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Are you tired of endless violence & budgets that don’t reflect your priorities? We must bring back Congress’ assembly and petition duties so the American people have a voice!

HHS seeks to ‘effectively dismantle’ research office evaluating impact of its programs | Federal News Network The Administration for Children and Families' research arm faces a major restructuring, and will soon answer to political leaders it was independent from.

Research office on children and families gets the ax federalnewsnetwork.com/reorganizati...

The First Amendment Promise of Deliberative Technology | Toda Peace Institute This report examines a deep institutional problem exposed by the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol: Congress lacks modern capacity to hear, process, and act on authentic civic voice. Drawing on...

How do we use the powers of the Constitution to redesign US democracy? This just out today! toda.org/policy-brief...

Radiohead Demands That ICE Remove Its Song From a Social Media Video

💪🏻💐Radiohead Demands That ICE Remove Its Song From a Social Media Video www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

World Futures Day 2026: On March 1st, Join the Global Conversation on Humanity's Potential Futures - The Millennium Project March 1st, The Millennium Project and five other international foresight organizations will host the 13th annual World Futures Day — a unique 24-hour online conversation around-the-world exploring pos...

👀 World Futures Day coming up www.millennium-project.org/world-future...

Exactly four years ago, russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine ❤️‍🩹 | UAnimals Get more from UAnimals on Patreon

I support animal rescue in Ukraine. Join me! www.patreon.com/posts/151526...

PHOTO ESSAY: Portraits of Ukrainians on the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians have now lived with four years of war. They have lost limbs, loved ones, livelihoods and homes, but not hope.

Four years ago today: #StandWithUkraine against #PutinWarCriminal 💪🇺🇦 apnews.com/photo-essay/...

Team USA’s gold medal MAGA celebration was everything the NHL has been trying to avoid The NHL has spent years investing in inclusivity. One game changed that.

Yep, this =>Team USA’s celebration was everything the NHL has been trying to push against, now it’s on full display. (NHL, how did this even happen?) www.sbnation.com/nhl/1104402/...

For More Than A Decade, Ukraine Has Stood On The Front Line Of Europe Defending What We All Should Stand For.

The years keep adding up.

February 24, 2026 marks four years of the russian full-scale war.

What happens next depends on all of us.

Stand With Ukraine! 💙💛
#DEFENDDEMOCRACY

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🛑 STOP THE SAVE ACT!!!

YouTube video by Life With Machines Mark Zuckerberg Keeps Killing Friendship

❤️ this guy. @baratunde.com talking about the social web. Could Roundabout from @newpublic.org be the positive way forward for humans seeking community? www.youtube.com/watch?v=si-d...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Imagine taking a vacation abroad & being disappeared to a jail for 40+ days for no reason.

That’s what this Admin is doing to foreign tourists. It's outrageous & hurting our businesses. 

When will other nations start holding the Admin accountable for mistreating their citizens?

Dozy Donald’s Gaza snoozefest was like a Pyongyang meeting in a retirement home Tony Blair stopped by to make sure nobody did anything stupid, but given the president's sleepy reaction, this attempt to 'rescue' Gaza was less Board of Peace than Bored of Peace, writes Sean O'Grady

The only thing of consequence to emerge from proceedings was the news that Trump was putting $10bn (£7.4bn) of US taxpayers’ money into another of his personal vanity projects. www.the-independent.com/voices/sleep...

www.youtube.com Russian missile and drone barrage hits Kyiv suburbs, killing 1 person

Russian missile and drone barrage hits Kyiv suburbs, killing 1 person

Young People Are Fed Up But They're the Best Hope for Reviving Democracy

Young people are fed up! Let’s make sure they lead on designing our next democracy. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Press Releases | U.S. Representative James Walkinshaw

Good news--a new bicameral (House and Senate) caucus on the federal workforce--the public servants who show up every day to keep our show on the road.. 👏 @Walkinshaw @hoyer.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov walkinshaw.house.gov/news/documen...

