“Things got weird in Coeur d’Alene after the 2016 election. But then after the Covid-19 pandemic, shit went completely off the rails.”

everyone in the fascist trump regime is essentially little more than his "fluffer" - but in this case they are keeping his ego inflated

Happy birthday to #LaskerLaureate Tim Springer! 🧪 He was recognized for discoveries concerning the #integrins –key mediators of cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesion. Tim Springer Lab Harvard Medical School Boston Children’s Hospital https://ow.ly/erMQ50YkipP https://ow.ly/kB2o50YkipN

Applies here in the UK just as much as it does in the USA.

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

For satire to work, it must either be so outrageous as to make us take pause or it must be rooted in truth. I believe this is satire rooted in truth.

compassion never gets old

very cool - never knew hummingbirds had forked tongues

a new poem #poem, #poetry

Where will ICE strike next? A leaked Palantir user manual obtained by @404media.co reveals how “aliens specifically targeted by Leadership” are attacked at the touch of a button. “Like Uber for authoritarians. Let’s call it repression as a service,” FPF’S @skiles.blue writes.

a new poem, first draft #poetry #poem

they are trying to criminalize dissent, so that means I can end up in one of these concentration camps for saying #trumpIsAShitWeasel and #FuckICE - AND big social media is helping the fascist regime identify dissenters

When I was 13, I gave up Catholicism for Lent.

BREAKING: MeidasTouch and MoveOn are hosting the People’s State of the Union on the National Mall as Dems boycott Trump’s address. Hosted by Katie Phang and Joy Reid, it will feature lawmakers alongside federal workers, immigrants, and Americans impacted by Trump’s policies. Watch on our YouTube.

PROJECTION. ffs, it's everything they say. Control the narrative by accusing someone else of your crimes first.

Stephen Colbert taped a 'Late Show' interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas, but then CBS lawyers intervened. Here's the interview on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

The DOJ has asked states to agree to sign a secret agreement “in connection w/ handing over their full voter files.” The agreement says that “the DOJ will ‘test, analyze, & assess states’ [voter rolls]’ & send each participating state a list of voters who must be removed within 45 days.” 2/5/26 …1/

There is in fact an Epstein class, which not only believes in their own personal impunity, but seeks to protect their fellow travelers as well. buff.ly/cAvzilr

Here’s the Colbert interview of Texas Democratic Senatorial candidate James Talrico that the network wouldn’t allow him to air out of fear of FCC punishment. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The city of Minneapolis and its people have been formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. This #CupOfJoe comes in the form of an action. Sign this petition to send to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su... #ValentinesDayResistance

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

"The disingenuous—and seemingly endless—right-wing reaction to Bad Bunny’s half-time show is a study in the small-scale production of hamfisted disinformation." Read @annamerlan.bsky.social on MAGA's Super Bowl denials and anxious efforts to assert Trump's cultural control.

This is a good read.

"You Shall Not Speak" by Jorie Graham - a new poem from Jorie Graham is always a good thing - seems she has left Blue Sky, though

Unredacted Epstein files implicate ‘six powerful men’ and reveal victim aged just 9 trib.al/EzsvCLH

ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

In California:

'Poisons everything it touches': Industry 'cronies' at Trump's EPA approve toxic chemical

Political analysts and observers were alarmed on Thursday after a new report indicated President Donald Trump's FBI called a "horrifying" meeting of state election officials.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) launched an investigation and issued new guidance that could severely undercut efforts to expand voting among college students ahead of the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds a jump in disapproval of the agency among Democrats and independents, but Republicans are standing by ICE and the president. n.pr/3Zl5fOZ

this after they were ordered not to engage with observers and protesters - court orders mean nothing if there is no way to enforce them - local police need to hold these thugs accountable

need this for AZ, too, now that the gestapo are in Tucson

Barcelona

Researchers developed SVCFit, a tool that tracks how prostate cancer evolves under treatment by analyzing large chromosomal rearrangements often missed by standard approaches. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.01.636056

this should be EVERY DA in any city where the trump gestapo are terrorizing people

So. Much. This.

"The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.” ~ Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary maybe if they didn't wear masks and did have names/badges, they wouldn't feel so dehumanized - #defundICE

you can disable the function that allows the AI to train on your data, but you lose features we have all grown used to having, like labels dividing up our inbox - I did it anyway

📝Check out our latest paper published in @commsbio.nature.com !! Great work by Samet Aytekin and Laurens Kimps in this collaboration with @rochalab.bsky.social where they combined simultaneous FRET tension sensors and traction force microscopy! 👇🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

beautiful

Make this ICE Scum famous, someone ID him! #arrestice

we have reached the point where a judge has to prohibit the federal government from destroying evidence of its crimes

Watch this video if you want to cry over overwhelming decency rather than over rage about what some are trying to turn our country into.