Chad

On February 13, 2026, Petitioner [REDACTED] filed a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Dkt. 1. The same day, the Court issued an Order to Show Cause requiring Respondents to respond to the Petition no later than February 17, 2026. Dkt. 4 at ¶ 1. That order also required Respondents to file all their supporting documentation by February 17, 2026. Id. at ¶ 2. On February 18, 2026, Respondents late-filed their response to the Petition along with a declaration and single exhibit. Dkts. 5–6. Around two hours later, the Court issued an order requiring Respondents to file a declaration and exhibits references in the late-filed Response but not filed with the court, along with a declaration explaining the reason for filing late, within 24 hours. Dkt. 7. Respondents finally filed the balance of their supporting documentation by 4:06 P.M, February 18.1 Dkt. 9. Respondents never moved the Court for an extension of time to file their response or supporting documentation. Third Declaration o f[REDACTED] in Response to Text-Only Order ECF No. 7, Dkt. 10, at ¶ 9 (hereinafter “3d. [REDACTED] Decl.”). They never even contacted Counsel for Petitioner to inform him of the late filing. In the declaration, of 1 The declaration explaining the cause for late filing was not filed until 11:06 P.M. that night. Dkt. 10.

Assistant U.S. Attorney [REDACTED], Counsel for Respondents offers a host of limp excuses for filing late. First, AUSA [REDACTED] admits he was fine with violating the Court’s scheduling order, instructing his staff that it was okay to “file before midnight if possible or early Wednesday morning.” 3d. [REDACTED] Decl. at ¶ 3. His excuse for the late filing of the response itself is risible: support staff was offline and, in [REDACTED] own words, “I do not know how to file documents through CMECF.” Id. This is no excuse. The Court’s order makes no exception for staff unavailability or the failure of an attorney to know the basic functions of their profession.2 See Order to Show Cause, Dkt. 3. Further, Counsel for Respondents admits he was not prepared to file all of the documentation the Response relied upon even at that late date. As he points out, he only requested a copy of the travel document after the Court’s order to respond further. 3d. [REDACTED] Decl. at ¶ 6 (“Upon receipt of the Court’s Order, ECF No. 7, I immediately contacted ICE and requested the travel document referenced in the [REDACTED] Declaration as it had not been provided to me earlier.”). It is troubling that Counsel for Respondents knowingly referenced documents he did not have, had not seen, and seemingly had no plans to see until the Court ordered them produced. See, e.g., Response to Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, Dkt. 5 at 2, 4 (hereinafter “Response”). Besides the potential ethical issues that filing without ever seeing relied-up evidence raises,3 it evinces a total lack of respect for Petitioner’s rights and the Court’s order. Counsel for Respondents apologies to the Court and below-signed counsel for the late filing. 3d. [REDACTED] Decl. at ¶ 10. Wherefore Petitioner, who has been unconstitutionally detained for two months? 2 Counsel for Petitioner will note that he can somehow manage to file documents through CM/ECF himself without the resources and might of the Federal Government…

Feds blew a deadline in one of my habeas cases. Didn't file everything until 4pm the next day. Court ordered the AUSA to explain why he filed late. His response? It was 11:30pm and “I do not know how to file documents through CMECF.”

My response below:

Peter Navarro: "Here's the statistic I want every American to understand -- 1% increase in rents for every 1 million illegals that cross our border. In the four years of Biden we had 20 million, so rents went up nationally 20% because Joe Biden left that border open."

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.

“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

This is like boasting that a vial of crack wrote your state’s drug policy.

Update 2/19/2026: After this piece was published, I heard from two different people who received The Atlantic’s original press push email for the piece around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. At that time, when they clicked through, there was not an editor’s note/disclaimer on the piece at all. Both of those readers, who are professional journalists, responded to the press email with confusion and asked if the story was real. An Atlantic publicist emailed one of these readers back and said, “This is based on a mother’s real account. Thanks for checking.” Sometime after that, the disclaimer was added and it was there when I read the story around 7 p.m. on Thursday night. An Atlantic spokesperson told me yesterday, “The note was added almost immediately after publication.” This information is significant to me because it suggests that within The Atlantic there was confusion about whether the piece was fictional.

That Atlantic measles story was so poorly/deceptively edited that even the site's own flack thought it portrayed the actual account of a suffering, soon-to-die little boy.

Via @laurahazardowen.bsky.social

www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

New Moms in Wisconsin to Get Extension of Vital Benefits After GOP Powerbroker Ends Holdout State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had repeatedly blocked lawmakers from voting on a bipartisan bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. The legislation now goes to Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected ...

NEW: Powerful Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had repeatedly blocked lawmakers from voting on a bipartisan bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. The legislation now goes to Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected to sign it into law.

By @megomatz.bsky.social

SO MUCH of Western society, politics, and culture is built on the bonding that men were trained as boys to do over the humiliation of other people.

Justice Alito—a suspected leaker and private jet fan—has a new book coming out the second day of the Court’s 2026-27 term. Coincidence?

Given the high stakes (the Court’s role as the true source of GOP political power), the smart money suggests that Alito may well step down. trib.al/Pcc1mHo

An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death...

