Rev. Jesse Jackson built the Rainbow Coalition as a political home rooted in dignity and solidarity. That struggle continues here in New York City, in every fight for housing, justice, and equality.

Today, we lower our flags in his honor — and recommit to the movement he called us to build.

Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84

Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

All of the Governors should refuse to attend. It's getting ridiculous.

Agreed. I heard journalist/historian @jelaniya.bsky.social lake the same point recently. I would add, look at how a nascent US treated and cheated native people. @kenlburns.bsky.social American Revolution on PBS is a great refresher. Just look at the post WWII lynchings and police brutality.

Factories Are Becoming More Like Data Centers Large electricity users that employ few workers are not what America’s reindustrialization dreams are made on.

Many Americans dislike data centers because they use land, water, and electricity without creating many permanent jobs.

There’s just one wrinkle: Modern factories increasingly fit the same description.

I wrote about it for @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/energy/facto...

The "White House staffer" who posted the disgustingly racist Obama meme:

Finneas and Billie

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

In 1962, West worked on Proj 29V in the comput div scientific prog + analysis branch to calculate the orbit of Pluto in relation to Neptune. She was part of a team that programmed a computer to perform more than five billion calculations. in 1964, the work proved the regularity of Pluto’s orbit.

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

17 of the Craziest Emails in the Epstein Files A week on from their release, we dove into the DOJ trove of sometimes disgusting and often insane documents so you don’t have to.

From @zeteo.com I know it's very serious but Allen v Alan . . .? and this one, edited: "one of donald's closest people said that remember, he has written three books . . . which makes him one of the few people in the world that has written more books than he has read"
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THIS ALIVA RAHMAN'S ENTIRE TESTIMONY WORD FOR WORD & IT ABSOLUTELY SHOULD GO VIRAL!

WATCH HERE:
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For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

Kid Rock vs Bad Bunny

Read the SHOCKING LYRICS!!!!

Brilliant! (Don't believe me, just watch.)

Exclusive | A Revolt Inside Paul Weiss Over the Epstein Files Took Down Brad Karp The latest batch of Epstein emails prompted partners to push elite law firm’s leader from chairman role.

He's no longer Chair at Paul Weiss. www.wsj.com/business/a-r...

New Details On How Jeffrey Epstein Got So Rich The latest Epstein files name two more billionaire clients: real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman and Rothschild heir by marriage Ariane de Rothschild.

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Epstein advised Rothschild CEO during Luxembourg money-laundering probe Emails show private bank’s leader alerted convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein as Luxembourg acted over 1MDB scandal

I was puzzled at why a seasoned European female banker would pay Epstein for tax advice, but @forbes.com article today suggested he was paid on a schedule based on the outcome of a tax penalty settlement. That makes sense. He had someone inside. Follow the money.
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This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

Thousands of alumni submitted petitions to University leadership. Big donors matter but so do the large numbers. Crimson Courage is an umbrella for coordinated action. As for all of the Epstein friends at Harvard Kennedy School, we can only apologize for that.

Harvard Faculty are more than valued employees — they are at the intellectual heart of the value of a Harvard education. The alumni are a valued constituency not only for the dollars but for the role alumni play in the world and in association with each other. Fac and Alum led the resistance to DC

Wall St. Lawyer Brad Karp Says He Regrets Epstein Interactions

Maybe this is why Paul Weiss cut a deal with the white house so damn quickly. Their top partner was complicit, or at least involved. Follow the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/b...

Mamdani Secures a Multimillion-Dollar Settlement Over Delivery Worker Wage Theft Uber Eats, HungryPanda, and Fantuan also agreed to reinstate 10,000 wrongfully deactivated workers.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just secured a $5.2 million settlement for delivery app gig workers. He has been in office for one month.
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Note: nothing on the ground in Minnesota has changed.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

Read the text. These Judges are not messing around. Congress is trash but the judiciary makes me proud to be an American. Cheers!

It’s not necessarily a crime to party with Epstein, but it is absolutely criminal adjacent. I hate to say this but I am really missing the old school Republicans about now. They were snobbish but at least they were discerning. These people are lowlifes.

I so agree about this. @rincewind.run It’s wonderful to have Mayor Mamdani reclaim our city for all of us. Cheers!

this is a very cool thing to do and also highlights one of the biggest keys to Zohran's appeal: he just thinks New York City is really neat

people who live somewhere want to vote for someone who likes it there and wants to make it better, not someone who wants to use it as a springboard

Amazon touts ‘Melania’ box office success, though film well short of turning a profit By financial standards, the film is not a winner, at least not yet. The company that financed it, Amazon MGM Studios, still has a long way to go to break even.

The wife of a convicted felon elected to office gets $28 mil personally, that she can keep as a private citizen. Follow the money. finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...

How about Chris Ban Hollen for Senate Leadership? @vanhollen.senate.gov. Check out his feed, reflecting his priorities. We deserve leadership in this tough moment.