The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
22.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 18454 🔁 6545 💬 434 📌 174
Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room
22.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 21107 🔁 5930 💬 597 📌 293
I don't know the right answer here. But teachers can play a very important role in alerting authorities of abuse. The authorities then need to act on those tips. I will never forget the horrifying death of Elisa Izquierdo in the 1990s. www.nytimes.com/1995/12/24/n...
22.02.2026 18:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Child Misses 3 Weeks of School. Should Protective Services Step In?
A Child Misses 3 Weeks of School. Should Protective Services Step In? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/n...
22.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Increasingly the stories sound like the stories about tourists picked up in Iran or Russia, for trivial or inexplicable reasons. How long before we start to read them and say, like Russia and Iran, "well, they really should have understood the risks of visiting the United States."
21.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 325 🔁 89 💬 15 📌 5
Must Read
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Court Clears Way for Louisiana Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Classrooms
Can someone post a sign in each school saying these commandments can be ignored because the Constitution provides for religious freedom and not everyone believes them?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...
21.02.2026 01:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Definition of Love: From the Perspective of a Teen
Love isn’t the sort of word you use lightly, yet, it’s all around us. Love is a mother giving her daughter her last bite of food; it’s the friend giving her peer a hug after she’s had a long day; it’s...
"No adult I’ve spoken to on this matter has the firm opinion that teenagers are incapable of love, but some believe teenagers are not capable of being 'in love,' or the kind of love you see in movies. However, teenagers are capable of other types of love."
thebeaconfhhs.org/4330/enterta...
19.02.2026 00:27 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Mamdani will bring back homeless encampment sweeps after vowing to end practice
The administration said the city’s homeless services agency would now take charge of sweeps.
"He billed the new plan as a kinder, gentler approach to addressing street homelessness, saying the city would conduct daily outreach in the seven days before police and sanitation workers arrived to disperse encampments or makeshift shelters."
gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
18.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FBI, St. Paul police investigating ICE arrest that resulted in skull fractures
ICE has blamed AlbertoCastañeda Mondragón for his injuries, saying he fell and hit his head as he tried to flee while hospital staff said the fall couldn't have caused brain hemorraging.
Minnesota and federal authorities are investigating the alleged beating of a Mexican citizen by immigration officers last month, seeking to identify what caused the eight skull fractures that landed the man in the intensive care unit of a Minneapolis hospital, the AP reports.
18.02.2026 21:40 — 👍 70 🔁 35 💬 10 📌 2
House Republican Faces Backlash to Islamophobic Post
No Republican politicians are denouncing this ugly, bigoted rhetoric.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
18.02.2026 01:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
From Dinkins to Zohran: Jesse Jackson's NYC political legacy
Political experts said Jackson's 1988 presidential run paved the way for the election of New York’s first Black mayor the following year.
Nice little NY moments in this story about Jesse Jackson. I remember covering the 1999 protests outside Police Plaza where he was among about 1000 people arrested in HIGHLY organized & effective waves of civil disobedience.
gothamist.com/news/from-di...
18.02.2026 00:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome, CBS, to the “Your Storied Brand Is Now Dogshit” world the Washington Post lives in now.
17.02.2026 12:53 — 👍 566 🔁 99 💬 5 📌 0
“It’s a different world when you start discussing vaccines,” Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chief executive, said last month. “There is almost like a religion there.”
Bourla also characterized Kennedy’s rhetoric as “anti-science.”
It’s terrifying
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
16.02.2026 21:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Texas University Closes Exhibition With Anti-ICE Artwork
Snowflakes!
Texas University Closes Exhibition With Anti-ICE Artwork www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/a...
13.02.2026 22:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”
A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.
The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
13.02.2026 19:40 — 👍 10905 🔁 5565 💬 876 📌 2407
Sen Ossoff is using the term the “Epstein Class”— he’s referring to the entitlement class, people who can get away with everything while regular Americans suffer.
13.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Just read this WSJ story 💀
13.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 34 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
Do the folks behind this think their children and grandchildren will be protected by a dome of wealth?
“The added pollution could lead to as many as 58,000 premature deaths and an increase of 37 million asthma attacks between now and 2055”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
12.02.2026 23:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Columbia Protester in ICE Custody for Nearly a Year Suffers Seizure
Insane, cruel and a waste of government funds
Columbia Protester in ICE Custody for Nearly a Year Suffers Seizure www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...
12.02.2026 17:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ll accept “creature” but most of our city wants nothing to do with him and always knew he was a con man.
12.02.2026 03:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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