as a human who sometimes has to pee i would like more public toilets

The solution to public urination is housing and public toilets and this is obvious if you understand the people you are talking about are human beings.

you have to read to write. a lot. Like you have to read way more than you write for your writing to be worth anything. there are zero exceptions to this

Look, the states are willing to help calculate what’s owed!

People keep hanging with the President, not understanding that everyone who comes in contact with the narcissist will eventually be smeared.

"Fascism is a word that Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from saying during the earlier promotional phases of Andor’s spring 2025 release. " Merely sparking space supremacy and totalitarianism www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.

Follow up: @msifry.bsky.social has a good piece on this new thing. theconnector.substack.com/p/this-machi...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs. By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social

@nycplan.org will respond to @mayor.nyc.gov's broken promise re: NYC Public Libraries in the morning. Speaking for myself only (not NYC PLAN), I am profoundly disappointed in the preliminary budget. It will not stand.

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Got a story coming tomorrow on the (D) congresswoman whose company accidentally got $6 million from the government, immediately saw her salary raised to $6 million, then ran for Congress and self-funded to the tune of $6 million. Where did anyone get this corruption idea?

Glad to see a Columbia administrator speaking the plain sense about AI so many college leaders refuse to contend with. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

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a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

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Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

preview here! www.leftanchor.com/e/one-battle...

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we are talking One Battle After Another and the occupation of Minneapolis: www.patreon.com/posts/150096...

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I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.

We have a nice little database too 🙂

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"be the lone penguin. just you, yourself, and a frigid pole of the earth."

Holy crap the penguin thread. You have to read this. We will win by working together.

The US Ambassador to Israel and close friend of Joe Biden, Jack Lew, personally blocked the distribution of a cable written by USAID which accurately described the situation in northern Gaza

“No Sleep for ICE” demonstrations aimed at pressuring hotels to stop accommodating immigration agents have swept the nation. trib.al/SXzdAsq

really something to this!

Source familiar with Don Lemon's arrest tells me DOJ went to a grand jury to secure an indictment (DOJ's effort to get a criminal complaint had already been rejected in court twice). This is ugly. More soon.

Here's Bondi saying Don Lemon's arrest was at her direction:

the practical effect of arresting lemon et al is to spark widespread condemnation, especially since these arrests will certainly be thrown out. this doesn't mean the action isn't a dangerous escalation, it does mean the white house doesn't know what to do but spam its only attack

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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we are talking Minneapolis www.patreon.com/posts/149270...

excerpt here! www.leftanchor.com/e/the-minnea...

Pretty weasel-ish though. I would say that this is what happens when leadership whips a vote for purposes of caucus unity.

NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:

These are political assassinations, for sure. They function as both a terror campaign against the community as well as a form of witness intimidation, similar to what mob bosses have done.

Alex Pretti grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he played football, baseball and ran track for Preble High School. He was a Boy Scout and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir. apnews.com/article/immi...

Yep. Beef up that training. Make them learn algebra. Wear badges. Improve their vocabulary so they can say things more appropriate than "Fucking bitch" when they shoot someone to death for no reason.

You don’t need to watch another killing. Here is what happened, acc to the NYT review of the videos. They just decided to execute Alex Pretti

The more members of Congress and Congressional candidates we can get to commit to #AbolishICE, the easier it will be to make this a litmus test for Democrats. We *must* abolish ICE and throw these lawless state-sponsored terrorists in prison.