Steve Middlebrook
@stmdc.bsky.social
FinTech attorney. Principal at Middlebrook LLC. Interests: prepaid cards, payments, earned wage access, civil rights, Native American and Inuit art, old photographs, chipmunks.
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Yesterday, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed SB 244, an anti-trans bill that imposes a bathroom ban and restricts access to accurate identity docs.
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The State Legislature will reconvene as early as 2/16 to vote on an override of the veto.
Act now: tinyurl.com/2m77hbkk
Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p9psp6e
The State Legislature will reconvene as early as 2/16 to vote on an override of the veto.
Act now: tinyurl.com/2m77hbkk
February 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Yesterday, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed SB 244, an anti-trans bill that imposes a bathroom ban and restricts access to accurate identity docs.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p9psp6e
The State Legislature will reconvene as early as 2/16 to vote on an override of the veto.
Act now: tinyurl.com/2m77hbkk
Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p9psp6e
The State Legislature will reconvene as early as 2/16 to vote on an override of the veto.
Act now: tinyurl.com/2m77hbkk
DC Attorney General files novel RICO case against landlord claiming he operated a vast, illegal real estate empire that put tenants in danger, worsened the city’s affordable housing crisis and defrauded D.C.’s housing assistance program.
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Using a law deployed against mob bosses, D.C. files suit against a landlord
The suit, filed by D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, claims the landlord and two of his family members enriched themselves while leaving tenants in squalid, unsafe conditions.
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February 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
DC Attorney General files novel RICO case against landlord claiming he operated a vast, illegal real estate empire that put tenants in danger, worsened the city’s affordable housing crisis and defrauded D.C.’s housing assistance program.
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Is Stephen Miller moonlighting for Bulgaria?
In Bulgaria, former military barracks house hundreds of migrants. Conditions are grim: Detainees face poor sanitation, meager rations and inadequate medical care. It's one in a network of holding sites that the EU has funded as part of a new approach to immigration. nyti.ms/4ac2O7x
Bulgaria Is at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
This former military barracks in Bulgaria has become a symbol of the E.U.’s increasingly strict policing of its borders — and of what may come next.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Is Stephen Miller moonlighting for Bulgaria?
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production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
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White House press corps, I know some of you are shy, so let me help you get started. This isn't fifty questions--I could only fit twenty-one in alt text--but let me know if you need more!
February 6, 2026 at 5:37 PM
White House press corps, I know some of you are shy, so let me help you get started. This isn't fifty questions--I could only fit twenty-one in alt text--but let me know if you need more!
“And the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for reporting goes to the Washington Post for its in depth analysis of frozen peas.”
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www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:54 AM
“And the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for reporting goes to the Washington Post for its in depth analysis of frozen peas.”
Don’t know who made this, but I love them.
February 5, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Don’t know who made this, but I love them.
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The FBI can’t get into a Washington Post reporter’s phone, in part because it was set to Lockdown Mode. www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The FBI can’t get into a Washington Post reporter’s phone, in part because it was set to Lockdown Mode. www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Now we will have something huge and shiny to topple when democracy and the rule of law is restored to out country.
A group of cryptocurrency investors paid $300,000 to have a 15-foot-tall statue of President Trump sculpted in tribute to his outspoken support for crypto. They hope it will soon be installed at one of his Florida golf courses.
‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home
A group of cryptocurrency investors backing a memecoin hopes the statue will soon be installed at one of Mr. Trump’s golf courses in Florida.
nyti.ms
February 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Now we will have something huge and shiny to topple when democracy and the rule of law is restored to out country.
‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Of course.
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Of course.
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A note from our editors:
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
A note from our editors:
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Sports are about so much more than a game. They’re about confidence, belonging + finding your place. 💛
As SCOTUS considers two cases on whether trans youth can play school sports, remember what this is really about: kids being able to learn life lessons + follow their passions—on and off the field.
As SCOTUS considers two cases on whether trans youth can play school sports, remember what this is really about: kids being able to learn life lessons + follow their passions—on and off the field.
January 29, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Sports are about so much more than a game. They’re about confidence, belonging + finding your place. 💛
As SCOTUS considers two cases on whether trans youth can play school sports, remember what this is really about: kids being able to learn life lessons + follow their passions—on and off the field.
As SCOTUS considers two cases on whether trans youth can play school sports, remember what this is really about: kids being able to learn life lessons + follow their passions—on and off the field.
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Confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.
January 28, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.
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"Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month." www.cbo.gov/publication/...
January 28, 2026 at 9:54 PM
"Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month." www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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THIS is the last straw!!!
January 27, 2026 at 10:54 PM
THIS is the last straw!!!
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I am not a body language expert but I would generally characterize this stance as, “come at me, mother fucker”
January 28, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I am not a body language expert but I would generally characterize this stance as, “come at me, mother fucker”
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Hungarian prosecutors brought charges against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony for permitting an LGBTQ+ pride march to go ahead last year despite a ban imposed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Hungary announces charges against Budapest mayor over Pride events
The legal action, months after Budapest’s pride parade, may be a bid by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to drum up support from his base ahead of April elections.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Hungarian prosecutors brought charges against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony for permitting an LGBTQ+ pride march to go ahead last year despite a ban imposed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.