or, more important to note: "“Truth climbs upon the bed like a black cat purring”.

‘NY Times’ Columnists Hold Roundtable To Determine What’s Wrong With Them — We could tell 'em!

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When he was deployed in 1990 during the Gulf War, our Mark Hertling started keeping a journal, writing observations and meditations as a sort of missive for his sons. Hertling has now edited his journals into a book—published TODAY and excerpted here: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-it-fe...

“Throughout history, women have been taught to stay quiet and shrink our power. The longer they hold me [in ICE detention], the more I am reminded how important my story is.” On International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia reflects on solidarity among women in U.S. immigration detention.

Amid intensifying fears of Trump now launching a nuclear war, it seems worth pointing out that there’s been legislation in Congress since 2017 to prohibit a president from launching a preemptive nuclear strike without the explicit authorization of Congress.

Great to see such a large crowd out today! #standupforscience

darn!

Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙 Please preorder it! 🧵

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

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So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.  But we will not be silenced. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

Following this story's publication, a local reporter found that Rakhi Israni only recently registered as a Democrat from “No Party Preference" in Nov. 2025 and infrequently voted. Someone else tipped me off to the fact that she was endorsed by the 4th largest donor to MAGA Inc/

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

"They put the number of cases connected to Sturgis in the range of 115,000-260,000, or 10 to 20 percent of all cases in the US at the time"

From my essay, "The plan is to have no plan." May 2020. pressthink.org/2020/05/the-...

Pete Hegseth is not "a former member of the press at Fox," as MS NOW just said. Fox News is not journalism. It's anti-journalism. It makes people less informed than they were before. Hegseth is a former fascist propagandist who has moved on to become a war criminal.

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

I know it's against B.S. protocol, but I have a need for @schumer.senate.gov 's social staff to know how deeply unpopular he is among many dems.

And another RFKJr appointment:

This was the big take away from my Gen Ed poli sci class in college and the fact that I already knew this is an argument for Gen Ed requirements, in my opinion

The era of right-wing nepo-media... (I'm adding the word 'theft'.)

GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS HEALTH CARE. Thank you to the NY Attorney General’s Office for affirming our community.

EARLY VOTING OPENED UP TODAY ACROSS IL-09! Do you have a plan to vote yet? You can vote at any early voting location in the county you’re registered in. Here are the closest ones across IL-09:

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Are you having a laugh, Jeff Bezos?

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Are you in #Alaska, #Louisiana, #Maine? These are the Senators who need to "just say no" to quackery.

Activists staged a graphic arts light projection show on the Kennedy Center as fears swirl the Kennedy Center as we know it may soon be gone forever. dcmediagroup.us/2026/02/26/a...

Kennedy has continued to spread misinformation and push politicised agendas at the expense of the country's most vulnerable...The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Like everything else with Trump, “Make America Healthy Again” was a lie.

Join us for NOT ON OUR WATCH: Fighting (& Winning) Against ICE Concentration Camps with Andrea Pitzer on March 5th, 7 PM ET/4 PM PT

Kelly Jensen is an essential voice for today. And, yes: "Discussion of gender is not sexualization." #FReadom, #StopBannedBooks @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

So agree! Even the Guardian could have done better.

bye-bye, Larry Summers; so agree re: Claudine Gay!

"It is impossible to understand Trump without understanding the marrow-deep bigotries that animate his resentment. He is the elemental embodiment of a YouTube comment complaining about bitches and [insert ethnic slur here]" www.liberalcurrents.com/what-trump-s...

Perfect! Maura Quint's State of the Union Recap

Join Indivisible Brooklyn (INBK) , Brooklyn Resisters (BKR) and artist Julie Peppito to create painted props for a giant moving art piece for NO KINGS 3! @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

“Whatever it is that Trump is going to say about the State of the Union… it is going to be delusional in the sense that it is not going to take into account what the lived realities are for so many people in this country.” — Rep Summer Lee, who will deliver Working Families Party response to #SOTU

'But you know what they did manage to cut out of the broadcast? Akinola Davies Jr. saying “Free Palestine” during his speech for winning outstanding British debut for “My Father’s Shadow.”'

I know the New York Times thinks it’s increasing its transparency, but these “our jobs are hard” stories by the news media always come across as indulgent. Try roofing or truck driving if you want a hard job.

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

while children with #LongCovid —*which is now more common in kids than asthma*—are "over twice as likely to report learning, memory, and mental health issues and 2.3 times more likely to miss over 18 school days...."