The plastic pollution crisis and unanswered questions about the increased risk of —Cancer jci.org/articles/vie... —Neurodegenerative diseases jci.org/articles/vie...

Tennessee "No details about the size, scope, purchase price or street address of the facility in Lebanon, about 30 miles east of Nashville, were immediately made available Friday, and news of the purchase took state and local officials by surprise..." tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/13/i...

I've been saying this for ages. It's <100 cases of noncitizens voting in 43 yrs. The SAVE Act is a poll tax, it threatens poll workers w/ jail time, dumps voters off the rolls, violates our privacy. The goal is denying women the vote. GOP is anti-democratic and can't win if they don't cheat.

An El Niño is brewing. And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki... @billmckibben.bsky.social

it's new cartoon time again www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

This week’s ‘Noel’s Notes’ is out now, all of my articles are named after songs. It still perplexes the uninitiated but there’s always a point to it. Happy Valentines. Link: open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

Bondi Bombast

Justice must be served.

Mike Luckovich

from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

The Constitution couldn’t be clearer: Presidents don’t run elections; the states do. Yet President Trump warned “there will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” He can’t legally do that—but that hasn’t stopped him before. trib.al/9tnKPOC

Well said. The problem is that the leaders of the US government and the people around them are more interested in their ability to profit from the resources of Ukraine and business deals in Russia than a lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe.

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

MPLS was a great moral and practical victory for a new Trump-era resistance, but it was only the end of the beginning 15,000 new masked goons. 150 new ICE offices in every state, and a national network of warehouse concentration camps My column on the battle ahead www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

People: *why aren't there more solarpunk stories? These are great!* Me: *gestures to status quo forces in every publishing medium + tech bros trying to redeem AI by shoving it in solarpunk* brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/solarpunk-...

What else do you call warehouses full of abducted human beings concentrated together in unsanitary conditions without access to sufficient food, water, or medical attention? If you don't like your concentration camps being called concentration camps then stop operating concentration camps.

oh, this story is way more complicated and interesting. dude didn't just happen to buy epstein's ranch. he's got ties to rand paul (and possibly brett kavanaugh's confirmation), russia, spacex, weird biotech companies and the wh. 🧵👇 bsky.app/profile/auti...

Not great! (From @jennycohn.bsky.social )

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

Ok, this is good politicking. @repdexteror.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Gosh, it would be a shame if this started happening everywhere.

Heather Cox Richardson points out that Pam Bondi’s bizarre testimony makes more sense when you realize she couldn’t talk about the Epstein files without perjuring herself. Watch our discussion here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/heather-co...

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This should not be controversial. Sadly, some real pricks do not want The People to vote.

This week was a good reminder that Trump can be beaten back. A grand jury rejected charges against Democratic lawmakers, immigration operations in Minnesota were scaled back, and the Pride flag went back up at Stonewall. With Trump’s approval slipping, there is real reason for optimism.

In case you missed it, you can catch me and @katiephang.bsky.social discussing the abject failures of the Trump DOJ and the republican surveillance state. There's also a full transcript of the show: www.muellershewrote.com/p/allison-gi...

Found on FB. Don't know the original source. It doesn't look very good for Jeffries & Schumer, of course, but we knew that! Nice to see AOC & Pete in the lead. @democrats.org @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

"Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing. With its contempt for the humanities, Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass." Gross and illuminating as to why we're in this grim timeline. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thank God Goddess Gaia All That Is Consciousness Itself for comedians. They contribute greatly to the gestalt (A physical, biological, psychological, or symbolic configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that its properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its parts.)

Is this you? @democrats.org @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language." I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.

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My law firm is now litigating 85 voting and election cases in 40 states. This is the largest number of cases in the most states we have ever handled at one time. And, while Big Law firms mostly sit idly by, the need to protect elections in court is only growing.

MSU IPU Director @eriknordman.bsky.social was quoted in this Detroit News article about air pollution and the repeal of greenhouse gas "endangerment finding."

The US is creating a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. Trump's & Rubio's blockade is punishing the Cuban people, not the regime. We must learn from 6 decades of failed Cuba-policy & reverse course.

While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

🧊 had secretly bought up warehouses across the country to use as detention death camps. But local residents where the camps would be located have fought back by putting pressure on local officials w/great success. See the map to determine if your town is affected & call your local officials to 🛑 it.

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When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pam Bondi

Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve “Overpopulation” | Article by Joe Wilkins (@joeonhere.bsky.social) for @futurism.com: futurism.com/science-ener...