G

Thanks to Susan Collins, Rs now claim to have secured 51 votes in the Senate & will thus move into the phrase of pressuring Senators to nuke the filibuster. If this pressure campaign succeeds, their voter suppression bill, the Save America Act, becomes law. Thread. #NoOnSave

2026.02.13--Smith-Mandamus--Second-Mandamus-Petition-FINAL PDFA

JUST IN: Knight 1st Amend. Institute & American Oversight ask 11th Circuit to force Judge Aileen Cannon (Trump) to release Vol. II of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report AND to block her from ordering it destroyed as Trump's co-defendants have asked. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Motion for Conference – #58 in State of New Jersey v. United States Department of Transportation (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-00939) – CourtListener.com Motion for Conference

20+ hrs after the Trump admin was supposed to disburse $200M withheld from the Hudson River tunnel project, “there is no sign of a wire transfer of any money,” the NJ and NY AGs say in a new filing, requesting an emergency status conference this afternoon
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I talked to @simonwdc.bsky.social about this earlier this week. Long story short, detention fuels deportation. Once someone is detained, away from their family and lawyer, their chance of being deported goes up dramatically, in part because ICE uses detention to pressure people to give up.

Why these huge detention centers. I thought their goal was to deport people as fast as they could? This all seems excessive storage space for "bodies".

I’m just going to leave this here

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

And just like that, Gilead was no longer dystopian fiction.

“Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”

www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

important details here. This is a dismantling of congress. bsky.app/profile/samh...

JUST IN: After Secretary Rubio declined a judge's suggestion to return illegally deported Any Lopez Belloza – a 20 year old Babson student who was sent to Honduras in defiance of a court order — Judge Stearns has orderd the admin to facilitate her return. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

And the republican congress is shirking all constitutional duties and oversight. Just handing over the power of the purse with a smile/smirk.

If they are allowed to do this, they can, for example, close FEMA to fund ICE even if Congress claws back all of its funding. The only limit on their fiscal agency (if they respect it) would be the total amount of federal appropriations. Congress’ fiscal priorities are meaningless.

Cruel & fundamentally destabilizing. The executive branch isn’t merely ignoring Congress’ instructions to spend $ for specific uses (already unconstitutional), but is freely reallocating $ for any purpose they choose.

There is no federal budget. The executive is simply plundering the public purse.

Mike Johnson, second in line to the presidency, must be playing video games all day because he never knows anything about anything. (Either that or he's a pathological liar.)

Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

Per the ImpactCounter dashboard, approximately 88 people an hour are now dying as a result of Vought and Musk’s murder of USAID.

They must be brought to justice.

www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

Kelsey Grammer. Dear reader. Thank you for taking the time to check out this alt text! As you may or may not know, this is a ridiculous joke. I know full well who the person is in the photo, and that I've added the bio of a different person entirely. That's the joke. It's a gag about people having a similar name, which I can mix up in a comedic way. Also, I was dropped on the head as a baby. Several times.

MC Hammer, is an American rapper, dancer, record producer, and actor. He was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his hit songs like "U Can't Touch This", and "2 Legit 2 Quit". Hammer was known for his flashy dance moves, extravagant choreography, and his signature Hammer pants

4 times as many measles cases in few weeks than US typically averages in year: CDC There have been 733 cases so far this year, a CDC report said.

Remember: In the prevaccine era, measles would peak in late winter- early spring. Don’t be surprised if in the next few weeks we see a surge

www.aol.com/articles/us-...

'We Have License Plate Numbers': How Brad Karp, Representing Leon Black, Worked with Epstein to Track a Woman | Law.com Karp notified Epstein of an audio recording of a meeting with a woman and worked with Epstein to track her location, emails show.

Brad Karp of Paul Weiss resigned today due to Epstein connections. There is a reason Paul Weiss was the first big law firm to fold. Trump knows his dark secrets. Will any reporters report on this story? It’s all Epstein folks. They’re all involved.

It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees. The government suggests — with minimal explanation and even less evidence — that doing so would result in "chaos." The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights. 14 At this preliminary stage, Plaintiffs have made a clear showing of likelihood of success on their Fifth Amendment claim.

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.

"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.

News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MARK KELLY, Plaintiff, Civil Case No. 26-81 (RJL) V. PETE HEGSETH, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION February 12, 2026 [Dkt. #2] United States Senator Mark Kelly, a retired naval officer, has been censured by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for voicing certain opinions on military actions and policy. In addition, he has been subjected to proceedings to possibly reduce his retirement rank and pay and threatened with criminal prosecution if he continues to speak out on these issues. Secretary Hegseth relies on the well-established doctrine that military servicemembers enjoy less vigorous First Amendment protections given the fundamental obligation for obedience and discipline in the armed forces. Unfortunately for Secretary Hegseth, no court has ever extended those principles to retired servicemembers, much less a retired servicemember serving in Congress and exercising oversight responsibility over the military. This Court will not be the first to do so!

Worse still, Secretary Hegseth contends that this Court is not yet competent to decide the issues in this case. He and his fellow Defendants argue that military personnel 1 Case 1:26-cv-00081-RJL Document 37 Filed 02/12/26 Page 2 of 29 decisions are exempt from judicial review and, in any event, that Senator Kelly should first be required to go through the military appeals process so the military can have the first crack at adjudicating his First Amendment rights. I disagree. This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees. After all, as Bob Dylan famously said, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." To say the least, our retired veterans deserve more respect from their Government, and our Constitution demands they receive it! Senator Kelly's First Amendment claim is not only justiciable; he is likely to succeed on the merits. He has also shown irreparable harm, and the balance of the equities fall decidedly in his favor. As such, his motion for a preliminary injunction on his First Amendment claim is hereby GRANTED.

BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly.

"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...

Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.

"Epstein had pitched [art school dept chair] on a potential art exhibit titled 'Statutory' that would showcase underage models dressed to look older than they were."

He was really just upfront with it.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?


KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment

Ron Johnson to Keith Ellison: "Two people are dead because you encouraged them to put themselves into harm's way! And now you are exploiting those two martyrs. You ought to feel damn guilty about it. Yeah, sit there and smirk. Smirk. It's sick! It's despicable. You disgust me."

here's video of the Keith Ellison smirk that triggered Ron Johnson

JUST IN: A judge blocks the Pentagon's effort to reduce Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly's pay and rank as punishment over the "illegal orders" video https://cnn.it/4tzc4u0

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime