ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Six years ago today I launched Democracy Docket to be unapologetically pro-democracy. Today, it has a staff of 22 and more than 400,000 subscribers and 60,000 paying members.
Its commitment remains: Never back down or obey and always stand tall. Sign-up and support it today. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
Graphic showcasing the different precinct locations in and around the Ninth District of Illinois. Copy reads: "EARLY VOTING IS OPEN across Illinois’ Ninth District" Visit katforillinois.com/VOTE to view the map!
With 12 days left, every vote counts.
You can vote at any early voting location in the county where you’re registered.
Here are the closest ones across IL-09:
The $599 entry-level MacBook could help Apple compete with Chromebooks and low-cost Windows laptops.
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"Demand is so great that programs to mentor attorneys to file habeas cases are emerging...
“I’m on all these listservs where people are saying, who can help me in Arizona, who can help me in Mississippi, and people are stepping up and helping each other...”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A student talks to a representative from WLEX18 at the CI Spring 2026 Career Fair. They are in an a busy exhibit hall in a ballroom in the Bill Gatton Student Center on the University of Kentucky campus.
It’s College of CI Career Day at university of Kentucky! Thanks to all employers, agencies and nonprofits who have joined us here on campus in the Gatton Student Center. Here until 4 pm. Students join us!!
05.03.2026 18:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"
04.03.2026 18:46 — 👍 5241 🔁 585 💬 232 📌 56Dressing up as a fucking massive cockroach for world book day and phoning in sick because I’m a cockroach to see if they get the reference
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A development such as this has been a goal for HIV researchers for decades. It is important because people who are faced with difficult treatment regimens are less likely to be compliant.
Single Daily Tablet Shows Powerful Results for People With Drug-Resistant HIV share.google/RjULDFVtCYI9...
I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.
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New Publication Alert
Amy Wilcockson, Jennifer Buckley. Periodicals, Fiction and the Novel, 1700–1760: Ecologies of Print, The Review of English Studies, 2026;, hgag003, doi.org/10.1093/res/...
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
March 3rd, 1986 — Metallica released their legendary third studio album Master of Puppets.
A defining moment in thrash metal history. From the crushing title track to the haunting power of “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” and the instrumental masterpiece “Orion,” this album changed heavy music forever.
Radiohead just randomly started streaming live performances and random songs from their catalogue yesterday, and it's still going.....................
👀👀👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ga...
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
I have so many thoughts about this story. You should read it. You’ll learn some things. You’ll marvel at some things. You’ll have a change of pace. It’s great.
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Q: "Do you think Trump should be deposed by this committee?"
HILLARY: "Absolutely. Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers. That is behavior that fits a pattern."
All the planes being forced to fly around nearly the entire Middle East
03.03.2026 00:17 — 👍 164 🔁 55 💬 3 📌 4Absolutely unheard of for 6th Circuit previously. Covered it for years in Cincinnati. SMH.
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The Crypt of Colònia Güell, a church designed by architect Antoni Gaudí located in Santa Coloma de Cervelló near Barcelona, Spain.
The Crypt of Colònia Güell, a church designed by architect Antoni Gaudí located in Santa Coloma de Cervelló near Barcelona, Spain.
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A day early for the full moon. A lunar eclipse is also happening tomorrow. The weather may not cooperate tomorrow, so here is today's almost full moon.
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He originally said was going to cost $200 million. Then he said $250 million. Then $300 million. But now it's going to come in under budget at $400 million.
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I've been really enjoying this podcast series from Jad Abumrad about the life and music of Fela Kuti.
It's got everything: the birth of Afrobeat, his incredible revolutionary mother, post-colonial history of Nigeria, and the story of the movement he started. It's so fucking good.
Rubio to brief US House and Senate leaders on Monday reut.rs/3OJI6DJ
02.03.2026 02:40 — 👍 38 🔁 13 💬 22 📌 3Can confirm that my uncle Henry, once President of the NYC Young Republicans and named ambassador to Czechoslovakia, never played golf w a communist. And he played golf w Eisenhower all the time. (But your analysis is dead in re the people.)
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Night skies over Norway ✨
Night skies over Norway ✨
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Dead Father, A Cry Song for the Nation (2023) by South African painter of Xhosa origin, Simphiwe Ndzube (born in 1990), currently living and working in Los Angeles.
Oil on linen
200 x 160 x 5 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Tom Holland and Zendaya are now married, says stylist Law Roach
(via: @accesshollywood.bsky.social)
The CEO and best-selling author Mel Robbins shared that she was diagnosed with ADHD at 47. In the lead up to the ‘Barbie’ premiere, director Greta Gerwig shared that she’d been diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. What is causing this surge in midlife diagnoses?
02.03.2026 02:00 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“Iran has struck all six of the oil-rich Gulf Arab states, including Oman, which had mediated nuclear talks between Tehran and the Trump administration. It also hit Jordan, Iraq and Israel.”
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
