Alan Zweibel

For six months, dozens of judges appointed by Donald Trump have rebuffed — and sometimes pointedly rebuked — his administration’s effort to lock up thousands of immigrants under a novel reinterpretation of decades-old deportation laws. This mass detention strategy, implemented by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has met an overwhelming rejection by federal judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan. A POLITICO review finds that 373 have rejected the administration’s effort to require detention — without the possibility of bond — for anyone who crossed illegally into the United States, even if they’ve lived in the country for decades without incident. That contrasts with just 28 judges who have sided with the administration’s view. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/donald-trump-judges-mandatory-detention-rulings-00778256

Because it's only or predominantly illegal aliens who sell drugs at the retail level?

Well, while the numbers in 2024 still look far better than those in 2025, 2024 was also revised down to about $1.5 million.

Revised data show the U.S. economy generated far fewer jobs in 2024 and 2025 than was initially estimated The government has dramatically lowered its estimates for how many jobs the economy generated over the past two years. The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday said that the U.S. added just 1.5 million jobs in 2024, well below the previously estimated 2 million. In 2025, it said the labor market added only 181,000 jobs, versus the previously estimated 584,000. Two separate revisions are mainly at play. https://archive.ph/GLcsK https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/job-growth-last-year-was-far-worse-than-we-thought-heres-why-4308db41?mod=hp_major_pos1

Actually, that explanation never made any sense. 10 days for drones? It turns out it was a jurisdictional dispute between the FAA and the Defense Department.

All you have is empty insults unbacked by reasoning or evidence.

Deflecting much? Compare Melania Trump's transgression in which she deprived law abiding workers in the United States of over $20,000 to this woman who wrote a total of about $75 in bad checks over a decade ago and found herself in ICE detention for 143 days. She has lived in the USA for almost 50 years. The Trump administration is on a warpath to meet its deportation numbers. Except when it comes to certain privileged parties. https://archive.ph/Ltqab

Given the number of redactions and the disagreement with your statement from those who have seen unredacted versions, there is no way either that you can prove you're right. So what is your point?

Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans A spokesman for USCIS, Matthew Tragesser, said the agency reviews cases of naturalized citizens when there is credible evidence that citizenship was obtained through fraud or misrepresentation... “We maintain a zero-tolerance policy towards fraud in the naturalization process and will pursue denaturalization proceedings for any individual who lied or misrepresented themselves,” he said. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-working-expand-effort-strip-citizenship-foreign-b-rcna255427 Melania Trump modeled in U.S. prior to getting work visa WASHINGTON — Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago provided to The Associated Press. The details of Mrs. Trump's early paid modeling work in the U.S. emerged in the final days of a bitter presidential campaign in which her husband, Donald Trump, has taken a hard line on immigration laws and those who violate them. Trump has proposed broader use of the government's E-verify system allowing employers to check whether job applicants are authorized to work. He has noted that federal law prohibits illegally paying immigrants... The documents obtained by the AP show she was paid for 10 modeling assignments between Sept. 10 and Oct. 15, during a time when her visa allowed her generally to be in the U.S. and look for work but not perform paid work in the country. The documents examined by the AP indicate that the modeling assignments would have been outside the bounds of her visa. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/melania-trump-modeled-u-s-prior-getting-work-visa Did she disclose to USCIS that she had worked for pay prior to obtaining her green card? Did she work after her immigration interview but before obtaining her green card?

Said the person who just posted after my previous comment. Thanks for the irony. But I got news for you: trying to have your cake and eat it too never works out.

So, you can't come up with evidence And when I come up with a non-Trump comment I posted an hour ago, you try to make it about the NY Times instead of honestly acknowledging that you got it wrong. You've got less than nothing.

definition of diatribe: 1 : a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing Find me one that I wrote. And if you're looking for something recent from me other than a comment about Trump, here's something from about an hour ago:

Thanks for the softball: Trump blasts TruthSocial with 160+ late night posts: What did he rant about? https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/trump-blasts-truthsocial-with-160-late-night-posts-what-did-he-rant-about/4064608/ Trump goes wild in unhinged middle-of-the-night posting spree over Greenland https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-goes-wild-in-unhinged-middle-of-the-night-posting-spree-over-greenland/ar-AA1UyXIY Trump Had A Meltdown Overnight On Truth Social And Pushed Some Truly Unhinged Conspiracies https://www.buzzfeed.com/benblanchet/trump-truth-social-meltdown-michelle-obama-biden-autopen Trump, 79, Battles Jet Lag With Late Night Rage-Post Spree Yahoo NewsTrump, 79, Battles Jet Lag With Late Night Rage-Post SpreeInternational travel has not curbed Donald Trump’s habit of late-night rage posts on Truth Social. During his state visit to the U.K., the president’s nocturnal social media spree included a rant invo Trump, 79, Rants About Jailing Dems in Late-Night Rage Post The president took aim at old nemeses while on an unhinged social media spree. https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-rants-about-jailing-dems-in-late-night-rage-post/

Do I really have to explain to you that according to your postulates, Trump is being consumed by hatred?

