Jennifer Runaas (she/her)

Breaking: Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Order That Redrew Congressional Map in Staten Island, with Ominous Implications for Voting Rights Act #ELB I’m on the road so this will be brief. The Supreme Court over the dissent of the three liberal Justices reversed a lower court order requiring the drawing of a minority opportunity district that the l...

Rick Hasen on today: “to me the headline is the Justice Alito concurrence which states that race conscious districting as required not just by the federal Voting Rights Act but also state acts and state constitutions is “unadorned” and “odious” racial discrimination.” electionlawblog.org?p=154596

The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court

These motherfuckers deliberately target schools for violence HERE. I sure as shit believe they targeted schools elsewhere too.

Brandon Straka: I’m at the Pentagon this morning for a briefing with @SecWar @PeteHegseth on the Iran strikes. Session starts in 10 minutes.

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

This is a lot of words that boil down to one thing. There is no strategy. There is no end goal. There is no plan. This is why there is a Constitution and why it requires a president to get Congressional authorization BEFORE going to war.

These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

1. The American people were under no imminent threat from Iran. Its government does not have nuclear weapons. It was no more threatening to Israel or any other US ally than it normally is.

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes.

Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time.

What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

John Jacob Olivas leaves an LA courtroom during his trial

John Jacob Olivas, 48, an ICE agent from Riverside, CA, was sentenced in 2023 to a life sentence for rape and “systematic torture of women”. He repeatedly brandished his ICE credentials to assert to his victims that he was "above a cop" and "invincible" and threatened to have their children removed.

Kyle Mrofka booking photo, Pima County Sheriff's Department

Kyle Elden Mrofka, 30, a supervisory Border Patrol Agent from Arizona, was sentenced in 2019 to three years probation with no jail time for repeatedly sexually assaulting the 13-year-old daughter of a family friend after plying her with alcohol. The victim's family did not support the plea deal.

Andrew Golobic booking photo, US Attorney's Office

Andrew Golobic, 53, an ICE supervisor from Cincinnati, OH, was sentenced in March 2025 to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing and coercing female victims under his supervision in the Blue Ash ICE office's "alternatives to detention" program.

Samuel L. Saxon booking photo

Samuel Saxon, 47, the Assistant Field Office Director of ICE ERO in Cincinnati, was charged in Dec 2025 with strangulation and domestic violence. His partner also suffered a broken pelvis and broken nose.

What's left out of most stories is that she was 18 years old when they started dating in 2018.

Kevin Taylor booking photo

Kevin Taylor, an ICE agent from Riley, MI, was sentenced in 2023 to 5-15 years in prison for molesting two underage female relatives who were between the ages of 4 and 9 when his abuse began.

🇺🇸 🏒 Captain hilary knight : “The joke was distasteful & unfortunate— Now I have to sit in front of you and explain someone else's behavior. It's not my responsibility… It’s a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats.”

LOL. The farce of it all. The stupidity is endemic.

The Media Bias Wars Are Over The American right's conquering of CBS is the product of generations of bad-faith complaining

Reupping this since CNN has officially joined CBS News as far right propaganda outlets badfaithtimes.com/the-media-bi...

Hillary Clinton speaking at a lectern. PHOTO: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Hillary Clinton: “You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions.

You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files.“

The First Couple of a Dysfunctional DHS A forthcoming book reveals new details about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski.

New: I've obtained portions of a forthcoming book about the dysfunction inside the Department of Homeland Security. It contains damning details about the relationship between Secretary Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski—and how it's warping the agency. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Never forget that the primary tactic of this movement is distraction. They point to medical statements, procedural wins and tangentially related anecdotes because *they have no evidence of their core claim*

If lots of kids were transitioning without assessment they would be talking about that.

It is really enraging to listen to this band of thieves talk about stewardship.

Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learned—and lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."

If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
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BREAKING MS NOW:

@lawofruby reports DOJ directed reviewers to flag FBI interview memos before it produced the latest Epstein files.

That follows MS NOW reporting that DOJ appears to have withheld memos on three interviews with a woman who accused Epstein and Trump of assault.

Pentagon Gives A.I. Company an Ultimatum

It should be a five alarm for all Americans that the Pentagon is going to the mat to force an AI company to let the Defense Department use its powerful technology to surveil Americans. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

Trump is now talking about women being stabbed to death in bathtubs

Whoops

I know it seems pretty hard to believe for some reason, but it looks like the FBI at some point really did want to pursue a criminal child sex trafficking investigation into Donald Trump based on what this woman told them (and may have been able to corroborate to some extent)

This indicates the FBI wanted to pursue a criminal child sex trafficking investigation into Donald Trump based on this woman’s account. She refused to cooperate. When Trump came up an FBI interview, her lawyer demurred, citing her “fear of retaliation”

The Giant Mess Behind the Supreme Court’s Tariffs Ruling The 6–3 decision was a rare victory, but it was crafted out of conflicts that leave almost nothing certain—including future tariff rulings.

Here, I explain the problems with basing the economy on the fictional powers the Supreme Court has given to itself and how the fights between Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh led to the awful JJ Abrams Rise of Skywalker. Kinda.
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President Trump now corruptly threatening “consequences” for Netflix if it doesn’t fire a board member over her political speech, putting a thumb on scale for Ellison-owned Paramount in bidding war for Warner Bros. (CNN’s owner) www.mediamatters.org/cnn/paramoun...