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Pet peeve: complaints that Dems have bad messaging/do nothing by accounts who follow no elected officials or experts in their fields.

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Republican Rep. Luna: “According to the files we saw, Ghislaine Maxwell was engaged in trafficking and rape of young women. Potentially children. I don’t think she deserves any special treatment. She’s a monster.”

(From @acyn.bsky.social )

10.02.2026 05:42 — 👍 565    🔁 166    💬 37    📌 10

Bring back the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Put it back in DoJ.

Oh and fire Pam Bondi. Lock her up.

10.02.2026 02:40 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Two days after Trump posts a racist video, he now attacks Bad Bunny: "Nobody understands a word this guy is saying."

He adds: "There is nothing inspirational about this mess."

FYI: The billboard behind Bad Bunny read: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

09.02.2026 02:13 — 👍 3132    🔁 547    💬 153    📌 33
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Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.

Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by ICE in Trump's first year back had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal DHS document obtained by CBS News — undermining the admin's claim that they're primarily targeting dangerous and violent criminals.

09.02.2026 20:10 — 👍 661    🔁 318    💬 26    📌 15

Pushing it left with his misogyny or with his racism?

10.02.2026 02:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Turn off the setting! It’s enabled by default. Bezos helping out the demon, as always.

bsky.app/profile/resi...

09.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Too many flunked the open book project 2025 test..

Don’t flunk the open book Ring Camera test…

Cancel that surveillance company

10.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 114    🔁 60    💬 9    📌 3
Elon Musk: Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another.
There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime.
Elon Musk • @elonmusk. 26m
SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon.
This will so insanely cool
12:59 PM • 2/9/26 • 543K Views

Elon Musk: Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another. There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime. Elon Musk • @elonmusk. 26m SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 12:59 PM • 2/9/26 • 543K Views

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsible—directly or indirectly—for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year.

10.02.2026 02:32 — 👍 1564    🔁 221    💬 66    📌 30
Melanie Stansbury speaking to a crowd

Melanie Stansbury speaking to a crowd

Rep. Melanie Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active coverup of the largest sex trafficking scandal & influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States — and Donald Trump is right at the center of it”

09.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 3996    🔁 1363    💬 112    📌 60
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Footage of the Aurora, Illinois Police Department assaulting and abducting children during an anti-ICE school walkout protest on 2/9/26

10.02.2026 01:59 — 👍 285    🔁 242    💬 29    📌 19

It’s extremely important to put Elon Musk and Trump in the context of having killed hundreds of thousands of children in the last year

10.02.2026 02:19 — 👍 140    🔁 57    💬 3    📌 2
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, ET AL.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
No. 1:25-cv-10685-WGY
MARCO RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, and the DEPARTMENT OF STATE, ET AL.,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF APPEAL
Notice is hereby given that all Defendants in the above-named matter hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from the Final Judgment entered in this
action on January 22, 2026. ECF No. 313.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, ET AL., Plaintiffs, V. No. 1:25-cv-10685-WGY MARCO RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, and the DEPARTMENT OF STATE, ET AL., Defendants. NOTICE OF APPEAL Notice is hereby given that all Defendants in the above-named matter hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from the Final Judgment entered in this action on January 22, 2026. ECF No. 313.

BRETT A. SHUMATE
Assistant Attorney General
DREW C. ENSIGN
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Dated: February 9, 2026
Respectfully Submitted,
Ethan B. Kanter
ETHAN B. KANTER
Chief, National Security Unit Office of Immigration Litigation
Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice P.O. Box 878, Ben Franklin Station
Washington, D.C. 20001
PAUL F. STONE
Deputy Chief, National Security Unit
Office of Immigration Litigation
LINDSAY M. MURPHY
Deputy Chief, National Security Unit
Office of Immigration Litigation
Counsel for Defendants

BRETT A. SHUMATE Assistant Attorney General DREW C. ENSIGN Deputy Assistant Attorney General Dated: February 9, 2026 Respectfully Submitted, Ethan B. Kanter ETHAN B. KANTER Chief, National Security Unit Office of Immigration Litigation Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice P.O. Box 878, Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20001 PAUL F. STONE Deputy Chief, National Security Unit Office of Immigration Litigation LINDSAY M. MURPHY Deputy Chief, National Security Unit Office of Immigration Litigation Counsel for Defendants

NEW: DOJ filed its notice of appeal in AAUP v. Rubio, the case about the Trump admin's attempt to revoke visas, etc. Judge Young found this was implemented in an unconstitutionally viewpoint-discriminatory manner.

Earlier Law Dork coverage: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

10.02.2026 02:24 — 👍 289    🔁 91    💬 1    📌 2

Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.

09.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 2114    🔁 586    💬 44    📌 23

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

09.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 2933    🔁 1531    💬 226    📌 376
Image of Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay from 1991, showing row after row of people laying on cots in an airplane hangar.

Image of Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay from 1991, showing row after row of people laying on cots in an airplane hangar.

The closest modern historical parallel is the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay for intercepted Cubans and Haitians during the HW Bush and Clinton administrations, where at maximum capacity roughly 12,000 migrants were detained. But those migrants were never in the physical US.

09.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 911    🔁 209    💬 13    📌 7

The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.

The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

09.02.2026 17:57 — 👍 1384    🔁 465    💬 17    📌 13
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

09.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 10587    🔁 6202    💬 1098    📌 963
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

“When Gustavo had a fever, the medical staff told her he was old enough for his body to fight it off without medication, so she sat up with him all night, draping him in cold compresses.”

