at all, apparently…
just a might-makes-right rapproachment among strongmen (who are unlikely to maintain “stability” in Europe or Asia)
thinking they’ll just go along with US is naive
No real commitment to US allies, partners or friends in Asia
No world order at all, apparently…
just a might-makes-right rapproachment among strongmen (who are unlikely to maintain “stability” in Europe or Asia)
thinking they’ll just go along with US is naive
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The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 PM
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
And the job numbers are suspected to be inflated…
February 17, 2026 at 11:19 PM
And the job numbers are suspected to be inflated…
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I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.
‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.
Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley
'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...
www.sacurrent.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:11 AM
I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.
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If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
February 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
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👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
Once again, ceding the field to China…
who IS investing in cleaning its air and water
having learned how beneficial it is to do so…
from USA
who IS investing in cleaning its air and water
having learned how beneficial it is to do so…
from USA
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Once again, ceding the field to China…
who IS investing in cleaning its air and water
having learned how beneficial it is to do so…
from USA
who IS investing in cleaning its air and water
having learned how beneficial it is to do so…
from USA
True. Those in power are likely to ramp up agenda + lawlessness even more after the midterms (while still can + will then pardon)
And will continue to do so as long as Republicans pay no real price for such actions
Suing (making them pay actual $$, like Fox) is most likely response to work
And will continue to do so as long as Republicans pay no real price for such actions
Suing (making them pay actual $$, like Fox) is most likely response to work
Why write about the Greenland threat in the past tense?
An editorial choice that lies to the audience.
The Greenland threat - same with the Canada threat - continues as long as the GOP has access to real power.
An editorial choice that lies to the audience.
The Greenland threat - same with the Canada threat - continues as long as the GOP has access to real power.
U.S. lawmakers left the Munich Security Conference on Sunday confident they had patched the wound inflicted on the trans-Atlantic partnership by President Trump when he toyed with invading Greenland. But they conceded that Trump's threats had indelibly altered relations with Europe.
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
True. Those in power are likely to ramp up agenda + lawlessness even more after the midterms (while still can + will then pardon)
And will continue to do so as long as Republicans pay no real price for such actions
Suing (making them pay actual $$, like Fox) is most likely response to work
And will continue to do so as long as Republicans pay no real price for such actions
Suing (making them pay actual $$, like Fox) is most likely response to work
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Resistance infrastructure.
February 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Resistance infrastructure.
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This was the exact opposite under Biden, where the US economy was dramatically outperforming the rest of the world
The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.
So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.
Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...
So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.
Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...
"Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.
What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger?
Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s…
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
This was the exact opposite under Biden, where the US economy was dramatically outperforming the rest of the world
Re-igniting the world’s most heinous form of war, hate + fear back into the world…
Should mean eternal damnation for those who do
Should mean eternal damnation for those who do
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Re-igniting the world’s most heinous form of war, hate + fear back into the world…
Should mean eternal damnation for those who do
Should mean eternal damnation for those who do
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Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”
February 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
Trump regime turning back progress in every area it can find
The U.S.'s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing whales.
US ocean regulator faces criticism over changes to right whale protection rule
The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing whales.
bit.ly
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Trump regime turning back progress in every area it can find
They’re f€~€]€ing with the election already…
trying to keep opponents from being able to vote
trying to keep opponents from being able to vote
The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.
With @texastribune.org
With @texastribune.org
“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
www.propublica.org
February 15, 2026 at 3:38 AM
They’re f€~€]€ing with the election already…
trying to keep opponents from being able to vote
trying to keep opponents from being able to vote
Appalling in every way
It doesn’t say it as directly, but at its core all of this stuff is Calhounism and Dred Scott: An assertion that the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were conceived in purely racial terms and to include exclusively the white race.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Appalling in every way
Still sick - using people’s good + caring nature against them (not likely hardened criminals here)
Bet they won’t be helping out any strangers again…
#AbolishICE
Bet they won’t be helping out any strangers again…
#AbolishICE
This is somewhat more of an old-fashioned ICE ruse. Arguably this is a sign of the agency going back to more standard “targeted enforcement” tactics designed to be not as disruptive as the more recent aggro-style arrests. Watch for more like this to come.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Still sick - using people’s good + caring nature against them (not likely hardened criminals here)
Bet they won’t be helping out any strangers again…
#AbolishICE
Bet they won’t be helping out any strangers again…
#AbolishICE
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"Some of the most far-out election conspiracists who helped him spread lies about the 2020 election and then tried to overturn it are now inside the government, using the power of the state to keep Mr. Trump’s denialism alive."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
Trump’s Director of Election Security Is an Election Denier
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:31 PM
"Some of the most far-out election conspiracists who helped him spread lies about the 2020 election and then tried to overturn it are now inside the government, using the power of the state to keep Mr. Trump’s denialism alive."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
What will Congress do about it?!
…she will make sure they vote for “the right leaders?”
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 15, 2026 at 1:04 AM
What will Congress do about it?!
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"officers abruptly used physical or chemical force. DHS seemed to apply these tactics with little discretion, whether protests were peaceful or violent, large or small."
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
"officers abruptly used physical or chemical force. DHS seemed to apply these tactics with little discretion, whether protests were peaceful or violent, large or small."
Incompetence risks lives…
(There’s very good reason for deliberative decision making processes + lawyers)
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...
(There’s very good reason for deliberative decision making processes + lawyers)
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...
Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Incompetence risks lives…
(There’s very good reason for deliberative decision making processes + lawyers)
Gift link 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...
(There’s very good reason for deliberative decision making processes + lawyers)
Gift link 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...
Worth a listen to Andrea Cabral on @wgbh.org about catastrophic state of DOJ
www.youtube.com/live/XQZ0wUp...
www.youtube.com/live/XQZ0wUp...
Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live February 12, 2026
YouTube video by GBH News
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Worth a listen to Andrea Cabral on @wgbh.org about catastrophic state of DOJ
www.youtube.com/live/XQZ0wUp...
www.youtube.com/live/XQZ0wUp...