Bernadette Foley
@fivefingers.bsky.social
Retired lawyer - criminal defense, civil commitment in the US, overseas, teaching, Rule of Law work in Russia, Afghanistan and Kosovo. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk chided U.S. Ambassador to Poland Tom Rose after the diplomat said Polish parliamentary Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty would be blacklisted over his opposition to nominating President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
thehill.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk chided U.S. Ambassador to Poland Tom Rose after the diplomat said Polish parliamentary Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty would be blacklisted over his opposition to nominating President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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NEW: According to Punchbowl News, Trump told Schumer he'd remove a block on the Gateway Tunnel funds if Schumer helped name Dulles Airport and Penn Station after him. The Gateway Development Commission has already sued Trump for blocking the funds: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/n...
Trump Administration Sued Over Cutting Off Funds for $16 Billion Tunnel
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
NEW: According to Punchbowl News, Trump told Schumer he'd remove a block on the Gateway Tunnel funds if Schumer helped name Dulles Airport and Penn Station after him. The Gateway Development Commission has already sued Trump for blocking the funds: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/n...
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it's amazing how many people voted to let Trump steal billions of dollars from them bsky.app/profile/atru...
GALLEGO: Let's say Trump wins that lawsuit. Where would that $10 billion come from?
BESSENT: It would come from Treasury
GALLEGO: So, taxpayers?
BESSENT: Yes. Part of the 44,000 whose returns were leaked
GALLEGO: They're not suing
BESSENT: It would come from Treasury
GALLEGO: So, taxpayers?
BESSENT: Yes. Part of the 44,000 whose returns were leaked
GALLEGO: They're not suing
February 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
it's amazing how many people voted to let Trump steal billions of dollars from them bsky.app/profile/atru...
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NEW: A Russian military court recently issued extensive and illegal sentences against nine deported Kherson Oblast residents. (1/9)
Russian Occupation Update, February 5, 2026: isw.pub/OccupationUp...
Russian Occupation Update, February 5, 2026: isw.pub/OccupationUp...
February 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
NEW: A Russian military court recently issued extensive and illegal sentences against nine deported Kherson Oblast residents. (1/9)
Russian Occupation Update, February 5, 2026: isw.pub/OccupationUp...
Russian Occupation Update, February 5, 2026: isw.pub/OccupationUp...
The long arm of the law catches up!
The crimes - 26 years ago.
Sentenced to 12+ years for mass detention and torture.
Beware all those who violate human rights!
balkaninsight.com/2026/02/03/k...
The crimes - 26 years ago.
Sentenced to 12+ years for mass detention and torture.
Beware all those who violate human rights!
balkaninsight.com/2026/02/03/k...
Kosovo Court Sentences Serb Ex-Reservist for War Crimes Against Villagers
First-instance verdict finds Srdjan Lazovic guilty of taking part in the mass detention and torture of hundreds of civilians from a village in the Malisheve/Malisevo area in 1999.
balkaninsight.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The long arm of the law catches up!
The crimes - 26 years ago.
Sentenced to 12+ years for mass detention and torture.
Beware all those who violate human rights!
balkaninsight.com/2026/02/03/k...
The crimes - 26 years ago.
Sentenced to 12+ years for mass detention and torture.
Beware all those who violate human rights!
balkaninsight.com/2026/02/03/k...
Ten-year old girl & Mom, in asylum proceedings, released after one month in ICE detention in Texas. They were complying with procedures in the asylum seeking process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back to Minnesota to reunite with her father
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Ten-year old girl & Mom, in asylum proceedings, released after one month in ICE detention in Texas. They were complying with procedures in the asylum seeking process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
February 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
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Then pass it yourself, Majority Leader.
Thune thinks an eventual deal IS possible but says some of Dem demands are non-starters (banning masks, for one)
Schumer: "If Republicans don't like our proposal, pouting is not enough"
Schumer: "If Republicans don't like our proposal, pouting is not enough"
February 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Then pass it yourself, Majority Leader.
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KENNEDY: If Canada came to the US and said, 'We're going to 0 tariffs on the US, all of them are off,' would you and the president go to 0 tariffs and let Canadian companies and American companies compete on a level playing field?
BESSENT: Absolutely not
BESSENT: Absolutely not
February 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
KENNEDY: If Canada came to the US and said, 'We're going to 0 tariffs on the US, all of them are off,' would you and the president go to 0 tariffs and let Canadian companies and American companies compete on a level playing field?
BESSENT: Absolutely not
BESSENT: Absolutely not
Beyond belief! In every way, this administration betrays our country, our history, our values, our relationships with loyal allies abroad, our environmental safety, our farmers, our workers, our laws. Impeach him! Get the paperwork ready now! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Beyond belief! In every way, this administration betrays our country, our history, our values, our relationships with loyal allies abroad, our environmental safety, our farmers, our workers, our laws. Impeach him! Get the paperwork ready now! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
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I don’t care. Take it up with Bondi.
