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the pattern we saw today was also how it went during Covid and the Liberation Day crashes. The market crashes, Trump says exactly what the market wants to hear and the market rallies back, it's then revealed that what Trump was saying is bullshit, but the market stays up instead of crashing

Absolutely BEGGING news organizations to not accept the framing of "we accept them, they just have to be their assigned sex at birth for all purposes" as a win for trans people.

Gov. Evers’ letter to Wisconsin’s congressional delegation

Gov. Evers’ letter to Wisconsin’s congressional delegation

If Congress fails to act, virtually all hemp products will be banned by November. Consumable hemp has a $700 million economic impact in Wisconsin—this could put jobs at risk.

I'm urging federal leaders to fix this problem and protect our farmers and producers. Read my letter ⬇️

If human rights are limited to certain groups, they are not really human rights, are they?

"Congratulations on sexually harassing your staff member into setting herself on fire!"

Trump’s War on the Constitution It’s a cliche and more or less true that the constitution’s “high...

Trump’s War on the Constitution talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

This has nothing to do with fraud.

The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorney’s Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster.

www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/u...

ICE has long been an overmilitarized agency, including under previous presidents. But under Trump it's unshackling itself with warrantless arrests, expanded surveillance and massive new prison camps.

This is the post 9/11 madness supercharged and turned inward. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2069...

What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

Sunrise on Lake Michigan

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characte…

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/doge-bros-grant-review-process-was-literally-just-asking-chatgpt-is-this-dei/

You’ll be seeing a lot about this memo today. I published it first (and got the story right) b/c I’ve been covering this case in depth at Law Dork — even filing a motion last week to intervene and improve public access. I knew this was an important case; my work shows it. Subscribe: www.lawdork.com

The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet For the last five years, we had to endure an endless, breathless parade of hyperbole regarding the so-called “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, repeatedly and at high volume…

The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/18/the-most-massive-attack-on-free-speech-is-happening-right-now-and-the-twitter-files-crew-is-mighty-quiet/

seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain

“Free” Surveillance Tech Still Comes at a High and Dangerous Cost Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance equipment that bypasses local oversight. The

From Flock cameras to fusion centers, “free” surveillance equipment funded by tech vendors, federal grants, and private donors locks cities into recurring costs and long-term data‑sharing, including with ICE. The end result is an erosion of our civil liberties. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens.

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Among the cases are that of a man described by law enforcement as having ties to a known drug trafficking organization. Investigators in a criminal complaint said they identified him as a suspect after intercepting a package addressed to his apartment that contained 9.1 pounds of cocaine in September 2025. An assistant U.S. Attorney asked to toss the case in a brief motion filed Jan. 23, saying in a one-sentence memo that a dismissal is “in the interests of justice,” pursuant to federal law. The U.S. Attorney’s Office also asked to dismiss the case against another man whom federal agents accused of having a kilogram of meth and more than 200 grams of fentanyl in his Minneapolis apartment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office cited the same reasoning in its request.

Pam Bondi is now freeing accused drug dealers bc her demand that AUSAs do unethical things got all the prosecutors to quit.

www.startribune.com/case-dismiss...

This is so embarrassing. 🤡

@cbsnews.com #ElPaso
www.cbsnews.com/news/airspac...

The defining sound of these Olympics is definitely the whine of drone rotors. Getting some amazing shots, but must be really intrusive

ICE's Masks Are All a Lie Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record.

And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.

The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Andy McCarthy — conservative lawyer, Fox News legal analyst, National Review contributor… acknowledges the $500 MILLION UAE-crypto bribe right before Trump took office is far worse than anything even alleged about Biden.
www.nationalreview.com/2026/02/the-...

DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet. For years, we’ve been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration’s supposed “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, over…

DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/05/dhs-is-hunting-down-trump-critics-the-free-speech-warriors-are-mighty-quiet/

The Trump DOJ Has Utterly Collapsed and It Ain’t Pretty The Destruction: DOJ Edition One of the intended consequences of President Trump’s...

One of the intended consequences of President Trump’s politicization of the Justice Department is to leave behind a weakened, overwhelmed, decimated organization that simply can’t do its job. This is all coming home to roost in a very visible way in Minnesota: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Regarding the UAE bribing Trump to secure a deal for AI chips that our intelligence worried might flow to China:

patterico.com/2026/02/03/y...

Guns for me, but not for thee How the Rittenhouse Rules changed the Second Amendment.

New in PN: Guns for me, but not for thee

"The larger lesson of Pretti’s murder is that when it comes to guns and gun rights, most defenders of Trump’s proto-fascist police state clearly believe the Second Amendment exists to protect conservatives but bind liberals."

California's Evidence Bank For ICE Crimes A model for the next Minneapolis, from Attorney General Rob Bonta.

every free state should do this

California's Evidence Bank For ICE Crimes
open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

Short-eared owl posing on the roadside in northeast Wisconsin
#birdoftheday
#EyeContact