“They just left him.”
Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.
“They just left him.”
Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.
BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.
26.02.2026 19:19 — 👍 5926 🔁 1948 💬 108 📌 130
Many trans people in Kansas lost their driver’s licenses overnight and now can’t legally drive until they get a new one with a marker that doesn’t reflect their gender identity amp.kansascity.com/news/politic...
26.02.2026 14:03 — 👍 74 🔁 33 💬 13 📌 11CNN follows NPR and Politico in finding that DOJ scrubbed the Epstein files of evidence related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.
25.02.2026 03:07 — 👍 3555 🔁 1470 💬 46 📌 45
Børge Brende, president and chief executive of the World Economic Forum, said he would step down from his role after the organization conducted a review into his past connections with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4s9K2nn
26.02.2026 14:16 — 👍 31 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 3
If you’d have told me 15 years ago that RFK Jr. would be HHS Secretary, I would have laughed at your silly joke.
There are days when I feel a sort of mental numbness about what is happening to public health this country.
It is a self-defense mechanism, I think.
Incredulity and anger alternate.
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
24.02.2026 10:11 — 👍 10174 🔁 5123 💬 334 📌 630
Great read, @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social! Too bad the @nytimes.com didn't include mention of your own book that just came out in your short bio at the bottom of the article. Not to be missed: www.brookings.edu/books/the-pr...
19.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vanessa Williamson speaks in a classroom
So thrilled to share this overview of a timely new book from @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social, as she talks with APEX about "The Price of Democracy" and how battles over taxes define who belongs in 'We the People' bit.ly/4aXIBSj @jacobhacker.bsky.social
16.02.2026 13:54 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
"That a representative body should constrain the executive’s fiscal power dates to Magna Carta in 1215... the framers gave Congress alone the power 'to lay and collect taxes' [because] untrammeled executive power over public money opens the door to tyranny."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
The sudden arrest of the former Prince Andrew is the latest sign that the rest of the world is much more serious about Epstein-related crimes than the current US leader www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
19.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 220 🔁 73 💬 4 📌 9
BREAKING: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told all Polish citizens to leave Iran IMMEDIATELY.
“In a few hours, there may be no more possibility to evacuate.”
(🎥 Sky News)
“A group of nearly 400 prominent Christian leaders called President Donald Trump’s administration ‘cruel and oppressive’ and accused the government of being corrupted by an aberrant form of Christianity, in an Ash Wednesday (Feb. 18) statement.” religionnews.com/2026/02/18/4...
18.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 29 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights activist, Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate, has died aged 84.
Read more: www.lbc.co.uk/article/civi...
TL;DR
AI isn’t just a new load.
It’s a new grid participant.
• Training hits transmission
• Inference hits distribution
• Hybrid on-site power becomes standard
The future grid must be fast, flexible, local, and interactive — or it breaks.
Utilities have to change their culture.
This is an important thread re. AI’s grid use.
17.02.2026 11:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow.
17.02.2026 03:59 — 👍 35734 🔁 16563 💬 1291 📌 2461Here’s more info from his comments made during the World Economic Forum: www.biospace.com/business/mod...
13.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And yet so many would still rather be remembered for generations as supporters rather than admit they were wrong.
12.02.2026 13:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
NEW: House Republicans Friday unveiled an amended version of their voter suppression bill that, if it became law, would gravely undermine the right to vote in the U.S. ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
07.02.2026 19:25 — 👍 1776 🔁 1021 💬 122 📌 63
If you changed your last name after marriage and don’t have an updated US passport or birth certificate, the SAVE Act (aka SAVE 2.0) will stop you from voting. Millions of women lack these docs. Call your Senators—VOTE NO (202) 224-3121
If you changed your last name after marriage and don’t have an updated US passport or birth certificate, the SAVE Act (aka SAVE 2.0) will stop you from voting. Millions of women lack these docs. Call your Senators to VOTE NO (202) 224-3121
06.02.2026 02:37 — 👍 47 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 1
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
04.02.2026 19:40 — 👍 6677 🔁 2139 💬 160 📌 112
The SAVE Act won't help America's elections. Quite the opposite.
The facts: over 20 million Americans don't have access to those documents and nearly 50% of Americans don't have a passport.
From 1982-2018, the Republican National Committee was barred from "ballot security measures" because of their record of using state actors to intimidate minority voters.
(H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...
Time to strengthen my list of local DMV independent sources on what's actually happening around here. www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
04.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0During a door-to-door abduction operation in St. Paul, Minnesota, ICE/CBP personnel were observed taking photographs of the vehicles of press and activist groups (February 3, 2026).
03.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 240 🔁 177 💬 20 📌 10
The Justice Department finalized its release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. But the Trump administration won’t release millions of other files and many other records with heavy redactions, concerning from those critical of the administration.
03.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 64 🔁 45 💬 17 📌 7
This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Civil Society Field Hearings: Create a local Congressional Record —build accountability & control the data for self governance in your community constitutionaldefense.us/appendices-1
03.02.2026 11:31 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
