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Opinion | Revoking Transgender People’s IDs Has Consequences Jae A. Puckett, L. Zachary DuBois and Noelle Martin write that revoking transgender people’s identification can invite broader discrimination.

OPINION: "Invalidating someone’s identification documents has immediate and powerful consequences that cascade into all aspects of their life," Jae A. Puckett, L. Zachary DuBois and Noelle Martin write.

Lev Parnas, Who Turned Against Trump, Announces Run for Congress as Democrat

No, thank you. We're OK. Really, we're fine.

Word of the day...

Well, well, well ...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

Well, at least somebody has a plan.

It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else.

U2

Opinion | Trump May Come to Regret This

Trump is incapable of regret. He punishes others for his mistakes.

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation

This is human trafficking.

Inside Trump’s decision to attack Iran: ‘a window of opportunity’ The US joined an Israeli assault after intel suggested Iran’s top clerics and commanders could be hit at once

There's only room for one crime boss. The Don makes his move against Maduro, Khamenei, Barzini, Tattaglia ...

The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

Partners in crime.

“The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power.”

Gary Wills, Bomb Power

Trump couldn't enact regime change in Minnesota, so he attacked Iran.

🎯🎯

Kansas revokes driver’s licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights Law demanding IDs match ‘sex at birth’ also includes bathroom ban provision for trans people in public buildings

"Alvarez spoke about the fear that comes with the passage of SB 244 for the trans community in Kansas, especially the bathroom bounty section. “It is uniquely draconian, and cruel to basically police trans Kansans using their neighbors,” he said."

Trump’s Foreign Policy: Resurrecting Empire

Imagine a world in which we are subjects, not citizens...

Monday March 9th is when we elect delegates to the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s 2026 Nominating Convention to be held in Worcester on May 29th and 30th.

All registered Democrats are welcome. Doors open at 7 PM on May 9th at the North Andover Senior Center at 481 Sutton Street in North Andover.

The High-Stakes Fight Between Hegseth and Anthropic Even when companies vow to develop AI responsibly, geopolitics may force them to abandon that commitment.

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

Detentions and disappearances: how ICE has driven fear into Michigan’s Arab communities Arab Americans in Dearborn and beyond are being swept up by ICE at places of worship and work, with devastating consequences

"Tens of thousands of Arab Americans in Dearborn and beyond flocked to Trump in the 2024 presidential election due to his opponent, Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza."

Just his way of saying, "thank you."

Caption contest.

I Love Illinois. I Love America. I Refuse to Stop. My State of the State Address

"What you choose to arm yourself with in this fight – love or hate – exposes which side you are fighting on. Only the weakest of people believe that love is the weakest of weapons."

“It is impossible to tally the hours, days, and weeks our state government has spent chasing news of Presidential executive orders, letters, and edicts that read like proclamations from the Lollipop Guild.”

J.B. Pritzker

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Control by convenience: We interact daily with Amazon, Google, Apple, and other online platforms because we see them as convenient. We see our local, state, and national governments as intrusive and inconvenient.

Today, these platforms rule our daily lives. Could we live without them?

February 15, 2026 The Trump administration’s white nationalist project was on full display this weekend at the 62nd Munich Security Conference that took place from February 13 to 15, 2026.

February 15, 2026

"Ocasio-Cortez later summarized her argument. “We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.”

Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

"Starr, who died in 2022, was a close personal friend and professional contact of Epstein, and was the key lawyer who helped Epstein clinch a plea agreement in 2008, which is how Epstein avoided federal sex-trafficking charges and served a reduced sentence."

State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

Another cog in the voter suppression machinery.

‘You’re a washed-up loser lawyer’: Pam Bondi taunts Democrats over Epstein US attorney general goes on attack during questioning by House judiciary committee over handling of files

Oh yeah? Well, your (fascist) roots are showing!

Benito is right about that. We had many languages and we still do. English being one. But Native, Spanish and French were here far before English ever was.

Republican Cash Edge Threatens to Swamp Democrats in the Midterms

Aided and abetted, of course, by our Supreme Court.