A Rolling Stone investigation found that CDC officials allied with RFK Jr. circumvented critical scientific and ethical safeguards in a rush to fund research that might loan support for sweeping changes to the U.S. vaccination schedule. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2. That leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of how the outbreak is affecting the community. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

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This police chief, at a minimum, needs to be fired immediately.

newsone.com/6850568/body... Black man found hanging in Marietta ga. a couple of days ago. No news coverage again. Likely not a suicide as they are again trying to say. Statistically speaking Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees. Any guess of who would do this?!

Hope is not a promise. It is not a guarantee of success. It is the courage to act in the face of uncertainty. And right now, in this fragile moment for our democracy, it is the most important responsibility we share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

This is great and I hate being this guy but @projectsaltbox.bsky.social noted this last Friday. projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/nternal-ic...

Meanwhile, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is under fire for taking her staff to a strip club in Portland and keeping a stash of booze in her office. It's like this entire administration is a coke-fueled key party.

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

The surge in violence meted out by ICE absolutely should continue to be condemned, but I think a lot of people didn't realize or care that activists have been facing life-altering injury from cops for generations. "Law enforcement" has always been the violence. It ALL needs to stop.

Less than one year ago, immigrants' rights activists watched in frustration as Maryland Dems gave up on ICE ban in final hours of the session. Times have changed. Governor Moore on Tuesday signed into law ban on ICE contracts. Nine sheriffs have to end their partnerships.

I do not feel the need to throat clear anymore about how terrible other regimes are: no war with Iran. Hands off Venezuela. Hands off Cuba. No invasion of Mexico. Leave Greenland alone

BREAKING: SECVA Doug Collins has CANCELLED his effort to STRIP Veterans of their benefits thanks to MASSIVE backlash from We the People. WELL DONE and STAY LOUD!

Full story ⬇️ www.levernews.com/bank-backed-...

We watched more than 50 hours of dashcam and bodycam footage taken from the first night of the ICE sweeps in Nashville in May. During one arrest, an agent finds an immigrant's ID and notes he's a manager at a Mexican restaurant. “The guacamole is never going to taste the same,” the agent laughs.

"Why Is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park? The East Potomac Golf Links is a municipal course that has been a fixture in Washington for decades. President Trump is turning it into something else." -- www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

Paraguay is leveraging its ~100% renewable electricity grid, powered by Itaipú and Yacyretá dams, to drive a green industrial transition, focusing on green hydrogen production, manufacturing, and sustainable agriculture. www.sfa-oxford.com/lithox/criti...

Why?

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan AP: Zero NYT: Zero WashPost: Zero Reuters: Zero Politico: Zero Axios: Zero

This is a must read.

Stealing letters from children in concentration camps to prevent bad PR... Nuremberg II is only scratching the surface of what the legal system is going to need to do to clean this out.

Eric Trump sinks funds into Israeli drone firm Xtend, landing Pentagon contracts amid Gaza tunnel hunts, as family influence turns public power into private gold, shadowing ethics in blood-streaked profits. #TrumpNepotism

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.

I've never needed a birth certificate and a passport to renew my driver's license or check into a hotel.

26 year old… longtime… ok.

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Me and my team have been in contact with Juan’s family. Juan has bronchitis—according to his mom—and at some point in the last several hours he was unresponsive. Juan was still discharged from the hospital despite that around midnight today.

Juan’s mom went in front of an immigration judge this morning. She was told she will be deported, but was not told when or where. Both Juan and his mom are back at Dilley and their future remains uncertain.

We are all deeply concerned that Juan and his mom will be deported and that Juan’s health will continue to deteriorate. His life is in danger because of ICE’s monstrous cruelty. I will continue to provide updates and we will keep fighting to protect them.

What would normally be presidency-ending scandals not even a blip on the radar Daily

Orban is an authoritarian leader that Steve Bannon said was "Trump before Trump." Hungary is the model for MAGA acolytes. They're not hiding it.

The double standards are so blatant. Not even hiding it. Remarkable.

"I think people need to understand: This is not civil detention.” Immigration attorney Eric Lee describes horrific conditions facing children in ICE detention, including at the Dilley Detention Center in South TX. He recounts a 13-year-old girl who attempted suicide. Two 5-year-olds held for 8...

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

🔴 In the past 24 hrs, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 10 killed & 9 injured arriving at hospitals. Since the “ceasefire” on Oct. 11, 2025: ➤ Total killed: 601 ➤ Total injured: 1,607 ➤ Bodies recovered from the rubble: 726 ▪️This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to...

worth noting that police arrested a woman *and her husband* this week for reckless homicide related to a miscarriage. Yes, men: fetal personhood affects you too

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It is unsurprising to anyone from Massachusetts that elements of our state government fight basic transparency.

“In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January… The United States has not made any public deal with Cameroon.”

“Every blue moon I might buy a bag of chips or a soda. I can’t afford much anymore because inflation has decreased the amount of food and supplies I can buy. I spend more to get less,” says Colell Steele, who is incarcerated in a North Carolina prison.