A billionaire family that owns a bridge crossing between Michigan and Canada has wanted Trump to stop a new bridge — and Trump is now threatening to block its opening (with authority he doesn’t have). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

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A sad reminder that so much of the media has succumbed to both-sides coverage. They are afraid of Trump and are paralyzed by the new challenges we face. I started Democracy Docket to be different: Fearless, independent and pro-democracy. Sign up now to support and stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

My Latest: Contrary to many doomsayers, it is not too late to protect the midterm elections. There are steps Democrats can take now — at both the state and federal levels — to safeguard our elections. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

🧵When I little, my school still ran "duck and cover" drills where they'd set off a "war siren" & we'd all dive under our tiny desks and put our hands over our bent heads, practicing how to "survive" a nuclear attack. Pretty silly, huh? Then, when I was in... 1/10 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Why did Trump move Ghislaine Maxwell to a Club Fed? She was sentenced to 20 years in prison for trafficking and raping children. He didn’t just move her. He gave her a puppy. I want the press to ask this question every single day. Not just of Blanche and Bondi. Ask Trump.

Trump, who says he had "no idea" at the time that Epstein sexually molested girls, told the police in 2006 that "everyone has known he’s been doing this.” That's according to an FBI interview with the then-Palm Beach police chief. Here's a gift link to Julie K. Brown's article in the Miami Herald.

Everyone on here knows about the two election results from Saturday right... I'll re-up one last time for the non-weekend crowd.

Here’s a video for folks who don’t know about Surya. At the 1:30 mark you can see her back flip and how she lands on one foot, which is how all figure skating jumps are supposed to land. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cna0... Also, a current article from NBC New York www.nbcnewyork.com/olympics/202...

Donald Trump said his deportation machine would only go after the “worst of the worst.” He lied — and DHS’s own data proves it.

Detainees held at the Whipple facility in Minneapolis are being denied access to their lawyers. So we’re suing to make sure their constitutional rights are upheld.

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white. In this town, one school keeps kids divided. (Published May 2024)

Read this and then get the book: “Bad Bunny showed us that when he said, “We are Americans” at the Grammys, he wasn’t merely referring to citizenship status. He was challenging this country’s ever-narrowing definitions of who is — and is not — American.” #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Imagine if Republicans had this kind of courage.

Theres no chance the local zoning allows for this.

If you can read these letters from kids detained at Dilley and not feel sick to your stomach then something is broken inside of you. Absolutely vile what we’re doing to children in detention. But I guess when you’ve got a government filled with child abusers this horror makes perfect sense.

Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.

To me was baffling folks suspected Super Bowl kid was Liam. First, family under threat from regime would not risk adding spotlight. Second, right wing pappanazis would harass fam for clout chasing (isn't it ironic.) Third, parents would not force this kid onto airplane and into crowd.

All demands in the DHS funding fight must also include kids out of camps. There is no reason to confine ourselves only to ending the abuse, abductions & murders by masked militia. #KidsOutofCamps www.instagram.com/p/DUjPfFsk5Q...

Thank you, as always, Jess. As we push our lawmakers THIS WEEK on the DHS funding fight, let us extend those demands to encompass both ending ICE abuse, abductions & murders and #KidsOutofCamps

Sec. Kennedy has undermined trust in public health, made healthcare harder and more expensive to access, spread dangerous conspiracy theories, and left our communities sicker and worse off. @ProtectOurCare.org www.protectourcare.org/report-year-...

Kids like 7-year-old Mia write about missing their friends and family, wanting to go back to school, and not sleeping or eating well at the Dilley detention center in Texas. These stories expose the inhumanity of this administration's immigration policies. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Ohioans—including students—are living in fear because of anti-immigrant bomb threats. We need elected leaders to speak up and stop the fear and division. This is not making anyone safer. www.10tv.com/article/news...

Documented measles cases in the US 2024: 285 2025: 2,276 2026: 730+ (through Feb 6) while new documents obtained by @rcfp.org contradict RFK Jr's testimony to Congress about the purpose of his trip to Samoa amidst a deadly measles outbreak. bsky.app/profile/rcfp...

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

1) the multi-year funding provisions in the bill are pegged to FY 2025, this will mean fewer grants supported once again this year; 2) the decimation of advisory councils at the institutes means that the last step in approval of proposals in many cases will grind to a halt;

I wish it was a cottage industry. But it is everything from the @nytimes.com to @cnn.com. Imagine, just imagine if they covered Trump AS HE IS, not as some white-washed fantasy. Sanitizing him is complicity.

Am also heart broken that as I send the story to people we worked with on the story, they are at a vigil of someone who was killed -- Joan Amek, a trans shelter leader. (We worked with the Uganda Minority Shelter Commission while making this story.) bsky.app/profile/thra...

For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workers—and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share. theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

This well reported piece tracked 23 DHS warehouse purchase/lease attempts, how they have attempted to skirt local regs & officials, & avoid opposition. "'If they are going to house people there, it is a death camp. I don’t say that lightly,' said Arizona Sen. Analise Ortiz." shorturl.at/fmMj9

Maybe a good time for this as well with norovirus making headlines. I made this for our bathroom and a few “lucky” friends also got one as a gift. As I’ve said before, it’s astonishing that I even have any friends at all.

Oz actually just said: “We have advocated for measles vaccines all along” and that RFK Jr. “has been on the very front of this.” He’s a lying shitbird and his boss is the reason that measles are running roughshod all over the U.S.

In ICE detention camps, “disease and illness are rampant, mold grows on the walls, and detained individuals are denied sufficient food, clean drinking water, proper medical care, and disability accommodations”. ICE is a scourge of humanity, and also of public health.

With all of the White House demands for state voter information, it’s probably wise to check your voter registration on the regular. We could get a leash on Trump in nine months if we all pull together.

Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.

Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people. ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.

I talked w/ uniformed health workers about their deployments to prisons where ICE holds immigrants. ICE's operation is especially secretive at Guantanamo -- the place where America flouted its own rules to torture detainees post 9/11. @wired.com and @kffhealthnews.org (no paywall)

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

We’ve been following Leqaa Kordia’s case for some time, and the updates has been growing worse. Lawmakers were not allowed to visit her last month. Now her lawyers cannot find her.

If you're wondering if it's because the money was allocated to go to trans, queer, and Black people, yup, it's because the money was allocated to go to trans, queer, and Black people.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

My new piece is up and it requires your URGENT ATTENTION! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I hate to be the bearer of more doomsday news during this already dark time, but this seems important. AG leaders warn of widespread collapse of the American agricultural system. Now would be a good time to learn how to do container gardening. Start sprouting your seeds now.🫛🌱

Fascinating read about about an activist (and heiress) now living in poverty after losing her house to a Ponzi scheme. Laura X got spousal rape banned in California. At 85, she scrapes by in a Berkeley hotel room www.berkeleyside.org/2026/02/09/l...

If you want to participate in your county caucus, you need to register as a Democrat soon—for some counties, including Denver, that’s tonight! Take a moment to update it after dinner at Coloradodems.org/become-a-democrat

🇺🇸 The people that needed a separate halftime show are the same people that needed a separate water fountain. 🔥

ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

🚨 BREAKING News: An internal DHS document shows that less than 14% of nearly 400,000 individuals arrested by ICE in President Trump's first year back in power had violent criminal records. It's the most detailed look yet at who ICE has arrested. | CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

HORRIFYING - Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025 🧸Most were children ⌛️ Many died within the first year 😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from: - HIV, TB, malaria - Maternal & fetal deaths - Malnutrition news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...