NEW: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from entering Labor Department HQ after two female staffers accused him of sexual assault inside the building, according to NYT. One alleged incident was captured on security cameras and is now part of a criminal investigation.

'At a moment when your government is rounding people up and building camps to concentrate them — and you know *everyone in the world knows it* — some ambivalence when you’re at an international competition is not just understandable but unavoidable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

“That’s what I’m f—ing talking about!”
 Alysa Liu as she leaves the ice 🔥

East window at Hadleigh, St Mary, Suffolk. I took this photo a few years ago whilst in the early stages of recovery from a testing period of mental ill-health - I needed encounters with beauty #suffolk #churched #stainedglass #window #tracery #history #heritage #architecture #19thcentury #light

Benito “Bad Bunny” Martínez Ocasio will lead a film on Puerto Rico’s colonial history directed and co-written by rapper Residente, announced weeks after he celebrated his heritage at the Super Bowl halftime show.

a government for, by and of degenerates

Olympic athletes, some of whom are teenagers, are held to a higher level of expected maturity than the most powerful man in the world.

SHE’S SO GOLDEN 🥇 Alysa Liu wins GOLD and becomes the first U.S. woman to medal in figure skating since 2002.

What are your thoughts? My latest on Substack: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fascist-dictator-or-16th-century

BREAKING: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico attorney general reopens investigation into allegations of illegal activity at Epstein's former Zorro Ranch.

The Brits woke up today and chose justice.

It really is hard to reconcile the tendency for Republican men resort to violence against high school protesters while clinging to the fallacy that they care about "protecting children". Using that as a pretense while enabling the violence of this administration is something else.

New Joke, new age!

If a member of your family in the US military gets killed in Iran soon, you can console yourself by knowing that they died to distract from their Commander-in-Chief's pedophilia.

The first all-female team to share a Nobel Prize in science: biochemists Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier. They won the 2020 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)." Jennifer Doudna was born #OTD in 1964. #WomenInSTEM

On this day in 1905, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 13 Jul 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband & on the 4 Oct 1944 to Auschwitz where she perished. Her husband was deported on the 28 Sep 1944. His name was Marie Oppenheimerová Support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

I don’t think we touch on the fact that he claimed all those toddler pageant queens as his. This was all him. Epstein was a scapegoat.

We know exactly why. It is clear.

Join Indivisible TX-24's event, “Stop I.C.E. Show the Love! Feb. 21 TX-24 Solidarity Event” - sign up now to join me! #iceout www.mobilize.us/indivisiblet...

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln 1861

Palantir Technologies raked in $1.5 BILLION in income last year — including from lucrative taxpayer-funded DHS contracts — and paid ZERO federal income tax. It's fast becoming the most dangerous and least accountable corporation in America. https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=RCrKYNu1bMlNhU0G

I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office. ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for. We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.

America gave up kings 250 years ago and adopted a system in which “no one is above the law.” But presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. The legacy of the John Roberts Supreme Court.

It’s can’t be said enough — this is a wildly corrupt betrayal of the MAHA crowd, and flies in the face of everything RFK JR has ever promised them. Driven entirely by greed and paying off their big pesticide corporation donors.

I am proud to announce that I have secured over $13 million in federal funding for North Texas in the FY26 funding package. These dollars are coming straight to TX-30 to strengthen public safety, upgrade water systems, modernize transit, and invest in parks and community spaces across our district.

Canadian Women's Hockey Team Canada is proud of you ! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 Congratulations on winning the Silver for our Country. Canada 🇨🇦 #WinterOlympics

If they can arrest a prince, you can arrest a president. Thou shalt arrest the Epstein criminals in the USA. Git ‘r’ done. The Lord has spoken. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"Black women are innovators, coming up with great inventions that have transformed many sectors like health care and technology...Here are 10 Black women whose inventions have made some of the greatest impacts that have moved the world forward." www.blackenterprise.com/10-patents-c...

Judge Smacks Down ICE and Orders NYC Street Vendors Released newrepublic.com/post/206802/... via @newrepublic.com

She lives with her grandmother in Colombia and travels frequently to the U.S. to visit her mother. Her visa made them targets for ICE. A trip to Disneyland ended with a 9-year-old, who had broken no laws, detained at Dilley, Texas. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Dump understands that there's no greater distraction than a war. #Iran #Epstein

Congrats USA women on winning Hockey gold in the Olympics.. Canadian gals, we are so proud of you, congrats on silver👍

Thursday Friends #5 @mlipsitt.bsky.social @docmurphydog.bsky.social @neverstopthefight.bsky.social @amend6.bsky.social @grisgris4me.bsky.social @knotamagat.bsky.social @mochachaiguy.bsky.social @400ppmco2wtf.bsky.social @arnwolf.bsky.social @katmablueheart.bsky.social

tfw your mum isn’t about to spend millions on trying to make it all go away

U2's New Protest Song youtu.be/Y3ziTSYyook?...

Trump on the arrest of former prince Andrew: I’m the expert because I’ve been totally exonerated. I think it’s a shame. To me, it’s a very sad thing. I’ve been totally exonerated.

I know the focus is on the pig Andrew. I know why that is...but I've been thinking about #VirginiaGiuffre today. Abusive men ruined her life. None of that should have happened to her. She deserved a happy life.

While Americans are told to tighten their belts, DHS is asking taxpayers to bankroll a flying penthouse. Photos from NBC News.

This is outrageous! The very definition of fraud, waste, and abuse. An executive jet that the Department of Homeland Security says it “needs” for deportation flights and Cabinet travel isn’t some standard government aircraft.

A heist in broad daylight

“If the Trump administration is alleging that they’re gonna be bypassing content bans, what they’re gonna be helping users access in Europe is essentially hate speech, pornography, and child sexual abuse material,” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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