my own lyin’ eyes

…came whiffling through the tulsy wood and burbled…

Screenshot from The New Yorker There have been some critiques of the movie. People have said that it was essentially a payoff from Amazon to the White House, and that you’re doing propaganda for an authoritarian President. I know you said you don’t want to get into politics, but what do you think of that critique? Well, you know, I felt like I was a reporter. I see. You see what I mean? Sure. It’s, like, would you do an interview with Melania or President Trump yourself? Probably yes. It doesn’t mean that you think the same way or that you approve of him doing what he’s doing. You and I are two journalists talking, essentially. Yeah. So, I mean, to me, the experience was about, yes, being a reporter—being a cinematographer in a documentary, and doing my best to make Melania look visually beautiful with the lighting. One thing reporters try to do is to spotlight ideas or news stories, and what you’re trying to do is spotlight her face and its beauty. I do see a real similarity there. Yeah. We were trying to do the best we could.

Mercy.
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Tonight other dumb napkin cartoon…

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

The Rabbit Hole: Dockets Die in Darkness Among the 17 counties in Georgia that don’t have a single local news source, 12 of them are in the Middle District of Georgia’s jurisdiction. This week, we sought to examine the dockets dying in the d...

“There are dozens of other federal court districts around the country that lack well-resourced newsrooms and dedicated legal reporters. The solution can not be a three-year-old news startup, such as Court Watch, briefly devoting 2,000 words to a district..”

www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

I received this tip on the records being grabbed on May 24, 2025.

On May 29, 2025 @marisakabas.bsky.social published this:

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’

The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

The most common response to lawyers having visceral responses to stuff like this by the AI bros is something like “You just want to gatekeep law to make sure your job is safe” and my friends I am no longer in private practice I hate it because it will hurt desperate people who don’t know any better.

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

YouTube video by oomph cavilrest arias habeas SA 26 CV 415 FB

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21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City - A Series - UNICORN RIOT These reports reveal that Minneapolis, Hennepin County and retail giant Target Corp. have engaged in a decades-long sweeping surveillance operation.

For more on Target beyond its collaboration with ICE, see our 12-part investigative series spotlighting How Target Corp., the City of Minneapolis, and Hennepin County Created a Domestic Spy Program that Rolled Back Civil Rights on its Black Population: unicornriot.ninja/21st-century...

We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg:

It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:

is one of the journalists following me taking notes?

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The Minister of AI having an "ongoing engagement" with the government of Israel on technology and AI is deeply concerning. No, it’s just plain wrong. It makes Canada vulnerable to international legal consequences, and it takes Canada far down the wrong path.

Good to see --> Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman just introduced their bill stripping ICE agents of qualified immunity. We broke the news that this was coming on our podcast (see thread below for more info and context).

speaking of which,

how’s judge luttig doing these days?

fwiw - has almost single-handedly discredited almost every participant in a network of so-called news content generators.

tho many of their non-cohen behaviors have also contributed.

can’t imagine any word from him ever having any value

flummoxed anyone remains who will invite him to talk, or who will listen.

“explain” lol

have we still not heard enough from him?

agitator has (re)entered the discourse

bro outside laboring to clear the plowpiles in curb parking w/ toothed shovel & snowblower almost inspiring me to go out & clear a space about half the length of a sensible compact.

New insights from video of an earlier incident involving one of Alex Pretti's shooters, the aggressor who started the incident that ended in Pretti's murder. That man ("A1", wearing identifier NS-919) wears a bodycam. And the new video shows his face. 1/

Protest sign reading spawn of Eva Braun

People going to the screening keep walking up, slipping all over the ice and having “let them eat cake” yelled at them

Protester in a historical dress and wig, another holds a sign that says let them eat Whole Foods

people are out here in a bitter cold windchill suiting up in Marie Antoinette outfits

brainworm bobby looks like a shaved gorilla dressed in grandpa’s old college suit

i’d rather watch more dhs snuff films than sit through your 2-hours hate

1-28-26 Fulton Warrant

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document.

Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

That does not end the Court’s concerns, however. Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that should have appeared on this list were omitted. This list should give pause to anyone—no matter his or her political beliefs—who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence. The Court warns ICE that future noncompliance with court orders may result in future show‐cause orders requiring the personal appearances of Lyons or other government officials. ICE is not a law unto itself. ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this Court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are overturned or vacated.