Chris Geidner
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- BREAKING: The Supreme Court will not stop the use of California's new congressional maps in this year's midterm elections. The court rejected California Republicans' effort to stop the use of the new maps. There were no noted dissents and no opinion.
- He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.
- I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
- True mad king shit tonight. The after-midnight post is like someone fed him after midnight and he turned into a crazed gremlin.
- BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
- BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.
- And the R is an “anti-DEI, anti-trans” schools freak leader! This is a DISASTER for them.
- Fuck this! RIP, legend. www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...
- Trusting Josh's reporting, I'll take this on its terms. What could it mean? DOJ Civil Rights Division has been demolished under Harmeet Dhillon, but she did start a “Second Amendment Section,” so I am wondering if they are investigating whether agents violated Pretti's Second Amendment rights.