March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

I can say from personal experience that Putin is threatened by strong women. As I argue in a new piece in @foreignaffairs.com, he and his fellow autocrats have reason to fear us: Defending women's rights and combating authoritarianism is the same fight. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

Collins has voted with Trump 96% of the time — the same rate as Mitch McConnell and two points above conservative Rand Paul. This is hardly the profile of someone looking to chart her own path. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

I am home sick with influenza B. So glad I got immunized this fall and I am therefore more protected from a very serious case. Anybody else out there under the weather?

Social Identities Shape Belief in True & False Information In our new paper (N=1,459), people randomly assigned to a minimal groups were more likely to trust + believe ingroup members. This was only true among people who valued their ingroup or had a strong need to belong. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Rep. Stephen Lynch: "It offers a great contrast. Look what the British government is doing in light of the evidence, and look what the US government is doing. Nothing. Our chief law enforcement officer Pam Bondi is defending and obstructing the investigation."

If the US had a Congress, it would be raising hell over the president ignoring Congress’s war powers and preparing to start another Middle East war without authorization or even debate. Except the Republican majority doesn’t want the US to have a Congress, so it effectively doesn’t.

It's wild that, here in the US, we can't seem to find any evidence implicating third-parties of criminal conduct in the Epstein files, but they are easily finding that evidence everywhere else. And, they are acting on it.

No disrespect to the UK or South Korea, but it's nuts that a literal monarchy and a country that was ruled by a military dictatorship as recently as my freshman year in high school are holding elites to account while the US gives them more power and works overtime to insulate them from consequences.

Virginia Guiffre should still be alive and seeing the results of her rare courage and integrity. She spoke out against the horrific crimes of some of the most powerful and corrupt men in the world when there was no incentive to do so, and finally, the world is following her lead, much too late.

MS NOW has obtained a statement from the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre: At last.   Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.

Should your esteemed constabulary be inclined to cross the pond, we are in possession of a most splendid catalogue of miscreants (which we would be delighted to preserve in like confidentiality) for your good offices to apprehend.

Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Someone tell Bari about the Streisand effect

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

The patent for Insulin was sold for $1 by its inventor so it could be provided almost for free. Insulin costs $2 to make in the USA. The average price of insulin in the USA is now $1500 a month.

Rep. Ilhan Omar says ICE should be eliminated as an agency after what happened in Minnesota. Her fellow Democrats in Congress are declining to go that far.

of course they knew. IT WAS THEIR POLICY.

from josh's tour de force season of slow burn on david duke. unreal lol.

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Fascism is here. 🇺🇸 CBS is dead. ☠️ More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀

Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973. During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem “I Am Somebody,” a message focused on self-worth and empowerment The segment became one of the most memorable celebrity appearances from the early seasons of the show.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

America has lost a titan in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. From his days at the side of Dr. King, to his moral leadership in this century, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. spent his life pushing our nation closer to its own ideal.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

"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.

Honestly, yes please! www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7bdcedc...

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.

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

#OTISummit2026 is a cross-generational event that provides an educational and supportive environment for #careerdevelopment and enrichment for #LGBTQ+ students, academics, and career professionals in 2/3

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

Happy Valentine's Day. Say it with Microbes! :-) 🦠😆

Can confirm

I am hiring. Force of Infection is looking for public health writers (both part time ongoing and freelance). All roles are remote and mostly async. Details ⬇️ www.foiclinical.com/opportunities/

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.

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It’s trump

This is incredibly offensive. To see the California Governor's office -- and a former san francisco politician! -- promote Reagan as an example of goodness + humanity is outrageous when it's widely recognized that his anti-gay and AIDS-phobic bigotry contributed to killing how many Californians?!

Why Status-Quo Dems Should Heed the Progressive Earthquake in New Jersey www.commondreams.org/opinion/prog...

What We Can Learn From Minneapolis' Model of Resistance www.commondreams.org/opinion/less...