The FBI secretly controlled a staffer at a dark web drug market that did $100 million in sales. The informant allegedly approved the sale of drugs even after warnings they were tainted with fentanyl—including from a vendor whose pills led to a confirmed fatal overdose. www.wired.com/story/an-fbi...

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

(Published June 2025)

Naming the policeman Officer X, Welles addressed him directly. "Wash your hands, Officer X. Wash them well. Scrub and scour, you won't blot out the blood of a blinded war veteran," Welles said. "Go on, suckle your anonymous moment while it lasts. You're going to be uncovered. We will blast out your name! We'll give the world your given name, Officer X. Yes, and your so-called Christian name. It's going to rise out of the filthy deep like the dead thing it is."

When Tom Homan, Trump and other Republicans defend the masking of ICE agents, I can't help but think of Orson Welles announcing on his radio show his intention of identifying the South Carolina police officer who violently attacked and blinded the uniformed Black veteran Isaac Woodard in 1946.

I Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter X.com One of the reasons I got serious about reporting about pediatric gender medicine is that when I tweeted in Dec 2022 that it was a shame that researchers were discouraged from studying detransitioning, Alejandra Caraballo brutally attacked me on Twitter. I was not going to let a bully push me around and lie about me, for one thing. And two, I knew that any field which was guarded so aggressively by activists forbiddng anyone from asking *reasonable and substantive questions* had to be newsworthy and important. And I quickly realized that most reporters were too scared of the Caraballos of the world, meaning there was a massive amount of uncovered territory for me as a reporter, so long as I could stand being routinely attacked, maligned, defamed, lied about, excommunicated, and so on.

Benjamin Ryan openly admits that his reporting on trans issues is animated by personal bias against someone who was mean to him online. Ben is not capable of reporting on this issue objectively, and yet the New York Times and other outlets repeatedly let him do just that.

Meghan McCain Mocked For Seemingly Just Realizing That MAGA Wants Women To Stay Home And Raise Kids

Is she really this clueless?

Agents may have broken the law again. trib.al/vBYENTx

The judge noted that ICE failed to provide a warrant or probable cause: “Absent such procedures, the agency will be free to either engage in preplanned decisions to unlawfully detain individuals and then come up with post hoc rationalizations."

WATCH: “Trump is a racist… roll the clip…”

View hosts sunny educated Savannah Chrisley — with receipts

NEWS: Donald Trump just gave a MASSIVE handout to the richest corporations in America.

How? By delivering them new tax cuts for research they've ALREADY done.

Some billionaire companies will pay a lower tax rate than a public school teacher.

It’s shameful.

musk tweet: for a country to survive, there has to be a common culture

this is all racism, obviously, and multiculturalism is great, but i'll note that i'm pretty close to being a median american, and i can't think of too many other people in america with whom i share fewer cultural values that elon musk

Image shows screenshot of medical records listing a child as “Inmate.” The child’s name and “Inmate ID” is redacted

As part of my reporting on children held in immigrant detention in Dilley, Texas, I’ve gotten to review some medical records from the facility.

This is where ICE brought 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos.

One detail that has gnawed at me: The medical forms refer to the children as inmates.

Newsmax screengrab of Oliver Anthony

oh god, remember this guy from the Before Times?

"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews

(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)

#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️

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Exclusive: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access.

I am awaiting the start of the U.H.A. v. Bondi preliminary injunction hearing. Credentialed media have remote access, but Law Dork's request for a public-access line was denied by the magistrate judge yesterday.

Background:

Trump: "Well, let's go on to it. What am I doing? Am I doing an interview here with some wonderful sportscaster that I hear wonderful things about? ... Are you ready? Let's go. I'd like to have a little hair and makeup. It's a little windy out there.

A tweet from @anyone_want_chips contrasting a reported Trump family crypto deal with criticism of Hunter Biden’s art sales. The image shows a side-by-side photo of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump on the left and Hunter Biden on the right.

The Trumps are the ultimate grifters and gaslighters.

Trump visits a local business in Rome, Georgia -- "They came in and they took all those ballots. All those crooked ballots were taken. Let's see what happens. The Democrats are fighting like hell. They don't want anyone to see those ballots. It's a disgrace."

Trump: "We are going to have the Save America Act, one way or the other, after approval by Congress through the very proper use of the Filibuster or, at minimum, by a Talking Filibuster, à la “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” SAVE AMERICA ACT! 1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. (IDENTIFICATION!). 2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP IN ORDER TO VOTE. 3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS (EXCEPT FOR ILLNESS, DISABILITY, MILITARY, OR TRAVEL!)."

Trump: "We are going to have the Save America Act, one way or the other ...

1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. (IDENTIFICATION!).

2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP IN ORDER TO VOTE.

3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS (EXCEPT FOR ILLNESS, DISABILITY, MILITARY, OR TRAVEL!)."

DOOCY: Barack Obama said that aliens are real. Have you seen any evidence of non-human visitors to earth?

TRUMP: Well, he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that.


DOOCY: So aliens are real?

TRUMP: I don't know if they're real or not. He made a big mistake.

DOOCY: On Prince Andrew, do you think American associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too?

TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.