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Lucy Vilchis
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Just a vet who loves hockey and law.
She/Her. AuDHD. Mom. USMC. MEd.
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It's nice to see that some Republicans still have souls.
Screenshot from Twitter. Anthony Scaramucci's account: "Open letter to Republicans in Congress: Trump is betraying our country, protecting pedophiles and now deeply unpopular. You know it's true and the midterms will be proof. But we can't afford to wait that long. Get together and break ranks in numbers, so his lackeys can't pick you off. Show courage and you will be remembered for it." 4:36 PM · Feb 7, 2026 · 39.9K Views
February 7, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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A meme. Everyone - do you finally see that he's a pedophile? Trump Supporters - (a scene from Django Unchained where a man wears a KKK hood) I can't see fuckin shit outta this thing.
February 7, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Reminder that Judge Reyes is a goddess of legal opinions. The footnotes alone are worth the price of admission.
VII. CONCLUSION There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side—or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side—or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that. By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705. Date: February 2, 2026 ____________________________ ANA C. REYES United States District Judge
February 3, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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Judge Biery goes HARD into the paint for this one. Surely aware of the case being national news, he uses it to be a megaphone for his opinion of this administration.

Good to see someone in a position of power using it appropriately.
Opinion and Order for Arias VS Noem: OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT Before the Court is the petition of asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son 1 for protection of the Great Writ of habeas corpus. They seek nothing more than some modicum of due process and the rule of law. The government has responded. The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children. This Court and others regularly send undocumented people to prison and orders them deported but do so by proper legal procedures. Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence. Thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson enumerated grievances against a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation. Among others were: 1. 2. 3. 4. "He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People." "He has excited domestic Insurrection among us.” "For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us." "He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our Legislatures." "We the people" are hearing echos of that history. And then there is that pesky inconvenience called the Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and persons or things to be seized. U.S. CONST. amend. IV. Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer. Accordingly, the Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED pursuant to the attached Judgment. Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned. Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026 The Judge has attached a picture of Arias son, Liam, in a red poofy hat with ears as a DHS agent restrains him by the Spiderman backpack he is wearing while standing next to a federal SUV.
January 31, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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"Even if I DID try to save you, Dad already grounded me for trying to help you last week and I don't want to piss him off again."
Finally, even if the likelihood of success on the merits and the balance of harms each weighed more clearly in favor of Plaintiffs, the Court would still likely be unable to grant the relief requested: an injunction suspending Operation Metro Surge. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated a much more circumscribed injunction which limited one aspect of the ongoing operation, namely the way immigration officers interacted with protesters and observers. Tincher, 2026 WL 194768, at *1–2. The injunction in that case was not only much narrower than the one proposed here, but it was based on more settled precedent than that which underlies the claims now before the Court. Nonetheless, the Court of Appeals determined that the injunction would cause irreparable harm to the government because it would hamper their efforts to enforce federal law. Id. at *2. If that injunction went too far, then the one at issue here—halting the entire operation—certainly would. 29 CASE 0:26-cv-00190-KMM-DJF Doc. 135 Filed 01/31/26 Page 30 of 30 ORDER For the reasons discussed above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (Dkt. 5) is DENIED.
January 31, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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"Yes, it is very sad that two people were butchered in the streets in cold blood and the Administration lied to our faces, but it would be far more painful to hold the federal government accountable."
Plaintiffs have made a strong showing that Operation Metro Surge has had, and will likely continue to have, profound and even heartbreaking, consequences on the State of Minnesota, the Twin Cities, and Minnesotans. Since Operation Metro Surge began, there have been multiple shootings of Minnesota residents by federal immigration enforcement agents. Additionally, there is evidence that ICE and CBP agents have engaged in racial profiling, excessive use of force, and other harmful actions. And Defendants do nothing to refute the negative impacts described by Plaintiffs in almost every arena of daily life, from the expenditure of vast resources in police overtime to a plummeting of students’ attendance in schools, from a delay in responding to emergency calls to extreme hardship for small businesses. It would be difficult to overstate the effect this operation is having on the citizens of Minnesota, and the Court must acknowledge that reality here. However, those are not the only harms to be considered. The Eighth Circuit has recently reiterated that entry of an injunction barring the federal government from enforcing federal law imposes significant harm on the government. Tincher, 2026 WL 194768, at *2 (quoting CASA, 606 U.S. at 861); Maryland v. King, 567 U.S. 1301, 1303 (2012) (Roberts, C.J., in chambers) (“Any time a state is enjoined by a court from effectuating statutes enacted by representatives of its people, it suffers a form of irreparable injury.”). And Defendants have presented evidence that entry of the injunction requested by Plaintiffs would harm the federal government’s efforts to enforce federal immigration laws. (Olson Decl. ¶¶ 16–18; Harvick Decl. ¶¶ 8–9, 15–16.)
