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23.02.2026 23:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trump’s quick move toward more aggressive tariffs shows how much uncertainty still hangs over the global economy, even after the Supreme Court said the president lacked the legal authority to institute his sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs.
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POTUS went beyond criticizing a past decision, as he shifted gears & lobbied for a future decision. His argument against birthright citizenship came in the same social media post that blasted the SCOTUS for Feb. 20 decision overturning his emergency tariffs.
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23.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Russia wants to impose on the world a different way of life and change the lives people have chosen for themselves."
23.02.2026 07:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0World War Three, the only answer intense military & economic pressure to force him to step back.
"I believe that Putin has already started it. Question is how much territory he will be able to seize & how to stop him...
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It required a grassroots civil rights movement that organized and mobilized for several decades, combined with a Democratic Congress and awakened president, Lyndon B. Johnson, to finally dismantle Jim Crow through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, more decisively, the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
23.02.2026 07:18 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Overturning the Jim Crow system did not come easily, even as the nation’s attitudes about race began to liberalize. “All types of conniving methods are still being used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters,” Martin Luther King Jr. said in a 1957 speech.
23.02.2026 07:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Jim Crow involved much more than disenfranchisement. The system consisted of an entire infrastructure of norms, rules, and laws that entrenched racial segregation and relegated Black Americans to secondary status.
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Ordinary Russians are feeling the pain. Business owners interviewed by The AP described a steady decline in demand for their goods and services, a sudden increase in costs as suppliers adjust to the tax reform, and a tax burden that’s now tens of times higher.
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Near the property’s north gate, officers confronted a white male in his early 20s carrying a gas can and shotgun, who ignored repeated commands before raising the shotgun, prompting officers to fire.
They identified the man as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin.
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22.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0This feels me with joy 🫶🏼
It is my absolute favorite quote of his—pinned on all my socials.
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It is my absolute favorite quote of his—pinned on all my socials.
I have recited it at the close of every weekly #AdvovacyArena #goodtrouble community chat since its inception over five years ago. The chat is to increase civic engagement and it starts with being informed.
Image of John Lewis with white text reading, "Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime."
On his birthday, we honor the legacy of John Lewis.
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21.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0OTD Feb 21, 1965, Malcolm X, a religious & civil rights leader, was assassinated during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. He was just 39 years old and left behind his wife, Betty Shabazz, and six young daughters—including twins born after his death. #BHM
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21.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
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20.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0this nuiance is missed
19.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0King Charles has insisted “the law must take its course” after detectives took the unprecedented step of arresting his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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Maryland is drawing a hard line on immigration enforcement with new legislation that changes how local police can work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The opposite of what TNGOP supermajority is doing here.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Feb 18, 2026 agreed to review Moderna's mRNA seasonal influenza vaccine after the company amended its application, reversing last week's refusal.
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18.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The subcommittee, which must have four representatives from both major political parties, is expected to have a $2m budget and run through.
The committee will deploy subpoena power and testimony, as well as official records, “to put the whole story together.”
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