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TEXANS!

Check your voter registration right now.

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Titled "Petty Kash"

TSA PreCheck won’t shut down after all, DHS says The Department of Homeland Security reversed course, saying TSA PreCheck remains operational despite the government shutdown.

TACO TACO TACO HELL…

Yeah. Of course they reversed the decision.

Because it was fucking stupid? No. That’s not enough - or they’d never do ANYTHING they want to do.

It was the immediate backlash.

THEY HATE IT when the public screams at them.

Keep screaming.
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CAN CONFIRM!

If you’re looking for an fresh, edgy, new org with tested pro-science, pro-health messaging in 40 potential swing districts off the money pits of the DCCC list, look no further than @standupforscience.bsky.social

It’s time for science to have a fighting arm. That’s us.

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...

Nothing here from Shapiro on the fact that Congress has the power to declare war, or international law, or concern that even our closest allies aren't supporting (to the point of denying use of our bases on their territory). No way '28.

We Must Raise Our Voices Against the Attacks on Trans Care The Gender Liberation Movement’s Raquel Willis says trans youth “are our future” and that new HHS rules amount to a national ban on gender-affirming care for young people.

"We must continue to build a culture that affirms and supports trans youth and their truths," says Raquel Willis, co-founder of the Gender Liberation Movement. "They are our future and we better start acting like it."
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Opinion | What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Trump administration slashes mercury regulations from coal plants Mercury pollution from coal plants has been tied to serious neurological problems, especially in children and babies

MAHA be damned, this administration is poisoning you www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sunset in Malibu. Large rocks jug the shoreline meeting the Pacific Ocean. Purple and pink skies usher in the evening

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.—Nelson Mandela

Pic of the day

#photography

TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.”

The “pro life” MAGA party hard at work…

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Again, there is only one solution for a president who immediately goes to "the constitutional court judges that I appointed are now enemies of the state," & it is neither more laws nor more court rulings.

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Listen to @PaulaPoundstone.bsky.social 🎧

She is a comedian, but she's never been more serious:

"Stand up and fight back."

One way to do that? Grab your Kazoo and find a peaceful protest!

When we fight together, we shall overcome. 💙
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This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Mexico is under attack right now because a cartel leader was killed

but we can't afford universal health care and housing for all.

Side-by-side portrait of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin. On the left is a black-and-white photo of Colvin as a teenager wearing glasses. On the right is a later-life color portrait of her wearing a gray jacket with a red collar. A black band at the bottom contains the quote: “I knew then and I know now that when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.” - Claudette Colvin.

Claudette Colvin was 15 when she refused to give up her seat. A child was asked to accept injustice. She refused.

History didn’t spotlight her the way it should have. Courage came first.

Civil rights pioneer who helped ignite the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Black History. Always. 🖤

#SheShed #V4V

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do

They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do

They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do.

Then they *lost* him.

www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Craig Scott Valdez was charged with child sex trafficking and other child exploitation offenses.

He was chair of the Alaska Young Republicans. Valdez allegedly “used Snapchat to identify, groom & entice juvenile females in Alaska for the purpose of sexual exploitation.”

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.

Please take it to heart and take action.

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

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Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

But here's what I keep returning to: by the time the gov't is organized, tyrannical, & rounding up the marginalized, it's pretty much too late. By that time the remedies are often armed rebellion or invasion by another country or, at the very least, extended general strikes. Cat's out of the bag.

The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).

They start with chin-scratching pieces from centrists about whether this marginalized group is really all that good after all, if maybe a *little* discrimination is ok.

They don't start with horrors. They start with small things around the edges.

And so if you really *mean* "never again" -- if you're serious about it -- then the time to intervene, the time to speak up, the time to stop it, is *when it is still small*. When it's just a casual slur. When it's just sports. When it's just asking questions. When it's framed as anti-PC.