Bob King

Maybe AOC can call it "the weave"?

Bed-rotting.

Checks out so far.

President Trump's lawyers have told a court he shouldn't have to respond to lawsuits because it would distract him from running the government.

But he's found time to bring lawsuits of his own, against the New York Times and even against his own administration.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Also, the president who bought an electric car less than a year ago still thinks hybrids are the fringe, weirdo edge of the car industry?

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Apparently the White House thinks Priuses have the hated stop-start feature (hybrids and EVs don't), or that they lack air conditioning, or that the Generation 3 Prius from 2012 is the current model, or that sports cars have been illegal in the US since Obama.

www.instagram.com/reel/DUtstJB...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

By @scottpwaldman.bsky.social

Trump sidelines climate contrarians in science rollback The president has mocked global warming as a “hoax,” but his administration avoided testing that claim in court as it targeted the endangerment finding.

Far-right activists spent years urging Trump to attack the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is real, humans are causing it and it's already causing harm.

But when his Energy Department tried to oblige, the effort quickly ran off the rails.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Trump sidelines climate contrarians in science rollback The president has mocked global warming as a “hoax,” but his administration avoided testing that claim in court as it targeted the endangerment finding.

How Trump's attempt to overturn decades of universally accepted climate science fizzled: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Trump promised to rein in corporate power. The woman he picked to do it just left. Some of the president’s own supporters fear corporate influence is destroying a movement that helped propel him to a second term.

Trump promised to rein in corporate power. The woman he picked to do it just left.

Eppur si muove.

EPA repeals endangerment finding The move discards a scientific determination that empowered the government to limit climate pollution.

Greenhouse gases stopped being harmful at 1:30 pm EST on Thursday, February 12, 2026.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The Hill Republican who could get a deal on AI — if his leadership lets him

This is good advice for everyone, not just journalists. Police can hold your phone up to your face or force you to touch a fingerprint reader, but in general they can't force you to give them a password or PIN because that violates your right to remain silent.

Oh, and at least one of the teenage victims reported being followed and intimidated by two private investigators.

When she asked the state attorney's spokesperson whether the wealthy get to enjoy a different system of justice from everyone else, he conceded "for the sake of 'philosophical debate ... of course, yes.'" Just not in this case, he said.

"Prosecutors gave greater weight to the details [Alan] Dershowitz pointed out to the prosecutors in an apparent effort to assail their character," Elisa Cramer wrote in August 2006 in the Palm Beach Post.

Cramer also noted Palm Beach police had urged prosecutors to charge him as a child molestor, but they decided to let him off with the much lighter charge of solicitation of prostitution.

"...One girl couldn't show up when Mr. Epstein wanted because she had soccer. Another time, Mr. Epstein had to wait for his 'massage' session because the girl he wanted was still in class."

"Prosecutors did not pursue charges against Mr. Epstein reflecting the age of the victims because they assumed a jury would view the girls not as victims but as promiscuous, untrustworthy, willing participants. The presumption is offensive."

Note: The Post misspelled her first name when they republished this column years later, but it's Elisa.

"He was over 50. And they were girls."

Some were clear 20 yrs ago about who Epstein was, what he did and why he was being protected. Elisa Cramer wrote this for the Palm Beach Post in 2006 when local prosecutors gave him a plea deal for sex crimes against kids

www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2...

Guess who has called for ending early and absentee voting?

The pivot still seems to be going well.

The pivot toward moderation is going well, I see.

Judges across the country rebuke ICE for defying court orders They are increasingly castigating what they say are systematic legal and constitutional abuses by the administration.

Judges across the country are rebuking ICE for defying court orders.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

‘A pretext to rig the election’: Democrats scramble to block ICE crackdowns near polling sites Election officials are preparing for the possibility of immigration enforcement activity at or near polling sites in November.

Dems are sounding the alarm at the prospect that ICE agents will be swarming blue cities near the polls on Election Day, frightening would-be voters into staying home.

"Trump is trying to create a pretext to rig the election," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

This is such sad news. I always enjoyed reading Dan's writing in Philly Weekly years ago.

Or cut winter in half and give that extra time to summer.