Russia revoked the citizenship of ICIJ member and IStories founder Roman Anin. Yet, Anin, who was born in Moldova and acquired Russian citizenship in 2006, remains steadfast. “It will not affect my work in any way,” he told ICIJ. www.icij.org/news/2026/01... @icij.org

A court ordered landowners on St. Helena Island in SC to remove all obstructions to local Gullah Geechee residents’ access to their centuries-old cemetery. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... @ccrjustice.org

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

"In Pennsylvania, the Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers..." www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...

Victory for Black Residents of Cancer Alley as Court Rules Landmark Lawsuit Seeking Moratorium on Toxic Industry Can Proceed on All Counts ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... @ccrjustice.org

Russia: Two years after Navalny’s death, authorities evade justice, continue to hound his supporters www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne... @amnesty.org

Train Dreams was named best feature at the 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards | @filmindependent.org

Trump leaned on CBS and forced them to cancel last night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert because his guest was James Talarico, whose candidacy for the Senate is threatening to flip Texas. Colbert however made sure the segment was on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

IRAN | X-rays taken after Iran protests expose catastrophic injuries -- one of the medical analysts describes them as “the kind of injuries you would see in wartime.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Radical Feminism Unmasked: Guerrilla Girls & Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot) | Mar 1, 6pm, Getty Center | A conversation about how artists transform rage into creative resistance and the risks of speaking truth to power. www.getty.edu/calendar/rad... @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Leader vows to repay the ‘young martyrs’ who died as North Korea intensifies propaganda glorifying troops deployed to fight for Russia. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

YELLOW LETTERS is a cautionary tale for Western audiences who believe democratic backsliding is a distant concern, not a danger that could emerge at home. The film focuses on what happens to a marriage under extraordinary political pressure. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Netanyahu is close to completing a Trump-style media remake in Israel in which all major media will be in the hands of his cronies. www.ft.com/content/5505...

In Post-Roe America, patients are now being denied lifesaving care, simply because they are pregnant. Lizzie Presser & @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social join me at 11 a.m. EST to discuss the deadly consequences for women. #Velshi

President Trump's longtime confidant Thomas Barrack, now serving as U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, was in regular, close contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor. www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-bar...

SUDAN | War has displaced 13.6 million people and left 21 million, 41 percent of Sudan’s population in need of food. It is the largest humanitarian crisis on earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRsA...

FILIPIÑANA || A tee girl is drawn to the president of the country club. However, after piecing together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club’s pristine surface, she realizes that her infatuation is rooted in a sinister shared history. [Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAZv...

The emergence of borderless, low-fee payments has created the opportunity for human trafficking to scale faster. www.wired.com/story/crypto... @wired.com

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plans to offer her foreign policy vision at the Munich Security Conference this weekend. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... @aoc.bsky.social @munsecconf.bsky.social

Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it …. it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.

Pam Bondinisnt just running interference for Trump. She was attorney general of Florida from 2011 to 2019 and didn’t bring any charges against Jeffrey Epstein when she clearly should have. She is up to her eyeballs in the coverup.

There must be some mistake. I was assured by Brett Kavanaugh that detainees were sorted only by the content of their character, and it was purely coincidental that this mapped on to the color of their skin.

MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN | "An extraordinary film documenting the mass indoctrination and militarization of Russian children, and one man's determination to expose it." ~ @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

“There's been a lot of stuff in Iran, but I would say the blackout we're in now is without precedent in the country... And I think it's arguably one of the biggest communications blackouts in history, not just Iran.” www.wired.com/story/irans-... @wired.com

SEARCH NM | For years, Epstein abused teenage girls and young women on a ranch in NM. Survivors detailed horror after horror they say unfolded on this isolated expanse of land. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... CC:@repromero.bsky.social

"I don’t back down when I get bullied. I fight harder. Everyone I see out here is like, What do you think—we’re gonna quit? We live here." www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

My latest on Substack on why understanding who is in the Epstein files matters for accountability, even if they don't warrant criminal charges. asharangappa.substack.com/p/when-shame...

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

The Empowered Exchange || “I don't know if Epstein was a pawn. I don't know what intelligence he was part of. I don't really know what it was, but we know that it's dark and it's a powerful group of people that will do anything not to be exposed.” ~ Lisa Phillips www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyyy...

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

It’s a start www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Jack Kerouac’s original typescript scroll for On the Road – the 37 metre long roll of paper on which he typed his defining Beat novel in a three-week burst – will go under the hammer at Christie’s in March, with a sale estimate of £1.8m to £2.9m. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..." slate.com/news-and-pol...

The president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal. I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Portland, Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...

For years, the West didn't know what to do with Russians who reject Putin. Engage them? Ignore them? Sanction them anyway? That confusion just ended. PACE has launched a formal platform for Russian democratic forces. 🧵Here's why this matters [1/14]

Breaking on MS NOW: Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests. The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

Speech by Maia Sandu at PACE | Re: Europe’s 2 wars: The 1st is visible. Cities destroyed, civilians killed, energy infrastructure targeted: 2nd is less visible. An information war accelerated by technologies whose logic remains largely opaque. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMg8... @pace.coe.int

Murder has no statue of limitations. If this administration wont investigate......