Grateful that so many MAGA influencers are sharing our reporting that questions ICE’s (now deleted) claim about law enforcement in Colorado. But their headlines suggest they didn’t actually watch the report.

Oh hayyyyyyyyyyy NYC Health! We see you. We love you.

Joy is its own resistance. If you need inspiration on how to spread it, the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation has a calendar to give you ideas for every day of the year. Goodnight, folks! www.randomactsofkindness.org/printables/c...

A stop work order for part of CDC's Data Modernization Accelerator contract means that there will now be next to no support for AI governance, guidance, policy, training, or roll-outs all while CDC staff are being told to use Claude and ChatGPT for anything and everything. What could go wrong??? 😱

Monkey and ape imagery have been used for centuries to dehumanize Black people, especially during slavery and the Jim Crow era. Civil rights groups and historians have long classified such depictions as explicitly racist, not ambiguous or coded. www.axios.com/2026/02/06/t...

Over the last four decades, such depictions have been treated as an unmistakable racial slur that resulted in widespread outcry and consequences. Roseanne Barr tweeted in 2018 that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett looked like she was from "Planet of the Apes." ABC canceled her show

Continuing: Censoring or more succinctly, throttling messages to the public. This is OUR agency. We pay for it.

5/5 Federal workers are not gig workers. We’re not optional leverage in budget fights. A bipartisan law guarantees our back pay -- guidance that suggests otherwise undermines trust, morale, and the rule of law. 💬 www.narfe.org/advocacy/shu...

4/5 Reminder what the law actually says: GEFTA, passed with bipartisan support and signed in 2019, requires retroactive pay for both furloughed and excepted employees once a shutdown ends. That was the whole point of the statute. www.congress.gov/bill/116th-c...

3/5 This tracks with what happened in Oct 2025, when OMB quietly scrubbed references to the 2019 law (GEFTA) from its shutdown FAQ and claimed back pay wasn’t guaranteed without new appropriations. A sharp break from past practice. www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

2/5 Reporting shows what was actually stripped out of OPM’s shutdown guidance: clear language on guaranteed back pay, furlough pay rates, leave accrual, and prior references to RIF protections. That’s not “clarification” -- that’s erasure. New guidance doc: www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

1/5 OPM quietly revised its Jan 2026 shutdown guidance. The new text backs away from guaranteed back pay for furloughed feds -- even though a 2019 law already guarantees it. The statute didn’t change; the guidance did. 🔍 🙏 @jheckman.bsky.social @dfriedman.bsky.social @federalnewsnetwork.com

As we say goodnight, a reminder that from lifesaving research to community care, Black innovators have shaped public health at every turn. We honor their brilliance, resilience, and impact. Black history is American history. Just a few public health heroes below. Happy Black History Month! ❤️🖤💚

Wall Street longs for a steady hand at the helm. Instead, they get Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent hurling insults and giving every impression that he’s about to have a nervous breakdown. The more thuggish Bessent gets, the more reason to fear the economy will tank. trib.al/qYVrjf8

Alex Pretti’s murder is giving even Trump supporters pause. trib.al/tcsGDHX Democrats should refuse to give ICE one more cent, shut down the government, and fly to Minneapolis to help communities there stand up to state violence.

MINORS ARE NOT WOMEN. MINORS ARE CHILDREN. Teenagers are children. Period. Full stop. Why is this so hard to comprehend and communicate in your multiple articles?? These offenders, including POTUS, had forceable and coerced sex with children. Fix it. NOW.

😡 I’m angry today Gonna turn it into action You have 2 weeks to submit a public comment supporting trans* youth’s right to healthcare. Trump wants to take that away. Public comments matter. By law, the gvt must respond. Substantive comments slow unjust policies. Comment. Share. Don’t look away.

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

“Heated Rivalry” star Robbie G.K. gave fans a huge surprise at the Vancouver Canucks at a January 21 Pride Night Game against the Washington Capitals.

