Tracy Kneisler

Can presidents attack countries whenever they want? Ben Sheehan explains the War Powers Resolution

Even Against Tyranny, America Must Not Lose Its Way Confronting Iran’s Brutality Without Abandoning Our Principles

War demands law, strategy, and honesty. We’ve been given none of the three.

I wrote about what that means for America — and what comes next.

Congress and the courts are refusing to give Trump what he wants, so he’s concocting a new plan to seize control of the election. Here’s what you need to know: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well. My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms

in honor of a certain surgeon general nominee’s hearing today, here is the story of (among other things) the time I tried to take her advice about milk www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Best and Worst of USA Hockey’s Brotherhood, All at Once For just a few hours, Americans were able to enjoy double hockey gold. Then politics came crashing through the men’s locker room door.

This by @katiebakes.bsky.social really sums up all the feelings I had when the short lived unifying moment of glory went to hell on Sunday.

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Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

Let's go Canada!

But who would tell us about the men?!?! Ugh.

U-KNIGHT-ED STATES 🇺🇸

@pwhltorrent.bsky.social and Team USA captain Hilary Knight breaks the US women's hockey record for most career goals (15) AND points (33) in her last Olympic game!

I was thinking we were going to make it the whole broadcast! But nope

Stop calling them MEN. Is "too many women on the ice" really that hard?!?!

Bummer that NBC didn't show a replay. It would have been fun to see from different angles and slo-mo.

The goods trade deficit in 2025: highest in history. 🇺🇸

(via @horp.bsky.social)

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

At this point, I'd settle for learning almost anything else about anyone. Is the fact that she's a mom really the most important thing to tell us, many times every game, game after game?

And if they insist on showing us everyone's partners and kids, maybe mention Emerance Maschmeyer's wife and kid once in the dozens of mentions of Coyne's husband and kid.

Speaking of the NFL, I saw more of Myles Garrett at the snowboard pipe than Chloe Kim.

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity.

And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.

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I feel bad for Breezy. LV's crash took all the coverage today so Breezy winning the first US gold became background noise. (I also feel back for LV, don't get me wrong.)

We all saw the fellas grindin right? That may be a first for the super bowl.

Got it in the Denver market. I was trying to black it out from my memory.

French Response French Response @Fr... • 26/01/2026 Confusing how much each country spends on its own military with its contribution to NATO's common funding = confusing how much you spend on your sports equipment, shoes, and coaching with your annual gym membership fee. The U.S. pays about 16% of NATO budget = equal to the largest EU contributor (Germany). X NATO Common-Funded Budget Cost Share by Ally (2025) Germany United Kingdom France taly Spain Turkiye Netherlands Canada Poland Norway Sweden Belgium Denmark Romania Czechia Portugal Greece Finland tungary Slovakia Bulgaria Lithuania Slovenia Croatia Latvia Luxembourg 1 Estonia - North Macedonia - keland Albania - Montenegro - + 10 Share of NATO common-funded budgets (%) 12 Investment Programme (NSIP), "Cost share at 32", valid from 7 March 2024 to 31

The French once again taking no bullshit.

UNC Blue background posted after the last second shot beat Dook

GDTBATH

THIS RIVALRY DOES NOT DISAPPOINT ‼️

SETH TRIMBLE GAME-WINNER FOR NORTH CAROLINA 🔥

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

As Tom Homan moves in to clean up the optics of Minneapolis by "sending home 700 federal immigration and border patrol agents in Minneapolis," remember that nothing will change with the scheme that ICE uses and that they are just going to get smarter about the public finding out.

WATCH THIS:

FILED January 31, 2026 CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS Jaemie Herndon DEPUTY ADRIAN CONEJO ARIAS, and L.C.R., a Minor Child by and through His Parent and Guardian Adrian Conejo Arias, Petitioners, VS. KRISTI NOEM, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security; PAMELA BONDI, in Her Official Capacity as Attorney General of the United States; TODD LYONS, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; DAREN MARGOLIN, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review; and JOHN DOE, in His Official Capacity as the Warden of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, Respondents. CIVIL CASE NO. SA-26-CV-415-FB § OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT

Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer. Accordingly, the Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED pursuant to the attached Judgment. Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February [sic], 2026. Fred Biery FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35

BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.

"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."

"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."

We like charts @jvl.bsky.social

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