Blue Voter Guide: Vote Fast, Smart, and Blue Blue Voter Guide helps you make quick, informed, pro-democracy choices by showing what's on your ballot, with endorsements from trusted, forward-looking organizations.

👀 bluevoterguide.org

Stochastic Intimidation Naming the Invisible Architecture of Modern Political Threats

Stochastic intimidation is a real phenomenon. Its power to terrify and silence citizens is only spreading and growing. open.substack.com/pub/therenov...

me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

For Good Conference The For Good Conference is a weekend dedicated to the intersection of liberalism and what it means to live a good life. Speakers and panelists will discuss questions around public ethics, religion, ci...

"For Good" conference--Charlottesville in May--looks excellent! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket.... @pulaskiinstitution.bsky.social

The Disappearing American Man - Tablet Magazine What went wrong with the American man?

Thank you Jacob Siegel, for this beautiful, searing essay. @Tabletmag. I worked on both of these wars as a Natl Security staffer in Congress. I left the field in 2012 b/c I realized there was no way to do no harm. 💔 www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

Strikes on 3 more alleged drug boats kill 11 people, US military says The U.S. military says it's carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters.

Pay attention: apnews.com/article/boat...

The Right is Shocked by Anti-ICE Organizing Over the weekend, a far-right journalist tweeted out screenshots from a public, unvetted ICE Watch Signal group in Minneapolis, which quickly went viral on the online Right. As thousands took to the s...

Synthesis: Right wing operatives are so socially dense & disconnected that they can't recognize neighborly self reliance (which, where I'm from, is a libertarian concept) religiondispatches.org/2026/01/26/r...

Iowa GOP pushes bills curbing governor's powers as Reynolds' term ends House GOP lawmakers have advanced several measures limiting certain gubernatorial powers with the office up for the grabs in the 2026 midterms.

Iowa Republicans are advancing several bills that would limit the powers of the governor’s office—potentially in anticipation of Democratic state Auditor Rob Sand winning November’s election to succeed retiring Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds

Epstein files: ‘No one is too wealthy or too powerful to be above the law’; rights experts demand accountability The large-scale disclosure of materials known as the “Epstein Files” has revealed “disturbing and credible evidence” of what independent human rights experts describe as a possible global criminal ent...

UN reports: the alleged acts documented in the Epstein files could amount to some of the gravest crimes under international law. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Photo of orange, dirty abandoned farm scene of an Oily dust storm outside Lubbock, TX

We must do better: Digital astroturf campaign paid for by lobbyists defeats an air pollution regulation that would save lives. Link archive.is/ZYbjG

J.J.B. is 20 years old, and a refugee. (J.J.B. Decl. ¶ 1.) On January 13, 2026, J.J.B. parked outside of his home and was immediately surrounded by 20 ICE agents. (Id. ¶ 4.) Officers did not allow J.J.B. to tell his mother that he was being detained. (Id. ¶ 5.) J.J.B. asked agents about his case, and explained that he had refugee status, but agents said that officers would look into it in Texas. (Id. ¶ 11.) Without access to a lawyer, J.J.B. did not know how to exercise his rights. (Id. ¶ 17.) Even if he had known how to ask a court to order his release, it was impossible to send mail or email, so he could not have done so. (Id.) J.J.B.’s holding cell at Whipple “could not hold more than 20 people”—yet it was packed with 100. (Id. ¶ 12.) The room had a dirty toilet with excrement overflowing. (Id.) J.J.B. had to ask for toilet paper, but was sometimes denied. (Id.) There were no beds, blankets, or trashcans, and trash was all over the ground. (Id. ¶ 13.) People slept in handcuffs and standing up because there was not enough room. (Id.) One person in J.J.B.’s cell had epilepsy and begged for medication; no one answered. (Id.)

A different 20-year-old refugee in Minneapolis got abducted by ICE then jailed in a cell 5x over capacity with an overflowing toilet and no beds or blankets. Fellow detainees were denied life-saving medication and forced to sleep standing in excrement. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

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😆 more like this please! www.trumpkennedycenter.org

AI and Journalism Summit, Baltimore in May 👀 www.hackshackers.com/summit-progr...