"The slow drip restoring gun rights is a preview of what the [DOJ] says could be as many as 1 million annual applications under a new protocol proposed last summer."

Two out of three Black Americans do not have a valid passport and passport ownership rises with income and age. So document demands hit young, Black and poor voters first. That is what SAVE is built to do. Tell your senators to keep SAVE off the floor and vote no on it #SaveActTaxesVoters

"'We need to think very hard about what resistance looks like under these conditions,” he told The Intercept, 'where government and big tech know so much about us, can track us, can imprison, can destroy us in a variety of ways.'"

🧵 "212 U.S. counties with zero locally-based news sources... 1,525 counties with only one local news source remaining, usually a weekly [❗] newspaper... [ 1 in 7 ] Americans, [~] 50 million people, live with limited or no access to local news." localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/sta...

Actionable recommendations for - and a magnifying glass on - news outlets, editors, & journalists here ⬇️ "I believe that millions of Americans don’t fully understand what’s happening, and yes, I blame the press whose job it is to clearly inform the public." #FreePress

Read the book. It illuminates how misogynistic and racist the Healthcare system was in the 1950s. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imm...

So this isn't a chilling forecast at all: 😱

And consider this... Cantor Fitzgerald (CF), which Lutnick chaired, now "run by his sons", was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event the tariffs were struck down in court. CF takes a huge cut. The "inside game" with the tariffs is on.

New polling says Jasmine Crockett has the best chances to beat Ken Paxton in Texas. The “she can’t win” crowd might want to start updating their talking points because the voters know what’s up.

EXCLUSIVE: Muslims in the UK and US Support Democracy More Than the General Public The new poll, shared exclusively with Zeteo, also dispels tired tropes about western Muslims that have triggered a rise in Islamophobia, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social. Read now: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Trump Celebrates Black History Month by Listing All His Black Friends newrepublic.com/post/206742/... via @newrepublic.com Fyi, as soon as someone says"I have black friends", black people know you are racist

Here's How Democrats Can Resist Trump Even as a Minority Instead of playing possum or the usual politics, former Republican strategist Kurt Bardella recommends Democrats give the spotlight to Epstein's survivors and victims of ICE after Trump's SOTU. thelefthook.substack.com/p/heres-how-...

"The government 'made one empty threat after another to remove him to countries in Africa with no real chance of success,' U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, in Maryland, wrote...'there is no ‘good reason to believe’ removal is likely in the reasonably foreseeable future.'" apnews.com/article/abre...

❗ "the first time the [federal gov't] has ever filed terrorism charges against “ #antifa” —...a decentralized ideological movement—and a federal jury trial that began February 17 is the first major test of the Trump administration’s campaign to label left-wing activists as domestic terrorists."

Some folks say HF2809 to criminalize "residential protesting" won't pass in MN, and/or it's fearmongering. Both likely true. And, of course, unconstitutional. Just pointing out that 23 states have a Republican trifecta, and state gov'ts don't operate in a vacuum: ballotpedia.org/State_govern...

Jasmine Crockett: “Other countries have CEOs that are stepping down & princes that are being indicted — in the United States, crickets. Nothing is happening — we have a president that says that the Epstein files are a hoax because his name is in there more times than I can count”

OK "has [~] 130,000 private wells...after pulling huge profits...[OK] oil companies left behind tens of thousands of unplugged wells that belch greenhouse gases and allow industrial waste to spread belowground. [OK] has some of the nation’s weakest regulations [for] industry cleanup of old wells."

"But being in the [ #EDVA ] building gave us access to and an understanding of the players in some of the biggest legal and political stories of the past decade." "At a time of unprecedented threats to and attacks on the justice system, it helps to understand those involved as human beings." #WaPo

🧵 Next Asst Secretary of State for the UN & Int'l Orgs? "Sen. Chris Murphy [D-CT] used one of Carl’s quotes as the starting point for his questioning: 'Anti-white discrimination is the most pervasive and political salient form of racism today.'” www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/trump-n...

Show your library some love. Join programs for adults, too. "According to Scholastic’s most recent Kids & Family Reading Report, those who read five to seven days a week drops from 46 percent in 6- to 8-year-olds to 15 percent when they reach high school." www.slj.com/story/Gettin...

Call your reps (more, still): @librarypolicy.bsky.social 'fully supports the bills...to enable all public #libraries, regardless of organization status, to continue serving their communities as #passport acceptance facilities.'” www.ala.org/news/2026/02...

🧵 I applaud Minnesotans for speaking up & setting an example. But we are not talking about this enough: "70,766: Number of people held in ICE detention nationwide as of January 2026. ICE detained 32,321 people nationwide in January alone." mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

There are far more voters than ICE agents. People should plan to stay at their polling place all day. Make it a party. Meet your neighbors. Talk politics. Gather food trucks. Make it a safe place for voters who are nervous. ICE agents always back off when they are outnumbered.

