Bryan Quinn

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself.

A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT

It’s a good thing Lutnick is otherwise clean as a whistle.

San Diego County Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer, left, and Paloma Aguirre, right, walk next to U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, center, after he was denied to visit the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego on Feb. 20, 2026. Padilla visit comes amid reports of inhumane conditions at the detention center following the Trump Administration’s surge of immigration enforcement efforts. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters

Alex Padilla and two San Diego County supervisors were blocked from inspecting the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Friday despite having received clearance from ICE days prior. bit.ly/46naulc

📸 Adriana Heldiz

They are in downtown St Paul at this very moment casing restaurants that close soon and the 3 hospitals.

Observer friend was followed home into downtown by 2 confirmed ICE plates this morning. Took her pic and drove away, didn't hide it.

This ain't over at all.

It’s very hard to explain how bad things are in Minneapolis and greater Minnesota right now.

The Man With a Plan to Reshape Broadcast TV | On the Media | WNYC Studios Late night host Stephen Colbert has accused CBS of spiking an interview for fear of backlash from the Federal Communications Commission. On this week’s On the Media, hear about the MA...

Take a listen to this one: it’s one you WON’T want to miss! 🔥🔥🔥 www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

A fake deportation tip line exposes the "banality of evil" He made a parody hotline for reporting "immigration violations." Then a kindergarten teacher called.

In my newsletter: A free-to-read link to this story and the full kindergarten deportation call

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Positive take (relatively) on “we have lived among such people this whole time”:

Yes, and that shows things don’t need to be like this. There will always be the sort of people who’d try to get the state to hurt kindergartners. We just need to keep them out of institutional power, and on the fringe.

Road House is to the early 1990s what Dredd is to the early 2010s: a cult classic that heavily holds up in terms of action and everything else.

I’m on Team Sea Lion with this one.

Should call it “reverse mercenary position” because you fuck yourself over in the most predictable way possible.

The upside is that I do tend to feel like evil pedophile crooks who steal elections to rob the nation's coffers bare for his own profit & that of his crook pedophile friends historically makes his most skilled troops play Boar on the Floor when they reup toward the end of a real downer of a 100 yrs

Inspired: Just finding a troop's gun in a Bourbon Street bar bathroom

Tired: Begging Xi for a tank

Wired: Just asking any given troop if I can have their gun

Here’s how the Army says it will work: Senior warrant officers hoping to receive a bonus for extending their active duty service commitment will submit confidential “bids,” which represent the minimum monthly paycheck bump each soldier “would be satisfied receiving” to sign a new six -year contract. Once all eligible warrant officers submit their bids, Army officials will determine both the amount of the bonus payment and who will receive it by calculating the auction’s “market-clearing” rate, a concept used widely in economics and finance. In that process, the “winning” bid is the bonus amount that would spread all of the program’s funding for the year among the most soldiers who agreed to accept a payment that size or smaller with their bids (all soldiers who win in the auction will receive the winning bonus, even if their bid was lower).

That's fine lol I'm sure warrant officers who all want to kill themselves and the joint chiefs alike are very useful to a military, especially to a military currently ramping up to do every war from all of history at the very same time everywhere on earth

Army warrant officers will ‘bid’ against each other for their next bonus Senior Army warrant officers will bid against each other for a bonus that they will take to sign up for six more years of active duty.

The problem with living in the American century of humiliation is we can't yet know which part of the century we are currently in

Could be we're getting near the end

Could be it's only just begun

“.. Mr. Martinez is at least the third U.S. citizen who was shot and killed by federal immigration officers since the start of President Trump’s second term.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

“…his critics suggest – for the US if the regime in Tehran were decapitated. Then just days after that, he'll bring up in a meeting that many people are telling him that a regime-change war could produce a lot of blowback, but that he may have to bomb Iran anyway.
In our reporting, essentially…

“…Sources with knowledge of the situation say that is primarily because Trump himself can't land on a reason for war and bombing, beyond Iran pissing him off, if they don't reach some "deal" that satisfies him. One day, Trump will privately say it would be great – and easier, than…

“I am just stunned at how little anyone we've spoken to lately – whether they be senior administration officials, Trump advisers, or anyone else close to the decision-making process – can give me a straight answer about what the mission would be here, beyond the Mad King Donald just doing his thing…

I am so worried about the dwindling numbers of living Holocaust survivors/CRM participants dovetailing exactly with the popularity of pseudo-history and disdain for reading

important to note that the “they” in question is all the Nixon staffers that didn’t get arrested who Ford inherited who became HIS staff overnight, with zero loyalty to him, many of whom went on to be influential in the GOP for decades and that’s why shit is fucked

they were literally like “he’s out there in California depressed and drinking himself to death and if you don’t pardon him he’s going to commit suicide and it will be your fault and that will be your legacy, is that what you want, Gerald??? IS IT??? IS IT????????” all day every day until he cracked

we must stop buying this idiotic American idea that the worst thing you can do to a white powerful man for committing horrible crimes against democracy is "losing your job and people saying mean things about you."

there are far worse things we can do to these criminals, and we should do them.

I have really come to believe that we'd be in a much better place right now if we had put Nixon away in a dingy cell for the rest of his natural life, instead of the slap on the wrist for being naughty that he actually received.

begging everyone to read the excellent book “31 Days,” about the interval between Nixon’s resignation and the pardon, because Ford also knew this and that’s why he didn’t want to do it. the pressure on him to cave and say yes was so diabolical

It's a potential election crime but not voter fraud, despite the TNR headline.

On tariffs, the Supreme Court must choose between the president and their plutocratic patrons This case is all about power and loyalty.

reupping this because of its prescience www.motherjones.com/politics/202...