Don’t judge me. It’s been a long weekend.

Thanks Marcie! 💙 Let's stand with the children.

. Africa's nature-based solutions to tackle climate change - Geographical Magazine Find out more: geographical.co.uk/news/afr... #ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family. What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

Trump: "I am allowed to cut off any and all trade…I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country, I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo…I can do anything I want to do to them…I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge a little fee."

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on who is in these immigration processing facilities: “It's not these criminals, these violent, hardened criminals that we were promised. It is children, families, and parents being taken from communities.”

On Presidents' Day: "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." -- Abraham Lincoln

The fact that the rules of air defense "had to be relearned over a major American city next to a large international airport should concern anyone who understands how quickly accidents become tragedies."

My almost 105 year old abuelita-in-law is VERY excited for Bad Bunny. She came from the island, and for her entire life, she’s been an American citizen! Voted for FDR! 🇵🇷🇺🇸

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Can't wait to hear how this is deeply un-American

"As sad as it is to admit, the Washington Post is beyond help. The only thing left to us to is build new institutions to take its place. That’s what we’re doing here."

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

The CHILDREN? "There was very much a class aspect to this. A lot of the YOUNG GIRLS came from broken homes and poor backgrounds. Some of them had been abused in their own families. CHILDREN WERE VIEWED, BASICALLY, AS OBJECTS … THEY WERE VIEWED AS DISPOSABLE CHILDREN." AUCTIONABLE CHILDREN!!

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting: Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

7 February 1932 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Salomon Niekerk, was born in Rijswijk. On 20 January 1944 he was deported from Westerbork to the Theresienstadt ghetto and on 16 May 1944 sent in a transport to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

“Are we more like intelligent machines or conscious, feeling animals?” With the rise of A.I., Michael Pollan thinks we’re approaching a “Copernican moment of redefinition” of how we think about what makes us human. Read, watch or listen to “The Interview.” trib.al/N76vo6S

"To put it in terms Bezos would use, he is no longer a swashbuckling badass. He should sell the Post to someone who is." ICYMI Cameron Barr, former senior managing editor of the Washington Post:

Fascinating account of Assad’s last day in Syria. Suggests he was ultimately a victim of his own over-confidence and self-delusion. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Portrait of Michelle and Barack Obama former First Lady and President of the US 📷 Pete Souza

At about 22m in, Ian McKellan brings the Colbert studio to a total, rapt standstill with this speech, written by Shakespeare 400 years ago, of Thomas More to Londoners rioting over recent immigrants to remember themselves and welcome others. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

Remembering a great & good lady, B.J. Thornberry. She was a force for change in politics & helped shape Colorado during the Romer Administration. She had an outsized influence on my career and I am so grateful for her mentorship.

Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

"Ferguson’s only other argument seems to boil down to I’m a Hoover Institution senior fellow, and you’re not. (Really.) So much for scorning the 'elites.'"

“Trump does not respond to outrage. He responds to markets.” @profgalloway.com makes the case for a national economic strike.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

“Congress has both the authority and the obligation to examine whether current immigration enforcement practices reflect the rule of law, due process, and the values that distinguish the United States as a constitutional democracy." lulac.org/news/pr/LULA...

Highly recommend @maddow.bsky.social podcast "Burn Order" along with Adam Schrager's inspiring book about Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr.

I am about 1/4 through this book and am hugely impressed. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched.

Tonight, tune in for a special conversation between Rachel Maddow and guests of her most recent podcast “Burn Order” from a live community event in Los Angeles. They’ll discuss the fight against race-based incarceration during World War II and what lessons we can apply today.

1 January 1940 | An Italian Jewish girl, Cesira Sonnino, was born in Rome (in the middle). On 23 October 1943, she was murdered in a gas chamber at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She was killed together with her brothers: Mario (left) and Sandro (right).

Happy New Year! 🎉 Walking into 2026 like Victor Laszlo ... 🗃️ #HATM www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOli...

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! I wrote this at the end of last year. Revisiting as I begin to write what happened in 2025 and to look ahead to the new year. Worth re-reading: Rebuilding from the rubble rappler.com/plus-members...

Friendly reminder!

We are not as bloodthirsty as Stephen Miller wants us to be. French argues that Stephen Miller is miscalculating, and that it’s possible to awaken the country’s sleeping conscience. It may already be happening. French thinks we are already seeing a “vibe shift.” substack.com/profile/4298...

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. . . This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglass

3 December 1933 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Rosalia Elisabeth Bloemist, was born in Amsterdam. In February 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

29 November 1923 | A Polish Jew, Rubin Schiff, was born in Jasło. A tailor assistant. In #Auschwitz from 18 December 1941. No. 24702 He perished in the camp on 29 December 1941. --- Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U

Caught my eye at the @denverartmuseum.bsky.social - works by military veterans part of the Community Spotlight Program at the Art Museum.

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”