NEW: The top Trump-appointed proseutor in MN says his office is dropping "pressing priorities" to manage crushing immigration workload.
His short-staffed office is doing constant overtime and bouncing between contempt hearings.
The bleak assessment:
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
His short-staffed office is doing constant overtime and bouncing between contempt hearings.
The bleak assessment:
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 5, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I don’t care. Take it up with Bondi.
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This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
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After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
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My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
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Bernie is right: we shouldn’t have billionaires
New analysis shows that Jeff Bezos could absorb the Washington Post's annual losses for 5 years with the amount he makes in a single week.
His net worth has increased by $224 billion since buying the paper.
His net worth has increased by $224 billion since buying the paper.
February 4, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Bernie is right: we shouldn’t have billionaires
Putin’s surname appears in more than 1000 documents from the latest batch of Epstein files. Some "files include a 2017 FBI report quoting a source who alleged that Epstein had been involved in managing Putin’s shadow assets." Was speculation that Epstein was Russian asset. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Who are the Russians named in the latest Epstein files? Vladimir Putin, for one. — Meduza
Last week’s release of roughly three million additional documents from the U.S. Justice Department’s years-long investigation into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has shed new light on the late finan...
meduza.io
February 4, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Putin’s surname appears in more than 1000 documents from the latest batch of Epstein files. Some "files include a 2017 FBI report quoting a source who alleged that Epstein had been involved in managing Putin’s shadow assets." Was speculation that Epstein was Russian asset. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Poland launches investigation. Christopher Steele, former head of MI6’s Russia desk: “very likely” that Epstein was in the pay of Moscow to gather kompromat. Steele suggested that the link could have developed through Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Jeffrey Epstein investigated for being a Russian spy
Polish PM says photographs suggest financier was recruited to supply Moscow with kompromat — as Christopher Steele notes Robert Maxwell connection
www.thetimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Poland launches investigation. Christopher Steele, former head of MI6’s Russia desk: “very likely” that Epstein was in the pay of Moscow to gather kompromat. Steele suggested that the link could have developed through Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
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Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469.
Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.
Hello?
Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.
Hello?
February 3, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469.
Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.
Hello?
Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.
Hello?
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The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.
Look at the photos. The thing I heard often working on the USAID Gaza response from our partners in Gaza was the field of dead bodies - men, women, children - that fanned out around IDF checkpoints in the Netzarim corridor. Shot by IDF soldiers for no reason (unless "for fun" counts as a reason).
U.S. Envoys Refused to Report "Apocalyptic" Conditions in Gaza. Exclusive Photos Show the Reality They Suppressed
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza because it “lacked balance.” These photos from the UN fact finding trip are visual evidence of the conditions.
www.dropsitenews.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.
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Le Monde has revealed that in the summer of 2025 a French criminal court issued indictments against two French-Israeli Jewish citizens for complicity and incitement of genocide due to their repeated attempts to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.
It seems to be the first case in Europe.
It seems to be the first case in Europe.
Gaza: French judges issue arrest warrants for French-Israeli activists over complicity in genocide
Two French-Israeli women living in Israel are facing legal proceedings initiated by French investigating judges following complaints from advocacy groups. They are accused of having obstructed, throug...
www.lemonde.fr
February 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Le Monde has revealed that in the summer of 2025 a French criminal court issued indictments against two French-Israeli Jewish citizens for complicity and incitement of genocide due to their repeated attempts to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.
It seems to be the first case in Europe.
It seems to be the first case in Europe.
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A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
www.nrtoday.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
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Paul Weiss partners had no courage when this guy bent a knee and bowed down to Trump so I assume they won't do anything now. But every one of them with bear the mark of shame. www.law.com/americanlawy...
Responding to Latest Email Release, Paul Weiss Chair Expresses 'Regrets' Over Epstein Interactions | Law.com
Brad Karp and Jeffrey Epstein corresponded about getting Karp's son involved with a Woody Allen film, among other topics, the records show.
www.law.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Paul Weiss partners had no courage when this guy bent a knee and bowed down to Trump so I assume they won't do anything now. But every one of them with bear the mark of shame. www.law.com/americanlawy...
What's going on with Section 702 renewal under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? Supposedly the administration had agreed with some alterations and supported the renewal. Yet, no one from the Administration is present to argue for it. Very suspicious. cyberscoop.com/trump-admini...
Lawmakers wonder when Trump administration will weigh on soon-expired surveillance powers
With Section 702 set to expire in April, senators from both parties question why the Trump administration skipped key hearings and hasn’t stated a position.
cyberscoop.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
What's going on with Section 702 renewal under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? Supposedly the administration had agreed with some alterations and supported the renewal. Yet, no one from the Administration is present to argue for it. Very suspicious. cyberscoop.com/trump-admini...