Donald Trump: "I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them" https://www.livenowfox.com/news/donald-trumps-full-speech-charlie-kirks-funeral#:~:text=I%20hate%20my%20opponent%20and%20I%20don%27t%20want%20the%20best%20for%20them

And, apparently, you get to decide which hate is irrational and which is not.

Can you explain to me how an election in which Trump didn't even get 50% of the popular vote is a landslide? If you want to know what a lreal andslide looks like, study the electoral victories of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Ronald Reagan in 1984, and Barack Obama in 2008.

Weapons Used to Fight Drones Don’t Mix Well With Civilian Airspace The military has made fast progress in recent years building an arsenal of guns, missiles, lasers, jammers and even high-powered microwaves that can shoot down drones. But it has made much less progress figuring out the rules and procedures needed to use those technologies safely in a crowded civilian airspace. That disconnect caused the sudden, unexpected shutdown of the airspace over El Paso on Tuesday night. https://archive.ph/8LgZT#selection-655.0-659.101

It's interesting to note that Alex Acosta, who was the U.S. attorney who decided not to prosecute Epstein after Florida negotiated an original extraordinary sweetheart deal for Trump, was the Secretary of Labor for 2 years during Trump's first term. "Still, the congressional committee's investigators are expected to press Acosta on a number of fronts, particularly on his decision to enter into plea negotiations in the summer of 2007, while a 60-count draft federal indictment against Epstein was gathering dust in the office of the lead prosecutor on the case. The negotiations and resulting plea deal also occurred, according to the OPR report, while the FBI and Acosta's prosecutors were still investigating the case and identifying new victims in other jurisdictions. The deal was also signed before the FBI or prosecutors had made any concerted effort to try to gain the cooperation of Epstein's alleged co-conspirators, according to the report." https://abcnews.com/Politics/alex-acosta-former-us-attorney-negotiated-epsteins-plea/story?id=125731737

They would also know that there's a much higher bar for public figures. Of course, if that public figure is a notoriously litigious President with virtually unlimited funds, that does change the calculations

Well, it looks like there was nothing to begin with and that, in fact, the basis of this was a jurisdictional conflict between the Department of Defense and the FAA about testing of weapons. Which would explain why the FAA declared a 10 day pause. That's one way of getting everyone's attention.

The thing is, natural gas is very expensive in Australia, so when there is a lull in renewable, rates shoot up. But as the article points out SA's battery backup power plants are now displacing natural gas. As for IPA. They are a rightwing group that among other things basically denies human-caused climate change is a thing. And more pertinently, they don't take battery backup into account at all when it comes to dispatchable power. Not exactly honest, are they?

I guess you're going to keep on trying to promote the falsehood that Trump blew the whistle. Epstein had already been arrested when Trump spoke to the police chief. And given that he later denied he knew anything about Epstein's nefarious activities. He also later wished Ghislaine Maxwell well, refused to rule out pardoning her, and had this sex offender transferred to a low security level prison even though the police chief said Trump called her an "advocate" for Epstein and "evil". Why so protective of her?

This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes going negative South Australia generated 84 per cent of its electricity from solar and wind energy in the final quarter of 2025, the highest proportion of any major grid in the world. The state plans to reach 100 per cent by the end of next year... As a result, the state had the lowest price in Australia, along with Victoria, which has the second highest share of wind and solar energy in the nation. https://archive.ph/x47Lx#selection-855.0-863.304

Military’s Use of Anti-Drone Technology Said to Cause El Paso Airspace Closure Federal Aviation Administration officials were forced to close El Paso’s airspace late Tuesday after the Defense Department decided to use new anti-drone technology without giving aviation officials ample time to assess the risks to commercial airlines, according to four people briefed on the situation. Those accounts, offered on the condition of anonymity because the officials were not authorized to comment publicly, challenge the official explanation from the Trump administration. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, along with representatives for the White House and the Pentagon, insisted on Wednesday that a sudden incursion of drones from Mexican drug cartels had necessitated a military response, which prompted the F.A.A. to close the airspace... According to the people briefed on the situation, El Paso’s airspace was shut down when the Defense Department, operating out of Fort Bliss, a nearby Army base, decided to mobilize that new technology over the F.A.A.’s objections. https://archive.ph/3E1OO