bmaz
@bmaz.bsky.social
Criminal defense, civil rights, and occasionally civil, trial lawyer. Former Emptywheel legal writer, husband, father and generally cranky observateur. Lifetime F1 fan.
There is mental sickness running the Administration. Next to Donald Trump,
NEW: SSA has been told to tell ICE the "date and time" when certain people have appointments, likely subjecting those people to ICE enforcement actions when they come in. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, & @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...
Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE
The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM
There is mental sickness running the Administration. Next to Donald Trump,
Next to Donald Trump, Stephen A. Smith is one of the most loud mouthed ignorant jackholes in the US. So he is making noise about running for President.
Jeebus this country is screwed up. nypost.com/2026/02/13/s...
Jeebus this country is screwed up. nypost.com/2026/02/13/s...
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith ‘giving strong consideration’ to 2028 presidential run
Already a national name in the sports world, ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith is close to becoming known nationwide — and possibly worldwide. In a 1-on-1 interview with Robert Costa, a national co…
nypost.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Next to Donald Trump, Stephen A. Smith is one of the most loud mouthed ignorant jackholes in the US. So he is making noise about running for President.
Jeebus this country is screwed up. nypost.com/2026/02/13/s...
Jeebus this country is screwed up. nypost.com/2026/02/13/s...
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Okay, I’m gonna need @bmaz.bsky.social, @petetoemmes.bsky.social and @larosalind.bsky.social to comment here. One of these just drove by as I was picking up the mail so I had to look it up to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating.
www.motortrend.com/news/smyth-p...
www.motortrend.com/news/smyth-p...
Volkswagen New Beetle Lives On as a Cute Ute Pickup
While you can’t buy a VW pickup here in the U.S., Smyth Performance will sell you a reasonably priced kit so you can make one for yourself.
www.motortrend.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Okay, I’m gonna need @bmaz.bsky.social, @petetoemmes.bsky.social and @larosalind.bsky.social to comment here. One of these just drove by as I was picking up the mail so I had to look it up to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating.
www.motortrend.com/news/smyth-p...
www.motortrend.com/news/smyth-p...
Great piece on the frustration, and media insanity, on the Guthrie case. Via @goodyk.bsky.social
I wrote about the frustration of waiting for something to happen in the Nancy Guthrie case.
www.azcentral.com/story/entert...
www.azcentral.com/story/entert...
We're desperate for Nancy Guthrie news. But at what cost? | Opinion
The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, is a constant alert, yet slow-moving story. Why it's making us crazy.
www.azcentral.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Great piece on the frustration, and media insanity, on the Guthrie case. Via @goodyk.bsky.social
Hmmm, seems like a pattern with DHS agents that murder innocent people in the street:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
interc.pt
February 13, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Hmmm, seems like a pattern with DHS agents that murder innocent people in the street:
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Well, I’m reassured that components of DHS should be blazing away at the sky with anti-drone lasers.
Q: Can you confirm that CBP actually hit a party balloon it thought was a drone with a laser? And why wasn't that coordinated with the FAA?
KRISTI NOEM: You know, this was a joint agency task force, um, mission that was undertaken. And um, we're continuing to work on communication
*ends presser*
KRISTI NOEM: You know, this was a joint agency task force, um, mission that was undertaken. And um, we're continuing to work on communication
*ends presser*
February 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Well, I’m reassured that components of DHS should be blazing away at the sky with anti-drone lasers.
Oh come on, because investors bought a property for sale in New Mexico, that Epstein once owned, it is now a huge news story? It is all getting insane and bizarre.
Proud of Clara’s reporting here. And the support from the rest of our politics team that spent nights covering hearings at the Roundhouse so she’d have time to dig into this during a busy legislative session.
NEW: The family of Texas businessman and political candidate Donald Huffines have been identified as the owners of Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in southern Santa Fe County, which was purchased in 2023 by a limited liability company. sfnm.co/4aB9Rpj
February 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Oh come on, because investors bought a property for sale in New Mexico, that Epstein once owned, it is now a huge news story? It is all getting insane and bizarre.
