We’re next to stand up Hagerstown! Never again is now. #IceOut

NEW: Trump’s DoJ ordered New York SVU and New Mexico to stop investigating Epstein in 2019. www.justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-s...

Now, we don't have the PhD student's side of the story. But there's research on women PhD students and postdocs in STEM fields showing that they often leave their programs because of the sexist mistreatment they face from men like this. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Worth remembering that, among his many other evils, Newsom's fortune and businesses were extensively bankrolled by Gordon Getty — his father was an attorney and fixer for Getty Oil — and that his first major move in politics was cutting aid to homeless people. The gentry, y'all.

Johnson died in 1929 at just 36 years old — broke, injured, and forgotten by the nation he fought for. This was reprehensible to say the least. His story became a symbol of how Black heroism was erased to preserve white supremacy in the military. (cont) www.nps.gov/people/henry...

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 This man was America's first world war hero, but you won't find him in history books. He was called a "one man army", and yes—he was Black. His name: Sgt. Henry Johnson. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/...

What are we doing to our children? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl. If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

hey @govwesmoore.bsky.social, what's up with this?

The eseence of fascism is an aggressive, brutal misogyny. Every right-winger endorses and encourages men to beat their wives. #PatriarchyIsAbuse

Except that the person who removed them was Joe Manchin, who didn't give a damn about organizing in WV. And Sinema. It was two votes. Manchin who is contemptuous of his own state's poor residents, said he thought it would encourage more drug use and addiction to put $$ in the hands of the poor.

Good. Now do the World Cup. www.startribune.com/german-socce...

with limited supplies, and often no sleep. When her Vietnam tour ended in 1968, Allen continued serving. She joined the Army Reserve, eventually rising to the rank of Major — a significant achievement for a Black woman officer of her era. (cont) huntingtonblackhistory.com/people/eliza...

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 #BlackHistoryMonth is an opportunity to learn about Black men & women who made contributions to society that do not appear in history books. Today, we honor Major Elizabeth Allen, U.S. Army. Pull up a seat.🪑(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Who’s organizing the resistance? #IceOut www.aclu-md.org/press-releas...

I will not attend Trump’s State of the Union. His policies have hurt Maryland’s Sixth District—raising costs, hurting our farmers, firing federal workers, and denying disaster relief. I’ll be at the People’s State of the Union fighting for MD-06 families. Read my full statement below.

Newly signed copies of my books are available at Left Bank Books in St Louis! They ship everywhere. Support a great independent bookstore and buy the books that explain the news: left-bank.com/product/sign...

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1/6 #SixFamilySpeaks For anyone who’s worn a uniform, the Medal of Honor isn’t a joke. It’s the last line of a citation read over men who didn’t come home. When a president jokes about giving it to himself, he’s telling you how little he understands service. #VeteransVoices #HonorNotHype

2) Maryland agencies and DC Water presented updates on the cleanup during a two-hour legislative hearing. Trump’s EPA was invited. They refused to attend.

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

WATCH: “That’s not America. That’s not Tennessee. I’m ashamed of those sons of bitches.” A decorated veteran from a family of soldiers warns Republican anti-immigrant Stephen Miller bills are creating a “Gestapo”. (Bonus: turns out this patriot is a Holler fan 🎉)

Doug Wilson was the preacher today at the latest monthly Christian worship at the Pentagon. My report: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/doug-wilso...

From Doug Wilson’s 1996 book on the History of Slavery.

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

So the Obama administration oral history project went live today. An extraordinary resource for historians and teachers, and a great credit to the team of folks who compiled them all, including Evan McCormick, @pastpunditry.bsky.social and many others.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Here's a reminder that we Concentration Camps on US soil, ICE is still unlawfully detaining people at random.

Linda Davis, a beloved Savannah teacher, is dead. Her car was hit by a suspect fleeing from ICE. Chatham County, Georgia has a no-chase policy. ICE still chased the suspect through a school zone. ICE agents did not directly kill Linda Davis, but their actions contributed to her death.

🔴‘Build That Wall’: Why Secretary Rubio Is No Jack Kennedy The Secretary of State’s address to European leaders showed how far American leadership has fallen under Donald Trump, argues @alexhh.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/17/b...

Wow.

“Now, as then, the way forward lies in destroying their systems of repression once and for all, and in banishing forever those who created and operated these instruments.” Inspiring language. You are a modern-day fire eater, so to speak.

FT: Russia is using former Wagner Group mercenaries to recruit vulnerable Europeans, particularly those living in poverty, with the goal of training them to carry out acts of sabotage and violence within NATO countries. Yet most Europeans still think Russia isn’t waging hybrid war on Europe.🤷‍♀️

The harsher the laws, the more scared elites are. Exhibit B: in the 1800s, GA already had a brutal law against Black education. But the leaders of Augusta passed an even more brutal one--penalizing even white landowners if anyone held a clandestine school on their lots.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

“With its contempt for the humanities, Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without even opening a book, they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial theory & queer studies.They could devote their brains to race science & rape apologetics” www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Does anyone know more about this document about Apollo Global Management that has a reference to Harlan Crow as a "debtor" in the Epstein files? #doj #epstein #files #harlancrow 👀⚖️💵 www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Celebrating Presidents in 2026? Fraught as hell, but what’s not is celebrating all the great public scholarship in my 263rd #ScholarSunday thread of writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio giving a speech that is basically an extended version of the ethnonationalist Proud Boys oath: “I'm a proud Western chauvinist, I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Bartleby, the Scrivener en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleb...

My cat just beamed in for a head rub

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

My *god