“I hope this news brings some joy to all who need to hear it,” she said. “As an important side note, I would like to be called Dr. Öztürk, not Miss Öztürk, from now on.” 👏👏👏

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

This is the correct answer; a good blueberry is good. Many blueberries are mushy and don’t taste good.

great news

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.” “‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

🇺🇸‼️🇻🇦 JD Vance invited Pope Leo XIV to attend America’s July 4, 2026, 250th anniversary celebrations, delivering a formal letter at the Vatican, - TIME The pope declined and instead announced he will spend July 4 in Lampedusa, Italy, focusing on migrants.

Important update: Local news outlet in Illinois says that kid who punched the pro-ICE jerk even though he was told he would get in trouble did not face any charges but served a two-day suspension from school. www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/s...

"What do I think of the Board of Peace? I think it is a colonialist operation: others deciding for the Palestinians,” said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa: www.ncronline.org/news/us-led-...

The mainstream media is so beholden to Trump they’ve left it to PEOPLE MAGAZINE to break this? people.com/jeffrey-epst...

What do you notice about the City of LA's budget priorities over the past 13 years? 🤔 I'll point out one thing: the department that maintains, preserves, and enhances our roads, sidewalks, and trees has a SMALLER operating budget than it did 13 years ago! Know which one? 🛠️

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Yes, that’s right. Someone tore their ACL playing poker

Justice for Jeffrey Damnit.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

The Supreme Court:

Pam Bondi did this: With a 30 yr record of violent crime that includes strangling a pregnant woman and firing a shotgun under a person’s chin, McKay was scheduled to stand trial next month on methamphetamine trafficking charges that could have locked him up for 25 years.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

National debt was 19 trillion when Trump promised to eliminate it in 8 years.

joyce is going after elon again

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

@heathergtv has a response for Bondi 👏🏼 🤣 #CulverCity

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

I, a child of rednecks and descendant of millworkers, have more in common with these men than anyone who calls them my enemy.

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

"White people are becoming second class citizens in America because of the radical left agenda." Is it Jeremy Carl in 2026, or an Oregonian's white supremacist screed written in 1959 in opposition to a proposed Civil Rights bill?

how we got here

white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP

This pops up every once in awhile and I always share it. Wu Tang goes in and out of popularity with the times, but there's no denying there was a Dream Team level of talent and brilliance on that roster. True artists.

Just gets better and better

It’s really odd that the bad guys are, in fact, exactly like in in the cartoons. This is the kind of shit that Cobra Commander would pull and Destro would be so appalled by that he’d make sure the Joes were able to get the food and give it to the kids when they hang-glided into the fortress.

New: District Judge Robert Gettleman issued an order yesterday mandating clergy be allowed inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility on Feb. 18 to offer those inside ashes and communion for Ash Wednesday. Gettleman found the govt has "substantially burdened plaintiffs’ exercise of religion."

Not muh foodways!!!

Seriously, what is going on over there in that White House

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

It’s absolutely infuriating that we are just expected to treat the people proposing these kinds of laws as normal folks that we just have some policy disagreement with

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I’m amped after that game so, for no good or worthwhile reason, going to watch the TPUSA halftime show. Let’s see how far I make it.

Variety confirms the wedding in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was real

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

Apart from anything else, the United States has no official language

Happy for Sam Darnold and Leonard Williams. Escaping the Jets and winning a Super Bowl.

MAGA: “I ain’t watching the halftime show!!!! I’m watching the pro-family TPUSA one headlined by KID ROCK MAGAAA!!!!” Kid Rock song: “ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see. Some say that's statutory (but I say that's mandatory)”