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New museum marks nearly forgotten Arkansas school desegregation struggle that occurred before Little Rock Nine - Arkansas Times It’s not a competition to her, but Ethel Tompkins wants the world to know that in Arkansas, Hoxie’s school integration crisis came first.

It’s not a competition to her, but Ethel Tompkins wants the world to know that in Arkansas, Hoxie’s school integration crisis came first.

Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC. Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...

Hey, friends, especially folks in Brooklyn - the great @edidin.bsky.social is trying to help the Park Slope Women's Shelter replace some craft supplies. If you have the means, please consider helping out! www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

The superbloom is just getting started. I'm seeing flowers sprouting in places I've never seen or noticed before in Death Valley in my 35 years of travels here. And Lake Manly still persists! #deathvalley

Hyatt executive chairman steps down over Epstein ties | CNN Business Billionaire Tom Pritzker announced on Monday he was retiring as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels after his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was revealed in the latest release ...

Billionaire Tom Pritzker has decided to retire from his job as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels after his link with Epstein was exposed in the recent files drop.

New group aims to keep PBS programming in Arkansas - Arkansas Times Friends of Arkansas PBS, a newly formed, citizen-led group that hopes to preserve programming from the national Public Broadcasting Service in Arkansas, is hosting its first talk on Thursday.

Friends of Arkansas PBS, a newly formed, citizen-led group that hopes to preserve programming from the national Public Broadcasting Service in Arkansas, is hosting its first talk on Thursday. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

I beg and implore you, with all the humanity that exists in this world, please save my child. I love him so much, and I cannot bear to lose him. Please consider your donation as a debt that I promise to pay back as soon as God provides for me. My only dream is to save my child👇🏻
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Imagine your children crying through the night out of fear at the sound of falling bombs. Sama'a, her husband Bahaa, and their two girls have endured things most of us can hardly imagine. Please give what you can to help ease their burden even a little.

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Don’t take my word for it. Read it for yourself. This is the version of the Save America Act that passed the House on 2/11/26. Page 15, Section 4(b) is new. www.congress.gov/119/bills/s1...

Federal judge orders the restoration of exhibits on slavery to the President’s House in Philadelphia | Arkansas Advocate Her ruling, issued on President’s Day, began with an epigraph from George Orwell’s novel 1984, describing the erasure of history by a fictional totalitarian government.

Federal judge orders the restoration of exhibits on slavery to the President’s House in Philadelphia arkansasadvocate.com/2026/02/16/r...

A. Petitioner's Physical Deterioration at NWIPC 8 Petitioner alleges, and Respondents do not dispute, that he was in good health when he 9 entered ICE detention. See Dkt. No. I-9 (DHS Form I-213) at 2 ("The subject claims good 10 health"). Eighth months later, hospital records show that Petitioner's health has declined to 11 include two partial foot amputations, a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis (a type of inflammatory 12 bowel disease ("IBD")),? acute blood loss anemia, a kidney injury, a severe vitamin D deficiency 13 and dramatic unintended weight loss. Dkt. No. 16 at 3.

While Respondents largely do not address the conditions of Petitioner's confinement in responding to this claim, they argue elsewhere that "the medical care [Petitioner] has received is constitutionally adequate." Dkt. No. 22 at 15. But the record here compels a finding that, on the preponderance of the evidence, Petitioner's medical care, and denial of medical care, included objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot. The Court bases this finding on the following facts:

Respondents have made no showing that the extreme restrictions on Petitioner's liberty and health created by his custodians' decisions, ineptitude, and denial of care are not excessive in relation to its asserted purpose of "protecting the public and enforcing U.S. immigration laws." There is no indication that these interests could not have been just as easily served without ignoring his cries of pain for hours, or without declining to see him as his bone was eaten away by infection. There is no indication that these interests could not have been served while bringing Petitioner to the hospital for imaging when a GI appointment could not be scheduled quickly (or contracting with additional external providers), while filling his prescriptions, or while treating him with appropriate medication based on his actual diagnosis. And finally, there is no indication that these interests cannot be served by subjecting Petitioner to alternatives to detention under appropriate conditions of release while he pursues outside treatment— an argument raised in the habeas petition but completely ignored by Respondents. Dkt. No. 1 9 61. In sum, the length of Petitioner's detention does not support a finding that it is excessive in relation to its purpose, but the conditions of his detention do. Under the unique facts of this case, the extreme consequences of Respondents' unreasonable treatment of Petitioner constitute deprivations so excessive that the conditions of detention alone take Respondents' detention of Petitioner out of the realm of constitutional civil detention and render it punitive.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a man who had been in immigration detention due to "objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot."

We should THANK the states that have refused to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized “SAVE” voter purge program, which the GOP knows has reported error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that the GOP knows was compromised by DOGE. Harmeet Dhillon is suing them instead. 1/

Truly sad to see that the destruction being unleashed by Bezos on the Post is even leading someone like @digiphile.bsky.social to cancel.

PM Carney spoke with UK PM Starmer.

They discussed deepening Canada-UK cooperation on trade, critical minerals, digital trade, sovereign AI, and CPTPP-EU talks. Carney highlighted plans for a proposed Defence, Security & Resilience Bank to finance defence investments and unlock private capital.

Little girl resting. She has a fever and a wet cloth on her forehead.

Youngest girl seated inside of a dark tent, crying.