Myth busting. FACTS MATTER.

Have I said lately how much I hate them? On the chair lift… walking around the streets… in the airport… I still hear Spanish spoken all the time. We are a multinational and multi-ethnicity country. And every time I do, at first, I smile, then I cringe and look around in fear.

Protect yourself from tear gas: N95s aren’t enough. Use half- or full‑face respirators with P100+OV filters, eye protection, no contacts. Safety tips: phr.org/our-work/res... Respirators: www.crisisreadymedia.org/masks Stay safe, be brave, fight for what’s right ✊💚.

JFC. A guy murdered a woman and it’s on Frey to “bring down the temperature?”

🌈❤️🌈 57 and fabulous and single Active CO transplant near Seattle Avoiding rain Chasing joy Love snow and my GSD Finding my people in WA Fight against breast cancer started: 1/9/26 Going dancing tonight. Renee Good was murdered while her wife watched from the street. It has been a hard year.

We just want to say, it’s ok to feel sad during the holidays. It’s not selfish, it’s not weakness. It’s grief. It’s ok to grieve. Especially now. And we’re sending a special hug to all of you who are facing the people who should have loved you best, but chose to hurt you instead. We see you. 💚

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
- Mary Oliver 🤍 2026 vibes 🤍

These days ads for and media about AI feel like harbingers of the apocalypse, yet occasionally they get it right. Good night all!

Leaving you tonight with dreams of a better future. Goodnight! 🚀

A Kenyan court suspended a US health aid deal after concerns it might allow US access to sensitive medical records like HIV status and vaccination data. Hard to blame anyone for being worried when the US response to those questions is “no comment.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Before we head to bed, a friendly holiday reminder, vaccines cause adults! 💉🎄 ☃️ Goodnight 💤

Not enough folks know that the Foo Fighters are massive AIDS denialists and ran fundraisers for proto-RFKJ types that refused to treat children with HIV. FWIW: Courtney Love and Pearl Jam have both worked extensively with responsible AIDS orgs. #noalternativescience

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Maybe this will help some of us sleep tonight… after another nauseating day of news from DC. HCR nails it, as usual. Our Republic will be saved by historians. I’m sure of it.

Adult coloring is FUN.

Do we still have a House of Reps? Asking for a country… 🫠 Must be nice getting a 6 week paid vacation while fed workers go without pay 💀 #CongressOnVacation #FedStrong #DoYourJob

We are going to leave you tonight with a simple reminder that it’s okay to punch (full grown) Nazis. No debating. No listening. Punching.

Fascism and racism in full view. Unadulterated. Unapologetic. Not hiding it anymore. In anyway. Doesn’t bode well for his marriage or relationship with his children and in-laws either. Especially as he openly wishes his ‘brilliant’ American ‘but Hindu’ wife would convert to white supremacy too.

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

♥️🎉Fed Court grants temporary restraining order in AFGE v. OMB, halting firings on 10/10 during govt. shutdown for 14 days. Applies to ALL agencies (including CDC) with at least 1 AFGE member. Your Union Power at work! ♥️💪 #unionstrong #AFGE mcsms.io/XswQaF www.afge2883ga.org

Small win: #CDC privacy office survived the weekend chaos. Big concerns remain about how HHS, Palantir & others may use STLT data. If agencies must share, we recommend the bare minimum—aggregate if possible—and use high caution and good judgement to protect residents against unsanctioned data use.

Seems like the IRS is trying to dirty delete the email saying all employees would receive backpay once the shutdown was over. You want a fight? You've found it. We're not backing down, and we know the attempts to deny furloughed feds backpay is illegal. federalnewsnetwork.com/government-s...

Make America Great Again… GTF Out!

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

The truth is, the government has been shutting down since January. Mass illegal firings, withholding funds, censorship, corruption. Making this fight about medicaid subsidies is fine. But no democrat should be voting to fund a dictatorship. Call your dems and tell them to hold the line 5calls.org

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