Sign on to fight back for the fired six faculty at VSU: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

Again, everything else about the fascism is downstream from the fact that his presidency didn’t immediately end the second he started monetizing his hotel around the corner from the White House in 2017. We just yawned, as a society & a polity, at unprecedented & wildly unconstitutional corruption.

Why is collective bargaining important to higher ed workers, you ask? Thanks Commonwealth Institute for this breakdown! It sucks to be kicked out of HB 1263 — the collective bargaining bill. There’s so much we could improve thru collective power @aaup.org @aaupmason.bsky.social @aft.org

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... Collective Bargaining NOW! Join @aaupmason.bsky.social Town hall for worker rights, Feb 28,2pm: forms.gle/tQxzBU8gchq4...

www.chronicle.com/article/comp... Collective Bargaining Now! Let’s go @aaupmason.bsky.social — let’s fight for better working conditions for all public sector workers in VA! Feb 28, 2pm Town Hall: RSVP here: forms.gle/tQxzBU8gchq4...

and now another retraction/reversal in Chester, New York: midhudsonnews.com/2026/02/18/c...

“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Hegseth invited Christian nationalist Doug Wilson to preach at Pentagon www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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...

Let’s go @aft.org + @aaup.org! Let’s fight for inclusion and better working conditions for VA’s higher ed workers. At @aaupmason.bsky.social, under attack by Trump-Youngkin and a rogue board, we fought for President Washington’s job—and won! All workers at Mason deserve that level of fight!

This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

The Pentagon just failed its 8th consecutive audit and still got approved for a $1 TRILLION budget without blinking so I'm gonna need every corrupt hypocritical politician complaining about made up food stamp fraud and forcing drug tests and work requirements on poor people to shut up forever. Thx.

Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails

The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration. Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net. This is what oligarchy looks like.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

We should be protesting this government in every way possible. Governors—f-ing boycott that WH dinner! Can we agree that ending ICE and the detention of children and families is priority #1?

Incarcerating children is a human rights violation. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Why do we want collective bargaining rights? Cc @senbillferg.bsky.social @mddems.bsky.social

Incarcerating children is a human rights violation. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Is it normal for Cabinet officials to have to specify "we left with all of my children" about their past meetings?

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

A woman trafficked by Epstein starting at age 13 in Michigan won a settlement in a 2021 lawsuit. She alleged being taken to Mar-a-Lago where Epstein asked Trump, "This is a good one, right?" Doe's complaint said Trump smiled & nodded in agreement. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Pirro should be impeached just for attempting to get an indictment against members of Congress for speech. Her incompetence is actually useful right now because it negates her malevolence.

Nice balanced overview of the many drivers of low fertility across high income countries.

@deadder.bsky.social has so many great cartoons:

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-...

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Go UAM-UMD! Solidarity!

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

I’ve lost count of how many people lost their jobs simply for speaking up for Palestine. We can count on one finger how many people have gone to prison for child sex trafficking. We live in a corrupt system where condemning genocide is punishable but trafficking children is not.😐

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Arizona must stop enforcing abortion restrictions that predate and contradict a 2024 voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, a judge ordered in a ruling released Friday.

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

@billbramhall.bsky.social By Bill Bramhall.

President Trump has made $4 billion by illegally trading access to the White House to get rich. He controls the Dept of Justice and the Congress so he won't be held accountable - until he doesn't control the Dept of Justice and Congress.

"In the Trump Administration, people know what the boss wants. Protecting him is always the top priority, even if it means breaking the law. They’re still hiding 50% of the Epstein files. This is a cover-up." - @Rep_Walkinshaw (D-VA11) bluevirginia.us/2026/01/vide...

Dems should demand a full ICE withdrawal from Minneapolis as a condition for any deal. Please, just give us this. Get them out

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com