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Spirit of America: Yale professor stresses modern importance of Revolutionary War history NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — While America celebrates its 250th birthday, historians are trying to get people interested in the Revolutionary War period. One Yale University history professor is sprea…

I…..didn’t realize that this was going to be a story about me.

I thought it was about the Revolution / 250th!

I wanted people to know that everyday people coming together to act can result in momentous change…

www.wtnh.com/celebrate-25...

President Trump now corruptly threatening “consequences” for Netflix if it doesn’t fire a board member over her political speech, putting a thumb on scale for Ellison-owned Paramount in bidding war for Warner Bros. (CNN’s owner) www.mediamatters.org/cnn/paramoun...

wow (for the thousandth time)

CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress The Trump administration has fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program manager Alexis Goldstein for documenting a meeting a year ago between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Governmen...

The Trump administration has fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program manager Alexis Goldstein for documenting a meeting a year ago between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/al...

Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.

www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.

“I’ve never seen federal agents so out of control and acting in such a malicious manner,” a former federal prosecutor and federal judge said. “They said they were going after ‘the worst of the worst,’ then they became the problem.

Read this by @jonschuppe.bsky.social & @natashakorecki.bsky.social

sirens blare in the background as Kristi Noem tries to hold a news conference in Otay Mesa, California

FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into Extinction Rebellion NYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of activist groups.

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists."

theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

YouTube video by Democracy Docket I Warned You About Trump. Here’s the Plan to Stop Him in 2026.

NEW EPISODE: I lay out the concrete, actionable steps state and federal Democrats can take to block election subversion, from banning mass voter challenges to stripping immunity from officials who interfere with voting.

Watch, act and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzgy...

Local police on Wednesday arrested 21 protesters who demonstrated at Target's Richfield location. Weeks earlier, federal agents had arrested two Target employees, both U.S. citizens, at this store.

📸: Victor Stefanescu @vstef.bsky.social

No boundaries The Border Patrol has grown far bigger—and crueler—since its founding 100 years ago. Trump wants to take the gloves all the way off.

The very same agency that just shot down a party balloon is sending goons into US cities who were trained according to a set of rules that does not apply to encounters with US citizens. CBP has always been problematic. We wrote about its sordid history and track record before all this. Read up:

Pam Bondi's binders were emptied of pedophiles, but chock-full of oppo-research on Dems.

Lawmakers say some Epstein files remain redacted despite DOJ's pledge Reps. Jamie Raskin and Jared Moskowitz told reporters key documents retained redactions despite the DOJ's pledge that members of Congress could view the full files.

Breaking MS NOW:

Some of the Epstein docs the DOJ invited members of Congress to view are STILL redacted, despite promises otherwise.

Raskin says DOJ's reading room has just four computers. It would take seven years to get through the files in the current conditions established by the DOJ.

Hell yeah.

Opera vs. Policy How Europe sees Trump clearly and why America is still standing too close

Europe is staging #Trump as grotesque satire while the U.S. lives him as paperwork, ICE raids, buried whistleblowers, and 3 a.m. rage-posts. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

I promise not to seal post all day but I DO promise to use "no scrolling, just rolling" or a variation for the foreseeable future. 🦭 #SeaSky

The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian collapse in Cuba due to Trump’s oil blockade on the island. Venezuelan oil was a lifeline for Cuba, which has been devastated by decades of U.S. economic sanctions.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democrats' ICE demands Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Democrats' demands for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic.”

Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democrats’ ICE demands
AP

Schumer and Jeffries released a list of 10 proposals
including requirement for judicial warrants, better ID of DHS officers, new use of force standards and a stop to racial profiling

bit.ly/4akNXXm

Breaking:

The White House press secretary just said she "can't guarantee" that ICE won't be around polling locations in November.

“If you read or share only one article today, make it this:
HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 … Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of power of the office for self-enrichment.”
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

No paywall:
archive.is/ZmfJC

Has Susan Collins expressed concern yet? Cause she made it sound like ICE was done harassing Maine

Maybe she can whine to Noem again

Jeffrey Epstein, Trump, Peter Thiel... The insidious plot to destroy America was always the billionaire's dream. Devastate American working class families and buy up everything on the cheap — and turn America into a fascist authoritarian oligarchy.

THEY DID IT. EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT just voted on an amendment to DEFUND ICE (rescind the BBB slush fund that keeps ICE open during a shutdown.) This amendment failed, but it shows broad support! KEEP CALLING and make it a demand to vote for the DHS funding bill!!

The first critic review of Melania on Rotten Tomatoes got 1 star. Excerpts from the review:
"Superficial, willfully deceitful, unrelentingly boring, strengthens a perception of her as a chilly, lifeless socialite. Propaganda imagining the first monarch in U.S. history for a future non-democracy."

Colorado school districts cancel classes Friday due to unexpected staff absences amid national strike A national strike and protests against ICE activity in communities are scheduled across the country, including metro Denver, on Friday and Saturday.

Busy news day - but really proud of Colorado teachers & students participating in #nationalstrike today!

www.9news.com/article/news...

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

They gave a bunch of roided up thugs weapons and made them immune from legal consequences. You can't really tinker around the edges of something like that, you have to end it

YouTube video by Unicorn Riot 'This is a political persecution' Says Attorney of Activist's Arrests in Twin Cities

Federal agents arrested 3 activists in Minnesota, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, St. Paul school board member Chauntyll Allen, & content creator 'DaWokeFarmer' for protesting a church that has a pastor who's an ICE agent. There are still no charges filed on any of the detained.

'This is a political persecution' Says Attorney of Activist's Arrests in Twin Cities federal agents arrested 3 activists in the Twin Cities, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, St. Paul school board member Chauntyll Allen, and content creator…

"This was brought from Washington, D.C.. by the people at the top of the government solely for political reasons. This case is being handled by prosecutors that they brought in from Washington, D.C.. because it's a political case." - Jordan Kushner on the arrest of three activists in the Twin Cities