I want a democratic Iran. And I won’t shed a tear for the Ayatollah’s death.

But my first concern will always be the national security of the United States.

Trump is putting our troops and all Americans in danger without any real reason he can explain.

NEW: A federal appeals court swiftly rejected the Trump administration’s request to delay next steps in the fight over tariff refunds for importers after the US Supreme Court struck down the president’s signature economic policy
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It is both outrageous and very representative of this administration and the entire conservative movement that women are responsible for men’s crimes, and that women who challenge men must be made to suffer in perpetuity.

Trump administration cannot 'terrorize' Minnesota's refugees with arrests, US judge rules A federal judge on Friday said he would not allow President Donald Trump's administration to "terrorize" Minnesota's 5,600 refugees by arresting and detaining them under a new policy that "turns the r...

"The Court will not allow federal authorities to use a new and erroneous statutory interpretation to terrorize refugees who immigrated to this country under the promise that they would be welcomed and allowed to live in peace, far from the persecution they fled." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money.

In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it.

Taxation without representation.

How Jeffrey Epstein sought to infiltrate the justice system New Epstein files emails show how Epstein tried to cultivate relationships with prosecutors and others involved in his case

NEW: (gift) A Miami Herald Investigation: How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @clurhealy.bsky.social
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The NYT just confirmed the missing Epstein files and is treating this like a blockbuster story:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional.

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Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.

These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.

Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

n its place they are promoting a pseudo-history which brings to mind Orwell’s description of “a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique controls not only the future but the past.” This is no less than a Potemkin-like historical vision where you must accept a façade of unbroken righteousness and loyalty – while any who look behind will be punished. A less aggressive, but still deeply serious, questioning of the right to challenge narratives or even bring new perspectives to how we see history is now found through much of the world. State-led revisionism is seen in attempts to reopen old issues, reinvigorate the idea of national enemies and to define national identity through allegiance to a particular understanding of the past. In other contexts, we are seeing attempts to caricature and undermine scholarship which is conducted in good faith by labelling it reactionary, or woke, or any number of other labels. The dismissive use of these labels is intended to stifle debate not empower it. This goes to the very core of democratic values. For me democracy requires far more than just holding elections – it requires the rule of law, active respect for diverse opinions, protection of the ability to raise questions and a rejection of the idea that to be part of the polity you must conform to a set narrative. Further, I believe that the strongest democracies, and the most sustainable societies, are those which embrace the importance of diversity and complexity. Without the humanities this is impossible, and history has a fundamental role to play.

On the assault on scholarship and the defence of the humanities for democratic values.
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👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Utah Supreme Court upholds fairer map for midterm elections, rejects GOP appeal That fairer map creates a district where Democratic voters can meaningfully compete.

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

This might be an astonishing breakthrough — yet to be tested in humans, but what potential!
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👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Awfully hard to square the claims that ICE is focused on removing violent criminals that are so dangerous we can't let them be around with the fact that ICE tricks their targets by pretending to need help and waiting for neighborly types to respond by offering to help a stranger for free.

me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

“We the people” are the people who believe this statement is inherently true. Not true because of expert opinion or historical tradition or authority conferred by legal process. Simply, obviously true. Self-evident.

If you believe it, you belong. 2/

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Democratic AGs stress importance of citizen-generated evidence in challenging ICE • Stateline Cellphone video has emerged as a powerful rebuttal to the Trump administration’s version of immigration enforcement incidents.

The Illinois Accountability Commission is gathering precisely the kind of evidence that will hold ICE and the Trump Administration responsible.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

🚨 McDougle et al v. Nardo et al Learn more here.

After the state Supreme Court's order today, Virginia Democrats are now one referendum vote away from a 10-1 congressional map. I suspect the GOP is trying to figure out how to file a new lawsuit or concoct a theory for SCOTUS. Both will fail.

A big win! www.democracydocket.com/cases/virgin...

Order on Motion for TRO – #95 in The Advocates for Human Rights v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00749) – CourtListener.com ORDER: Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order (ECF No. 17 ) is GRANTED IN PART. See Order for specifics. Signed by Judge Nancy E. Brasel on 2/12/2026. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A) (RMM) ...

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BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

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Judge Boasberg has ordered the administration to either return to the US or afford the opportunity to proceed in court from abroad, whichever they prefer, men removed from the country without due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers None of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump administration’s pitch on why they should indict Democratic lawmakers over a video urging members of the

No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers

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Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ attempt to access Michigan voter rolls Michigan is just one of two dozen states wrestling with the unusual demand from the DOJ.

A federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s efforts to obtain Michigan’s unredacted voter rolls, marking a bruising setback for the department’s sweeping national effort to force states to disclose sensitive voter data.

Michigan is just one of 24 states wrestling with the DOJ's unusual demand.

Federal judge orders monitor to oversee California’s largest ICE detention center A federal judge ordered the appointment of an external monitor to oversee California’s largest immigration detention facility to ensure detainee’s constitutional rights are being met.

SF Chronicle: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the appointment of an external monitor to oversee California’s largest immigration detention facility to ensure detainee’s constitutional rights, including to medical care, are being met.
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