Mark Csikszentmihalyi

House Oversight Committee: Subpoena Melania Trump.

Stopped at “LowIQ” which is, in the history of racist dogwhistles, one the most racistly dogwhistlest.

And how would we even know if there are other cases? Look at the length the DOJ went to cover up the facts of the story of Virginia Giuffre prior to her suicide.

Right, because men don't care about what other people think of them?

(Seriously, men kill women for laughing at them or rejecting them, which can serve as a measure of how much they care.)

Insert picture of Hegseth and RFK jr. doing pushups.

The anti-Asian racism just drips from this post.

And yet it is like Citizen Kane (lens flare version) next to “Section 31”.

This serial killing spree has been completely normalized.

I consider this in many ways the single worst thing going on because it’s getting zero resistance from the media, Congress, everywhere.

Everyone has seemingly accepted he can commit mass murder on boats for… fun, basically.

Bring back Matthew Whitaker!

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The party preference polls don’t capture the enormous motivation gap between those who oppose Trump and will go to the polls come hell or high water (or ice!) and supporters, many of whom are ashamed and may well just sit this one out.

If snideness and pusillanimity make a comeback, though, he will be our king.

In his Response, Mr. Feldman had contrasted his conduct with the misconduct described in two (real) cases: Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 678 F. Supp. 3d 443 (S.D.N.Y. 2023), and Park, 91 F.4th 610. (Response 3-4). Mr. Feldman appeared to quote from the Mata decision, but failed to provide a pin cite: Critically, unlike the pattern of deception identified in Mata, where sanctions were imposed not merely for citing fictitious cases but for the attorneys' "failure to be forthcoming, withdraw the prior submissions, and continue to give legitimacy to fake cases in the subsequent submissions despite having multiple reasons 9 Case 1:24-CV-09429-KPF Document 227 Filed 02/05/26 Page 10 of 33 to believe that the cases lacked authenticity," I immediately acknowledged the errors upon notification and undertook comprehensive corrective action within twenty-four hours. (Id. at 4 (emphasis added)). In point of fact, this quote appears nowhere in Mata. A Google search revealed it to be a direct quote from an October 24, 2023 article recapping an analysis of Mata done by an attorney named Christopher F. Lyon. Christopher F. Lyon Delves into Risks of ChatGPT in Legal Field for NYLitigator, Goldberg Segalla (Oct. 24, 2023), https:// www.goldberg segalla.com/blog/professional-liability-matters/technology-2/christopher-f- lyon-delves-into-risks-of-chatgpt-in-legal-field-for-nylitigator/. Mr. Feldman did not attribute the quote to this article.

Making up a cite from the seminal “making up cites” case, you simply love to see it

Perhaps if we circulate that it is Senator Mike Lee widely enough the DOJ will reveal the name in order to clear their ally.

Bonus points if it turns out to be Mike Lee and we guessed right!

Still, the need for Justice doesn’t disappear just because the DOJ stops pursuing it. Even if under a different name, all the injustices (environmental, racial, violent, sexual, cyber — all the things they’ve stopped prosecuting) are just getting worse, and we need law and order to return in 2028.

Michael Jochum’s Post Michael Jochum is in Arvada, CO. Cultural Arson Donald Trump is not shutting down the Kennedy Center for two years because of concrete, steel, or some mythical “revitalization.” He’s shutting it down because artists are fleeing. Because musicians, composers, directors, and institutions with actual integrity want nothing to do with a building that has been commandeered by a man who treats culture like a prop and power like a toy. When Philip Glass pulls his Symphony No. 15 Lincoln because the values of the institution are now in direct opposition to the work itself, that’s not a scheduling inconvenience, that’s a moral indictment. When the Washington National Opera packs up and leaves, that’s not renovation, that’s evacuation. Trump didn’t inherit a “tired and dilapidated” Kennedy Center. He poisoned it. He purged its board, stacked it with loyalists, crowned himself chairman, slapped his name on it like a casino, and then acted shocked when the artists, those inconvenient, principled, difficult people, refused to play along. This isn’t construction. It’s a cover story. A two-year cultural blackout designed to clear the stage, silence dissent, and make room for whatever grotesque celebrity cosplay he plans to roll out in 2028. You don’t shut down a living institution unless you’re trying to kill what’s alive inside it. Trump knows nothing about the arts. Nothing. His lifelong relationship with culture begins and ends with branding, flattery, and submission. That absurd story he tells about playing the flute as a child, like that somehow qualifies him as a patron of the arts, is as laughable as everything else he’s ever claimed about himself. Art is not a talent show. It’s not loyalty theater. It’s not something you “fix” by firing everyone who disagrees with you and replacing them with yes-men in cheap suits. The Kennedy Center was never supposed to belong to one man, especially not one whose aesthetic sensibility peaked at gold-plated fauc…

This response to Trump announcing the Kennedy Center shut down is everything. A true tour de force.

Well and if the abuse was recorded for a foreign government, then that means that government being able to blackmail you is a requirement for being a member of the Trump administration.

Yesterday I read they are
planning ICE sweeps in Ohio for Haitian immigrants whose visa pathway had just been cancelled.

The GOP pulls the rug out from under folks, and then arrests and deports them for not being on the rug.

Congress appropriates the budget? Now the Executive has a second budget that they get to appropriate!

It isn’t “Unconstitutional”! It is “Superconstitutional”!

It’s Alex Kurtzman's hair that is the problem.

Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

Free speech in America continues its death spiral—just like Trump and MAGAs wanted.

Trump's "you can't carry guns" statement might mean we're finally be ready to talk about how the very first gun control laws targeted the Black Panthers and how badly tyrants would like their people disarmed and helpless

And how MAGA isn't pro gun, they're pro themselves having guns

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan.

Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

Noem is saying that carrying a gun is "domestic terrorism."

I don't own a gun, but I'm absolutely sure that all the Trump supporters who do now will be turning theirs in to DHS.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

If your goal is public safety, you don't kill people for filming you.

If you goal is to terrorize the public into compliance, you do.

This guy became a hero to MAGA world. The police gave him a bottle of water after he killed people.

In a state he didn't live in, with a gun that was illegally purchased.

All charges dropped!

Not really surprising since they also have coordinated a criminal conspiracy to withhold and destroy evidence to avoid prosecution for the deprivation of civil rights, and murder of Renee Nicole Good.

Liam Ramos. 5 years old. Photographed here being kidnapped by DHS/ICE/CPB on his way home from school.
Now held prisoner in Texas in a "detention center".
Alone. No family. No friends. A baby. We are committing unredeemable acts in the US.

This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.

This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.