Members of Congress from Massachusetts say that Trump is legally obligated to seek approval from Congress for any possible military action, decrying a U.S. military buildup against Iran. https://bit.ly/4c6juPh

The SAVE Act is a dangerous move to keep Black and Brown voters, women, and LGBTQ+ people from the ballot box. Trump and MAGA Republicans know they have no solutions to the issues that Americans are angry about, so they plan to meddle with the 2026 election. I will vote NO.

A former ICE instructor is expected to testify that new agents are trained to run roughshod over constitutional rights, including the right against a home invasion, and that the federal agency is “broken."

ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank, a former ICE instructor and attorney, testifies that agents were trained to disregard constitutional rights.

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

One day in the future, this is going to hang on the wall of a museum exhibit people visit in silence.

Update: Although C-SPAN does not tell us who it is, they do narrow it down — and say who it was not. Side-note: C-SPAN is more responsive to weekend online discourse than most governments, politicians, or businesses. x.com/cspan/status...

Not sure if the iPhone’s Lockdown Mode is for you? Here’s some advice on who it’s for and when to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

By the way, a reminder on Jack Hughes, since the grifters are already trying to hijack his postgame interview www.vogue.com/article/meet...

Dude got a two-day suspension. No criminal charges filed. (www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/s...)

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is one of the delayed complications of measles and affects up to 1 in 600 unvaccinated children who’ve had measles. It occurs without warning an average of 7 years after infection and can occur decades later. There is no cure and it is almost always fatal.

NYC public schools: Tomorrow (Mon 2/23) is a full snow day —no remote learning, no logging on. Our first real snow day in seven years. This blizzard is serious. Stay inside. Travel ban 9pm–noon tomorrow so crews can keep streets clear. After the worst passes, bundle up and enjoy the snow — safely.

Is the closing ceremony performance supposed to represent tripping out on LSD or what? 'cuz I'm not getting it. #Olympics

This means I literally could not teach my subject (African politics) at the institution at which I earned my PhD.

If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.

Have any journalists each out to Bjorn Lomborg to ask him about his now-known dealings with Jeffrey Epstein?

And now another climate critic (see e.g. reason.com/2010/07/30/s...) is implicated in the Epstein Files: Victoria Stodden, who "visited the sex offender at least twice and sent various flirtatious emails after his 2008 conviction" www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/21/v...

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Pa. high school students are *still in custody* after being *arrested* during Friday anti-ICE walkout www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/l...

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

If you haven't watched the Men's Hockey final, it is totally worth watching. Great game!

Avoid spoilers while waiting for Peacock to make the replay of the game available. Difficulty: Impossible.

happened again! once again a grown man attacking a small girl. Twist: motherfucker is chief of police. bsky.app/profile/thed...

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

It’s unacceptable that this is just now coming to light.

DHS’s lack of transparency with the public and members of Congress makes us less safe.

We need transparency and accountability NOW.

President Trump approved an emergency declaration for D.C. after Mayor Muriel Bowser’s request, permitting federal agencies to provide disaster assistance to address a massive sewage spill in the Potomac River.

Ok, someone managed to convince a gold medalist skater to dress up in a panda costume and do a triple axle.

New: MAGA is getting very, very creepy about gold medal figure skater Alysa Liu. I joined @peltzmadeline.bsky.social’s substack for this one: open.substack.com/pub/numbertw...

In South Africa, as taps run dry in Johannesburg, Africa's richest city, a tone deaf remark by a senior politician there unleashes fury.

The conclusions about student cognition aren’t the interesting part for me so much as the money being spent on youth surveillance that isn’t leading to better learning outcomes. Teachers are being laid off, schools & libraries are closing, books are being banned.

Better for who? Funeral homes? Certainly not families and definitely not the kids who are sick and at risk of death. And it isn’t just respiratory disease. I’ve admitted kids with rhabdomyolysis (many) and acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (thankfully just once several years ago).

In contrast, Bezos’s ex-wife gave away $7.2b in 2025, the most given by anyone in a single year since Fortune began tracking this in 2012 - and more than Bezos has given in his whole lifetime.

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).

Unfollowed @wired.com Stuck with them for awhile because they were getting good scoops on DOGE shit, but that homophobic article crossed the line for me.

We're deploying USNS Comfort to GREENLAND? In the middle of winter? (and "on the way" could be interesting given the huge Nor'easter building off the East Coast)

Looks like Comfort and sister ship Mercy are in drydock right now ..lol gcaptain.com/trump-announ...

As a NH resident, I cannot convey the number of evil bills they’re trying to pass. It is just relentless. Every week there are like five more to submit public comment on, and that’s only the LGBTQ rights ones.

For those who don't know, basically all the right-wingers in New England have retired to New Hampshire, which paired with the Granite State's, uh, unique political culture, has been a REAL bad mix.

It wasn’t just Sutton. Trump got another appellate vacancy yesterday. —>

NASA says an "interrupted flow" of helium to the rocket system could require a rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building. If it happens, NASA says the launch to the moon would be delayed until April. n.pr/4qO41a2

At CDC, "Day-to-day operations had fallen to a 24-year-old former DOGE operative, Sam Beyda, who graduated from Columbia University in 2023, had briefly worked at a company that manufactures cannabinoids, and was now deputy chief of staff."

This is intentionally choosing to expose Black babies in one of the poorest countries in the world to a very transmissible virus that can cause long term liver damage for no reason, but to appease a cohort of white anti-vaxxers.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.