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Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw

ICE is still in my Minneapolis neighborhood today.

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going.

Things are changing, y’all.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

If I was 35 years or so younger... 🏁

Well his name isn't Thomas Readerton

The great presidents of our country dared not only to dream of a better America, but to realize those dreams. This President’s Day weekend, this timeless reflection from President Obama on President Kennedy encourages us all to help realize our dreams.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕

(From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

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A+++ post

She skeered righ'here....

Claudia Long, R.I.P. February 7, 1950 – February 11, 2026

thank you to the thousands of people who have posted, commented, private messaged, texted, and phoned to offer condolences over yesterday morning’s passing of my wife Claudia Long. I deeply regret that I can only reply to the smallest fraction of you, but I want you to know that ... [1/2]

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In a world where Trump is actually innocent of everything Epstein-related his people would be investigating/arresting/charging powerful people implicated and making themselves the heroes of the story.

I'm so sorry for your loss, Jeff. 🕯️

Wow — somehow we completely missed Republican State Senator Page Walley (R-Savannah) condemning Trump’s racist post depicting the Obamas as apes.

As far as we can tell Sen. Walley is the only elected Republican in Tennessee to do so.

His post: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CNf...

“Name one time Trump was racist? Ok, I will…”

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

🔥 “Polls are not the president’s friend… secret police shooting mothers in the face… please stop interrupting me, I let you prattle on with your trafe…”

@profgalloway.com undeterred by Michael Knowles

Imagine that. Better late than never

Anyone else sensing a theme here? 😬

WATCH: “A STAGGERING LOSS” for Tennessee Farmers 🧑‍🌾

TN Agriculture commissioner Andy Holt details ~$200 MILLION in losses in 2025 for TN farmers even AFTER another Trump bailout

He tries to downplay the role Trump’s trade war played🤔, but the truth is clear. #TradeNotAid

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

They let Renée Nicole Good bleed out. I fully recognize that this happened and I'm well-aware such cruelty and malice abounds in this world. Yet, because we saw her get shot, a lot of us can't get past this. Otological shock. I'm ashamed of a substantial percentage of my species.

The Birther-in-Chief's disgusting history of racism has its own page on Wikipedia.

See for yourself, here: shorturl.at/UQaXQ

#Caturday 😸

GREEN DAY’S BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG: “This goes out to all the ICE agents — quit that shitty job… because when this is over, Noem/Miller/Vance/Trump will drop you like a bad habit.”

(From @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.