@duckworth.senate.gov demand that ICE release every child in detention right now—especially Juan Nicolas, the 2-month-old at Dilley hospitalized with bronchitis last night. Concentration camps are not safe for children. Stay strong. Do not cave. No DHS funding until ICE is reined in.

The new USDA facility will disperse sterile flies in an effort to prevent the spread of New World screwworm flies, which can kill cattle and other animals and infect humans. The facility is one piece of a larger plan rolled out by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins last June.

Two high schoolers themselves were foundational in efforts to mandate climate curriculum in Illinois high schools.

From Hopium: - We must keep standing up for our neighbors, get ICE to focus on criminals, and leave the rest of us alone - DHS overpaid Russian $100m for ICE warehouse - Welcoming the year of The Fire Horse 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/standing-u...

“A regulatory wet blanket on the economy” “The final nail in the coffin of the climate hoax" Fox cheers Trump’s repeal of the EPA endangerment finding — a move that could cost thousands of lives.

Data centers account for about 80% of Duke Energy’s projected energy demand, according to a report from Gov. Josh Stein’s North Carolina Energy Policy Task Force. via @ncnewsline.com

Designed around a central farm, agrihoods aim to boost food security, cool overheated neighborhoods and make urban living more resilient — not just more picturesque. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/agrihoods-neighborhoods-built-around-farms/

The Boss is bringing his resistance to D.C. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 20-date protest tour begins in Minneapolis with a final concert at Nationals Park, three miles from the White House, on May 27.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

First, Trump tainted The Kennedy Center, now it’s the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. What’s next?

Yesterday, Bondi and House Republicans were more concerned with praising Trump than answering simple questions about the Epstein files. Today, Senate Republicans blamed Minnesota AG Keith Ellison for Renee Good and Alex Pretti's deaths. This is the Republican Party.

Vienna is on a mission to swap asphalt for trees, bike lanes, and public seating by removing parking spaces. www.optimistdaily.com/2026/02/vien...

👨Millennial dads are spending more time with their kids than previous generations.

Hot lava was caught on camera shooting more than 1,000 feet into the air.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia can't be re-detained by Trump admin, judge rules via @usatoday.com:

China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink More than 66 billion trees have been planted in northern China to date

Florida police department deploys first-ever specially trained 'search and recovery' otter: www.upworthy.com/splash-searc...

Under pressure from a new wave of local divestment campaigns, US states and municipalities that underwrote the genocide in Gaza are selling off Israeli bonds. #breakthebonds #DivestFromIsrael

ICE is now ripping up drawings and letters done by kids at Dilley Detention Center because they don’t want the world knowing how these kids are being brutalized. If you’re still standing with this administration you are broken. Full stop.

Everyone heard Olympic audiences vigorously booing JD Vance ... except US viewers. "... when cameras cut to US vice-president JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance, large sections of the crowd responded with boos. Not subtle ones, but audible and sustained ones." www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

A quick reminder that JD Vance is the least qualified Vice President in modern American history. In his brief time in the Senate, even his GOP colleagues knew not to give him any foreign policy committee assignments. Out of his depth and unwilling to fix that fact.

“Beyond proving hallucinations were inevitable, the OpenAI research revealed that industry evaluation methods actively encouraged the problem…found nine out of 10 major evaluations used binary grading that penalized “I don’t know” responses while rewarding incorrect but confident answers.”

Thank you to @maddow.bsky.social for giving me the time of day last night. Thank you also to the THOUSANDS of folks interested in using our data for good. There's one other way you can help us, and it's by not giving us your money.

I agree! The Trump-Epstein files it is.

I wish I could express what a weird Schrodinger's box I'm in with this cancer situation. Like, as of TODAY there is literally no way to get rid of mine. But they're so good at keeping it from growing any more that I just keep... hanging around, and meanwhile research continues.

You have lots of limitations. Spending shouldn't be one of them. https://store.theonion.com/products/drugs-win-drug-war-onion-headline-t-shirt?variant=17247276924995

Right over here, Bondi

ABC: Do you still have confidence in Pam Bondi as AG? MASSIE: I don't think Pam Bondi has confidence in Pam Bondi. She wasn't confident enough to engage in anything but name calling in a hearing. So no, I don't. She was responsible for the document production.

Instead of cutting cancer and Alzheimer’s research by nearly half like Trump wanted—I secured a more than $415 million increase to fund NIH and lifesaving medical research. I said I would tear up Trump's budget and write a new one and that's exactly what I did.

Like a cartoon.. 😅

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time will detect an astonishing number of transients — including kilonovae from colliding neutron stars. aasnova.org/2026/02/04/h... 🔭🧪

S2025 U1 near Uranus rings Cosmic JWST beauty facts - To know what Webb discovered today, visit https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com and Explore Universe with this beginners telescope --> https://amzn.to/3JaxN9u #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space

JWST sees planet in binary system Cosmic Alpha Centauri - To know what Webb discovered today, visit https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com and Explore Universe with this beginners telescope --> https://amzn.to/3JaxN9u #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... The doctor used BFRT after he had an operation, and then with his patients. It turned out to be excellent for wounded soldiers to build up their wounded limbs without undue strain, and now we find that it can help diabetics. Insurance, including Medicare, may pay.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... It is presidents day today, and while our current President isn’t anyone worth celebrating, there are plenty who are: Biden, Obama, Carter, and also its world Social Justice day too today, so celebrate that as well.

ICYMI - Senators Durbin and Duckworth seek criminal referrals for Constitutional violations by the Noem-Bovino Gestapo Operation "Midway Blitz" in Chicago. Atty Bondi will ignore it, but the statute of limitations for these is FIVE YEARS. She won't be around forever.

Thanks for this important truth during Black History Month, Sen. Duckworth. We can',t let the nogoodniks erase real history in their abject fear of having to compete fairly in our society.

Both acts serve to punish Americans. The Democratic Illinois senator Tammy Duckworth said it was “obscene” for the Trump administration to cut funding for clean drinking water projects while increasing funding for ICE, which has carried out violent operations in Chicago.

Americans should not be punished with health care funding cuts because of who they voted for—yet my constituents are now at elevated risk of disease because of President Trump’s cuts to CDC.

The Trump Administration’s disgraceful, politically-motivated attempt to indict Members of Congress for simply stating the law is unprecedented. This Administration is determined to use every tool at their disposal to stifle dissent, even from a co-equal branch of government.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... Ick. Even MAGAtroids are turned off by their Dearest Cult Leader.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... Should Lutnick resign? You have to ask? with heaps of good news tidbits.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... Good karma of monks and dog walking for peace vs. the karma of malice and incompetence in the worst of the worst kakistocracies.

. i was so happy to see precious aloka the peace dog with the buddhist monks at the washington cathedral today! 💖☮️💐🙏🐾🕊️ #walkforpeace #alokathepeacedog

Goodbye. The Buddhist Monks have now completed their Walk for Peace and are heading back to Texas. They do not carry trophies or plaques. They do not leave with a louder name than the one they brought. They carry only the same saffron robes, now a shade deeper with the grit

On a brighter note: Today, the concluding ceremony for the Walk for Peace — a 15 week march of about two dozen monks starting at Fort Worth Texas— took place at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A large crowd gathered in support of the monks’s mission of national peace, kindness, and compassion.

Just another reason why I love Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi... Yesterday with HOPE and LOVE in her eyes She greeted the Walk for Peace Buddhist Monks in Washington DC...Leader Jeffries and other members right there with her As she always says "For the Children "🙏🕊 Thank you Madam Speaker