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A recent federal appeals court ruling that the Trump administration can indefinitely detain anyone who enters the U.S. illegally means Minnesota immigrants sent to Texas may have little chance of returning
Court ruling means Minnesota immigrants sent to Texas may have little chance of returning
Judges say Trump administration can indefinitely detain anyone who enters the U.S. illegally, a ruling that could affect thousands sent to Texas detention facilities.
www.startribune.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
A recent federal appeals court ruling that the Trump administration can indefinitely detain anyone who enters the U.S. illegally means Minnesota immigrants sent to Texas may have little chance of returning
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As would all those people who think that we should cut foreign aid to 5% of the federal budget (even before Trump, 5% would have been a huge increase.)
the overwhelming majority of Americans who don't know actual crime trends would like to enter the chat.
February 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM
As would all those people who think that we should cut foreign aid to 5% of the federal budget (even before Trump, 5% would have been a huge increase.)
Hey you stupid fucks at @TMZ, pools need to be cleaned and maintained. Mine was yesterday, it didn't need police escort because it is not a fucking crime scene. You are disgusting.
Nancy Guthrie: Pool Cleaners Show Up at Her House Amid Police Probe www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/p...
Nancy Guthrie: Pool Cleaners Show Up at Her House Amid Police Probe www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/p...
Nancy Guthrie: Pool Cleaners Show Up at Her House Amid Police Probe
Another strange development in the search for Nancy Guthrie ... pool cleaners are hard at work at her Tucson home after her alleged kidnapping.
www.tmz.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Hey you stupid fucks at @TMZ, pools need to be cleaned and maintained. Mine was yesterday, it didn't need police escort because it is not a fucking crime scene. You are disgusting.
Nancy Guthrie: Pool Cleaners Show Up at Her House Amid Police Probe www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/p...
Nancy Guthrie: Pool Cleaners Show Up at Her House Amid Police Probe www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/p...
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Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
February 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
Yes
Isn't the @nytimes being way too credulous, believing the inflation figures produced by the corrupt Trump regime? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/b...
U.S. Inflation Eased at Start of the Year
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Yes
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NEW:
“The point is: Who is going to be able to be the most forceful? Who is going to press every button, pull every lever available to them, take every chance and use the full weight of the constitutional authority granted to a member of Congress?”
FULL STORY:
www.huffpost.com/entry/100-pr...
“The point is: Who is going to be able to be the most forceful? Who is going to press every button, pull every lever available to them, take every chance and use the full weight of the constitutional authority granted to a member of Congress?”
FULL STORY:
www.huffpost.com/entry/100-pr...
‘100% Pro Police’ And Running For Congress To Abolish ICE
After protecting Congress on Jan. 6 and as the Trump administration runs roughshod over democracy, he’s running for Congress — again — because, he told HuffPost, “We’re in regime territory.”
www.huffpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
NEW:
“The point is: Who is going to be able to be the most forceful? Who is going to press every button, pull every lever available to them, take every chance and use the full weight of the constitutional authority granted to a member of Congress?”
FULL STORY:
www.huffpost.com/entry/100-pr...
“The point is: Who is going to be able to be the most forceful? Who is going to press every button, pull every lever available to them, take every chance and use the full weight of the constitutional authority granted to a member of Congress?”
FULL STORY:
www.huffpost.com/entry/100-pr...
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As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding
The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
www.nature.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:45 PM
As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
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I had a chance to interview former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn. We discussed ICE and his plans for the agency, his new bid for Congress and how he is uniquely made to meet the moment America is in.
Read the interview here:
www.huffpost.com/entry/100-pr...
Read the interview here:
www.huffpost.com/entry/100-pr...
