People keep telling me impeachment isn’t possible but *Donald Trump* is the fucking president for a second time and he just launched a war in a fucking baseball hat so in fact anything and everything are *possible*

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

"It’s hard to know how much Stonepeak makes off this misery..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Justice Department has filed lawsuits against Kentucky, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia seeking access to their complete voter registration lists.

It's kind of crazy that the AP now takes donations, but the far crazier thing would be if the AP went away. Because the NYT, no matter how much money it rakes in from Wordle and Wirecutter, will never put a full-time reporter in a state capital like Pierre, South Dakota. apnews.com/donate?targe...

In a quiet stretch of rural Mississippi, life has changed almost overnight. Residents who once enjoyed still mornings and open skies now describe a constant roar like jet engines running day and night. The source isn’t an airport or a highway.

If you're a trans person in Kansas who had your drivers license invalidated, you can absolutely trust @marisakabas.bsky.social to handle your story with care. I vouch for her 100%.

Wow. The government just apparently crippled the tool that people are using to track contracts like these DHS ones. I'm told this is the tool Schiff's office is using to track the ICE contracts for military-style weaponry I reported on in the piece/thread below. www.404media.co/the-governme...

Don't look away from the continued cruelty and horrors. Please keep calling your representatives, please keep showing up to protest these horrific actions, please keep caring.

"I think it’s hard to rationalize with children why you would be criminalized for simply telling the truth, for simply documenting something that’s happening." 19thnews.org/2026/02/jour...

ICYMI 👀: The biggest organization of obstetricians and gynecologists in the US has withdrawn from FakeCIP 👏👏👏 Announced today, which would've been the first ACIP meeting of the year (Whether the meeting has been rescheduled... keep your eyes peeled, folks 🤭) bsky.app/profile/acog...

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)

"This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" (1983) - Talking Heads - Live performance "Stop Making Sense" (1984) 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP8J...

"In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a 9-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022)

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

"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...

Do you know how much the typical worker would be making today if their wages had grown as much as CEO pay? This graph holds the shocking answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI

And if his tics have never included shouting racial slurs at people? It might be worth examining why such a tic manifested itself for the first time while two Black men were on stage on one of the biggest days of their lives. This whole thing feels off, and I feel awful for MBJ and Delroy.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

The American Medical Association and the Vaccine Integrity Project are partnering to review vaccine safety and efficacy separate from the CDC. What prompted this independent review and what impact could it have?

🗓️ Today in one sentence for Thursday, February 19, 2026. Day 1857: "Bad things will happen."

We're on Erin's list 💚 She's the best! digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop3... We're a trans immigrant girl scout troop in Minneapolis MN & can't safely sell cookies in person this year because of ⓘⓒⓔ activity. All funds from purchases/donations support our hurting neighbors & community 🍪💖

One of the biggest issues with shutting down HIV research at the NIH is that the HIV research there was the testbed for a huge swath of the genomics research that is being used to cure cancer: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

John Oliver is right to not just say we need to eliminate ICE, but that the Department of Homeland Security as a whole was a bad idea and should be unwound. Somehow he still manages to be hilarious while solidly making serious points about disturbing and horrible things. #resist #ICE

Here's a reminder that we Concentration Camps on US soil, ICE is still unlawfully detaining people at random.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Wow.

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

This 10 year old boy was chased down by ICE in South Jersey. I am beyond outraged, both as an American and as a father to two boys. Our system is broken. The first step to fix it is for ICE to leave our state.

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

Whenever you read a horrifying list like this about people who are critically ill or died in ICE concentration camps it’s important to remember that these are just the stories that got out because they were lucky enough to have lawyers who could tell their stories.

One reason I keep saying that Trump's departure won't end our fascism problem is that every Republican presidential aspirant (even those who 10 years ago were "normal") are talking like twitter nazis now

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

I'm unreasonably in love with this pic from King County Public Health.

On the subject of Maura Healey 👇

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.

Sorry, kid, the government cancelled research into a cure for your disease. The man who swims in sewage and snorts cocaine in public restrooms said it's bad for you. Besides, there's no money now that we're locking up your friend's parents and the guys who mowed our lawn.

this single family has seized an absolutely unholy amount of money from the american people and have never once even pretended about any intention of giving it back, they make the marcos family look like amateurs

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)

This happened in 2018, but apparently dismantling this fucking shitshow wasn't a priority for anyone in power over the next eight years.

Anita Hill still gets death threats.

This is just insane at this point. apnews.com/live/trump-i...