New Cabinet member? 😁

I just felt the wing of the Owl of Minerva brush against my upturned, weeping face.

THERE HAVE BEEN ZERO DAYS SINCE THE LAST CANOODLING

I'll call MN Senators - I would've thought they were obvious no votes, but I think they've voted yes on some Trump nominees??

Can Teen Vogue be allowed to cover the White House? I vote for them to have a front seat in the Briefing Room.

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️

Winning

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards... (checks news) a sieg-heiling billionaire? 😬🤦🏻☄️

Maybe Dr. Oz owning $550,000 in UnitedHealth stock and seeking to run the agency that oversees UnitedHealth's biggest cash cow (Medicare Advantage) should get more attention
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Great interview, thank you both 🙏

Article title and abstract

What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are:

a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?

That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...

impossible

Inmates burn themselves in protest at ‘inhumane’ Virginia prison conditions Officials acknowledge prisoners have harmed themselves but say they did not set themselves on fire or self-immolate

Several people incarcerated in Virginia’s Red Onion prison have intentionally burned themselves in protest against inhumane conditions including racial and physical abuse, medical neglect, excessive solitary, food covered in maggots, and dog attacks.

😬😬😬

Let's goooo!!

THIS IS GREAT

A small sampling of why Elon wants to eliminate federal watchdog agencies...

“A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History”

Why are we not taking this vastly more seriously given the potential downside? Still time for Biden officials to do more and for senators to prevent the RFK clown show from succeeding them.

💯. Also I need you to know that I was ALSO a spelling bee champion in 5th grade!! Crashed and burned at regionals 🤷‍♂️

go.bsky.app/H4CUfnL

NYT to trans people: can you please make yourselves smaller 😳

Hope is not a feeling... but a practice. - Rabbi Sharon Brous

As Ogburn told his colleagues, "The standard of care can now be construed as a felony." Many of the doctors had moved cross-country to join him at the university, but now the law complicated their work. "I see horrible things go wrong all the time in people's pregnancies, and the law has made it so that there's no guarantee that the right thing can be done," Serapio told me. Even after getting all the mandatory clearances from lawyers and administrators, she added, "you still don't know if you're going to have an anesthesiologist who will agree to do it. By that time, the person has bled out and could die."

One reason physicians can’t just go rogue and disregard state laws banning abortion, as I keep seeing people suggest (or demand).

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Trump reportedly plans to swiftly eject trans troops within days of inauguration Trump’s actions could eject thousands of current trans service members

News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration.

Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare.

This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

ISO volunteers to hand out copies of Heather McGhee's "The Sum of Us" to pink clad crowds leaving screenings of "Wicked"...? (or I can just echo the calls to GO SEE THE FILM!)...