Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 2/25

[SVPete]

Don Lemon Sued Over Minnesota Church Protest

https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/24/woman-sues-don-lemon-after-minnesota-church-protest/?adid=social-tw

A woman who claims to have been attending service during the Minnesota church protest covered by Don Lemon last month is now suing Lemon and other protesters, saying she suffered severe emotional distress as a result of the incident.

In court documents, obtained by TMZ, Ann Doucette claims she was attending a worship service at The Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18 ... when she alleges Don and others "unlawfully interfered" with her ability to "freely exercise her religion in a private place of worship."

Whether in criminal or civil or both courts, arrogant self-righteous MSM-folk need consequences for their arrogant criminal and tortious actions.

[SVPete]

Court says the IRS can continue to share immigrants’ taxpayer data with ICE

https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday rejected a request from an immigrant rights group to temporarily block the IRS from sharing certain taxpayer data that could make it easier to identify and deport people who are in the U.S. illegally.

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to issue a preliminary injunction for the immigrants’ rights group, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, and other nonprofits that are suing the federal government over the data-sharing agreement signed last April by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The agreement allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to submit names and addresses of immigrants inside the U.S. illegally to the IRS for cross-verification against tax records.

In declining the preliminary injunction request, Judge Harry T. Edwards wrote that the nonprofit groups “are unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim,” since the information the agencies are sharing isn’t covered by the IRS privacy statute.

[SVPete]

Montgomery County forced to pay religious families $1.5 million after Supreme Court ruling for parents’ rights

https://becketfund.org/media/montgomery-county-forced-to-pay-religious-families-after-scotus-ruling/

WASHINGTON – The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education must pay $1.5 million in damages to Becket’s clients and comply with court-enforced protections for parental rights following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling inMahmoud v. Taylor. The case arose after the School Board took away parental notice and opt-outs for storybooks that promote gender transitioning, Pride parades, and pronoun preferences to children as young as three and four (Watch this podcast episode to learn more). Becket represented a diverse coalition of religious parents including Muslims, Christians, and Jews, who successfully challenged the policy at the Supreme Court.

In the Court’s 6-3 ruling last summer, Justice Alito—writing for the majority—said that “the right of parents ‘to direct the religious upbringing of their’ children would be an empty promise if it did not follow those children into the public school classroom.” He went on to say that the Court “cannot agree” with lower courts that have ruled otherwise for over fifty years.
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Under the settlement and permanent injunction, the Montgomery County Board of Education must provide parents with advance notice when instructional materials addressing family life and human sexuality will be used and allow parents to opt their children out of that instruction. The agreement also requires the Board to pay damages to the families and places the district under ongoing court jurisdiction to ensure compliance.

Cases of public schools violating parents' and students' First Amendment Free Exercise rights are so numerous every year that I no longer believe it is ignorance of the law. Many teachers and admin educrats are actively hostile to religious parents and students. Parents in this school district will need to watch this school board like hungry hawks, because I do not think this is over.

[SVPete]

The Fani Files: Georgia prosecutor plotted Trump case closely with Biden DOJ, J6 Democrats: memos

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/wedfani-files-georgia-prosecutor-coordinated-trump-case-closely

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis coordinated extensively with the Biden Justice Department and White House as well as Democrats on the House Jan. 6 investigative committee as she built a failed criminal case against President Donald Trump and his allies related to their challenge to Georgia's 2020 election results, according to a trove of internal communications obtained by Just the News.

The memos show that President Joe Biden's top White House lawyer personally opened the door for Willis' prosecutors to interview Trump administration officials by waiving claims of executive privilege, that federal prosecutors waived certain rights to allow the interviews to proceed before a state grand jury and that Willis's team spoke glowingly of the congressional efforts to expose Trump's involvement in the disputed election.
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In a reaction to the lawsuit, Willis' office this week dropped all privilege claims and released all the documents without any redactions, providing to Just the News — and the public — more information than it did to congressional Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee.

"These documents reveal that the Biden Administration and the January 6 Committee were much more involved in District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of President Trump than was previously believed. AFL was happy to represent Just the News to get Americans this new information," said Will Scolinos, an attorney at America First Legal.

A cozy relationship, and a big gift from the Biden White House
The documents show a cozy relationship between the Biden administration and Willis' staff, one that included a meeting between her outside special prosecutor Nathan Wade and the Biden White House.

Lawfare coordinated with the LIEden White House.

[SVPete]

Wonders Will Never Cease: Mainstream Outlet Fact Checks Trump's Murder Claim, and Realizes He's Right

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/02/25/wonders-will-never-cease-mainstream-outlet-fact-checks-trumps-murder-claim-and-realizes-hes-right-n2199558

Since Trump’s first term, the mainstream media has loved to fact-check the president and routinely claim things he says are false or misleading. I can barely recall a time when they just flat-out said, “Yeah, that’s true.”

But things have been changing over at CBS News, where founder of The Free Press Bari Weiss took over as editor-in-chief, and she has been demanding accountability and a move away from the obvious leftist bias they had become known for.

Incredibly, they flat-out rated Trump’s assertion at the State of the Union speech Tuesday night that the murder rate decline under his watch was the largest in history as “true”:

"This is the biggest decline, think of it in recorded history, the lowest number in over 125 years." A CBS News fact check has determined that is true.

I'm sure DUpipo will denounce CBS for daring to commit truth.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Biden's FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel's and Susie Wiles' phone records during federal Trump investigation

The FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel and Susie Wiles' phone records in 2022 and 2023, when both were private citizens, as part of a federal probe into then former President Donald Trump, Fox News has confirmed.

Patel is the current FBI director, and Wiles is White House chief of staff.

At least 10 FBI employees were fired Wednesday, Fox News has been told. Names were not given due to privacy reasons.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-subpoenaed-kash-patel-susie-wiles-phone-records-federal-trump-investigation

[SVPete]

A fishing expedition seeking dirt on people working with Trump during the LIEden-coordinated lawfare campaign against Trump. The Dog that Didn't Bark principle means no action was taken against them because no dirt was found.

[SVPete]

Another Joe Biden FBI Scandal

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/another-joe-biden-fbi-scandal.php

The extent to which the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland was weaponized to serve the Democratic Party is a scandal that is still unraveling. The FBI was particularly turned to partisan ends, a scandal for which there has yet been no accounting.

It has most recently come to light that in 2023, the FBI [so]tapped the phones[/so] secretly subpoenaed phone records of both Kash Patel–now, ironically, the Director of the FBI–and Susie Wiles, now the President’s Chief of Staff. This was all, I take it, part of the Democratic Party’s well-organized effort to prevent Donald Trump from being re-elected President in 2024.

That the FBI wiretapped Patel and Wiles is disgraceful, but there is a uniquely improper element to its spying on Wiles. The FBI actually listened in on a conversation between Wiles and her lawyer, reportedly with the lawyer’s consent but without Wiles’s knowledge:

Emphasis in the original.

1. How in Hades is what Wiles's attorney did ethical, and possibly even not illegal?

2. Did LIEden's FBI coerce Wiles's attorney into carrying out what appears to be a gross ethical breach?

BTW, the author of this blogpost, John Hinderaker, practiced law for 41 years, so he has substantial awareness of attorney-client relationship ethics.

[DefiantSix]

...BTW, the author of this blogpost, John Hinderaker, practiced law for 41 years, so he has substantial awareness of attorney-client relationship ethics.

I've never been an attorney - because MY parents were actually married - but in all of my long years on this planet, I've never observed the "ethics" of which you speak in the context of any attorney. I always thought the species just as duplicitous, self serving and dishonest as any other spawn of Satan...