Macedonia Brook on a sparkling early spring morning, Macedonia Brook State Park, Kent, Connecticut. March 14, 2024, 11:09 AM. #hiking #spring #forest #stream

“House Republicans hosted a notorious anti-transgender rights activist to testify at a Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. The shameful show was the latest in a string of actions from the right meant to platform and advance transphobic bigotry.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I think we are giving ICE too much credit. They are evil, but they are following the orders (in a very incompetent and cruel manner) of the more powerful villains: Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Kristi Noem. We can't let this vicious authoritarian regime subcontract to ICE the blame from voters.

When you agree to pass 5 of 6 appropriations bills, then you later agree to pass funding for everything that is in the 6th bill except for one agency (ICE) that has already been prefunded in a previous bill, you are giving up every bit of leverage you have and selling out.

In freezing Kyiv, Ukrainians endure without heat, power In Kyiv, hundreds of thousands of residents are facing subzero temperatures without any heat or electricity. Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said municipal services are "working around the clock" to restore heat to homes www.dw.com/en/a-7582885...

US-China orbital arms race is forging a trillion-dollar space economy www.scmp.com/opinion/chin...

Why Trump, not Asian investors, is to blame for gold and silver volatility www.scmp.com/opinion/asia...

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

This kind of propaganda is how the gestapo tricked folks into thinking they were everywhere, when there were one of them for every 10K Germans.

How the FBI Corrupted Democracy in 2016 and Beyond - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/05/h...

Remembering Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani on #WorldCancerDay. Dr. Mirzakhani was first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in #mathematics. She died in 2017 from #breastcancer at the age of 40. stanford.io/2C0io2A#WorldCancerDay#mathematics#breastcancer#WomenInSTEM

Starbucks Workers United baristas are escalating their fight for a fair contract. I urge you to keep boycotting Starbucks — and delete its app from your phone. Workers are fed up with low pay, chaotic scheduling, understaffing, and illegal union busting. Let's keep fighting corporate greed.

A Democratic congressman shamed President Donald Trump during a prayer from just feet away.

Throwback Thursday... the 5,000 yr-old Yew tree in Scotland! Very old and still growing... #yew #trees #nature #naturephotography #photography #Scotland #history

🚨BREAKING: The White House Thursday refused to rule out the presence of immigration enforcement at voting locations this November, a response that follows extremist rhetoric about placing federal forces at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Proposed California Billionaire Tax is Sending Some Tech Bros Packing open.substack.com/pub/themoney...

There were 108,000 job cuts in January in the U.S., the most to begin a year since the Great Recession in 2009, according to a new report.

Althea Gibson was the first African American to compete in a pro-world tennis tour and in 1956, the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title. Overall, Gibson garnered 11 Grand Slam wins, including six singles titles. #BlackHistoryMonth

When you know you're next to testify.

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Read this article by the Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Every American needs to watch this:

Corporatist fascism, plain and simple. DHS is trying to get tech companies to hand over data on Trump critics. This is unconstitutional, and Congress must shut it down, before we turn into East Germany. techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...

Mexico seeking way to send fuel to Cuba without being hit by US tariffs, sources say - www.reuters.com/business/ene...

A progress update on yesterday’s partial sketch 🥰 Still very much a work in progress #watercolours #birdart 🪶

If Dem senators vote to extend the DHS CR again, they are instantly going to lose a tremendous amount of support from their base who have been in wait-and-see mode on this. I can only assume Dem senators considering this have completely lost touch with their voters. Don’t do it.

Trump administration to end job protections for up to 50,000 federal workers - www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

The New York Times’ Silencing of Mental Health Experts bandyxlee.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

Will we reverse course, before the course grows even more irreversible? bandyxlee.substack.com/p/the-psychi...

I am thrilled that GAO accepted my request to study the public health, equity, and economic impacts of RFK Jr.’s reckless decision to eliminate the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation, in response to a letter I led with @repkimschrier.bsky.social & 108 House Democrats.

Do they all get deported now? Is that how this works?

It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’re letting them charge us $17 dollars for a beer and $11 dollars for a damn hotdog at the concession stand? Enough. Here’s one thing we can do about it.

Meta has dropped $65 million into two super PACs to boost pro-AI state candidates in California. Big Tech is working overtime to ensure they get a bailout if — or when — the AI bubble bursts. We can’t let them get away with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA

Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger. Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs. Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?

Immigrants have paid more in taxes than they have received in benefits every single year for the past 30 years, according to new analysis from Cato. Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."

A historical warning about how presidents escape, aides go to prison, and “just following orders” has never saved anyone... hartmannreport.com/p/dear-trump...

After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.