Scott Thurm

‘Professor Uthmeier’: Inside Florida attorney general’s $100k teaching job at UF The university was eager to hire the newly minted attorney general, but didn’t announce his teaching job until the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times began asking questions.

Florida's attorney general, who spends his time targeting companies for stuff like “radical LGBTQ+ activism,” is getting paid $100K a year as a Univ of Fla adjunct to teach a 2 hour/week law class.

His salary is 8X higher than what the median adjunct earns.

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Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

LEFT: Someone who appears in the Epstein files over a million times. Epstein called him his "best friend."

RIGHT: Someone never mentioned in the Epstein files—even once. And she never met him.

So guess which one is being hauled before our corrupt, cover-upping Congress to testify about Epstein.

This is new. “Violent criminal” immigrants are driving Americans’ wages down??????

Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.”
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It's hard to believe that you could be the trade representative for a major power and not know that tariffs are regressive.

My econ 101 students know what the word regressive means, and that tariffs are regressive. Many could even cite studies on the subject.

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.

Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.

This is a bombshell: One of Epstein's victims accused Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her when she was "13 to 15" and the FBI deemed her credible enough to warrant an interview.

Give me an oral history on who came up with the yellow star idea and every single person who signed off on it please

Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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Worker for ICE accused of answering police sting ad, agreeing to pay for sex at Twin Cities hotel Police said the man worked for the Defense Department doing security clearances for federal agencies.

A man who’s been doing background checks for ICE is charged with being among many people snared in a prostitution sting in Bloomington.

Trump Said He’d End the War in a Day, but It’s Worsened for Ukrainians

Trump Said He’d End the War in a Day, but It’s Worsened for Ukrainians. Russian attacks and Ukrainian civilian deaths rose as President Trump’s peace talks dragged on during his first year back in the White House. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...

F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like An iPhone: Dutch Defense Secretary The F-35's vendor locked software is becoming a greater concern as relations between the U.S. and longtime allies falter.

6/Think about this. Dutch defense secretary speculates that F-35 might need jailbreak from US tech controls.
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In Massachusetts, Moderna is pulling back on vaccine studies. In Texas, a small company canceled plans to build a factory that would have created new jobs manufacturing a technology used in vaccines. In San Diego, another manufacturing company laid off workers.

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MetLife’s Chart of the Week:

Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan

AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero

Wow.

Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

The NYT really owes it's readers an apology for this. Politicians make verbal stumbles like ALL the time and the NYT NEVER prints them. I remember many years ago at a protest, George Bush Sr. said "too bad they can't do this in Lenin Square in Moscow."

News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate …

"News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It."
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@masnick.com is right: "In our rush to punish #AI companies, we’re destroying public goods that serve everyone."

#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism #Publishers
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America’s Future Is Hungary MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

Remember: Viktor Orban has built a corrupt, stagnant Hungary that is much poorer than it should be

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Rubio tells Orban ‘your success is our success’ during Hungary visit ahead of elections During a visit to Budapest Monday, just weeks before Hungary’s parliamentary elections, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that the nationalist leader’s “succ...

What an utter disgrace Marco Rubio is.

"'I can say to you with confidence that President Trump is deeply committed to your success because your success is our success,' Rubio said during a joint press conference with Orban after their meeting."

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"Eighty percent of Americans said voters have a responsibility to keep up with the news, but just 8% said they had a responsibility to pay for it." www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

"Just making s**t up" — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA "To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."

New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on the EPA

“How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”

We can’t trust anything coming out of this administration. It’s getting tiresome.

Congressman Randy Fine • X.com @RepFine If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one. 2:24 PM • 2/15/26 • 133K Views

Randy Fine, one of the most horrible people in public office.