Greg Dworkin

YouTube video by Blue Amp Media | Cliff Schecter | Cliff's Edge Trump Floats Emergency Powers as 2026 Election Strategy — Legal Experts Sound Alarm 📱

Tequila Talk In 10! Trump Threatens “Emergency” to Cancel Midterms (Really, Not Fucking Clickbait). My pal Joe Walsh had a thing to say on this at State of the Swamp (SOTS)!
We’ll drink tequila! And it’ll be MUCH shorter than f-ing SOTU :)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnxU...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Stuff happens. But sometimes it's by design. Will Bunch/ Philadelphia Inquirer: A Rohingya refugee wanted freedom. America left him for dead in frigid Buffalo. U.S. Border Patrol abandoned a blind, disabled man at a doughnut shop, miles ...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Stuff happens. But sometimes it's by design.
by Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social

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Let's add some context: Fox News averaged 2.6 million viewers to CNN and MS NOW's combined 1.9 million. There are 342 million Americans.

That means 98.7% of Americans aren't watching cable news at all.

The 75 Elections to Watch This March - Bolts The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their primaries for federal and state offices in March, and voters there face high-profile choices. They’ll decide which Democrat... Read...

NEW: We're there. The midterms really are starting.

March has the year's 1st supreme court race. Primaries for Senate, AG, & legislature. Sheriff & DA races rocked by ICE. Special elections that may flip. Even a minimum wage measure!

My guide of the *75* elections to watch in March:

Epstein Files Are Missing Key Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

Not the first headline you want to see in the NYT if you are the White House the day after the State of the Union.

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Polls say the state of the Union and Trump both suck New York Times : Trump, Bruised and Unpopular, Turns to State of the Union for a Reset Reeling from a major Supreme Court setback and falling approval ratings, the president seeks to reclaim the ...

Classic headline today on @demfromct.bsky.social's pundit roundup. And quite the selection of poll numbers to back it up. Also, more Epstein and Iran. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, strikes down Trump’s tariffs as not authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

Roberts writes the court’s opinion.

More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

🚨🚨BREAKING: Delivering a major blow to Trump, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that he exceeded his authority when imposing sweeping tariffs using a law reserved for a national emergency.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

BREAKING NYT:

The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department's headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The Times.

A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

Just to keep it straight ...

It's Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security who's allegedly having a barely concealed affair with her married aide who tried to fire a Coast Guard pilot for not turning their luxury jet around mid-flight to go back and get her blankie ...

Column | How the Rev. Jesse Jackson taught me to keep hope alive I am somebody because the reverend told me I was. And I believed him.

"'I am somebody,' a voice boomed from the stage...I have never forgotten that day when the Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke life into me...His words pushed me to overcome the feeling of being unwanted." Incredibly powerful 5th-grade remembrance from @michellesingletary.bsky.social. Gifted 🎁 wapo.st/4cxEYoe

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine The FDA reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine: Reminder: this turnaround is after .@DrMakaryFDA, speaking anonymously, called Moderna brazen and unethical. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f... via @statnews.com @lizzylawrence.bsky.social

As with so much, SCOTUS owns the creation of the habeas conveyor belt that breaks the system:

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The face of ICE is masked, the resistance is not Will Bunch: South Jersey guy becomes the face of ICE resistance Last Friday, “an average Joe who grew up in Haddon Heights” named Joseph Zobel was at work when he saw a viral video from the ...

ICE politics, health politics and TACO politics, in NJ, NC, Texas, Louisiana and beyond, in today's pundit roundup by @demfromct.bsky.social. Among the names in the news: Trump, RFK Jr., Bill Cassidy, and Julia Letlow. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Thanks to the knee-slapping, comic-relief-inducing nature of Trump's failures, the authoritarian abuses underlying them risk being seen as less threatening than they actually are.

That could potentially disarm us for the next round, which will surely come. trib.al/lIMPHaO

A worthwhile read on the DOJ being used by the regime as a political weapon.

