NEWS: After a massive national outcry, a judge has ordered Trump to undo the unlawful deportation of Any Lopez Belloza. Any attempt to further prosecute, jail, or deport Any — who is an innocent American college student — is unacceptable.

When he gives his coat to the dog 🥺🥺

This teenager saved his neighbor's dog from drowning in a freezing pond. This is Bernard. His family contacted emergency services right away, but high school senior Hugh Pinneo got to Bernard first. Hugh said he's "just glad I acted that day and saved the dog's life." We are too. 12/10 for all

Sprinkling kindness around the library—hope this makes your day too 💌

This is lovely.

Solidarity forever with the workers at DC's cat cafe who were put out of work by their union-busting owner after they announced they intended to unionize. www.popville.com/2026/02/crum...

Hey Leon i'm still looking through the files and a long weekend is coming just fyi

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

Katharine Hepburn (1907- 2003), Hollywood actress and pioneer in female style, who helped popularise women's trouser wearing, relating to independent womanhood #WomensArt

I need this button too. 😅

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋‍♀️ Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote. Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...

Self-portrait, 1927, (detail) Suzanne Valadon, French painter #WomensArt

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The Third-Country Removal Tracker has been updated with new info on payments to "host" countries from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all...

A federal judge in Minneapolis has ordered the dismissal of felony assault charges against two Venezuelan men, including one shot in the leg by an immigration officer, after new evidence undercut the government's case.

Not only did Trump lose the 2016 popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, once he was in office he launched a massive "voter fraud" investigation to prove that he'd *actually* won the popular vote by several million and then they didn't find a thing and quietly disbanded it.

Appropriately named location.

OPINION: "If this episode proves consequential, it will not be because of how courts ultimately rule but because of what the case revealed. In attempting to assert power, Republicans elevated a leader defined by restraint, service, and respect for democratic institutions," Van Abbott writes.

On this 13th day of Black History month 2026, I celebrate black women. You are the blueprint, the 1st from which we all arose, the carriers of our genetic memory. Though the🌎may not appreciate you, you are the lineage that binds us all. You are worthy, you are Eden made, you are loved.

Every day in every way, trumps stupidity, meanness, and greed ruin our lives. This is just another angle on #TrumpAffordabilityDisaster

Shattering.

What began as a narrow inquiry escalated into a threat of court martial, public censure by Hegseth & threatened penalties against a sitting US senator. Instead of diminishing Kelly, the episode elevated him, transforming a respected lawmaker into a central figure in the emerging 2028 landscape.

With their accounts never matching up and trillions missing, here’s where trump wants to put your money! While we live in a #TrumpAffordabilityDisaster !

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX Ukrainian soldiers tricked Russian soldiers into providing terminal ID numbers, satellite dish numbers, Starlink account information, and their precise coordinates in latitude and longitude

I agree. But, the problem is transnational now, as opposed to national monopolies in the Gilded Age a hundred years ago. So, it's going to be even harder to tackle. But, of course, we must.

AOC is supposed to be somehow radical, but this is EXACTLY what the CIA World Factbook said about it -> extreme income inequality is associated with political instability.

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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Get your passports sistas.

The release of 3 million files related to the Epstein Transparency Act last week has demonstrated that the FBI & the Dept of Justice concealed key findings into the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein ... several members of Congress confirmed that the years-long cover-up continues.

A federal judge in Illinois quickly issued a restraining order after the Trump administration slashed more than $600 million in CDC grants to four blue states. n.pr/4rgxxX4

They had a deal many years ago. Russia broke it and they'll do it again.

They're trying to eradicate their Russian invaders as fast as they can. I'm not sure what else needs to move quickly other than Russia getting the hell out.

Translation - Russia is losing!

Putin puppet

Snowpack levels across a wide swath of Western US states are among the lowest seen in decades, even as regulators struggle to negotiate water rights in the region. www.wired.com/story/record...

One of the Trump admin's key steps to targeting refugees involves reversing the government’s longtime position on whether a federal law allows the government to detain certain refugees. The reversal appears to based on nothing, at best, or a lie, at worst. My report:

DHS is currently targeting 5,600 refugees in Minnesota as a first step in an expansive plan aimed at reviewing — and presumably restricting — the legal status of refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration. Read my Law Dork report on Trump admin memos filed in court Thursday:

Note: Judge Tenheim initially ordered these memos to be filed under seal, meaning the public wouldn't have access to them. Law Dork moved to intervene on Tuesday, asking, among other steps, for the sealing to be lifted. The judge lifted the sealing order on Thursday. So, the memos are now public.

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omg

We have to do this.

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

here is the book. highly recommend it. wwnorton.com/books/978132...