"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

Edith Clarke, the first female electrical engineer in the US, invented a calculator (the Clarke calculator) to solve electric power transmission problems, a precursor to modern smart grid technology. It was patented in 1925. #WomenInSTEM It's International Day of #CleanEnergy!

Colbert was forbidden, by CBS network lawyers, to interview Talarico on air. Remember, Trump is so terrified now, that he has censored the news, and is trying to undo the freedom of press. Here’s the interview. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

CBS is lost. Trump controls it.

The Daily Show: Release the Trump files!! 1 million times. Holy f'!!

What the actual fuck? Doctors won't be able to treat sexually transmitted infections in minors without parental consent if this passes? This is insane & cruel. And before you think any parent would consent please consider the ultra right wing religious parents. floridaphoenix.com/2026/02/09/d...

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

Minneapolis residents are facing a growing food crisis. Fear from ICE is keeping families—especially elders, parents, and the homebound from groceries. Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...

#handsoff #nokings #ReleaseALLthefiles #EpsteinFiles #lovemyGov #itsthefuckingguns #midterms26 #getridofElectoralCollege #TheEpsteinBallroom #blackhistorymonth Release ALL the files NOW 25th Ammendment NOW Abolish ICE NOW 🤬🤬🤬

He lied at the National Prayer Breakfast to take credit for a prisoner freed who was actually freed during Obama. You heard that right — Lying 🤥 at 🤥 a 🤥 prayer 🤥 breakfast 🤥 www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/p...

The U.S. ranks 40th in healthcare—dead last on this list—yet Congress keeps shoveling billions into ICE. We fund raids, cages, and weapons while people die waiting for care. This isn’t incompetence. It’s priorities. And they’re lethal. #FundHealthcareOverICE #USDemocracy #Pinks

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Here is the video of Hakeem Jeffries saying "fuck Donald Trump" for posting that racist video of the Obamas. (originally from his official Instagram account) www.instagram.com/reel/DUbeoy5...

Friday: Olympic crowd boos JD Vance. Saturday: Trump announces new 1500% tariff on all Italian sports imported into the US.

Quite an extraordinary connection between Miroslav Lajcak and Epstein. Lajcak, former Slovak foreign minister, EU Balkans envoy and, until last Sunday, Fico’s foreign policy adviser, privately met Epstein in his Paris flat two months before Epstein’s death. All recorded using an official govt email.

It’s entirely legal to record LE officers from your car. So they’re brazenly, illegally terrorizing this woman for exercising her constitutional rights. Yet we know that none of these officers be held accountable. We know this administration encourages this behavior. This is police state stuff.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

RJ Matson, Congressional Quarterly

“Seniors in long-term care facilities develop deep bonds with their staff. Blumberg’s residents, she said, ‘can relate to not being wanted, to being kicked out and coming to America for salvage and freedom and safety and shelter. And they want to be able to protect the Haitians.’”

Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.

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(cartoon David Horsey) #politics #ice #trump

Distress signal, Minnesota-style. #ICEOutOfMinnesota www.facebook.com/share/p/1C2Z...

Parents must trust AAP, not CDC! American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children be vaccinated against 18 diseases including hepatitis A & B, Covid-19, influenza, rotavirus & meningococcal. These immunizations were dropped from the CDC’s schedule for all children.  www.wsj.com/health/healt...

“The U.S. has led an unprecedented age of cosmic discovery. Now Trump is trying to bring that age to an end, and right at the moment when answers to our most profound existential questions finally seem to be within reach,” @rossandersen.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/LThKw0kY

This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.

"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”

The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US

Asking everyone with Netflix to watch Michelle Obama's documentary "Becoming" to shoot it to netflix #1 the opening weekend of Melania's bullshit project

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

🚨OFFICIAL FLIP ALERT🚨 Democrat Taylor Rehmet has FLIPPED Texas State Senate District 9! This is a seat that Trump won by *17* points, and a district that has more voters than a *Congressional* district. Plus the GOP *heavily* outspent Dems here for their MAGA candidate. Political. Earthquake.

Seeing as new Epstein files just dropped, here’s a reminder about Alex Acosta’s involvement with the State Leadership Initiative alongside Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts & Nate Fischer.

At this point, is it just easier and quicker to publish lists of which powerful people do NOT appear in the Epstein files?

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration custody — condemning their removal from Minneapolis as unconstitutional. Judge Fred Biery condemned "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" and "the imposition of cruelty."

I Really Don't Care- Do U?

NEW: Senate Democrats, led by Alex Padilla and Dick Durbin, accused the DOJ of running an unlawful pressure campaign to centralize voter registration data nationwide, despite recent court losses and no congressional authorization.