A photo of a woman’s hands, needing urgent treatment due to visible bone cancer.

A man’s legs, both severely injured.

We are fading away🙏
The infection is spreading through his bones
His mother has no medicine, and my daughters are fighting illness every day😢
We don’t have food for our children
We are pleading for your help — we need£200
You are our last hope, please don’t leave us alone😭
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My name is Mohammed, a father in Gaza. Due to the current situation, I have no financial resources to care for my children’s basic needs. I urgently need $300 as immediate emergency aid. My campaign is verified ✅ by Molly Shah.
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“.. First we need to push back on the lies; then crush the pedo/trafficking narrative; then rebuild your image as philanthropist,” Mr. Bannon wrote to Mr. Epstein in April 2019.

@nytimes.com
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In South Texas, the GOP immigration hard line is now political kryptonite Texas Republicans bet on continuing to win over Latino voters. Then Trump began his aggressive deportation campaign.

A lot of districts along the border voted for a Republican for the first time in a century in 2024 because of the border. Many ICE and CBP officers are Hispanic. But Republicans in South Texas now fear Trump's crackdown on immigrants could cost them the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Opinion | The story of the Trump economy? Old people. Philip Bump: All of the job growth since Trump returned to the White House has been in the private sector — mostly in health care and social assistance.

The US economy is slowly just becoming a service sector industry for elderly Americans via @pbump.com
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Russian special flight squadron Tu-214PU has taken off from Moscow and is heading to Tehran, according to Flight Radar.

MODERATOR: Next is CBS News. Please, Olivia. QUESTION: Thank you very much. Budapest is, in fact, beautiful. Mr. Secretary, on the notion of a golden age, why isn't the United States conditioning deeper cooperation with Budapest on Hungary reducing its extensive and ongoing, deepening cooperation with China, which is a strategic rival for the United States? Secondly, if, despite President Trump's endorsement and your visit here, Prime Minister Orban does not succeed and loses the April election, does the U.S. commit to working with his challenger constructively? Prime Minister Orban, do you commit to accepting electoral defeat if it happens? And to both of you, president - I mean, sorry, Prime Minister Orban has said that the exemption that Hungary has been granted for Russian energy purchases is indefinite. The U.S. has said it was for one year. Which one is it? Thank you. SECRETARY RUBIO: All right, well, let me start by answering that question. First of all, let me - so everybody can be very clear, l've made this point repeatedly. I'll make it again. Under President Trump, it is our expectation that every nation on Earth is going to act in their national interest. That's what nations are supposed to do. If the prime minister of Hungary does not act in the national interest of Hungary, he won't be prime minister for long; but who's going to act in the national interest of Hungary if their prime minister doesn't do it? If your government is not acting in your national interest, then who will? By the way, we feel the same way about America.

This is from the press conference in Budapest. Please read it.

CBS News comes up with a question prompting Rubio to defend Hungary’s continuous purchase of Russian gas (while “accidentally” referring to Orban as “President”) - Rubio then compares Hungary’s strategy to US “America First”.

What documents reveal about Trump plan for a nationwide immigrant detention network | Arkansas Advocate In an effort to carry out President Donald Trump’s goal of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, the federal government is creating a network of immigrant detention centers across the country ...

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“.. Canadian oil sales to China are now booming ..

“.. Canadian tourists are vacationing elsewhere

“.. German firms have resumed investments in China

“.. European investors are reconsidering their holdings of US financial assets ..”

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Arkansas statewide elections: Mainly boring, but very important! - Arkansas Times For the most part, the statewide races for constitutional offices that will appear on your March 2026 primary ballot are not as exciting as some races, but they're still worth talking about.

With the exception of one Supreme Court race, there might not be anything too exciting on your statewide primary ballot this year. But that doesn't mean the races aren't worth looking at!

They are not vindicated. They are part of the camouflage that attempted to keep this all hidden by making those who saw it look insane, just like pizzagate and QAnon were decoy ops to divert attention from opdeatheaters and make it look insane.

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володи... * @ZelenskyyUa X.com Total sanctions means total. President Trump took strong steps sanctioning Lukoil and Rosneft. We are thankful to him. He can sanction all of their energy, in particular nuclear energy. And it will be a powerful message to the Europeans. Europeans have done a lot. But they haven't yet sanctioned Russian nuclear energy, Rosatom, the persons and their relatives, their children, who live off their money in Europe, in the United States, who pay with these profits for their education at European universities, who own real estate in the United States. A lot of real estate. They financially support children and relatives everywhere. Fuck away to Russia. Go home. You don't respect anybody in the United States. You don't respect the rules. You don't respect democracy. You don't respect Ukraine or Europe. Go home.

The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United France and Fractured Her Family After fifty-one men were convicted of the crime, Pelicot became a feminist hero. But additional accusations left her children struggling to accept her new role.

One of those pieces you read and you don't even think you can speak.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“.. a mega, anti-Trump trade alliance ..”

#TheWorldIsMovingOn

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Scientist developed symptoms after testing device on self | The Jerusalem Post The term “Havana syndrome” emerged in 2016 after personnel at the US embassy in Havana reported symptoms including dizziness, headaches, and cognitive difficulties.

Um, wow.

A Norwegian scientist was skeptical of the claim microwave pulses could cause Havana syndrome. He built a device based upon descriptions in the media and tested on himself.

He got Havana Syndrome.

www.jpost.com/health-and-w...