"Do Not Obey In Advance" and "Don't give into the Lies"

Today in Politics, Bulletin 300. 2/3/26 … FOX9 (MN) reported that a DOJ attorney melted down in federal court while trying to defend the Trump admin’s conduct: “SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, ‘The system sucks, this j...

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I'm so glad Rep Casten is in Congress.

Please read this and call your congresspersons every day. Call, email, write letters to them and go to their offices if you can. Inform your friends.

Moulton: This is state-sponsored terror. This is what you would expect to see in North Korea or Iran or the old Soviet Union. We’ve got to crack down on the government before they crack down on the American people.

Jordan Klepper crashed the "Melania" premiere to ask attendees what they liked best about the bribe, er, film

Donald Trump and his administration don't believe in science — that doesn't mean Americans have to suffer because of it.

ICYMI: Illinois has joined @who.int's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network to ensure we're prepared no matter who the President is.

Minneapolis strong.

RFK Jr is a predator.

Federal Goon Slams woman onto Concrete.
Ventura, California

Just sayin’.

Trump accused of ‘corruption, plain and simple’ after UAE invested in family firm White House says president is not involved in running his businesses. Ethics experts remain concerned

Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars.

And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption
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"Even assuming, consistent with the approach taken by certain other circuits, that depositions of high-ranking government officials should be restricted absent extraordinary circumstances regardless of whether they seek testimony on mental processes, the Court still finds that the protective order is not warranted . At the outset, it is at best unclear whether Musk, Marocco, and Lewin are properly deemed to be high -ranking government officials for purposes of this doctrine. Notably, in cases in which courts have barred depositions of cabinet secretaries, depositions of senior , Senate-confirmed subcabinet officials have been permitted to proceed. ...Here, USAID was not a cabinet -level agency, none of the designated officials were the head of that agency, and several were operating in an informal or acting role at the time of the relevant events."

NEWS

Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.

Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."

Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz

A train announcement board thing with the headline “What I lack in physical strength, I make up for in public hair”

We got one of these things for the office and every time the newest headline alarms me anew.

When a whistleblower’s lawyer gives you a deadline and cites the statute, that is not posturing. That is the last stop before Congress. And they just pulled the trigger.

Jingle dress dancers held healing ceremonies on Feb. 1 in south Minneapolis at the locations where Renee Good and Alex Pretti were fatally shot by federal immigration agents in January. Both Good and Pretti were shot and killed while observing immigration enforcement action.

Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"

Yes

a Republican witness in the GOP's "Somali Scammers" hearing details how he drives by childcare centers and looks at how many footprints in the snow there are to determine how many kids are there. Psycho stuff.

What a creep.

Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.

We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.

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one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

Joe Rogan isn't an independent thinker. Can't speak for Schulz. Do these fools have children?

If you're looking for fraud, please check out 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC. It's right under your nose.

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Coming up at 4 ET on Uncovered, the powerful ICE crimes hearing, Trump tampering with midterms, Texas senate race, Melania movie reality check, Trump attacks Kaitlan, Pirro causes more problems for GOP, Kennedy Center, Trump suing taxpayers, & lots more! www.youtube.com/live/IY6MGJy...

Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.

Diana Moreno stands smiling with a her hand on her heart while Mayor Zohran Mamdani stands smiling with a mic in his hand in front of her.

In a few short months, @DianaforQueens built an incredible coalition and ran a movement campaign that earned nearly 75% of the vote last night.

I'm grateful that she will serve out my term in the Assembly, and hopefully many to come. Astoria is in good hands.

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January 6 was the worst day of my life. But the threat of Donald Trump didn’t end when the mob left the Capitol.

That’s why I’m running for Congress: to defend this country, with the full constitutional authority of Congress.

I’m Harry Dunn. And I’m ready to finish the job.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

Judge seems skeptical of legal justification for Pentagon's punishment of Sen. Mark Kelly A federal judge says he knows of no U.S. Supreme Court precedent to justify the Pentagon’s censuring of a sitting U.S. senator who joined a videotaped plea for troops to resist unlawful orders from th...

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MY SENATOR MARK KELLY WENT TO COURT TODAY

Judge Richard Leon, Bush appointed
Stated "You're making me do something the Supreme Court has never done
"ISN'T THAT A BIT OF A STRETCH?"

Judge hopes to rule by next Wednesday
WE STAND WITH SENATOR MARK KELLY
FREE SPEECH