For most people, February 14 is Valentine’s Day. In Parkland, it’s the day everything changed — a date marked by loss, resilience, and a community that refused to break. Eight years later, Parkland still has something to teach America about remembrance and responsibility. I wrote about it here:

The key thing here is that the local rapid response was able to figure out who had been taken, and make sure there was a lawyer working to free her. That makes a world of difference. Call if you see this happening, and join your local one if you're a citizen.

They don’t want us to vote. Because they are NOT the majority.

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

Whenever you read a horrifying list like this about people who are critically ill or died in ICE concentration camps it’s important to remember that these are just the stories that got out because they were lucky enough to have lawyers who could tell their stories.

It’s hard not to get choked up watching this. His story is a barometer of how much the tide is turning in this country. This needs to go viral.

We murdered three more people in a boat today

Students voices are being drowned out by the racist NC government who by the way have not passed a state budget in two years. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

From Tr*mp’s White House to you 💌 Happy Valentine’s Day 💕

We have a super easy letter campaign to save NCAR. Takes 30 seconds to yell at your Congress Critters and you’ll can do it every day! @standupforscience.bsky.social fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/152...

“You look at your son, the glasses you picked out with him, the haircut he chose from the wall at the barber shop, the beating heart you gave him. And you know that you, too, will never recover.” Elizabeth Bruenig maps how a child dies of measles: theatln.tc/9aJn7A7y

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

EXCLUSIVE: Newly uncovered audio reviewed by MeidasTouch captures PA GOP gubernatorial candidate Stacy Garrity claiming anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis were “paid protestors,” saying “they all look the same” and protests are “very well coordinated.”

Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day. Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.

"Governor Maura Healey, a Democrat, [..] has defended and preserved the 287(g) agreement." "[T]hey played a role." "I've lost everything. I'm old. I don't want to be hiding anything. So I speak up. If I die, I die." #Massachusetts #USA #Incarceration #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Your data will be used against you. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

"[The previous owner] said a non-disclosure agreement prevents him from disclosing the purchase price, when it was sold, and to which federal agency it was sold." Why does a government agency get to keep this info from the public? www.crainsdetroit.com/real-estate/...

AOC to offer a 'working class' perspective on U.S. foreign policy at Munich summit www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

House Democrats plot barrage of anti-tariff votes after stunning GOP failure www.axios.com/2026/02/11/t...

The Trump Administration appears to be continuing to move forward in its plans to dismantle the Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research, announcing yesterday plans to shed the NCAR supercomputing facility to a third party. More: tinyurl.com/26924vy4

We have now entered the "His Opponents Are Afraid of Falling Out of Windows" stage of Donald Trump's emulation of Vladmir Putin.

Omg, how does this story keep getting worse???

Rep. Ted Lieu said a witness told the FBI that a girl, later found dead, said Trump and Epstein raped her. He said the DOJ never spoke to this witness and asked when they would. 📸: Getty

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained. The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

New data shows that over 86% of ICE arrests didn’t involve anyone accused or convicted of a violent crime. cc: @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy

"“It was pretty surreal to listen to that, because there was nothing about Medgar Evers being murdered,” said Michele Storms."

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Merz offers up an unmistakable warning to the US in his MSC speech: Your power is not what it once was. China is gaining ground. The strategy set out in the NSS will accelerate this trend. If you go it alone, you will run up against your limits. Europe rejects MAGA free speech and tariffs.

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

The Trump administration “deleted sections from the rule claiming that climate science is exaggerating the dangers of rising temperatures … Instead, EPA will argue that the Clean Air Act only empowers the agency to regulate pollutants that pose a direct danger to the public from exposure.” 1/2

Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.

Are “alien land laws” threatening Asian American communities? Donna Doan Anderson and Joanna YangQing Derman argue states are reviving discriminatory land use policies targeting Asian communities, reinforcing racial profiling in the name of national security. www.justsecurity.org/129885/alien...

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) has found his voice and his moment in his reelection campaign. In a recent rip-roaring speech, he clobbered the Trump regime for its economic blunders, moral rot, and increasing inability to hide either from the American people.

One thing that bothers me is that the Epstein Files are kind of a trick. Now we are going to be forever searching, forever looking for the smoking gun. As if the purported “President” declaring war on a state (Minnesota) based on a fabricated pretext, for no reason, isn’t enough to justify removal.

Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.

Sad but true robertreich.substack.com/p/the-tragic...

"What the Epstein case is doing, however, is showing many more people that the men most likely to talk about protecting 'their' girls and women are the ones most likely to feel entitled to do to girls and women whatever they please."

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peak irony is environmental lawyer and “MAHA” spin master RobertKennedyJr serving as our top health official just as the goons EPA destroy that agency and bring back toxic smoke and acid rain.

Elon Musk genuinely has to be regarded as one of history’s pre-eminent mass murderers

Taken together, an overall look at protest patterns in 2026 reinforces the sense of a growing, durable, and disciplined pro-democracy movement increasingly mobilized at the grassroots.

These are tiny fractions for a movement of this historic size and geographic dispersion. This discipline is part of why clear instances of lawless brutality by govt authorities tend to backfire—a dynamic that @owasow.bsky.social recently described in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...

Donald Trump isn’t going unchallenged — at least by us. ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro... @chenoweth.bsky.social

Just have to point out that no human being, no matter their crimes, should be kept in a place that people describe as a “living hell.” Such places should not exist. It demeans us all that they do.

Methane emissions account for about 1/3 of the warming we're seeing on Earth today, yet they receive far too little attention. And the majority of our methane emissions come from our food system. We need to fix our food system to really stop climate change.

Punishing climate alarm didn’t just “appeal” to Pielke Jr and “analysts” at The Breakthrough Institute. They *actively collaborated* to establish the narrative that we have already “avoided the worst case climate scenario.” This propaganda was then amplified by the right-wing & centrist press. 🧵