January 31, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Pretty sure this is Judicial Speak for "I wouldn't touch this with a 10-foot pole, find another sucker".
Based on the record before the Court, a factfinder could reasonably credit that Plaintiffs’ sanctuary policies require a greater presence of federal agents to achieve the federal government’s immigration enforcement objectives than in a jurisdiction that actively assists ICE. (See Olson Decl. ¶¶ 8–13; see also Harvick Decl. ¶ 16 (indicating that an injunction would limit CBP’s ability to arrest and detain noncitizens with criminal records). Because there is evidence supporting both sides’ arguments as to motivation and the relative merits of each side’s competing positions are unclear, the Court is reluctant to find that the likelihood-of-success factor weighs sufficiently in favor of granting a preliminary injunction. See Sanborn Mfg. Co., Inc. v. Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Co., 997 F.2d 484, 488 (8th Cir. 1993) (affirming district court’s denial of preliminary injunction where there was “evidence to directly support both [parties’] arguments”).18 Relatedly, Plaintiffs’ improper-influence claim invites the Court to identify the precise point at which a legitimate effort to enforce federal immigration law becomes unconstitutionally coercive and infringes on a state’s sovereignty. On this record, there are 17 Defendants do not concede that the federal agents involved in Operation Metro Surge are engaged in brazen lawlessness, but state that “the actions of federal officers over the past six weeks match” the operation’s purpose of “enforcement of federal law.” (Dkt. 129 at 4 (citing Olson Decl. ¶¶ 14, 16).) 18 The Court is particularly reluctant to take a side in the debate about the purpose behind Operation Metro Surge. Not only is it difficult to identify a single motivation for a significant multifaceted operation, but doing so would venture into a uniquely controversial political question. See Davis v. Bandemer, 478 U.S. 109, 145 (1986) (O’Connor, J., concurring)
January 31, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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My grandfather was a man who skated the rule of law, who made friends with some unique individuals, and had a very colorful past. One of the first lessons he ever taught me was to never piss off a Federal Judge. This Administration has decided to fight the entire federal bench. Bold move, Cotton.
An excerpt from Judge Schlitz order regarding a habeas petition against DHS: The parties have now filed such a stipulation (ECF No. 9), and thus, as promised, the Court will cancel the hearing, and Lyons will not be required to appear. That does not end the Court’s concerns, however. Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that should have appeared on this list were omitted. This list should give pause to anyone—no matter his or her political beliefs—who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence. The Court warns ICE that future noncompliance with court orders may result in future show‐cause orders requiring the personal appearances of Lyons or other government officials. ICE is not a law unto itself. ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this Court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are overturned or vacated.
January 28, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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War makes for strange bedfellows, that's always been true.
A scene from Lord of the Rings featuring Gimli and Legolas with new text. Gimli: Never thought I'd die figuring side by side with a libertarian. Legolas: Taxation is theft. Gimli: Please shut the fuck up and put your gas mask on.
January 27, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Extremely disturbing. Video from the Lady in Red.
January 24, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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A sign of the current times that should be absolutely terrifying for the GOP: A major Christian Homeschooling publisher has made an official statement against DHS/ICE.

Folks, this is crazy. When you've lost the conservative homeschooling community, you've lost almost everyone.
