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.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
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Daffodil leaves pop up amidst last year's fallen tree leaves February 18, 2026. They can handle the frosty nights down to around 20F/-6C forecast over the next few days. Then spring will come with four or five different types of daffodils as first homesite bloomers 3-4 weeks out.

Daffodils have a few more freezing nights to get through, but they are on their way to spring blooms!

EJI Remembers Civil Rights Foot Soldier Jo Ann Bland Courageous civil rights activist Jo Ann Bland passed yesterday at 72.

Courageous civil rights activist Jo Ann Bland passed yesterday at 72. Her life as a seasoned activist began very young. “By the time I was 11 years old,” she once wrote, “I had been arrested at least 13 documented times.”

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Inspiration!

Scott Galloway: Time to Send a Message to the CEOs In addition to protesting and voting, we have another option hiding in plain sight against this administration: our economic power.

Why Tim Cook pisses me off the most.

Unemployment among young college graduates is now roughly 1.4 percentage points higher than the overall workforce, per WSJ.

That was a catch

#SundayYellow watching the #WinterOlympics this morning before switching over to the #SuperBowl later. Here is the #Nasturtium hanging basket feeling fine this morning.

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GYO #MyGreenhouse #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #BadBunny💃

njs.libraries.rutgers.edu NJS: An Interdisciplinary Journal Summer 2025 The New Jersey Miscount: The 1860 Census and the Accidental Humanization of Enslaved Individuals By Luke Voyles DOI: 10.14713/njs.v1112.362 Abstract: The 1860 census is the only example in U.S. history when the U.S. government systematically recorded the names and ages of enslaved individuals of a state. Because government officials underestimated the number of enslaved people in New Jersey, there was no slave schedule in the state. Therefore, the names of enslaved individuals appeared within the households of their enslavers in the regular 1860 census. The official census statistics only listed 18 individuals as enslaved in 1860, but a close examination of every 1860 census page for New Jersey uncovers 64 names tied to slavery. This essay explores the context behind the census, and how the census accidentally humanized people whom it often marginalized.

Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.

Y’all. He identified every one of them.
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looks like Disney’s warning about fewer foreign tourists to the US was no joke.

@financialtimes.com $DIS
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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes “the google page is not good,” Epstein wrote

From November 2025: Documents released by the House Oversight Committee shed light on Epstein’s day-to-day, largely via email — including his preoccupation with his Google presence.

Read more from @miasato.bsky.social:

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

YouTube video by Three Dog Night - Topic Joy To The World

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𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘸𝘯

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥.

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵-𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦,

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥.

The Washington Monument reaches into a sky full of floating clouds. Washington DC at twilight in monochrome.

Dramatic clouds fill the twilit sky on the Ellipse in Washington DC. October 2025 #BlueSkyArtShow #clouds #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDramatic #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #monochrome #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky e

Bari Weiss's wife was having friendly emails with Jeffrey Epstein about introducing Weiss to her parents in 2018 lol lmao

real question is which prominent trump administration figures *aren't* in the epstein files?

Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...

Over 200 arrested in Maine immigration sweep; families say process is confusing, painful Relatives of those detained describe frustration, lack of information, and rapid transfers that make legal help difficult.

Over 200 arrested in Maine immigration sweep; families say process is confusing, painful Relatives of those detained describe frustration, lack of information, and rapid transfers that make legal help . www.newscentermaine.com/mobile/artic...
If ICE was legitimate they wouldn’t keep moving detainees

It’s a phenomenal time for everyone to revisit this piece from Sam Bell on Kevin Warsh from the last time this was about to happen medium.com/@sam_a_bell/...

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.

Children are dying in the US concentration camps

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Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’ After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve

Keith Porter, another man killed by ICE.

Keith Porter.

Alex Pretti.

Renee Nicole Good.

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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Fulton Co. Democrats allege FBI lacked authority for election center raid “There is a case right now concerning this, trying to get these documents,” Commissioner Mo Ivory said. “They're under seal right now. Judge McBurney has not lifted the seal for them to be taken.”

🚨BREAKING: Two top Democrats in Fulton County, Georgia allege that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) lacked the authority for Wednesday’s raid of the county’s central election hub, in which the Feds seized 700 boxes of ballots and other election materials related to the 2020 vote.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.