The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Enraging that this took a court order: "Catholic nuns and clergy had visited the facility for years, offering prayer services and holy communion to detainees during visitor hours. Trump Administration immigration authorities rolled back that access in September..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

🇨🇦 PM Carney speaks about the horrific shooting that occurred last night in Tumbler Ridge. Video was shared by Michael Gerald Gibbs

Excellent work by Jayapal here

Bunny halftime made me feel so proud to be an American for a few hours, and realizing how long it’s been since I felt that is getting me a bit 😢 🇵🇷 🇺🇸 🏳️

#gohawks !

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

🎶 Nobody knows in America 🎶 Puerto Rico's in America

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc

Ring cameras being able to AI match a lost dog throughout the neighborhood, is a feel-good way to cover pretty terrifying technology 🙃

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.

What a beautiful halftime performance by an all-American superstar, Bad Bunny. Together we are America. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” MAGA wanted you to boycott this.

That. Right after shouting out the name of every single country in the Americas and the Caribbean. And he spiked it. Damn right. 😭

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

loved every second of Bad Bunny. That message of inclusion and a celebration of cultures like Puerto Rico’s is just what America needs right now. Plus, his music just gets you in motion. 10/10

Bad Bunny: God bless America, *all* the Americas. Damn that is going to make MAGA maaaaaaaddddddd.

Lotta fat old guys telling Olympic athletes that they should be sent home. No one is stopping you from getting off your couches and training to take their spots. Until then, enjoy watching them exercise their free speech rights. Go team USA.

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

Folks, please retweet this. Trump, Noem, and the rest are lying everywhere about what ICE is doing in MN. We have to do everything we can to make sure the country has a clear picture of what is going on.

Earlier in the night, Poland's Air Force said it deployed fighter jets to protect Polish airspace amid the large-scale attack.

A reminder that the New England Patriots plane is flown by Omni air who contracts with ICE to fly people in chains to Africa and Asia several times per week. Go Seahawks.

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

Listening to the pop music station on the radio in the cab here in Berlin. After a commercial, it went to the news. All of the words were in German in the lead story, except for three that I recognized: Minneapolis, violence, Trump. The #1 story even in Germany.

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

That is correct. Trump has set a date to revoke Haitian protected status, and then set a date for the anti-Haitian pogrom to begin the next day. ICE must go. Miller must go. Noem must go. Even Vance must go. Their ethnonationalist mania gets more violent every day and is going to destroy America.

Misoprostol and methotrexate do more than end pregnancies—but anti-abortion pharmacists can now refuse to offer them and still get federal funds.

“Don’t listen to the vilification from our national leaders.” That’s what Fr. Harry Tasto said about Alex Pretti — the Catholic nurse he served with for a decade. One patient, Marta Crownheart, remembers him holding her hand for 20 minutes and praying with her when she thought she’d had a stroke.

Archbishop Coakley Calls for Holy Hour as a Moment of Renewal for Our Hearts and Our Nation | Read the full release at: https://ow.ly/Y5bk50Y4SWQ

Look, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over. In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.

Donald J. Trump: "We're bringing back God" God:

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

Today, we remember and mourn the 6 million Jewish lives and millions of others murdered during the Holocaust. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and every day, we must commit ourselves to fighting antisemitism and bigotry in every form.

81 years have passed since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Today, we remember the millions of lives lost, each of whom was a unique and irreplaceable human being, and we recommit ourselves to working toward a future where all forms of hatred and violence cease. 🕯️

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the 6 million Jews and many others murdered by the Nazis and recognize the lasting impact of these horrific events on Jewish communities. We must never forget these atrocities and commit to stopping genocide wherever it occurs.

Alex Pretti was a Catholic. Our martyred brother. His final act on this earth was helping a woman struck down by Trump-Vance border agents. We will not let him die in vain.

Echoing the pope’s moral warnings, Tobin says the “lawless organization” is perpetuating a “machinery of death.” This marks the first time a senior Church leader has explicitly called for ICE to be defunded. More are expected in the coming days.

Archbishop of Seattle in new Pastoral Letter: "Harsh enforcement of laws in ruthless and intimidating fashion lacks the basic demand of human dignity, respect and compassion." www.archbishopetienne.com/a-new-pastor...