This entire country is draped in shame.

www.propublica.org/article/life...

10.02.2026 00:51 — 👍 47    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 1

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury

10.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 291    🔁 76    💬 0    📌 3
Weiss

Mitchell D. Webber

Weiss Mitchell D. Webber

jeeproject@yahoo.comRe: federal sex trafficking and states with lower ages of consent

J

J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com> to Mitch Webber <mwebber@law.harvard.edu>

let's also look at sex tourism laws.. going someplace with specific intent ot have underage sex

--- Mitch Webber mwebber@law.harvard.edu wrote:

Mr. Epstein

I'm sorry little con about

what you were asking on

the phone. I se what you were asking now. The question is: what would

happen if one were to transport a minor for sex --

or transport oneself

with the intent to have sex with a minor- into a

state in which the age

of consent is below eighteen (assuming the minor is

above the age of

consent in the given state)?

And your intuition was right. The answer

is that there is no

violation of law.

jeeproject@yahoo.comRe: federal sex trafficking and states with lower ages of consent J J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com> to Mitch Webber <mwebber@law.harvard.edu> let's also look at sex tourism laws.. going someplace with specific intent ot have underage sex --- Mitch Webber mwebber@law.harvard.edu wrote: Mr. Epstein I'm sorry little con about what you were asking on the phone. I se what you were asking now. The question is: what would happen if one were to transport a minor for sex -- or transport oneself with the intent to have sex with a minor- into a state in which the age of consent is below eighteen (assuming the minor is above the age of consent in the given state)? And your intuition was right. The answer is that there is no violation of law.

From 2019 to 2021, Mitch served as Associate Counsel and Special Assistant to the President in the Office of White House Counsel, where he advised and responded to congressional and other oversight of the President, senior White House staff, and several departments and agencies.

In January 2021, Mitch was appointed to a five-year term on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the governing body of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, where he serves on the Audit Committee and the Committee on Holocaust Denial and State- Sponsored Antisemitism. Mitch is also a member of the board of directors of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

From 2019 to 2021, Mitch served as Associate Counsel and Special Assistant to the President in the Office of White House Counsel, where he advised and responded to congressional and other oversight of the President, senior White House staff, and several departments and agencies. In January 2021, Mitch was appointed to a five-year term on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the governing body of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, where he serves on the Audit Committee and the Committee on Holocaust Denial and State- Sponsored Antisemitism. Mitch is also a member of the board of directors of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

Mitchell D Webber, a partner at the Law firm Paul Weiss, using his Harvard email, asked about sex tourism targeting children.

He sits on the board of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

06.02.2026 20:56 — 👍 245    🔁 79    💬 19    📌 6

Tomorrow morning I’ll be going to review the unredacted Epstein Files.

What we have seen so far reeks of a cover-up. It’s time for the truth.

09.02.2026 22:51 — 👍 635    🔁 136    💬 38    📌 7
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‘Apparent ransom:’ Sen. Cantwell pushes back on DOJ lawsuit over Washington voter rolls “This pursuit of state voter rolls for what it is, nothing more than an ‘apparent ransom,’” Cantwell wrote.

Washingtonians will not be intimidated when it comes to voting. We know that voting rights are guaranteed by our Constitution, and Washington state’s vote-by-mail is safe and secure.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/a...

04.02.2026 23:45 — 👍 105    🔁 14    💬 11    📌 1
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The Trump Administration is demanding our state’s voter rolls so they can get personal information about Washingtonians. You can't spy on Americans.

My appearance on Morning Joe ⬇️

05.02.2026 23:34 — 👍 78    🔁 21    💬 14    📌 1
Sen. Cantwell and President Passerini

Sen. Cantwell and President Passerini

Gonzaga's world-class researchers are leading the way – and ushering in the technologies of tomorrow.

Great talking to President Passerini about how new federal funding will bolster Gonzaga's R&D mission and unlock opportunities across the Spokane region.

07.02.2026 01:31 — 👍 38    🔁 4    💬 8    📌 0

The FTC can - and should - do even more to stop PBMs from engaging in unfair practices that drive up drug prices for Americans and force independent pharmacies out of business. (2/3)

09.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Exclusive: Cigna settles FTC insulin case, aims to lower drug prices Cigna Corp's Express Scripts settled the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's claims its insulin pricing practices violated antitrust and consumer protection laws, and agreed to changes aimed at lowering c...

The FTC’s recent settlement with Express Scripts over manipulation of insulin prices is a step in the right direction. (1/3)

www.reuters.com/world/cigna-...

09.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 32    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Once again, it's up to the normie lib wine moms to keep the torch of liberty aflame

09.02.2026 23:25 — 👍 93    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Pretty wild to me how many students were willing to occupy university buildings to protest something happening halfway around the world, but not in response to those very same universities caving to an authoritarian administration setting up concentration camps in our own borders

09.02.2026 23:20 — 👍 184    🔁 33    💬 8    📌 4
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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

03.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 6636    🔁 1582    💬 144    📌 2
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“Frederick Douglass didn’t say there were two sides to slavery” — and Ida B. Wells didn’t “interview the lyncher”

Chuck Modiano has a message for today’s journalists

bit.ly/chuckandawkword

09.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 789    🔁 339    💬 22    📌 18

@rtowle is following 20 prominent accounts