Wait, you're not actually a Simpson's character?!?
Wait, you're not actually a Simpson's character?!?
Preordered my audio book version! Canβt wait to listen to JVLβs focus group smackdown!
How dare a legal writer I follow use legalese!
If only he had a department filled with lawyers who knew these things.
Needs a cat filter
Don't get me started on when you have to visit a different Costco and it's the opposite from your normal one...
MEMORANDUM OPINION February 11. , 2026 [Dkt. #2] United States Senator Mark Kelly, a retired naval officer, has been censured by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for voicing certain opinions on military actions and policy. In addition, he has been subjected to proceedings to possibly reduce his retirement rank and pay and threatened with criminal prosecution if he continues to speak out on these issues. Secretary Hegseth relies on the well-established doctrine that military servicemembers enjoy less vigorous First Amendment protections given the fundamental obligation for obedience and discipline in the armed forces. Unfortunately for Secretary Hegseth, no court has ever extended those principles to retired servicemembers, much less a retired servicemember serving in Congress and exercising oversight responsibility over the military. This Court will not be the first to do so! Worse still, Secretary Hegseth contends that this Court is not yet competent to decide the issues in this case. He and his fellow Defendants argue that military personnel
decisions are exempt from judicial review and, in any event, that Senator Kelly should first be required to go through the military appeals process so the military can have the first crack at adjudicating his First Amendment rights. I disagree. This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees. After all, as Bob Constitution demands they receive it! I. Dylan famously said, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."1 To say the least, our retired veterans deserve more respect from their Government, and our Senator Kelly's First Amendment claim is not only justiciable; he is likely to succeed on the merits. He has also shown irreparable harm, and the balance of the equities fall decidedly in his favor. As such, his motion for a preliminary injunction on his First Amendment claim is hereby GRANTED.
ORDER February ~ Civil Case No. 26-81 (RJL) 2026 [Dkt. #2] For the reasons set forth in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiff Mark Kelly's [Dkt. #2] Motion for Preliminary Injunction and Stay under 5 U.S.C. Β§ 705 is GRANTED in part; and it is further ORDERED that Defendants and their agents are preliminarily ENJOINED from implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect to the Secretarial Letter of Censure dated January 5, 2026 and addressed to Plaintiff ("the Letter"); and it is further ORDERED that Defendants and their agents are preliminarily ENJOINED from implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect to the Department of Navy's Notification of Retirement Grade Determination Proceedings dated January 5, 2026 and addressed to Plaintiff ("the Notification"); and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants; Defendants' officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys; and all other persons in active concert with Defendants are preliminarily ENJOINED from: (1) taking any other action in reliance on the findings, determinations, or threats of additional criminal or administrative action contained in the Letter; (2) taking any steps to place the Letter in Plaintiff's file; (3) relying on the Letter, or on the findings or determinations made therein, in any military, agency, or criminal proceeding; ( 4) taking any steps to revisit Plaintiff's grade determination; and (5) adjusting Plaintiff's grade pursuant to the Letter or Notification; and it is further ORDERED that the parties shall file a joint status report within 30 days proposing further proceedings in this case. SO ORDERED. ~ EON United States District Judge
Here's Judge Leon's exclamatory opinion and order blocking Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense from retaliating against retired Navy captain Sen. Mark Kelly for exercising his First Amendment freedoms. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
image from today's hearing
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them
(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
No idea what Bad Bunny is even saying, but this is the biggest fuck you to MAGA ever imaginable
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
βI donβt like to gripeβ -Ken
then what have I been listening to the last 5 years?
My first remarks since being arrested last night.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, βThis is a preschool! Thereβs kids here!β
Itβs -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
Definitely read this as "Winamp" at first.
right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out
Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
So she had a pulse. Thatβs what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasnβt breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
Jesus.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
ICE officers slipping on ice while trying to terrorize communities is the most accurate metaphor imaginable. No balance. No footing. No moral ground. Just cruelty, incompetence, and gravity doing its thing.
No notes
Fire in a crowded theater!
Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."
Minneapolis.
I stand with Senator Mark Kelly.
Itβs 1990, Iβm 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
Itβs 2004, Iβm 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
Itβs 2026, Iβm 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
The landlord bears the burden of proof.
Good luck to the homeowner, tenants have a lot of rights in California.
37 checking in
Youβd think heβd like seagulls, theyβre all white.
an image quilt of epstein documents
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.