JL Croner

President Trump's lawyers have told a court he shouldn't have to respond to lawsuits because it would distract him from running the government.

But he's found time to bring lawsuits of his own, against the New York Times and even against his own administration.

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"The campaign of terror that Trump is waging against Minnesota, and the United States, isn’t ending yet. It's evolving."

Swin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez for Zeteo detail how Trump officials frame Minnesota as a warzone amid plans to reduce operations.

Read here: zeteo.com/p/trump-minn...

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
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Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace

Classic Trumpian clusterfuck, full of idiocy and lies. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

“.. The president railed against South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott .. throughout the weekend ..

“.. Trump had even stronger words for Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, one of the sources recalled, using expletives to denounce her and declaring that she was dead to him.”

@cnn.com
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Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.

Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used lethal or near-lethal force in ways that appear to violate their own published policies or general policing guidelines. The pattern is so consistent that it signals that published policies have been superseded by unpublished ones encouraging violence

WHAT????

Completely agree

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.

Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:

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A chilling scenario. Tell your Senators to vote NO on the Save America Act. Tell them to warn their colleagues. h/t @maxflugrath.bsky.social of @fairfightaction.bsky.social 1/

It's a police state. Call it what it is. See also: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

The stupidest and most fearful way to run a professional military.

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.

noem and lewandowski are like the most toxic couple you have ever met given full rein of a government agency www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

These people are shameless.

This, this, this! Why would Senate Democrats vote for ANYTHING or ANYONE for Trump? What the hell is wrong with @durbin.senate.gov?

How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.

The extraordinary public backlash to Trump's ICE raids and mass deportations suggests it's time to rethink how information warfare and political persuasion work in the Trump era. Dems have an opening to reset the immigration debate if they act now.

New piece from me:
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“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”

@reuters.com
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“.. the clearest sign that foreigners are nervous about the U.S. ..”

@wsj.com 🇺🇸
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The SAVE Act would require Americans to show a passport or birth certificate in person just to register to vote.

Millions of Americans don’t have access to these documents. This is voter suppression, plain and simple.

Call your senators to urge them to vote no: (202) 224-3121

"Previous estimates showed the US economy generated 584,000 jobs in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term, which was deeply discouraging.

Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."

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How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files

Gift link for this fascinating look into how the Times is digging into Epstein files using AI tools they built to help reporters sort and organize 🎁

How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/i...

Google gave ICE the sensitive personal data of a student journalist, including his bank account and credit card info, without even letting him know.

The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project.

Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.

Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.

The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans.

How the fuck is Corey Lewandowski in any position to fire a Coast Guard pilot?

What is his title?

What is his job?

What is his official position in the US government?

If you are Kristi Noem’s boyfriend you get to fire Coast Guard officers?

Beef prices continue to crush meatpacker margins.

@bloomberg.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.

Swarms of bots linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China are absolutely flooding the internet.

An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social

Trump sidelines climate contrarians in science rollback The president has mocked global warming as a “hoax,” but his administration avoided testing that claim in court as it targeted the endangerment finding.

".. For all of the administration’s public mockery of climate change, which Trump calls a 'hoax,' it appears EPA and White House are unwilling to risk a court battle .. a silver lining perhaps for climate activists .."

@politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I can think of several dozen historians who would be happy to lecture @jaketapper.bsky.social about why "concentration camp" is, in fact, an apt term.

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?