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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Imagine taking a vacation abroad & being disappeared to a jail for 40+ days for no reason.

That’s what this Admin is doing to foreign tourists. It's outrageous & hurting our businesses. 

When will other nations start holding the Admin accountable for mistreating their citizens?

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism | Jason Stanley Fascism feeds on the arbitrary killings that have long plagued the US. Ending the horror starts with abolishing ICE

Don’t forget this is not unprecedented

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I spoke with @melodyschreiber.com about the deep irony of Bhattacharya serving as Acting Director of CDC & Director of NIH simultaneously.

For years, he has advocated for separation between these role, framing this type of arrangement as a conflict of interest that would have chilling effects.

Texas is 84% Urban! Statewide elections count all votes. Saying that Jasmine Crocket, an actual elected National leader, can’t win in Texas is pure projection and dog whistle. Vote for who you want to represent you!! Not who the pundits @nytimes.com David Goodman tells you to!! Go vote please.

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

This aged pretty well.

Oh, plus any Trump looked at sideways over endowment “taxes”

Yeah, every school in the reddest states

Extra “kudos” to those who caved pre-emptively to this now defunct directive

“first in 14 primaries and caucuses and second in 36 others, among them such overwhelmingly white states as Maine and Minnesota…That a flamboyant black activist … could proceed so far on “the heat of his message” and his public persona was .. a remarkable feat of imagination and audacity .. -NYer’92

All you voters who “don’t believe” Jasmine Crocket can win in Texas should look at some actual history. Jesse Jackson won 14 states primaries, including several very white ones, and Obama is also Black. So, you don’t know very much about how white folks vote, or the particular holes in stereotyping

Phone bank into Texas Join the Environmental Voter Project to turn out low propensity environmental voters in Texas ahead of their March 3rd state primary election!

No matter what - getting Texans out to vote is what matters most.
Early voting for primaries have begun.

Phone bank w @environmentalvoter.bsky.social to reach voters and get them to vote!!
These people are ones that care about climate but don’t vote consistently.

They also think it’s easier to suppress Crockett’s votes, which is their entire election strategy in Texas.

This is every day shit in Texas. I was purged too

VOTER PROTECTION HOTLINES NATIONAL VOTER PROTECTION HOTLINE: (833) 336-8683 OR TEXT "VOTE" TO 70888 STATE/DISTRICT NUMBER ALABAMA (833) 468-6832 ALASKA (833) 336-8683 ARIZONA (833) 868-3429 ARKANSAS (501) 294-2178 CALIFORNIA (877) 321-8683 COLORADO (720) 600-7761 CONNECTICUT (833) 593-0134 D.C. (833) 336-8683 DELAWARE (833) 335-3367 FLORIDA (833) 868-3352 GEORGIA (888) 730-5816 HAWAII (833) 336-8683 IDAHO (833) 336-8683 ILLINOIS (855) 458-6837 INDIANA (833) 336-8683 IOWA (515) 207-9455 KANSAS (833) 336-8683 KENTUCKY (833) 468-6835 LOUISIANA (225) 255-3401 MAINE (207) 977-4451 MARYLAND (833) 638-6837 MASSACHUSETTS (833) 336-8683 MICHIGAN (833) 648-6837 MINNESOTA (833) 335-8683 MISSISSIPPI (833) 336-8683 MISSOURI (833) 336-8683 STATE/DISTRICT NUMBER MONTANA (844) 406-8683 NEBRASKA (402) 946-0005 NEVADA (775) 574-8683 NEW HAMPSHIRE (603) 466-8683 NEW JERSEY (833) 336-8683 NEW MEXICO (833) 336-8683 NEW YORK (844) 698-6837 NORTH CAROLINA (833) 868-3462 NORTH DAKOTA (701) 255-0460 OHIO (844) 644-8683 OKLAHOMA (405) 427-3366 OREGON (503) 239-8683 PENNSYLVANIA (833) 728-6837 RHODE ISLAND (833) 336-8683 SOUTH CAROLINA (855) 785-0222 SOUTH DAKOTA (833) 336-8683 TENNESSEE (833) 336-8683 TEXAS (844) 898-6837 UTAH (833) 336-8683 VERMONT (833) 336-8683 VIRGINIA (844) 482-8683 WASHINGTON (206) 309-8683 WEST VIRGINIA (833) 336-8683 WISCONSIN (608) 336-3232 WYOMING (833) 336-8683

I'd also add this - call the voter protection hotline... in Texas the number is (844) 898-6837, and we need to urge Texans to save that phone number in their contacts.

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine The FDA reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.

Push back can work! This is great news!

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

HHS canceled $500M in novel mRNA research, narrowed criteria on who should get the mRNA COVID vaccine, refused to review a completed study of a mRNA flu vaccine.

“We reject the claim that our approach to vaccines is anti-science or hostile to innovation.”

🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

This happened in 2018, but apparently dismantling this fucking shitshow wasn't a priority for anyone in power over the next eight years.

As I got more mobile, I kept exclaiming, “it’s so cheap to be rich”. money is a means to less friction, for sure for sure

Yes!! You too!! Go get ‘em woman!! 💃🏽

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Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism | Jason Stanley Fascism feeds on the arbitrary killings that have long plagued the US. Ending the horror starts with abolishing ICE

Don’t forget this is not unprecedented

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fifth Circuit Concentration Camps, brought to you by Duncan and Jones

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Imagine thinking race is a real thing

This is why anti-Black racism is so crucial to face and stamp out. Latin@s can be white as long as they are not Black… that is how the system is set up. What box to check as a white or brown-skinned Latino? The one that gives you most power over your future… Racism is the root.

In a word, where is their empathy?