it's hard to process this level of cruelty to children

more institutions putting everyone's faith back in faith-based institutions

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Cutting of life essentials to a civilian population didn’t take long to move from Gaza to Cuba

The amount of damage that RFK Junior and his cronies are doing to public health is unprecedented. Infuriatingly enough, there are some accredited medical professionals helping him attack science-based medicine. @joho.bsky.social tells us who they are and what they're doing:

the world is a book, read more than one page

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com wired.com/story/social...

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Omg, the little leis! 🥰🫠

“How are you mad at God for creating beautiful people?” — Yolanda Adams, speaking about her support for the LGBTQIA+ community.

everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood? free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise

This is part of a nationwide audit of all public housing units announced by HUD last month, following what it says was the discovery of 200,000 tenants requiring eligibility verification, nearly 25,000 deceased tenants, and nearly 6,000 ineligible non-American tenants.

NEWS: Following a mandate from the Trump administration, the D.C. Housing Authority is telling private housing providers that manage public housing units that they have to submit documentation verifying legal residency/citizenship of every tenant. Deadline is Feb. 19.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

This is about 2 million homes with $1500/mo. rents for a year.

Judge blocks Trump administration move to cut $600 million in HIV funding from states www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Excellent questions 💯

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... waste, fraud & abuse

Colorado Capitol caucuses would have to disclose their donors, spending under Democratic unity bill

Officials in Pittsfield, MA are standing up for homeless residents. The Board of Health is advising AGAINST bans on sleeping outside--instead, it recommends a community response program that actually connects individuals with resources. #HousingNotHandcuffs.

🚨NEWS: Trump quietly dismantled ICE's civil liberties enforcement office as the agency faces 6,000 complaints, according to court records reviewed by @levernews.com. Without the office, Congress-mandated ICE reforms could go unenforced. Dems have not been pressing to reverse the cuts.

Polish athlete Maria Kwaśniewska refusing to give the Nazi salute whilst receiving a medal during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She later saved many lives through underground activities and continued her sports career post-war, becoming a decorated activist, and died in Warsaw at age 94.

22 House Democrats (including some surprising ones!) just joined Republicans to vote to allow domestic abusers to buy tasers.

Federal judge stops Trump plans to cut public health funding to Colorado, other Democratic-led states

A marvelous piece of journalism about a Baltimore blues icon.

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of over a hundred Venezuelan men it expelled to an El Salvador prison and also allow them to challenge their removal from abroad.

What Israel does so often w/ the organs of Palestinians is so unbelievably crazy that you sound insane just repeating it. It’s actually quite the cover for bad acts, make them so horrific nobody can believe they’re even possible. This teacher got fired for repeating what Palestinian doctors say...

AI companies are jumping into the Nebraska senate race to defend the billionaire Pete Ricketts against independent mechanic Dan Osborn

A number of states are pursuing large, irresponsible tax cuts even though they face significant cost-shifts from the federal government under the draconian #Medicaid and SNAP cuts in H.R. 1. That will make the resulting budget cuts at the state level harming low-income families even more damaging.

This is a very good open source resource on the variety of ways that DOGE damaged government:

SCOOP: NY-17 candidate Cait Conley worked defense contractors looking to help the feds use AI for border surveillance and military projects -- PrimerAI & Hidden Level. Her campaign did not answer questions about if she's still working for either firm theintercept.com/2026/02/09/n...

Eating would probably help 😼

In the past, American reactionaries were united primarily through religious bigotry and racism. But as America has become more racially diverse and non-religious, misogyny has become the unifying principle for the younger set.

The other problem with this is that those Trump policies described there aren't actually about "securing the border." They're about emptying *the interior* of immigrants. The media's casual conflation of "the border" with interior enforcement/policy is a big reason we are where we are today.

Good news, but I think this might be an attempt to sway a few to fund DHS and to get Democrats to agree to fewer demands. This administration can’t be trusted. ICE ending 'surge operation' in Minnesota. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Utah is trying to build a massive, taxpayer-funded detention camp. "Why should you care about this, even if you don’t live in Utah? Well it’s because this proposal is kind of a test, and they want to take it and export it to states across the nation," - Rep. Maxwell Frost

Rich people think they live in a higher tier of society full of better and more brilliant people, but it’s actually just the same society except the people have more money to waste and lose. So much of what they do is just wealth-induced hallucination

If you want AI proliferation, you must support Universal Basic Income. Otherwise, your ethics are compromised. If we gave everyone subsistence, no, we wouldn't have a lazy society. There's no limit to what people might do if their basic needs were met... we'd have less peril and more innovation.

MN meeds our help … still.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Eugene Bullard - an aviation pioneer who was one of a very few Black aviators who flew in combat during the First World War. #aviation en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_...

The results of another BIG pilot are now available. This one was in L.A. and provided $1,000/mo for a year (2022 to 2023) to 3,200 people and compared them to a control group of 5,000. Every household started in poverty and with kids or expecting a baby. The results speak for themselves. 👇

A young man at our town hall asked if I was pushing class warfare. I told him: “We already have class warfare in this country — billionaires are waging war on the rest of us.”

Baltimore's crime rate has dropped dramatically under Moore. The homicide rate last year was a 50-year low.

This is how you respond to people who befriended and profited from Jeffrey Epstein after he was imprisoned for soliciting a minor. www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

Quick update: due to strong interest (thanks to everyone who has registered!), the location has changed to Math & Science E208. Directions and rsvp here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I love her more. www.axios.com/2026/02/11/a...

On February 11, 1961, President John F. Kennedy was photographed in the Oval Office by The New York Times’ George Tames, capturing what would become one of the most enduring images of his presidency.

If you haven't read this by @nafeez.bsky.social regarding Jeffrey Epstein and the big tech oligarchs, you absolutely must. Epstein's sexual and financial crimes are well-known, but his role as a central node of the techno-fascist oligarchy that runs Donald Trump is the biggest political takeaway.

JFC. He called Gallup and asked to speak to the manager.

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