🧵 I try to be optimistic about all of this. It's fair to say there's been a lot of "they can't do that" - mine included - over the last year that they've done. I brought up the House's passage of this iteration of the #SAVEact to highlight very real challenges to voting rights, so we can fight them.

🧵 ICYMI: This $600m was in the final, ahem, "Big Beautiful Bill," but... #CDC "this week announced more than $600 million in cuts to public health grants in #California, #Illinois, #Colorado and #Minnesota — four Democratic-led states." www.npr.org/2026/02/13/n...

Waste, fraud, and abuse: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Cancelled out on mtg w/ "leaders from countries including Germany, Poland, Finland and the European Commission", but: "After Munich, Rubio will travel to Budapest to meet Hungary’s strongman premier Viktor Orbán, the EU’s most pro-Russian leader, who has blocked efforts to deepen support for Kyiv."

While viewing the lead-up to Alex Pretti's murder: “'What I’m seeing is a subject that’s also not compliant. He’s not following any guidance. He’s fighting back nonstop. I don’t know what they’re saying. I don’t know what’s going on in this situation,'” Scott responded.

The move counters prior efforts by the administration to take it down.

Important reminder in plain law: yelling at officers isn’t assault and recording them isn’t a crime, which tells you everything about how often power relies on intimidation and ignorance to suppress basic First Amendment rights rather than actually uphold them.

El Paso mayor, Renard Johnson, "said it had resulted in a series of chaotic events around El Paso, including medical evacuation flights that had been forced to divert to Las Cruces, N.M., a city about 45 miles to the northwest. #FAA #SeanDuffy #aviation

The SAVE Act forces citizens to register in person, track down birth certificates or passports, take time off work, find childcare, and drive hours just to get on the rolls. Trump’s own commission didn’t find fraud. MAGA just wants fewer voters🤬🤬🤬 #HandsOffHerVote

"Dorit Reiss, professor of law at UC Law San Francisco... 'They are refusing to review a new [mRNA] vaccine with a more flexible technology, while creating a real risk we will not have traditional vaccines for next year.'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

apnews.com/article/meas... in Minnesota's Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Just a reminder that the Trump administration canceled all of the electrical grid improvement projects the DOE funded for Puerto Rico. Oh, and all of the solar projects, too.

🧵 Game changer for 1/2 the pop. "Kenner’s first patent was in 1957 for the sanitary belt. While she originally invented [it] in the 1920s, she couldn’t afford a patent...The sanitary belt aimed to prevent the leakage of menstrual blood on clothing, which was a common problem for women at the time."

Too many important, quotable moments. Spend 20 minutes here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQjI...

Unfortunately, the situation is starting to become yesterday's news for most people who don't live here. It sucks, but it also follows predictable patterns of human nature. I don't want things to keep escalating in flame here, even if that would hold attention. But it is so, so, so hard to watch..

"I WAS born under the slave law in Georgia, in 1848...My brother and I...were sent to a friend of my grandmother, Mrs. Woodhouse, a widow, to learn to read and write...with our books wrapped in paper to prevent the police or white persons from seeing them." docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu...

By @laurenarankin.bsky.social : "This not only makes them a target for harassment and potential violence — it also undermines their fundamental right to privacy under HIPAA (and, while it lasts, Griswold v. Connecticut, the landmark 1965 Supreme Court case that established the right to privacy)."

"The independence of the watchdog’s office may be compromised...ever since Gabbard assigned one of her top advisers, Dennis Kirk, to work there on 9 May, two weeks after the whistleblower first made contact with the inspector general’s hotline." 1/2 #NSA #ODNI www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

To the Dems crying, "but, #FEMA!," Trump's actively withholding disaster relief to blue areas already!!! Maybe don't give more money to #DHS and #ICE & look into that, too. 🤬 Link to the article: www.axios.com/2026/02/03/d...

"However, once FBI agents obtained a warrant to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Good’s SUV, they received orders to stop, The New York Times reports, citing anonymous sources."

Re: Fair & safe #elections & legitimate concerns about GOP's current actions & future plans to, allegedly 🙄, manage the outcome of #Midterms and beyond. @votingrightslab.bsky.social @kettering.org

Um, thanks, but it'd be OK if they weren't citizens? Or am I reading too much into her statement? "GOP Sen. #JoniErnst of Iowa said that Trump’s latest attacks were not only “not constructive” but racist. 'They’re American citizens,” she said.'" www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/p...

WH "'said they were moving away from the Black farmer issue. They were moving away from DEI and the small farmer issue, and they were focusing on low-scale white farmers and corporate farmers because they produced the most food, is what this administration said.'" blackchronicle.com/national/no-...

"he can use ICE to block and deter voters. And he could use the Department of Justice to seize ballots and take over vote counting. He has also threatened to decertify voting machines. None of these moves would be justified, but lack of justification has never stopped him."

If only there were a way to prevent RSV. Oh wait, there's a vaccine. Heart Attack, Stroke Risk Rises After Serious RSV, Study Says www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...