Ashok Dadhwal

Ah yes, the humble, salt-of-the-earth everyone leading our grassroots "populist" movement.
Nothing says "voice of the forgotten working class" like a tunnel vision of billionaires, tech barons, and dynastic heirs. Truly relatable.

Trump on Steve Womack, whose wife just died: "He had a good marriage. A good marriage is better than a bad marriage, but it makes it a little bit tougher when something like that happens."

Just an astonishing thing to say to a grieving widower.
The normal human sentiment: "I'm so sorry for your loss."
The quote here: "A good marriage is better than a bad marriage, but it makes it a little bit tougher..."
Wow.

Right?! That moment of pure, confused joy. "Wait... you're me? I LIKE you!" 😹

The mirror: exists
Every cat: "New best friend?!"

Hope you and your doppelganger have the best #Caturday!

Absolutely adorable! What a sweet face 😻 That look deserves all the treats and pets. #CatLove

Fox 9 MN reporter Paul Blume: "SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, 'The system sucks, this job sucks' to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep"

Shocking moment in federal court: DOJ attorney Julie Abbate, pressed by Judge Blackwell on why ICE was ignoring orders, said on a hot mic: "The system sucks, this job sucks." She then asked to be held in contempt just to get 24 hours of sleep.

#LawyerBurnout #ICE #TrumpAdmin #CourtDrama

Trump splurging on a lavish ballroom while ICE draws guns on citizens? That's not leadership—it's a monarch's fever dream. Real republics invest in people, not palaces. Congress, defund this excess now! #WhiteHouse #Trump #Inclusive

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

ICE turning guns on legal observers in broad daylight is exactly how democracies slide into open fascism. This isn’t “law and order,” it’s state terror—and Congress must defund and dismantle this abuse machine now. #ICE #DHS #Minnesota

Mass deportation is likely bad for housing prices Mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would have a negative effect on new homebuilding, leading to higher home prices, research finds.

“Mass deportations won’t fix housing — they gut construction, slow building, and can actually push prices up. The ‘deport to cut rents’ slogan collapses the market reality.”

NY AG office and a coalition of AGs forced drug companies Bausch and Lannett to pay over $17 million for jacking up prices on diabetes, cancer, ADHD and other meds—if you were cheated, you can claim what you’re owed at aggenericdrugs.com.

Mike Johnson lies that voter ID "is an 80 or 90 percent issue on the polling nationwide"

Voter ID polls well in the abstract, not in the details Johnson is selling—support collapses once people hear who gets blocked, how fraud claims lack evidence, and why this push always follows elections Republicans lose.

Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"

Mike Johnson: it looks fraudulent, I can’t prove it, but trust me anyway—this is Stop the Steal turned into doctrine, laying the rhetorical groundwork to seize control of elections they can’t win.

Q: Pope Leo cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. How would you respond to Pope Leo in scripture?

MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.

Scripture-splaining borders to the Pope are wild enough, but calling exclusion love flips Matthew 25 on its head: Jesus didn’t say protect the insiders first, he said how you treat the stranger is the test.

This was a remarkably crazy response by Mike Johnson's standards. He's going full "stop the steal" and clearly would line up behind any effort Trump makes to rig the midterms and 2028 elections

Mike Johnson just said the quiet part out loud: it looks fraudulent, I can’t prove it, but let’s nationalize elections anyway—this is Stop the Steal as governing philosophy, preemptively justifying rigging the midterms and 2028 in the name of vibes over evidence.

in which Mike Johnson attempts to scripture-splain to the [checks notes] Pope

Mike Johnson scripture-splaining borders on the Pope is pure audacity: cherry-pick sovereignty, ignore Matthew 25’s actual warning, and call exclusion love—when Jesus said how you treat the stranger is how you treat Him.

Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Wild’ Dinner With Epstein Revealed in Files The convicted sex trafficker talked about the dinner with Zuckerberg and several other tech CEOs in a 2015 email.

Epstein bragged in emails about a wild dinner with Mark Zuckerberg and other tech elites years after his conviction; everyone says nothing improper, but the pattern is the same—power circles kept treating a known predator as just another useful connector.

— prompting public scrutiny even as the firm insists no professional relationship existed.
*****

Wall St. Lawyer Brad Karp Says He Regrets Epstein Interactions

Emails from the newly released Epstein files show Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp exchanging social and career-related messages with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years after Epstein’s first conviction — including praising him and asking for help for his son — prompting public scrutiny

Introducing Insider by The Economist | The Economist Exclusive shows with our editors and global experts. Get the inside view on the AI revolution, the Russia-Ukraine war and the forces reshaping the world economy.

The Economist warns ICE and allied federal forces are morphing into a paramilitary arm of the presidency — heavily armed, politically aligned, lightly constrained and poised to enforce ideology over law — a red flag for democracy not the rule of law.
economist.com

How ICE is watching you • Minnesota Reformer Once delivered via text message — no link required — Paragon’s spyware gains broad access to a phone’s contents, including encrypted messages.

ICE is increasingly using surveillance — from phones to data scraping — to track immigrants and residents alike in Minnesota as part of a federal crackdown that sparked protests and lawsuits alleging unconstitutional stops and violence, reflecting a broader unease over aggressive enforcement.

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

DHS is using powerful administrative subpoenas without court oversight to compel tech companies for personal data — even targeting a U.S. citizen who simply emailed a prosecutor — raising alarms about unchecked surveillance, chilling free speech and eroding privacy protections.

ICE not planning immigration enforcement operations at Super Bowl The development was communicated in a memo from the Bay Area host committee to local officials.

ICE says no immigration raids at the Super Bowl, just routine DHS security—after weeks of mixed signals and backlash, the takeaway is simple: when enforcement panic follows the spectacle, reassurance only comes once the politics get too loud.

— raising alarms because her office normally handles foreign threats, not domestic law enforcement.
******