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Why is my Pepco bill so high? We dug into DC's electricity The cold weather is only part of the story.

You’re not imagining it, electricity rates in #washingtondc have jumped dramatically this year.

@51st.news digs into the issue and identifies the usual suspects: pre-approved rate increases and, ofc, the proliferation of data centers.

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it.

bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

"The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam highlights the neglect and abuse immigrants with disabilities face every day, as well as DHS's cruel practice of releasing people alone in the streets with no way to contact their families or get safely home."

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

Epstein Used Botstein’s Prestige and Connections to Recruit and Support One of His Victims, a Violinist from Europe - The Daily Catch Jeffrey Epstein utilized his burgeoning relationship with Bard College President and American Symphony Orchestra Conductor Leon Botstein in 2013 to procure perks for a young violinist who ultimately b...

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

Huge win for the professors and unions. When we fight we win.

Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ... TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”

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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Joan W. Scott calling upon democrats everywhere👇🏽

“The suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself.

“Defence of gender studies is… a vital stand (for)…democracy, one based on aspirations for equality and justice for all”.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

It is absolutely insane that in her MurderBoarding they couldn't find a message pivot that relates to the law or her job as AG. I would have thought they would have more than one set of talking points across the Cabinet and Fox News.

Ave Maria University reports 53 measles cases since semester began Of those 53 students, the university said five students developed rashes since Friday afternoon and are being quarantined on campus.

They’re heavily Opus Dei, and currently have a massive measles outbreak. I’m so sorry. www.fox4now.com/collier-coun...

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Cook County prosecutors drop charges against 19 arrested during clergy-led protest at Broadview ICE facility

Prosecutors have dropped charges against nearly two dozen people arrested during a clergy-led protest outside the Broadview ICE facility last fall.

This is not writing. Do not let people express this delusion in your face.

The Global Gag Rule is Once Again Expanded, Maximizing Harm — rePROs Fight Back The Global Gag Rule, started by President Ronald Regan in 1984, prevented foreign NGOs from receiving U.S. family planning assistance if they performed, promoted, advocated for, counseled on, or refer...

This week on the #podcast, Caitlin Horrigan, Senior Director of Global Advocacy at @ppact.org and @beirners.bsky.social, Senior Policy Fellow at @globalequality.bsky.social, talk with us about the Trump administration’s new and purposefully broad expansion on the already-devastating Global Gag Rule:

TWIN CITIES

Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.

No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.

Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."

acatusa.com

White supremacist and German State MP Hold “Remigration” Conference Austrian white nationalist Martin Sellner appeared alongside Brandenburg state MP Lena Kotré of the far-right AfD at a closed-door event in Vetschau, Germany, promoting “remigration.” The conference u...

Austrian white nationalist Martin Sellner appeared with Brandenburg AfD state MP Lena Kotré at a closed-door event in Germany promoting “remigration.” The conference highlights how ideas once confined to neo-Nazi circles are being normalized by elected officials and reframed as migration policy.

Understanding Epstein's Crimes Sex trafficking isn't widely understood. Here is what Epstein did.

(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Revealed: Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel Aviv

The plane stopped in Ireland to refuel.
So we collaborated in breaching a norm of international law: non-refoulement.
Will anyone answer for this?

Refoulement is the forcible return of refugees or asylum seekers to a country where they are liable to be subjected to persecution.

It’s a really bad sign if they are calling up Roger Stone who ran the Brooks Brothers riot in 2000 (to stop the Florida recount), cavorted with the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers before Jan 6, & was a primary architect of so-called “Stop the Steal” campaigns in 2016, 2018, and 2020, 1/

🚨 Tell your Senators to vote NO on the GOP’s so-called “SAVE” Act”, which would:

Require continuing voter purges w/ NO PENALTY for erroneous purges.

Subject election officials to potential PRISON TIME & citizen suits for mistakenly registering a single voter—even if the voter is a citizen! 1/

I’m not a fancy big city businessman but it’s called The Washington Post and to nuke local dc coverage, coverage of official Washington’s actions at home and abroad, roll back coverage of insignificant things that nobody cares about like *checks notes* sports(?!?!?)seems like a bad business decision

Folks:

This is important.

SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.

More at the link below.