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The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

26.02.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3267    πŸ” 1098    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 138

This is insaneΒ β€”Β DHS apparently went so far in their lie that Columbia University President Claire Shipman says the agents apparently brought faux flyers of a "missing child" so they could force themselves inside a campus residency to detain a college student.

27.02.2026 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 312    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

A midrashic imagination of Esther and the other girls trafficked to find who was pleasing to Ahasuerus.

26.02.2026 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Most kids who enter adult prison at 16 don’t have... a parent’s voice echoing in their head. They don’t have an internal compass strong enough to counter what adult prison rewards: aggression, dominance, emotional numbness, and violence as currency."

26.02.2026 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 333    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying β€œthis doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to β€œtrans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

26.02.2026 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3987    πŸ” 1588    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 16

I think at this point, it's clear that the DOJ is covering up the fact that Donald Trump raped a child. He's a pedophile rapist.

25.02.2026 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 789    πŸ” 241    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 1
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Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

Seems like this should be a bigger story And congrats to the US Mens gold medal winning hockey team for being window dressing to cover up the crimes of a pederast. How proud you must be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

25.02.2026 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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DOJ Lawyers Who Cared Would Quit Ethical rules prescribe a clear path forward for the government attorneys being asked to violate the Constitution on a daily basis.

Hey, I wrote something for @ballsandstrikes.org!

24.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900.

Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago!
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23.02.2026 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 177    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7
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Consumptive Capitalism On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein

Professor @sarasilverstein.bsky.social is someone to whom I listen on issues of health and history. This essay helps us to situate the present American health drama in the history of health care, and thereby to see much more clearly what we face.
snyder.substack.com/p/consumptiv...

21.02.2026 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 585    πŸ” 207    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 10
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'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center | Common Dreams "It's time to build communities, not data centers," said one local activist.

New Brunswick, NJ just canceled plans for a colossal AI data center after massive pushback from the community.

That's a huge win for people power.

AI data centers are sucking up communities’ utilities AND draining state resources β€” while enriching Big Tech CEOs.

20.02.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5240    πŸ” 1492    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 82
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Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgiaβ€”by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

20.02.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6596    πŸ” 3238    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 134

What's wild is Black people keep telling everyone else this but accepting that racial solidarity against mass incarceration is the baseline of meaningful resistance is a bridge too far for an overwhelming majority of the population, despite very obvious for-profit concentration camp plans.

20.02.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 231    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THISπŸ‘‡

19.02.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Big if true.

17.02.2026 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are off the cliff, folks. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

17.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4545    πŸ” 2381    πŸ’¬ 199    πŸ“Œ 181
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24 Parents And Activists Blockade HHS Headquarters In Protest Against New Trans Youth Care Ban, Arrested The protestors blocked entrance to the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters to protest a rule that could eliminate trans youth care nationwide.

Just in: 50 parents and transgender activists have blockaded the HHS Building in protest of sweeping new rules that could ban trans youth nationwide.

24 were then arrested.

This is the kind of action we need.

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17.02.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2218    πŸ” 604    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 28
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

10.02.2026 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8385    πŸ” 4451    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 475

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

17.02.2026 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 12375    πŸ” 1647    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 72
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β€œKeep Hope Alive”: Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon Who Twice Ran for President Civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. Jackson is known for working closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the...

Democracy Now! remembers civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, who died today at the age of 84.

17.02.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 35734    πŸ” 16563    πŸ’¬ 1291    πŸ“Œ 2461
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Wow, Elon Musk sure does like White people | Opinion Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a guy whose social media platform most companies still use, is a BIG fan of White people. Problematically so.

Terrific piece by @rexhuppke.bsky.social on Elon Musk, White Nationalist

16.02.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1260    πŸ” 402    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 28

This how you isolate and capture "the worst of the worst" of these dangerous immigrants. You show yourself to be in need of help, and the worst criminals reveal themselves and their criminality by doing whatever they can to provide you with help.

Masterful law enforcement.

16.02.2026 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1172    πŸ” 338    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 5

This is a very good summary of the SAVE act.

13.02.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:

Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)

12.02.2026 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5373    πŸ” 2910    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 193

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

12.02.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4529    πŸ” 1784    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 36

ICE β€œleft” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week.

Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

12.02.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2615    πŸ” 907    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 27

As John Keegan writes in his Churchill biography, β€œTo the Nazis, legality and fair play were symptoms of democratic weakness that they gloried in affronting.” That applies here.

10.02.2026 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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By Slashing Foreign Aid, Trump Is Fueling the Spread of HIV in Uganda Reporting from Uganda, The Intercept saw how Trump’s effort to slash foreign aid is encouraging the transmission of HIV.

For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workersβ€”and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share.
theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

09.02.2026 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 221    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8