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Tucker, Rogan, Boebert—they're all talking about how the Epstein files are the new Pizzagate.
So I pulled every one of the 1,500 "pizza" mentions and reviewed them all.
Here's what Pizzagate gets wrong—and what it's making you miss.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Last year, @julialurie.bsky.social investigated the private adoption industry in Utah, where, depending on whom you ask, the state’s laws were the most “adoption-friendly”—or the most exploitative—in the country.
Now Utah legislators are trying to fix a broken system.
I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
I mean
NEW: I wrote about how the far-right press and usually pro-Trump conspiracy outlets are covering the Iran war, and I have to say, it's a bit more interesting than I anticipated. For once, Alex Jones has found a news event that he thinks is both real and worrying: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
wtf how is this guy on ESPN!?
(previously: here, here, here, and here)
(or just here, if you like)
(or here!)
How taxpayers are *still* getting screwed on Kristi Noem’s big fancy plane. And maybe via related contracts revealed here. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
The mailman is wearing shorts. Spring in Connecticut officially has sprung.
NEW from @schuylermitchell.bsky.social: DHS and the Secret Service want to build a tool for tracking US travelers’ flights and other personal information, according to previously unreported documents
I think the Robertson Scholars program—a full-tuition scholarship at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill in which students switch campuses for a semester during sophomore year—is a cool idea.
I think this is taking it too far lol
Important college animal news: UNC mascot Rameses XXII recently fathered two adorable little lambs www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
Never great when there's a *Hillsdale College* blog spelling this out
Just a thought: Markwayne Mullin should get the Mr. Garvey treatment whenever possible
SCOOP: In a January letter to Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), DHS says 270 DACA recipients have been arrested from January to September 2025. In addition, 174 DACA applicants have been deported, according to ICE records.
Those numbers differ from what was shared with Sen. Dick Durbin in February.
Like a lot of their central Connecticut peers, they both worked at Pratt & Whitney (as did my dad)
![Dariel Gonzalez, the College Republicans’ recruitment chairman at the time, responded in the chat: “How edgy.” “Ew you had colored professors?!” Gonzalez wrote at another point. “I reguse [sic] to be indoctrinated by the coloreds.” He told the group he used the term “colored” because, “I was told we cant say black anymore.” A couple days later, he added: “Avoid the coloreds like the plague.” He did not respond to a request for comment. The group chat members — which included some women — also frequently discussed sex, sometimes describing women as “whores” and at one point using the k-word, a slur for Jewish people, to describe women they avoid.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreiba3tsaelrqqyuqmrs2mxzan2vjomxpvm4gxnzutvyhv23d2qj4wu)
Fun fact, fox news once tried to sic a mob on me because I wrote that being hispanic didn’t mean you couldn’t be a white supremacist, because race is subjective and many hispanics identify as white. Completely unrelated here’s how some Miami Republicans talk in private
Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo
ICE’s plan to convert warehouses to massive detention centers has a formidable new opponent: suburban NIMBYs
ICE wants to turn warehouses into detention centers. The suburbs are fighting back.
@schuylermitchell.bsky.social reports from a weekend protest in New Jersey:
Shelly Willingham and Nasif Majeed, two other Democratic lawmakers who also joined the GOP to help pass conservative priorities (though not the specific ICE bill I'm talking about here), also lost to progressive challengers tonight.
JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."
She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!
Context:
“This is the most transparent Department of Justice in history,” said an unidentified spokeswoman.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Questioned by Durbin, Noem wouldn't retract her false claims that Alex Pretti and Renée Good were domestic terrorists, but didn't repeat the claim and claimed she got that information from "agents on the ground," ie blaming them for the lies.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee Noem repeats the lie that 450,000 children went missing or were lost under Biden. It's been widely pointed out that's false. She's just citing the number of unaccompanied kids who crossed the border from FY '19-'23. But she's saying it under oath.