‘100% Pro Police’ And Running For Congress To Abolish ICE
After protecting Congress on Jan. 6 and as the Trump administration runs roughshod over democracy, he’s running for Congress — again — because, he told HuffPost, “We’re in regime territory.”
www.huffpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
I had a chance to interview former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn. We discussed ICE and his plans for the agency, his new bid for Congress and how he is uniquely made to meet the moment America is in.
Read the interview here:
www.huffpost.com/entry/100-pr...
Read the interview here:
www.huffpost.com/entry/100-pr...
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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Not who the US is supposed to be:
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Not who the US is supposed to be:
Fair
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
February 13, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Fair
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It's ALWAYS projection. ALWAYS.
February 13, 2026 at 1:08 AM
It's ALWAYS projection. ALWAYS.
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PRECEDENTS: If a protest is made that a House member/member-elect's citizenship doesn't meet the constitutional requirement –
A) S/he can prove it does with just oral evidence – no docs req.
B) And s/he only has to prove it does if the protestant first makes a prima facie case it doesn't.
2/
A) S/he can prove it does with just oral evidence – no docs req.
B) And s/he only has to prove it does if the protestant first makes a prima facie case it doesn't.
2/
![Hinds' Precedents
424. The Indiana election case of Lowry v. White in the Fiftieth Congress.
A Member who had long been a resident of the country, but who could produce neither the record of the court nor his final naturalization paper, was nevertheless retained in his seat by the House.
The House, overruling its committee, admitted parol evidence to prove the naturalization of a Member who could produce neither the record of the court nor his certificate of naturalization.
[snip]
427. The case of Anthony Michalek, continued.
The House authorized its committee to take testimony in a case wherein the qualifications of a Member were impeached.
As to the degree of testimony required to put the burden of proof on a Member whose status as a citizen was impeached.
On Jan 29, 1906, Mr H Olin Young, of Michigan, from the Committee on Elections No. 1, submitted the following report:
The Committee on Elections No. 1, to whom was referred the protest of citizens of the Fifth Congressional district of Illinois, against the right of Hon. Anthony Michalek, elected as a Member of the House of Representatives from that district to the Fifty-ninth Congress, to a seat in the House,
[snip]
SITTING MEMBER NOT CALLED UPON TO ANSWER THE CHARGES.
While the committee, at the request of Mr. Michalek, permitted him to make a brief statement to the committee, yet the committee has not been of the opinion that any prima facie case was made against Mr. Michalek, and hence has been of the opinion that he should not be put to the trouble or expense of proving by witnesses introduced in his behalf his title to citizenship. Your committee is of the opinion that when charges affecting the eligibility of a Member of Congress to his seat are made,
some proof should be offered in their support before putting the sitting Member to the expense and the burden of making a defense.
The committee accordingly reported the following resolution, which was, on March 6, agreed to by the House without division](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mf6x4tcxia23iqiflhqtv2dg/bafkreihxrf7jj2x4f3gzsxa6ljx5zh45q3t44mdykhyan3qcypnshfxngu@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 10:40 PM
PRECEDENTS: If a protest is made that a House member/member-elect's citizenship doesn't meet the constitutional requirement –
A) S/he can prove it does with just oral evidence – no docs req.
B) And s/he only has to prove it does if the protestant first makes a prima facie case it doesn't.
2/
A) S/he can prove it does with just oral evidence – no docs req.
B) And s/he only has to prove it does if the protestant first makes a prima facie case it doesn't.
2/
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It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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Oh noes! White food is being erased!
Better get your egg salads and tuna casseroles and bologna sandwiches now before they vanish forever amid the invidious onslaught of tacos and pho.
Better get your egg salads and tuna casseroles and bologna sandwiches now before they vanish forever amid the invidious onslaught of tacos and pho.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Lol, looks like Richard Leon had some fun writing this in the tone that Hegseth's BS absolutely deserved.
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/k...
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/k...
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now
The order comes days after federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., tried and failed to get a grand jury to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin.
www.cnbc.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Lol, looks like Richard Leon had some fun writing this in the tone that Hegseth's BS absolutely deserved.
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/k...
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/k...