FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”

From immigration enforcement to universal child care, policy experts preview what to expect in early care and education in the year ahead

How Zohran Mamdani Bucked the Establishment and Won Election — in Middle School @the74.bsky.social @gtoppo.bsky.social #EduSky www.the74million.org/article/how-...

They are going to bleed us dry.

"It seems that Republican lawmakers in Ohio can’t take no for an answer. Despite a 2023 ballot measure codifying reproductive freedom in the state constitution, Republicans are still trying everything they can to make abortion inaccessible." - Susan Rinkunas www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ohio...

"One in three Americans approve of the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country's president and 72% worry the U.S. will become too involved in the South American country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll." www.reuters.com/world/americ...

NEW: 😱Secretary Kennedy has just WIPED OUT the child vaccination schedule with no input from pediatricians or even his hand-picked Advisory Committee on Immunization One of the vaccines taken off is for meningitis. My sister almost died from meningitis years ago. www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/c...

Hegseth knows a court martial would fail, so he’s cutting Kelly’s pension. For what? Reminding troops of their duty to not follow unlawful orders: www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/p...

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Once a critic of overseas entanglements, President Trump now appears willing to embrace regime change as a tool of American influence, raising questions about whether his “America First” doctrine is being redefined.

Katelin Provost is a 37 year old single mom & social worker Because of MAGA/MAHA policies (“Make America Healthy Again”), her monthly premium payment is increasing from $85/month to nearly $750 This is immoral & will sicken & kill people—it’s a huge barrier to care www.wlwt.com/article/aca-...

We’re sleepwalking into a disaster

This latest reporting shows Bondi, Blanche, and others at the DOJ have been lying to the American people about the Epstein files since day one. The less than 40,000 pages that have been released represent less than 0.01% of all the total documents. They are hiding something.

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U.S. Finds Ukraine Didn’t Target Putin in Drone Strike www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

The Year in Education: 25 of Our Top Stories About Schools, Students and Learning @the74.bsky.social #EduSky www.the74million.org/article/the-...

Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas. Remember: these are people who entered the country legally. Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.

“Donald Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet at least eight times in the mid-1990s, according to an email the Justice Department released late Monday as part of its rolling disclosure of documents in its Epstein investigation.” www.ms.now/news/trump-f...

The note being returned as undeliverable explains any address problem. The postmark date is explained by prisons' slow mail process and that the note was returned. The state of the postmark is not surprising for a prison system mailing. All that is needed is handwriting analysis.

Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.   ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

Flight records show Trump "traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware)," an assistant US attorney from the Southern District of New York wrote in an email dated January 8, 2020.

Earlier this month, after Trump blasted "60 Minutes" for interviewing Marjorie Taylor Greene, correspondents noticed a change behind the scenes. "Bari Weiss got personally involved," specifically with stories about politics, a source at the program says.

I spent the last year helping to edit the fabulous op-eds published in @The74. Here are our 13 most read, most talked-about and most powerful education essays of 2025 #EduSky www.the74million.org/article/our-...

President Trump has tried to minimize his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Documents and interviews that The New York Times conducted with more than 30 former Epstein employees, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with the two men reveal an intense and complicated relationship.

Amid Fed Exodus, States Grab Departing Talent from Education Department #EduSky @lrj417.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/amid...

Happy holidays (not!) to Medicaid expansion enrollees in Nebraska as the state becomes the 1st state to "go early" on the new punitive work reporting requirement. 70,000 will receive notification in the next 2 weeks; sounds like disenrollments will start in May. www.1011now.com/2025/12/17/l...

The administration finds many billions of $$$ to pay for stuff like a dozen agents hanging out for hours to try to arrest 2 roofers. Meanwhile it's moving to lay off 35,000 staffers who help provide health care to American veterans bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Trumpflation:

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As @steventdennis.bsky.social said tonight: We just had another mass shooting and almost no reporters asked Republicans what they would do about guns. And the only thing this Congress and Donald Trump HAVE done on guns is... cut taxes for guns in the One Big, Beautiful Bill.

Updated: Our online tracker, now with 25 U.S. military strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats that have killed 95 people since the campaign began on Sept. 2. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Rob Reiner wasn't just a filmmaker. He spent a decade fighting for California kids www.the74million.org/zero2eight/r...

"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month... "The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.

Tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. My heart aches for the Brown University community.

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again. “Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.” We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.) And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

Trump reposted content from 16 accounts last night that turned out to be from foreign-based ‘MAGA’ users. meidasnews.com/news/trump-r...

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This is infuriating on so many levels, but partly because it ignores Congressional intent to penalize immigrants who followed the rules. And partly because these are people who have done nothing wrong beyond trying to negotiate a broken system. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

If you are married to a US spouse, your temporary visa (usually for 3 months) will lapse before your case is processed. The government allowed you could stay in the US while awaiting case processing. Now the Trump admin is saying that is a visa overstay and arresting the spouses.

Trump’s recent decision to deny disaster aid to two electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost local residents tens of millions of dollars. It will hit a working-class region that voted overwhelmingly for Trump last year, helping him win the crucial swing state.

A preview of things to come as Title I shifts to Labor: With Crossed Wires and Late Funding, Some Call Education Department Move to Labor a ‘Muddle’ @the74.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/with...

NEW: Today we published a new investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/ www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Jeez. Trump reposted a call to execute six Democratic members of Congress, and it’s not on the front page of the NY Times, and this is the headline—no mention of hanging lawmakers.

Truly, I cannot believe that anyone still trusts this administration to fight antisemitism. And nooses are "divisive"? Between what? the head and the body?

Powerful.