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Gail Slater @gailaslater It is with great sadness and abiding hope that I leave my role as AAG for Antitrust today. It was indeed the honor of a lifetime to serve in this role. Huge thanks to all who supported me this past year, most especially the men and women of @justiceatr Last edited 11:06 AM • Feb 12, 2026 • 441.8K Views

OK, who wrote the best story on Gail Slater's effective-today Antitrust resignation? Send it my way, please!

Let’s go.

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

CNN headline that says Trump delivers a deadly blow to EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution

The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family.

It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.

Of course 🤦‍♂️

I regret to inform you ... Pete did not course correct.

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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Judge orders Trump administration to allow men expelled to El Salvador to return, challenge removal The Trump administration's decision to send these men to a notorious Salvadoran megaprison has not stood up well in court.

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of over a hundred Venezuelan men it expelled to an El Salvador prison and also allow them to challenge their removal from abroad.

🚨 National Federation of the Blind of Texas et al v. Hudspeth et al Learn more here.

NEW: Visually impaired Texas voters sued Harris County over its alleged inaccessible mail ballots, which they argue violates federal law.

They seek to instate an electronic mail system that allows them to "privately and independently" read and mark ballots without third-party assistance.

The SAVE America Act would disenfranchise Americans living abroad The “SAVE America Act” is a rebranded version of the anti-voter SAVE Act, and its new name should not fool anyone.

NEW: Yesterday, the House passed the SAVE America Act, a measure that would disenfranchise millions of Americans domestically and abroad.

@demsabroad.bsky.social Martha McDevitt-Pugh asserts voting is not a privilege; it’s a constitutional right. And they do not lose that right when living abroad.

Bet you a nickel it’s related to this. 👇🏽

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.

Breaking WSJ:

The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

We can keep our communities safe without having masked federal agents terrorizing people and killing Americans in the street.
 
That's all Democrats are asking for.

Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims “I’m here to do everything I can to make this work,” Thomas Lane wrote in a December 2020 email to other organizers of the Trump campaign’s fake electoral plot in Arizona.

NEW: An election denier who tried to help Trump steal the 2020 election is taking credit for writing most of the SAVE America Act, a measure seeking to impose strict voter ID requirements.

The claims come after the bill passed the House last night.

Same.

And all politics aside, what king of person lacks the common human decency to even turn their head to acknowledge the victims of childhood rape?

Sickening...

#AccountabilityIsComing

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

Before our court, Plaintiffs appeal the district court’s denial of their motion for a preliminary injunction on their First Amendment overbreadth theories. Plaintiffs attack several provisions of H.B. 710, maintaining that the statute exceeds the bounds of federal obscenity law pursuant to Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973). The Idaho state Defendants counter with limiting constructions that purport to conform H.B. 710 to Miller’s requirements. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that Plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success on the merits of their overbreadth theory related to H.B. 710’s “context clause.” We further conclude that the remaining preliminary injunction factors favor Plaintiffs. We therefore reverse the district court’s denial of Plaintiffs’ motion. However, because our reversal is limited to the statute’s context clause, we remand for the district court to consider in the first instance the appropriate scope of a narrow preliminary injunction in this case.

9th Cir. holds that the district court erred in not granting a PI to block Idaho's new law which forbids schools and public libraries from making certain content (you know which) available to minors.

Held: the law likely violates the First Amendment.

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"for Navarro, the inevitable damage to the economy due to the loss of productive immigrant workers is a good thing, because Americans should be willing to sacrifice prosperity in the cause of expelling the foreign-born."

MAGA economics is a mess. From @davidrlurie.com at @atrupar.com's place:

Can the Courts Rein Trump In? Fmr. White House Special Counsel Weighs In John Harwood asks Norm Eisen whether the Supreme Court has enabled Trump’s lawlessness.

Instead of “boiling the frog” like autocrats elsewhere, Trump has “microwaved the frog” & ignited a potent backlash

@johnjharwood.bsky.social & I discuss Trump’s lawlessness & the role of courts👇

Yes, NBC out-rated us this week, but it’s completely unfair to compare us when one of their anchors’ mothers was kidnapped and none of ours were.

by Bari Weiss

Congratulations, Rich Ruohonen, on becoming the oldest winter Olympian ever.
And thank you for this beautiful and brave statement:

Ill believe theyre leaving when I see it.

Senate Democrats Block DHS Measure as Funding Deadline Approaches Lawmakers say they remain far apart on deal on Homeland Security to put new restrictions on immigration enforcement

NEW: Senate Democrats REJECT funding for DHS, which will lead to shutdown of the agency. Keep in mind, ICE and CBP are still funded by supplemental money in the BBB, but it's harder to spend and will deplete those funds. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

You know those really bad details buried in court cases and hearings that most of the media ignores because it's not in a press release or mass media news feed?

Chris reports on them.

People will blindly follow all kinds of things some computer system tells them when they would ignore a person that said the same thing.

Enterprise processes are full of this. Where nobody knows why something is done, just that it is what the computer system does.

Opportunism and moral rot. And especially the disconnect between GOP leaders - products of elite educations who aspire to elite institutions - and their voters, who will let them stay in DC as long as they pretend to believe that vaccines are evil and all that crap.

Exactly.
At every step, there were conservatives who voiced principled stands on things, but at each step, the GOP voting base chose hatred and bigotry instead.

Verge headline: ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground by Gaby Del Valle Photos by Jack Califano Photo depicts a white brick wall plastered with two recurring posters: One that says Alex Pretty ICU Nurse - Murdered by ICE, shows his photo with red highlights. Another is similar but reads Renee Nicole Good American Mom - Murdered by ICE

ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows.

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