A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social

My latest: Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose. Support independent, pro-democracy media. subscribe to Democracy Docket now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Lawyers for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell. ... Because, after all, she doesn't want to lose her leverage.

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Almost 250 years after we broke with George III, the question must now be faced: Are we a monarchy or a nation of laws? [Cartoon by Bill Bramhall]

NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

"In politics, accountability seems to vary depending whether you are on the east or the west side of the Atlantic." A very relevant line that @mattbevan.bsky.social wrote *before* Andrew's arrest. #EpsteinFiles www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMaR...

Sculpture of a giant blue rooster by the German artist Katharina Fritsch #WomensArt

The Trump administration’s sanctions against Palestinian human rights organizations and ICC officials are the latest chapter in a long history of attacks against advocates aiming to hold Israel and the U.S. accountable.

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War crime! SANCTIONS!

Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s. (Any century!) #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

@mreid.bsky.social Can I invite you to submit here, and/or let others know about this opportunity? Thanks! moritherapy.wixsite.com/murielsjourn...

morning blue alive with birdsong and sunrise

Hey, Austin Smith! Thanks for proving once more that with Reich-Wingers, every accusation is a confession. #ElectionFraud #AustinSmith #TPUSA

So not Antifa? www.tmz.com/2026/02/22/m...

Design for a Jacquard Woven Wall Hanging, ca. 1927 by highly influential Bauhaus textile artist Gunta Stölzl #WomensArt

“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Counterpoint: No. ICE doesn’t need reform. Abolition and prosecution is the bare minimum.

Notice how the Department of Homeland Security has changed the look of its concentration camps? It's so drones can't fly overhead to take videos of emaciated inmates covered in their own filth.

Marcus McAllister ”SB149.07 parce que tu es entier” 2026 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm #sketchbook #drawing #SciArt #bird

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Scientists found traces of chitin — the same tough material in modern insect and crab shells — in a 500-million-year-old trilobite fossil. The discovery shows organic molecules can survive far longer than expected, reshaping ideas about fossil preservation and Earth’s long-term carbon cycle

“We didn’t vote for this.”

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 'It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works.' fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Hardest working man in the government.

Over 300 activists out today across Gorton & Denton (despite the rain) - here’s a snapshot.

Finnish Meteorites: The Geological Survey of Finland have studied a rare Finnish meteorite that could reveal new insights about the universe. Lieksa meteorites may all originate from the same source-a rare and complex body with a unique composition and structure. www.abo.fi/en/news/rare...

This from the lawyer who successfully argued the tariff case before SCOTUS, casts huge doubt over the applicability of the statute the @POTUS is relying on to slap down a new 15 percent global tariff.

"This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" (1983) - Talking Heads - Live performance "Stop Making Sense" (1984) 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP8J...

I clearly see the Supreme Court's tariff case differently than legacy media. If you appreciate independent, news, information and analysis and want to support pro-democracy media, sign up for Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran is operating on the basis that U.S. military strikes are "inevitable and imminent." - NYT Iran had placed all of its armed forces on the highest state of alert and preparing to resist fiercely.

Analysis: These two new economic numbers blew a hole in Trump’s rosy narrative edition.cnn.com/2026/02/21/p...

Associating with Jeffrey Epstein or attempting a coup will land you in prison in the UK or South Korea. In America, doing both lands you in the White House.

Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.

By the time he’s done, I’ll bet that at least a quarter of the national debt will just be money he stole.

Matt Goodwin is currently on Twitter hiding replies and blocking anyone talking about how he’s from Hertfordshire, the sexual harassment allegations being made against him or how he stands accused of taking cheques from Viktor Orban. Losing control of the narrative.

⬛️🟥🟨🟩🇨🇦 Honouring ERNEST TUCKER First Black Journalist for the CBC First Black Graduate of Ryerson School of Journalism Broke JFK news to 🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... www.torontomu.ca/journalism/n... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_... #blackhistorymonth #blackbrilliance #BHMcanada #BHM2026 #canada

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"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending *** As of the end of January, there have been no convictions."

Ciboria caucus, the Alder Goblet - lots of these to be seen in my local woodland growing from decaying alder catkins #mycology #mushroom #fungi #fungifriends #photography #macrophotography

between colours silence, cars; birdsong rises, beauty flows

This keeps getting funnier.

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)