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Judges across the country have been ordering do-overs that mean constitutional standards. But more recently, they've been ordering outright release, doubting the integrity of the bond process. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

NEW: Federal judges have spent months ordering ICE to give detainees a chance for release in bond hearings.

Now, they're worried that the bond hearings themselves — conducted by Executive Branch immigration judges — are a farce.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Telegraph sold for £575m as German buyer elbows out Daily Mail Axel Springer, owner of Bild and Die Welt, agrees all-cash deal for one of UK’s oldest newspapers

Slap in the face for the Daily Mail. Axel Springer owns Europe’s biggest paper, Bild, as well as Die Welt, Politico and Business Insider.

This should be getting more attention than it is.

Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch Gets Scrutiny at Last. It May Be Too Late.

In 2019, Trump's DOJ told local officials to drop their investigation into Epstein's New Mexico property. What are they hiding?

Pam Bondi MUST release the rest of the files, including any documents detailing the decision to shut down this key investigation.

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

What Is It All For? A lethal combination of incompetence, hubris, and greed is driving this disaster

A lethal combination of incompetence, hubris, and greed is driving this disaster.

www.marytrump.org/p/what-is-it...

SCOTUS halts redraw of New York district found to have discriminated against minority voters Sotomayor accused the majority of overstepping and interfering in an ongoing state court process before New York’s highest court had even ruled.

BREAKING: In a setback for voting rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has halted New York’s order to redraw its 11th Congressional District — a district a state court found diluted minority voting power.

The current map will remain as appeals continue.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Idaho considers an 'apocalyptic' choice for disabled people and families Difficult budget decisions in a number of states are threatening vital programs for disabled people at home and caregivers in the workforce.

States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.

Made a short video as a response. 3 questions remain for me.

1) What is the definition of a "DEl activity," and how is it being communicated to NIH staff so they can determine whether a grant qualifies?

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"A third person close to the president’s national security team described the internal thinking about the current state of play in Iran as 'all over the map.'"

Always what I like to hear!

Graphic showing Trump. Bondi, Noem, Miller, Hegeseth, Vance, RF'nK Jr, Patel, Homan, and Rubio behind bars with headline: LOCK THEM UP

Impeachment won't do - this regime needs to be put on trial in the US and the Hague.

A mad king’s illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

My instant reaction at 3 a.m. yesterday was not whether Khamenei would be killed or oil prices or anything else but this

This undeclared, unexplained war is illegal. Full stop

28 hours later, it is still the worse abuse of power in U.S. history. Impeach

My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

February 28, 2026 Early this morning, the U.S.

February 28, 2026

Departing CBS News producer claims political bias as Paramount poised to buy Warner Bros Mary Walsh, leaving after 46 years, says staffers told to ‘aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum’

"We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

SCOTUS rejects private prison company GEO Group's attempt at avoiding accountability A long-delayed lawsuit challenging GEO Group's treatment of people in immigration detention can proceed again. A unanimous decision that matters — especially now.

NEW: SCOTUS rejects private prison company GEO Group's attempt at avoiding accountability.

A long-delayed lawsuit challenging GEO Group's treatment of people in immigration detention can proceed again. A unanimous decision that matters — especially now.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Patel Ousts F.B.I. Personnel Tied to Inquiry Into Trump’s Retained Classified Records

Patel promised Senators in confirmation hearings: “There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI.”
He lied. He just fired another 10 agents who served in Jack Smith's investigation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable."

Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...

The Cover-up Continues Where is Jane Doe #4's FBI statements? Key documents involving allegations against Trump are missing

The Cover-up Continues - by Julie k Brown jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-cover-...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

SCOOP: An X account called Johnny MAGA with 300k followers that described the Obamas-as-apes video as "a masterpiece" appears to be a sockpuppet account for a White House rapid-reaction staffer. @makenakelly.bsky.social has all the details:

this is a classic case of a bad headline, not a bad piece. he's arguing that the corruption and incompetence of the Justice Department meant they couldn't be trusted to handle the kind of redaction and selection that a big case like this should involve.

Why *wouldn’t* Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping remain unsolved given the country’s leading lawman doesn’t take the law seriously? He thinks the FBI gives him access to things other people can’t, as if law and order were an exclusive membership card to an elite club.

Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose. The institutions and individuals who betrayed democratic principles will bear that mark of shame well into the future.

Recently, Rice told Preet Bharara on his podcast that “it’s not going to end well” for “the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, [and] the media” that bend the knee to Trump. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

There were semi trucks full of dead bodies in NYC

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

Disgusting display by the US men's hockey team as they laugh along with a violent misogynist as he mocks the women's team. No solidarity among Olympians with these guys.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.