I've so many friends who are sexual assault survivors. Mostly women, but men, too, and everyone across the gender spectrum. The ones who told were too often disbelieved. The ones who were believed still have to exist in a culture that treats this shit as normative. We could be so much better.

While some days are a little better than others and sometimes there are remissive periods, #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis is degenerative and potentially fatal. Which means that w/ each year, you get worse and worse and, even on your best days, you feel like you have an unbearable, severe flu Worn out

The thing about post-infectious illnesses like #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #LongCovid is that you can feel your body breaking down inside. In the Nineties my doctors told me I was lying and now research has corroborated what all of were saying: That each system in the body is under attack.

“President Trump thought he could break us, but he was wrong. Over the last three months Minnesotans showed our country what it means to stand up to tyranny & protect our communities." Read the full #ICEOUTNOW MN coalition statement on "surge" ending: iceoutnowmn.com/ice-drawdown

There’s a vote in DC tomorrow that would give DHS $11 billion more in funding. Schumer and Jeffries have already walked back any “demands” they had for DHS. I, for one, do not think this timing is just a coincidence. Turn down the temp for the vote. Turn it right back up when the bag is secured.

Now it better actually fucking happen. Get the hell out of Minnesota and stay out. Then leave Chicago, LA, PDX, the areas surrounding Seattle…*leave*

Put this together with today's announcement of a full withdrawal from Minnesota and yesterday's defeat on tariffs and you've got an administration clearly in retreat

Minnesota showed the country what informed and organized citizens can achieve. Their resolve is forcing the federal government to back away from an operation that never should have happened. We honor their courage and we mourn the price they paid. Real accountability must follow.

"At least one member of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed a person in Northeast D.C.’s Mayfair neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement source told WTOP." wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...

‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.

Not enough people are talking about the fact that the GOP’s disenfranchising SAVE act would disproportionately risk the voting rights of approximately *69 million* married women in the US. Read that again. 69 MILLION married women. See details from 19thnews.org in the reply below.

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

I'm a former DV Victim Advocate and I keep saying this: I guarantee you all these guys are DV assailants.

Spot on, tragically.

Tell that shitbag that if he expects people to represent the country, the country better live up to the values it says it represents, or expect some truths to be told.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

"The case against her fell apart weeks after text messages from the agent who shot her surfaced in court, showing him bragging about wounding Martinez and declaring that he was up for 'another round of (expletive) around and find out.'"

What scares me most is that it'll be forgotten a month from now b/c of the awfulness on all fronts.

Street Artist Clara Leff of São Paulo, Brazil - painted this dog #WallMural #StreetArt #realism #dogs #art A tribute to Olivia, her partner of life 💙

"I love the torture video. From Sulayem to Epstein." Just one of the emails referenced in Bondi's notebook in the second photo.

Thanks for the gift article. “He’s my first born,” Susan Pretti said. “He’s the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day.”

Re Pam Bondi and Co: I just off the phone w/ a retired attorney family member who said, "Between this disgrace and the total lack of the Fourth Amendment now, jurisprudence as I practiced it is over now."

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

And we'll keep screaming this until it's no longer true: ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE ARE DYING. C'mon, death. You aim like you're drunk and blindfolded. RIP Jame Van Der Beek. RIP Bud Cort.

Well said. RIP Bud Cort 💙🕯️ For the kids in the house, if you haven't seen HAROLD AND MAUDE, you'll probably want to rectify that.

1. James’ six kids are now without their father. In the last two years, he had to sell his Dawson’s Creek memorabilia to help pay for his cancer treatment. His castmates had to put on a show to help cover his medical expenses.

Aw, hell...💔 RIP James Van Der Beek. Such a wonderful actor. Fuck cancer straight to hell.

“.. Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein raise their hands after U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) asked who of them has been unable to meet with the U.S. Department of Justice led by Attorney General Pam Bondi.” @reuters.com

With data centers expected to become the largest source of electricity demand in the Pacific Northwest, Washington legislators are pressing ahead with a bill aimed at protecting the grid and offsetting potential hikes for utility ratepayers. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/11/h...

I'm incredibly ill and in the middle of moving, so I have to log off for hours at a time and when I come back, invariably it's a whole new world. For the foreseeable future, slow news days will remain a thing of the past and it's so fucked up.

I'm a woman in her fifties, so my faith in dudes wasn't that high to start with but OH MY GOD there are like 10 men on earth who've accrued money and power and haven't used it to rape anyone.

Maybe bros before hos isn't a super cool governing ethos.

All the worst people in the world are best friends

Rep. Raskin: “If Donald Trump can get $10 billion theoretically from the DOJ, how much should these people get for a far worse violation of their privacy rights and a far greater danger established to them and their lives?" Bondi: *doesn't answer the question*

Bondi should be impeached based solely on her conduct today. Talking money when the topic is Epstein victims should earn her contempt of Congress and disbarment as well. She is a disgrace to the legal profession.

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.

When it comes to the Epstein files, I don’t think men understand just how furious women are trib.al/iRNsDCg

“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”

Oh man

Join me in reporting and blocking.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

For all the other theater kids in the house: Amy Poehler interviews Jonathan Groff in this week's episode of GOOD HANG☀️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=spAl...

May they get what they deserve.

Across from the Whipple building, Minnesota… this is how we do👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Oh my god. This is in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.

Valentine’s Day Rally, Saturday, February 14, 2026 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. St Louis Park, MN 55416 Immigrants make Minnesota a better place to live! Let’s show up and show love for Minnesota neighbors who traveled far to get here, only to be targeted by ICE.