A screenshot of the Well-Trained Mind Press Facebook page. The post states: This past Thursday, a homeschool mother wrote to us from Minneapolis: “I am Asian and a US citizen. Whatever you’ve heard on the news, it’s worse. ICE is targeting people here based on their skin color. My husband is white, and he ran several errands for me this week…I try not to go anywhere alone…I carry a copy of my passport everywhere.” She's not being paranoid. The Supreme Court now allows ICE agents to detain people based on skin color or their accent, and high-ranking commanders have freely admitted to doing just that. She continues: “I dropped my son off at a homeschool art class today, and left a copy of his passport with the staff at the front desk. They nodded, said ‘of course,’ and didn't ask any questions. This is the world we live in now.” News stories from Minneapolis tell of schools being raided, with students and teachers pepper-sprayed and tackled, and parents grabbed out of the car-line by masked men. This mother is afraid. She begs us to shed light on what is happening. We care about our customers. We care about all homeschooling families. We care about families, period. How has this nation come to the point where a mom or a child can be detained simply because of the color of their skin? Keep reading. This gets worse. Continuation of the Facebook post: On January 9, 2026, the official DHS social media accounts posted an ICE recruitment poster, showing a cowboy and a stealth bomber, with the large caption “We’ll have our home again” and encouraging recruits to sign up for ICE. “We’ll have our home again” is a lyric well-known in white-supremacist circles; it’s a battle-song calling for white nationalists to kick out the foreigners. In case there was any doubt, the DHS Instagram post played the audio of the song. That same day, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that thousands of refugees who had been heavily vetted, and had come here legally to flee war and persecution, are being “reevaluated” and possibly deported. This “reevaluation” turns out to mean: “Heavily armed, masked men (some of them with minimal training) will surround your house and break down your door.” Dozens of these families have been arrested violently with no warning. Refugee-resettlement charities in Minneapolis report that, quote: “despite being legal residents, they fear being targeted if they go to work, to the grocery store, to worship. Their children’s schools are shuttered and local businesses have closed. ICE is even demanding that their landlords inform on them” (Statement from Refugees International, 1/15/26). The government flies these people from Minnesota to detention centers in Texas, where no one speaks their language, and their relatives cannot find them. What’s the goal of all this, besides gratuitous cruelty? It’s absolutely not about “getting rid of the worst of the worst.” DHS’s own statistics show that the vast majority of ICE detainees have no serious criminal records, or even no criminal records at all. Rather, it appears to be in the service of a much more insidious goal: to get rid of nonwhite residents of the US—legal or not. While this isn't what the majority of voters from EITHER party want, a hard core of extremists are pushing it. Does that seem paranoid? We want… Continuation of the Facebook post: 100 million is far more, six or seven times more, than even the highest estimate of illegal immigrants. 100 million is the non-white population of the United States. As parents and educators, we believe that every child deserves to be free from fear at school and at home. As citizens of a constitutional republic, we reject unaccountable paramilitaries and the trampling of rights. As human beings whose religious and civil founding documents tell us that our Creator endows each person with unalienable rights, we utterly condemn racism. Surely a great nation can enforce its immigration laws without terrorizing the innocent, without playing with racial hatred like a child with a lit match, and without brutality toward our neighbors. NOTES Sources are in our top comment below. We’ll leave the comments open for now, if people can keep the discussion civil, but we will not tolerate abusive language, whataboutism, or subject-changing. Yes, we have fact-checked every single statement in this post. Because we know from disappointing experience that this will come up: nothing in this post endorses or excuses any crime committed by any immigrant (or citizen), or implies that we do not care about the rights of people who have been harmed by immigrants (or citizens!).
January 19, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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I'm going to guess that the locals are much more prepared to deal with this than ICE/CBP.

Not sure what MAGAt decided to invade Minnesota in January.
Screenshot of the weather in Minneapolis tonight (Jan 16, 2026). Current conditions at Minneapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (KMSP) Lat: 44.88°NLon: 93.23°WElev: 840ft. Light Snow 10°F -12°C Humidity 73% Wind Speed NW 20 G 25 mph Barometer 29.73 in (1008.1 mb) Dewpoint 3°F (-16°C) Visibility 4.00 mi Wind Chill -9°F (-23°C) Last update 16 Jan 6:53 pm CST
January 17, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Tuesday fun via whereidlive.com
A map of the United States with individual states color coded based on where I would live. Choices are Never, Reluctantly, Maybe, Willing, and Absolutely. Most of the South is coded Never, with the West Cost and East Coast being variations of Maybe, Willing, and Absolutely.
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Laugh crying that even the military spouses in my feed don't believe that Trump is handing out checks.

The lies will continue until morale improves.
A screenshot of a Facebook feed with names blocked out. Comments: "All for show." "Don't spend it because tarrifs are illegal and money will be taken/seized that was illegally gifted." "Let's remember that Congress hasn't appropriated it and we've been promised $7k in other reliefs since he came to office ...I'm not holding my breath" "just another empty promise" "what a tool - he can't just give the money like this."
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Trump's new TechForce.gov website is straight out of BlackMirror.
A screenshot from the TechForce website. A human with a computer as a skull uses a tablet against a burnt orange background. The accompanying text reads: "Answer the call. Build the future of American government tech in a two-year, White House–backed engineering corps with real missions from day one. Apply Now"
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Now, tunnels A and B are tolled. They will cost you anywhere from $2.50-$8 each way depending on the time of day and whether or not you have an EZ Pass account.
Tunnels C and D are free. They are also much longer.
Tunnels A and B connect the cities of Portsmouth and Norfolk. (3/9)
December 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Due to military security needs, all this water must be crossed by going underground (so that bridges cannot be blown up and block ships) so we also have several tunnels to get from Point A to Point B. (2/9)
A map of the Hampton Roads area highlighting major interstates.
December 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Duke says to take a moment and relax before the week's chaos starts tomorrow.
A large brown and black dog rests his head on a blanket while an ereader displays a book next to him.
December 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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But first, some fun law!