Many others have said this, but it's just so refreshing to have an NYC mayor who absolutely loves everything about the city and all it has to offer its residents.

Because it’s not really about trying to get troops to vote Republican-that would be bad enough. It’s about conditioning the military to obey a man and not their oath to the Constitution. It’s why Hegseth & Trump were so adamant about prosecuting the 6 Dems who spoke up about it.

I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.

There it is: one of the first times anyone in the Trump admin has admitted that protestors & bystanders are legally permitted to protest & document DHS activity.... Just two days ago, this same crowd spent hours claiming DHS agents have been "under attack" in MSP & beyond...

It's weird that Todd Lyons keeps claiming that he required 3,000 people bc of assaults bc virtually all the cases charged have been downgraded.

Four of the cases are substantially felony spitting.

Todd Lyons said he needs 3,000 people bc they got spat on.

behold the savior of the white race

The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

More galling is the timing of Aguiñaga’s op-ed. As solicitor general of Louisiana, he is one of those former clerks who practices before the Supreme Court, and he published this essay while three cases he argued this term are still pending before the justices: Louisiana v. Callais, a case about racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act; Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections, a case about the religious liberty of people in the state’s prisons; and Chevron USA v. Plaquemines Parish, a case about oil companies’ liability for causing environmental damage to the Gulf Coast. (In January, Alito recused himself from Chevron on the grounds that he owns stock in one of the relevant companies. This is both good, in that Alito is no longer participating in a case in which he has a conflict of interest, and also alarming, in that, as Chris Geidner pointed out at Law Dork, Alito had no problem participating in Chevron throughout the cert-stage process.) To put a finer point on it, Aguiñaga is not just another former clerk taking a convenient opportunity to signal his enduring loyalty to his conservative boss in the conservative media outlet of record. In his role as Louisiana Solicitor General, Aguiñaga needs at least five justices to take his side in three cases that the Court will decide in the next five months. This makes right now a very good time for him to land a fawning op-ed in which he hails one of those justices as “kind, humble, thoughtful and selfless,” not to mention “incredibly smart.”

This dynamic—ex-clerks who practice before their old bosses publicly singing their old bosses' praises—is one of those things that is uncontroversial within the legal profession, but normal people look at it and are like, wait, that's gross, how is that allowed ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The Court, accordingly, ORDERS that: 1. Plaintiffs shall file under seal (but not ex parte) by February 20, 2026, a Notice indicating which Plaintiffs are currently in which third countries; 2. Plaintiffs shall by February 27, 2026, file a Notice noting the number of Plaintiffs who wish to travel independently to a U.S. port of entry or who wish to be flown from a third country to the United States for their court proceedings, understanding that in both scenarios they will be detained upon arrival. Plaintiffs shall simultaneously file a separate Notice under seal listing the names of such individuals; 3. Plaintiffs shall by March 9, 2026, file a Notice giving the number of Plaintiffs (in Venezuela or third countries) who wish to file supplements to their habeas class petition, including challenges to the Proclamation or their identification as TdA members. Plaintiffs shall likewise file a simultaneous Notice under seal listing those individuals’ names

The Government shall promptly return to Plaintiffs upon written request by their current counsel all passports and identification documents that any agency currently retains, and it shall make good-faith efforts to obtain any of Plaintiffs’ passports or identification documents that were transferred to El Salvador; and 5. The Government shall file a Status Report by March 13, 2026, explaining how and when it will transport any Plaintiff seeking return to the United States from a third country. In that Status Report, the Government shall also inform the Court as to the feasibility of returning Plaintiffs still in Venezuela who wish to return for their proceedings. It shall also describe the steps taken to obtain any passports or identification documents from El Salvador.

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

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024 The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

This is everyone’s favorite chart now.

@wsj.com
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👇 👇 👇THIS!!!👇👇👇

Kennedy’s gift to himself and alt-med grifters:

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...