The initiative will provide €325 (£283) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic of Ireland. This follows a pilot (for which 2,000 artists were randomly selected from 8,000 applicants). ‘The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists." theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

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low-info voters are very responsive to national conditions. which is they they voted for trump in 2024, and now why they're even more anti-trump on affordability than high-knowledge (dem-leaning) voters thanks to @verasight.io for partnering on this poll! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

It's true! Right-wingers really do start to believe their own bullshit about big cities. I remember when my parents first visited me in NYC. They were legit terrified of the subway. When they got on and saw how normal it was, they were genuinely shocked. www.salon.com/2026/02/10/s...

a foreign policy speech? two years before a presidential election?

UVA folks, there's a ready useful project (for a class? or using your on-campus network to crowdsource?) documenting where the surveillance cameras are on our campus. And there's already infrastructure for folks easily adding photos, location to a map as you spot them; just needs a person to lead.

In which France supports genocide

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Minnesota still needs your attention

TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE futurism.com/future-socie...

you can find more on that, and links to the emails and supporting reporting here Epstein clearly had more going on than working for the Russians, but it's impossible to ignore the evidence that he was a conduit for spy-shaped Russian women to to US oligarchs niedermeyer.online/2026/02/10/m...

Please note that she's READING this. She PREPARED this as a rebuttal for questions about Epstein. She planned this, had someone write it down, and read it.

Prasad is an oncologist of modest intellectual capabilities who pickled his brain on Twitter during the pandemic

For anyone who wants a truly progressive Democratic Party, Gavin Newsom is bad news.

Incredible reporting on a horrifying story from @thebarbedwire.com (follow and support them!!)

They are losing.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Grand juries, neighbors > elite universities, law firms

This is an astounding example of the increasing intensity of rain storms. #climate #water

We must destroy Palantir.

NEW: The Trump admin publicized the arrest of an "antifa domestic terrorist," implying he was charged with threatening federal agents. But the criminal complaint suggests Kyle Wagner was charged with Instagram beefing with controversial rightwing agitator Jayden Scott. zeteo.com/p/trump-admi...

Number of times Jesus is mentioned in the Bible: < 1,000. Number of times Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files: > 1,000,000.

Kind of shocking how much respect I’ve lost for Tim Walz in all of this.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

I'm sorry, what's this now (via Julie K. Brown)

CALL TO ACTION: Tell Senator Deeds to oppose criminalization! Sen Deeds is supporting amendments that will dilute marijuana legalization & further criminalize black & brown communities. Email Deeds ASAP to oppose destructive, failed approaches to public safety. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The depths of the cuts to metro, sports and foreign and the elimination of the entire photo staff suggested the cuts were deeper than ~~just~~ 30%. Good on the Washingtonian and the DC Guild for getting the real numbers out.

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🚨BREAKING: UK hits new low on Global Corruption Index. It's clear, extreme wealth inequality is a threat to democracy & decency... 🧵1/3 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Oh my fucking lord

Hmm, odd request: poetry or verse suitable for pre-schoolers that's NOT horribly twee. She has "Twas The Night Before Christmas" by heart and 'reads' it constantly. I have Shel Silverstein, but it's too old and wordplay based for her. Everything else is like traditional nursery rhymes.

I would venture to guess that this is not a deep-red town anymore.

Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week). This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.

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Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”

Emerging from his viewing of the UNRELEASED Epstein case files at Justice Dept, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says: "The Dept of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for months... trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug"

*long disappointed sigh* sets the "days since someone unsubscribed from Indivisible because they're mad at Ezra Klein" sign back to zero

We need to stop referring to these people as centrist Democrats. They are advancing a right-wing agenda and should be referred to as such.

What do y’all think about making a directory of Epstein-free tech? No execs or funders who have ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Maybe we make a little logo that apps or websites could put up. Probably needs a less triggering name, but I think the concept would have value in helping people make decisions.

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...

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

It is impossible to assault a robot and people who interfere with or damage property are not assailants.

Wow, not the post I expected to read this evening. Well done #DinoCon for standing firm 💪

NEW: Of all the states that voted for Harris over Trump in 2024, there's only one where a Dem governor is overseeing an ICE's 287(g) program: Massachusetts. Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

No surprises for me, I'm on the edge of the Progressive American Democrats cluster--actually my neighborhood is labeled Progressive Canadian Democrats, so 🇨🇦!