Department of Defense Law of War Manual (Updated July 2023)

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An excerpt from the department of defense military laws of war. 18.3.2 Refuse to Comply With Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. Members of the armed forces must refuse to comply with clearly illegal orders to commit law of war violations. In addition, orders should not be construed to authorize implicitly violations of law of war. 18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal. Similarly, orders to kill defenseless persons who have submitted to and are under effective physical control would also be clearly illegal. On the other hand, the duty not to comply with orders that are clearly illegal would be limited in its application when the subordinate is not competent to evaluate whether the rule has been violated. Subordinates are not required to screen the orders of superiors for questionable points of legality, and may, absent specific knowledge to the contrary, presume that orders have been lawfully issued. Footnote 27: Judgement in Case of Lieutenants Dithmar and Boldt, Hospital Ship “Llandovery Castle" 1921 (“It is certainly to be urged in favor of the military subordinates, that they are under no obligation to question the order of their superior officer, and they can count upon its legality. But no such confidence can be held to exist, if such an order is universally known to everybody, including also the accused, to be without any doubt whatever against the law. This happens only in rare and exceptional cases. But this case was precisely one of them, for in the present instance, it was perfectly clear to the accused that killing defenceless people in the life-boats could be nothing else but a breach of the law.
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Duke says that we should all rest today to prepare for the week ahead.
A brown and black dog is laying down on a bed, using a pair of human legs as a pillow.
November 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I would love to see Kegseth try to spin how the retired Navy Captain, Astronaut, and hero is somehow a military criminal. That Courts Martial needs to be live-streamed just so I can see the expression on the jury's faces. (A jury made up of 8 other officers of similar experience and training.)
A screenshot of the official "Department of War" Twitter account (formerly known as the Department of Defense). Published on November 24th at 11:50am EST: OFFICIAL STATEMENT: The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures. This matter will be handled in compliance with military law, ensuring due process and impartiality. Further official comments will be limited, to preserve the integrity of the proceedings. The Department of War reminds all individuals that military retirees remain subject to the UCMJ for applicable offenses, and federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. § 2387 prohibit actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces. Any violations will be addressed through appropriate legal channels. All servicemembers are reminded that they have a legal obligation under the UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful. A servicemember’s personal philosophy does not justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order.
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Judge Ellis spends 233 pages proving that the federal government is a joke.
Moreover, aerial footage from CBP’s helicopter shows an agent throwing some type of smoke or gas device on a patch of grass off to the side of 27th Street, which further suggests that CBP, and not protesters, were the ones throwing things that CBP and DHS then used as justification to claim that protesters posed a danger to them. REL146 at 15:07–16:18. Defendants, however, cannot simply create their own narrative of what happened, misrepresenting the evidence to justify their actions. Overall, after reviewing all the evidence, the Court finds that Defendants’ widespread misrepresentations call into question everything that Defendants say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening at the Broadview facility or out in the streets of the Chicagoland area during law enforcement activities.
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A political cartoon depicting Chuck Schumer and Sauron. The title says, "Chuck Schumer in Middle Earth". There is a single speech bubble for Chuck Schumer that says, "Well, he did pinky promise not to use the one true ring."
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Are the airlines actually the good guys here? Or at least, not also the bad guys?
At least two major US airlines are waiving fees for travelers who want to cancel or change their upcoming flights due to tomorrow’s looming cuts to 10% of air traffic at 40 major airports. In a notice to passengers, Delta Air Lines is allowing passengers “to change, cancel or refund their flights, including… basic economy fares, without penalty.” United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby announced in a letter to employees last night that “any customer traveling during this period is eligible for a refund if they do not wish to fly – even if their flight isn’t impacted. That includes non-refundable tickets and those customers with basic economy tickets.” Southwest and American Airlines both said they are evaluating the situation as they gather more information.
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Okay, but how did she win the first two elections?! Thank goodness CFISD doesn't have to deal with her insanity anymore.
The race was already contentious before any candidates had filed, as parents and teachers began sounding the alarm about changes to curriculum, specifically removing references to vaccines and climate change. Blasingame led that charge and also supported book bans and having chaplains on school campuses. She said prior to getting elected in 2021 — her third attempt — that she was called by God to promote the Christian nationalist Seven Mountains mission. Back in 2021, Blasingame ran on a conservative slate with Henry and Lucas Scanlon, but those friendships grew sour, and it later became public that she’d secretly recorded conversations with Scanlon’s wife. Blasingame’s close friend Damon “Bam” Lenahan threatened to release the tapes if Bethany Scanlon didn’t take down a Facebook post supporting Henry in the school board race. The Cy-Fair ISD board adopted a policy in September prohibiting board members from recording district administrators, community members or each other without the consent of all involved parties.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM