Feel like it should be a big deal that the part of the government that is growing most quickly is teaching its new hires to violate the constitution. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

Breaking NBC: Jeanine Pirro's office has decided to stop pursuing the case against six Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military and intelligence communities in a social media video not to comply with unlawful orders, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

A good read, summarizing what has happened to science & medicine since Kennedy's confirmation. His anti-vaccine stance is behind measles outbreaks, is causing an exodus of next gen scientists, turning pharma companies away from investing in American R&D. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Crowd-sourced data gives us a lens into how big the ICE surge was in MN compared to other places, visualized today in the Minnesota @startribune.com www.startribune.com/is-ice-reall...

its another day to remind people that the reason kash patel is fbi director is because he wrote trump fan fiction, not because he knows jack about law enforcement. and nearly every republican in the senate approved his nomination. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

I interviewed Josh Turek, a retired Paralympian running for #IASen, about how Democrats can reconnect with working people and he voluntarily brought up ending subminimum wage labor for people with disabilities. That's never happened before. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

BREAKING: SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Federal court rejects GOP-led Utah Legislature's latest attempt to put congressional map that helps Democrats on hold.

This guy gets it.

Today, Truthout is grateful to open submissions for the sixth annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. The prize is awarded for essays authored by currently or formerly incarcerated writers. We award two prizes for an original essay on the topic of prisons, policing or a related subject.

Very cool development that polluting industries are using AI generated comments to astroturf the appearance of grassroots opposition to environmental regulation

Charlie Kirk repeatedly pushed the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory and regularly made racist comments in his public statements. If we can't call someone so explicitly racist "a racist" without getting fired, who else is off limits? Donald Trump? Nick Fuentes? David Duke?

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Three days after cops in a small town in Bucks County choked a girl on a sidewalk, kidnapped her and her friends from an anti-ICE walkout, and prevented their parents from contacting them, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro still hasn't even issued an official statement acknowledging the incident.

Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit. n.pr/4s6JWgo

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

Germany's far-right AfD has scheduled their party conference this year for exactly 100 years since a major Nazi rally in 1926 - in the same location. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

minnesota rep ilhan omar invited aliya rahman, the disabled woman pulled from her car by ICE in minneapolis, as her guest for the state of the union speech on tuesday while pete stauber brings nick shirley and david hoch, who many blame for operation metro surge www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

Me with a scoop/exclusive Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show. Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.

Who asked for this @tinakotek.bsky.social?? Oh right… billionaires. Oregonians don’t want this!! We don’t want data centers. We want the rich to pay their fair share.

Nice pull here right before Trump tells us the state of our union.

There have been so many safety issues regarding ICE in Minnesota now the public at large is in danger of getting hurt just for being around these keystone cops. The safety of hotel workers and other guest is now at risk because these fools can't clean their guns properly. abc7.com/amp/post/fbi...

ICYMI — Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee realized he helped Dems make the point that ICE wearing masks makes them like the cartels… so he deleted the tweet 🤡

It seems bad that the world’s richest man is out here Henry Ford posting all day long about how the (((secret cabal))) that pays the protesters and controls the media is the same cabal doing the sex crimes against minors.

Nick Shirley: “30 voters registered at a California UPS store!” 🤔 Paul Mitchell: um, people live above it. Look up, bro. 🙃 As usual this dude’s *reporting* is full of holes

GoFundMe for the kids www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

The kids in Quakertown are still in jail! These kids defended themselves when MAGA chud Police Chief Scott McElree rushed into a crowd of protesters in plainclothes and put a teenage girl in a choke hold with no warning. They've been in jail since Friday and may be kept until Tuesday. Speak up!

Fantastic Jamelle Bouie conversation with an expert in concentration camps. Yes, we are at the concentration camp point in our fascist timeline, in case anyone was unsure… Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Thy literally put it in the Louvre www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

The threat of detention warehouses harkens back to one of our most shameful periods as a nation, when warehouses were used for Japanese American incarceration in the 1940s, which caused immense suffering and generational trauma. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

In the midst of the Epstein files revelations, this is the guy who Trump's defense secretary invites in to the Pentagon for an official U.S. government-endorsed religious service: (warning that story contains details of child sexual abuse and rape) www.vice.com/en/article/i...

JD Vance's online buddies are using data from NIH studies to advance and normalize race science and no one seems to care. I'm losing my mind. badfaithtimes.com/jd-vance-is-...

And here is Mandelson emailing Epstein boasting about his role in ushering out Brown www.bbc.com/news/article.... so 4/

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

How the hell are the *students* the ones who understand this while the professor is failing so horribly at his job?

Because the governor of Louisiana and the proconsul for the annexation of Greenland are the same person. no, really.

Come help make whistles at Lucky Lab on Hawthorne. @resiliency-pdx-or.bsky.social @pdxprotestinfo.bsky.social @indivisblewestpdx.bsky.social @indivisibleoregon.bsky.social @50501portland.bsky.social #abolishice #whistlewednesdays #rainbowbloc #pdx #whistlekits #Portland #iceoutoforegon

ICYMI: Voter fraud found in Georgia by America PAC. This is the one that belongs to Elon Musk. When will the FBI raid be⁉️

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

"Commentators and cartoonists were quick to compare Lesufi's remarks to Marie Antoinette's apocryphal "let them eat cake" comments." in other French Revolution news

“The White House didn’t respond to questions about what specifically prompted the ship’s deployment. Greenland’s government provides free healthcare to the population.” Gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Greenland has free healthcare. Louisiana doesn't. www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2...

This one hits hard.

One of the brave Quakertown teens describing clearly what happened. Worth a watch. The kids are alright, I gotta say

🧵/2 Here are multiple videos of the melee that circulated on social media yesterday. The kids didn’t take shit from this bully. #ProudBlue #FuckICE #Quakerstown #Pennsylvania centralbucksnews.com/news/2026/fe...

This sounds unbelievable but its true: since Bezos acquired The Post, his wealth has grown tenfold and the Post has been cut in half. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...