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At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

The Road to Prairieland The crackdown on anti-ICE activists in Texas reflects a pattern of intensifying repression all around the country.

Pay attention to the Prairieland case.

By saddling the defendants with indiscriminate charges, holding them without bail, and isolating them from lawyers and the public, prosecutors are attempting to terrorize them into signing guilty pleas in order to set a precedent criminalizing dissent itself.

Quick note: I'm moving this weekend, so today and tomorrow are cleaning and Saturday I'm traveling with heavy shit. Might be offline for a while.

thousands marching through little earth in minneapolis right now to say no more missing and murdered indigenous relatives

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney.

If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

it is too soon to say the minneapolis protests have been successful but their *successes* have definitely been downstream of the fact that its a bunch of regular people out in the street getting tear gasses and not the black bloc professional protestor guys

In today’s essay, Melinda Cooper reads the Epstein archive as a key to the governing logics of the contemporary far right. From transhumanism pseudoscience to wealth concentration, we gain a pinture of how big tech and Trumpism imagine the world as extension of the rule of master and servant economy

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

"Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order." @melindacooper.bsky.social at Equator www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Today, we remember the 17 innocent lives that were stolen in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

My heart is with the Parkland community and all those who have been impacted by the senseless gun violence that is plaguing our nation.

Incredible

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Steven Pinker ® @sapinker • Follow I have no relationship with Epstein & have taken no funding from him. Our circles have occasionally overlapped: In 02, my lit agent invited me to join a group of east-coast TED speakers Epstein flew to CA. In 14, Krauss seated me next to him at a lunch, & someone snapped a photo. 11:09 PM • Jul 10, 2019 from Provincetown, N C

Pinker, Steven <Pinker, Steven> to Lesley Groff Mar 28, 2012 5:47 PM star_border Dear Unfortunately I'm out of town that day, but if Jeffrey is around on Monday the 16th, I'll be back and would be delighted to meet with him. Best, Steve

Okay then

candy heart reading "UNION"

How about we put U and I in a union?

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

The Law Dork home page right now Exclusive: DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that stated it would n... New documents filed in a key refugee case in Minnesota shed light on a broad, aggressive plan to review all refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration. The D.C. District Court strikes back Three judges issued three rulings protecting constitutional rights in cases relating to Trump admin actions against federal inmates, Alien Enemies Act… Feb 12 • Chris Geidner Opening up the Trump admin's attack on Minnesota refugees to greater public scrutiny On Tuesday, Law Dork, with Public Justice, filed a motion to improve access to a key court case challenging ICE's new effort to detain thousands of… Feb 11 • Chris Geidner DHS's investigation of a man who emailed a DHS lawyer is over — but not the concerns it raises After 99 days, DHS retracted an administrative subpoena targeting a man following his exercise of his First Amendment rights — but never explained why… Feb 10 • Chris Geidner Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions On Friday night, Judges Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan split with more than 150 judges who have ruled against the Trump admin's unilateral, harsh… Feb 8 • Chris Geidner 150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere. Feb 5 • Chris Geidner The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that… Feb 4 • Chris Geidner

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"They had Marimar Martinez on a dangerous activists list before they shot her" and "NIH is out of the business of pandemic preparation" and "they taunted the hungry children at Dilley with Thanksgiving food for the jailers" and "a lot of those empty PDFs are abuse videos" was all today

FTC Applauds Law Dork's Motion Seeking to Increase Public Access to Case Filings in Minnesota FEBRUARY 13, 2026

More people should be applauding Law Dork, I always say.

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Hi attorneys! Want to not be able to get to sleep tonight? Here's Judge Rakoff (probably the single most well-respected judge in SDNY) saying that the use of AI destroys both attorney-client privilege and work-product privilege.

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

I'm grateful to Barrett Brown and the Paris Review for clearing my good name after the hit piece the New Republic ran on me:

If more people studied history, they'd know that the things present-day rightwing arseholes say about women are just the things the Nazis said about women, which are just the things that a bunch of 18th-century pricks said about women, as soon as modernity started to give them opportunities.

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If you liked FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996) and fancy something similar, where a crime drama/thriller suddenly left turns into Horror when the gang find the wrong place to hide, here's a list! #HorrorMovies #FilmSky

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Side note: my little brother got his caught in time (I believe, haven’t heard any other updates that suggest otherwise at this time.)

Get them colons checked. It’s a nice nap and while the prep is infamously shitty, you can play Animal Crossing on a toilet.

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

funny to see this clip of an anonymous chud who needs white supremacy to feel like his life has meaning just after attending an event honoring a brilliant black scholar for her brilliant book

House passes Save America Act, Trump-backed bill to impose new voting rules Bill that requires proof of citizenship and would limit mail-in voting passes 218-213 but faces uphill battle in Senate

Yesterday, the House passed the GOP’s new voter suppression legislation modeled on the SAVE Act.

Let’s be clear: This series of bills (which would end registration by mail and add new ID requirements that could prevent millions of eligible voters from registering) is unlikely to pass the Senate.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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