A federal judge ruled Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff. https://wapo.st/4rfa9sp
Breaking News: The three Alexander brothers were found guilty of engaging in a yearslong sex trafficking conspiracy of women and girls, some of whom were drugged before they were raped or sexually assaulted.
NEW: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) and several Democratic officials have denounced the FBI’s decision to subpoena records related to the 2020 election in Arizona’s Maricopa County, characterizing it as an attempt to undermine trust in elections.
When asked by a judge whether Attorney General Pam Bondi could use private voter data to see every voter’s legal status and utilize it for immigration enforcement, one DOJ attorney admitted:
“Your honor, I can honestly say I do not know the answer to that.”
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Maybe I'm kirking out but the unreality of this war is wild. People posting that thousands of Kurds are fighting the regime for the CIA, while the Kurds say it isn't happening. Every video of a missile attack I just have to assume is AI whether it is real or not.
Safe to say this did not go well for Gonzales
At root this is the most depraved thing about right wing evangelical Christianity: asking god for forgiveness is about meaning it and proving through your actions that you mean it, not “God whispered to me that I’m all good so shut the fuck up about it already lol”
After calling the U.S. State Department hotline with questions about how to get home from Dubai, a Texas resident said that the agent told her to “stop ranting and raving” and hung up. She's one of the thousands of travelers stranded by fighting in the Middle East.
“At the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. “It felt like a betrayal of the utmost.” Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was “no longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. “It drove me to a point of saying, ‘She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.
this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%.
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Breaking News: China’s leaders set the economy’s growth target to below 5% for the first time in more than three decades.
With a 1-0 win over Canada, the USWNT is one game away from winning its eighth SheBelieves Cup title 🇺🇸
AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.
Breaking: Key figure in the Epstein Files, known for his friendship with Epstein, launches a war in a bid to distract from Epstein Files.
“Remember what I said…” Yeah. About that. It’s almost impressive how confidently wrong that prediction aged.
For clarity..
I had to throw a floppy disk away because someone spilled liquid weed all over it.
2026 is weird
NEW: SCOTUS rejects private prison company GEO Group's attempt at avoiding accountability.
A long-delayed lawsuit challenging GEO Group's treatment of people in immigration detention can proceed again. A unanimous decision that matters — especially now.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Hell yes. My dad had dementia so I’ve assumed it was a high probability for me. Had a plan for what I wanted to do if my mind/awareness/consciousness disappeared. But maybe I won’t have to execute it after all!
Another reason to GET YOUR SHINGLES VACCINE
Shingles is bad. Dementia is worse.
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."
I wish the New York Times hated rich pedophiles as much as they hate trans kids.
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
I was part of a round table on how NYT is covering the Epstein files, with new tech and old-school reporting. Our work is far from over:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The discussion, at least in part, concerned issues related to Iran, some of the people said. The full substance of the call, which was intercepted by the National Security Agency, couldn’t be determined. The intercepted conversation was a key catalyst for the highly classified whistleblower complaint filed by a U.S. intelligence official last May that accused Gabbard of limiting the sharing of the conversation within the U.S. intelligence community for political purposes, the people said.
WSJ adds to the Guardian's reporting abt Tulsi whistleblower complaint It pertains at least in part to Iran.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Headline reads: Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will ‘PEOPLE ARE SCARED’
Tsk tsk. Fascism is all fun and games until you're ordered to sit through dictator-spouse propaganda films. 👇🏼
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admits that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from yesterday’s Epstein files release.
WHAT ELSE ARE THEY HIDING???
Director of Melania Movie?!
