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US President Donald Trump at the White House on 12 February 2026. Credit: Will Oliver / Alamy Stock Photo

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Concerns over autocracy in the U.S. continue to grow Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer to autocracy or may already be there.

Concerns over autocracy in the U.S. continue to grow

Buddhist monks bring 2,300-mile 'Walk for Peace' to Annapolis - Maryland Matters A group of two dozen Theravada Buddhist monks who walked 2,300 miles from Texas to Washington, D.C., to promote peace and mindfulness made one last stop, in Annapolis, drawing thousands, snarling traf...

Buddhist monks bring 2,300-mile ‘Walk for Peace’ to Annapolis marylandmatters.org/2026/02/13/t...

CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism) This man is going viral for showing up to an Anti-ICE protest in NJ. People thought he was there to cause trouble. They were wrong. He’s never protested before. He came because he saw kids running f...

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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (@jonathanwilsonhartgrove) Grateful to Willie Nelson for sending a Valentine to our Love Forward Together mass assembly in Raleigh, NC today. Full livestream of today’s program here: https://www.youtube.com/live/6LhpVEsn2aw?...

substack.com/@jonathanwil... Thank you, Willie Nelson and all those walking together

Hegseth Vows to Keep up Kelly Retribution Crusade  Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ After a federal...

Hegseth Vows to Keep up Kelly Retribution Crusade

Alexei Navalny was killed by the toxin epibatidine which has been developed by Russia, the U.K. government announced in a statement.

"Only the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin."

More on our #MSC2026 blog: www.politico.eu/article/muni...

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Stand up against Trump's Climate Denial! · Climate Action Campaign Fossil fuels are responsible for the climate crisis. The requirement that EPA act to protect the American people from climate harming pollutants–affirmed several times by the courts, including the U.S...

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ICE is cracking down on US citizen protesters with charges, tracking A Reuters analysis found that the Trump administration has charged at least 655 people with assaulting a federal officer or impeding law enforcement operations since launching a series of city‑focused...

ICE is arresting American citizens who are watching but not impeding their operations. Congress needs to act to stop these unconstitutional actions. www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

'It is astonishing': Congress rebuffs Trump push to slash $33 billion from health, human services - Maryland Matters Congress has approved the first public health funding bill since President Donald Trump began his second term, with lawmakers largely rejecting his proposed spending cuts and the elimination of dozens...

‘It is astonishing’: Congress rebuffs Trump push to slash $33 billion from health, human services marylandmatters.org/2026/02/08/i...

E&E News: How Congress came to approve a long-shot carbon trade bill Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer kept a “cone of silence” around his "PROVE IT Act" as it was tucked into a spending package.

Language from the PROVE IT Act was included in a funding package that is now law!

"It's like so many legislative accomplishments. It starts years before it's accomplished," Sen. Cramer told @eenews.bsky.social.

CCL is part of the story of those years... 🧵 subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Is it good when a judge has to say this to the government, or

Tolkien’s Dragons and Ours Oligarchy’s Blasted Heath

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Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

Maryland is farther behind on its emissions goal than expected, new research shows - Maryland Matters New computer modeling indicates that Maryland is heading in the wrong direction as it strives to meet a state-mandated 60% reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2031.

Maryland is farther behind on its emissions goal than expected, new research shows marylandmatters.org/2026/01/30/m...

YouTube video by Susan Baines Petition to Senator Susan Collins by Maine Voters

Team MAGA appears to have backed off in Maine, fearing damage to their ever-"concerned" Susan Collins.

A rough-and-ready group of Mainers put together a video petition to Collins, demanding that she move beyond "concern" in dealing with ICE.

ME voters: check it out

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UPDATE: After seeing this video, I informed ICE of my intent to visit the Baltimore facility today. I was told I would be denied entry.

It’s clear Trump's ICE would rather engage in a cover up. I will not stop pressing until we get answers. We need transparency & accountability.

Holding Fast: How History Shows Us What’s Possible - Back from the Brink Holding Fast: How History Shows Us What’s Possible

We're going through dark times, but history reminds us that we can still create positive change. preventnuclearwar.org/holding-fast...

www.rawstory.com Bruce Springsteen rushes out anti-Trump anthem: 'On the streets of Minneapolis'

Bruce Springsteen rushes out anti-Trump anthem: 'On the streets of Minneapolis'

Bruce Springsteen slams ‘King Trump’ and ‘federal thugs’ in Minneapolis protest song Bruce Springsteen slams ‘King Trump’ and ‘federal thugs’ in Minneapolis protest song

Bruce Springsteen slams ‘King Trump’ and ‘federal thugs’ in Minneapolis protest song

Thank you so much!

Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen.

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ICE is Republicans secret police. If the government gets shutdown this time it's ONLY because Republicans CONTINUE to INSIST on DHS, ICE and CBP continuing to wrongly occupy American cities and trample the Constitution.

🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasGopGovShutdown

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Honestly nothing feels different here today at all. There are still ICE raids all over, they're still letting people out at Whipple into the cold with nothing, and like you said, people still need food and rent money.

The Buckley court was right that threats to free speech and association, and the dangers of incumbency-protecting laws, mean that courts should closely scrutinize campaign money laws. But that should not doom all attempts to level the playing field or limit the risk of corruption from nine-figure campaign contributions, mostly to ostensibly independent groups. If Congress passed a law with generous contribution and spending limits, and strong disclosure rules, we could have ample breathing room for vigorous and competitive campaigns without the danger of the wealthy swamping our democracy. Because Buckley was a constitutional decision, there are only two paths to overturn it. One is to get a court majority to rethink the case’s fundamental mistakes. With the current makeup of the court, that seems unlikely. An even harder road is to amend the Constitution to allow for a better balance between the rights of free speech and the risks of corruption and oligarchy. We should not give up the struggle over our money-in-politics rules. But we must recognize that there will be fierce resistance from the moneyed interests who benefit from a system giving them outsize influence over who is elected and what politicians do once they are in office. A real democracy deserves better than Buckley.

My New One at @slate.com on the 50th Anniversary of the Buckley v. Valeo Decision: “One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy. It’s Not the One You Think.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Iranians are making history. Europe must act. The people of Iran are paying with their lives, and the EU can no longer hide behind procedure.

OPINION: The scale, organization and intent of current repressions against the Iranian people meet the legal threshold for crimes against humanity.

At this point, the EU's inaction ceases to be restraint and becomes moral, political and legal failure.

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