debra knits

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, dies at 84 “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.

Rev. Jesse Jackson dedicated his life to expanding who gets to belong in American democracy.

From civil rights to economic justice, he challenged power and widened the path for Black Americans. May we honor his legacy not just with words, but by continuing the work. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren It would take the avg household 100K YEARS to make as much money as Trump gave to Amazon last year.

It would take the average household around 100,000 YEARS to make as much money as Donald Trump gave to Amazon last year.

24 Parents And Activists Blockade HHS Headquarters In Protest Against New Trans Youth Care Ban, Arrested The protestors blocked entrance to the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters to protest a rule that could eliminate trans youth care nationwide.

Just in: 50 parents and transgender activists have blockaded the HHS Building in protest of sweeping new rules that could ban trans youth nationwide.

24 were then arrested.

This is the kind of action we need.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.

Join us TOMORROW, Wed. Feb. 11, for a special Community Q&A! This event offers a welcoming, inclusive space for LGBTQ+ people, families, and allies to learn more about the rights, protections, and challenges affecting our community today.

Sign Up: https://www.mobilize.us/equalitymi/event/890490/

Pride Flag Is Taken Down From Stonewall Monument

What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

We just shared the link from NBC about three warehouses being bought to house immigrants, but it now looks like we seriously underreported how many are being purchased. Based on information many of you have shared, the number appears to be over 26.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump removed his post that included a racist video portraying former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Simply deleting it is not enough a public apology is warranted.

MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars

Opinion | No Child Deserves to Die Like My Daughter

No Child Deserves to Die Like My Daughter www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

"This is moral injury that we're living through. They still have an active federal investigation into the wife of Renee Good. And that is demented shit right there." - @governorwalz.mn.gov

Watch his full conversation with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast.

The fact that understanding history is so important for this moment tells you everything you need to know about why they're attacking history classes.

It's the anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision today. Men, a great day to schedule a vasectomy.

Evidence for invoking 25th

I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.

September 1, 1939: Using lies as justification, Hitler broke international law by invading Poland.

February 24, 2022: Using lies as justification, Putin broke international law by invading Ukraine.

January 3, 2026: Using lies as justification, Trump broke international law by invading Venezuela.

FICTION AND POETRY LITERARY HUB NEWS AND CULTURE BUY A HAT LIT HUB RADIO READING LISTS Unlike Mike Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, Mamdani will never feel the need to use the NYPD to beat up homosexuals, Negros and protesters in the hopes it will impress a precinct captain in Des Moines.

Unlike other NYC mayors with delusions of grandeur, Mamdani need not be pulled towards national ambitions (and the inherent, imperial actions which often accompany them) lithub.com/why-its-a-go...

it’s been a huge goal for elon musk and the entire tech reich to destroy real journalism and install a generation of people who are “citizen journalists” because they are far easier for them to control and influence to spread their agenda

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "aren't you a fancy motherfucker"

Trans Youth Emergency Project Offers Families Guidance To Help Keep Getting Care After New Trump Anti-Trans Rule The organization tells EITM that they are prepared to scale up for further shutdown of care, and can offer most families places to continue getting care.

A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country.

Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them.

Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

At what point does it become Bill Clinton's tariff-laden economic decline?

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT).

Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).

3 NVs on both sides.

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a blue background with the words better with biden written on it ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a blue background with the words better with biden written on it

President Biden has been awarded Germany's highest honor, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit at a ceremony in Berlin. And they called him dear Joe. Americans were shocked when I told some a few years ago he is loved worldwide. The Irish 🇮🇪 adore him as well. Congratulations Joe Biden!

Would ya look at that...President Joe Biden winning an actual award.

The unifying aim of all Trump pronouncements and actions is to trash the constitution and impose a white supremacist militarized autocracy by EO and truth social decree - the latest attack on naturalization and birthright citizenship is an ugly new escalation of that barbaric aim.