J. Hamilton

This. Being human means accepting that you have agency and responsibility for your actions. When we dehumanize, we let people off the hook too easily. I want billionaires and ICE agents to be accountable, and not be given a free pass from thier humanity and the obligations thereof.

Eisenhower

First Venezuela, then Iran, and there's rumbling about Cuba. When will Democrats learn their lesson and stop talking about the Epstein files?

Remember when the Constitution said that Congress was the body authorized to declare war? Impeachment now.

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

Three men posing in front of an army tank while holding up tank ammunition. Headline placed at bottom of image reads “He Built a Camera From Firearms To Photograph U.S. Gun Owners For ‘Thoughts & Prayers’ At La Luz de Jesus Gallery”

"I hope the exhibit leaves people unsettled in a productive way, says artist Wayne Martin Belger. "I don’t tell viewers what side to stand on. I create a space where they have to sit with what they’re seeing."

The full story: lataco.com/camera-gun-o...

By Hadley Tomicki

Shakespeare has a quote for every occasion.

This really sums it up.

‘It will drive you crazy’: Letters reveal what life is like inside Adelanto ICE detention center An intimate look at life inside one of California’s largest ICE detention centers – told by the people who lived it.

First hand stories on the horrendous conditions in our closest detention center, Adelanto. Run by the for-profit GEO group, it's been horrible for years. If you are in an area with a new detention camp being proposed, do everything you can to stop it! www.pressenterprise.com/2026/02/23/i...

my spouse is a public high school teacher and this is exactly what they do in every class, per school policy. all phones in the "phone hotel" at the beginning of class. ....but if they have to use iPads or laptops in class, then chatGPT I still available.

Time to roll up our sleeves and talk about misogyny again. Without concerted effort, tech will have it baked into the OS, just like society at large.

I'm finally watching The Pitt and it is reminding me of how awful and scary it was and how much unresolved trauma there is from those days. RFK Jr. is a sociopath.

This os a critical moment -please submit a comment to keep our night sky safe. There is absolutely no good reason to put AI in orbit.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

Fun Louisiana facts:

When I see an adult grab a child by the arm like that, and then escalate when challenged, I think to myself, "This is not the first time they have laid hands violently on a child."

If you consider "paying people for their labor" to be the same as "wealth redistribution", then you can understand why he longs for the good old days of enslavement.

oh jeez, sorry east coast friends. Bundle up.

This was SB this morning, a few blocks from my home:

Hegseth has made clear that he thinks he’s on a modern day crusade.

some serious thunder and lightning here in SB tonight!

the silhouette of a cat sitting in front of a TV watching an ice skater in the Olympics

My cat really likes watching ice skaters in the Olympics.

Wow.

The angel of abundance, the Dolly Lama of literacy, the distributor of almost a third of a billion books for kids.

For-profit prisons are a sin. For-profit detention camps are a sin. Creating financial rewards for locking people up (the more the better!) and financial rewards for inhumane treatment of locked up people, is a sin.

My elementary school school!

"The ball is in your court, Republians" is idiotic messaging. To win a game, you don't hand over the ball to the other team, you run with it. You win with offense, not defense. I don't even watch sports much and I know this. Sheesh.

Absolutely brilliant and made me cry.

The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.

A large tattoo of Richard Nixon's face on Roger Stone's back, between his shoulder blades.

Any time Roger Stone is mentioned, this image needs to be shared: