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Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.

Mamdani: "$5.4 billion is a very steep mountain to climb ... We want to work with Albany to raise personal income taxes by 2% on the 33,000 New Yorkers earning more than $1 million per year and to raise corporate taxes on the most profitable corporations."

Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza over the past 24 hours. Since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire last October, Israel has killed over 600 Palestinians and wounded over 1,600, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

And what the fuck would these ruthless criminals know about "sensitive nature"?

The left-over MAGAts prove themselves to be increasingly ignorant... such suckers and fools.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.

I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

There’s only 1 person in Congress who doesn’t trade stocks, doesn’t take corporate PAC money, and has a public schedule. That’s me. And it should be the standard.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Epstein survivor tells CBS News how she was trafficked, and assaulted Juliette Bryant says not long after meeting Jeffrey Epstein, he assaulted her, and she realized, "this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped."

“As the airplane took off, Epstein started touching me forcibly in between my legs, and I freaked out. I realized, this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped. They whisked me away to the island. I was stuck there. They never arranged any modeling opportunities, I was completely conned."

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)

This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

🇺🇸Military keeps unprovoked killing - killing people with in the Caribbean - Show us the evidence that they needed to be blown up❗😲📢

Sorry commander - this can't be distraction of #EpsteinFiles - it's spread worldwide already. Criminal investigations started in foreign countries already.

it's *always* the women. always.

Palantir was slipped into the NHS and the UK's police under Boris.

Opinion | You’re Paying 90% of Trump’s Tariffs So the New York Federal Reserve says in the latest look at import prices.

Trump’s tariffs are hurting Americans, according to research from the US Federal Reserve: nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.

This WSJ article is free to read...

www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

For attention @annpettifor.bsky.social

As the media & members of Congress were sifting through the latest Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Dep't of Justice, one topic continued to elude them — Epstein’s well-established ties to Israeli & US intelligence.

Drop Site’s Washington correspondent, Julian Andreone, went to Capitol Hill...

The RNLI's history of saving poor souls in danger at sea. All these folk have is danger of loosing the only unwashed brain call they have between them. This is reprehensible and they should be charged for disruption to essential services. They also forget st George was half Palestinian half Turkish

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Palantir is suing the Swiss magazine Republik who pointed out Palantir's links to ICE and the Genocide in Gaza, which caused the Swiss Government to call them a catastrophic threat and ban Palantir from Swiss Government.

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FUCK TRUMP FUCK RACISTS FUCK NAZIS FUCK ICE FUCK MAGA FUCK THE PATRIARCHY FUCK FASCISM FUCK BILLIONAIRES, FUCK THE OLIGARCHY

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Hey MAGA ~
We’ve got a message for you!

#ValentinesDayResistance

WHYY News:

The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years.

Me: ⬆️⬆️⬆️
Wake up Senators

An 18th century painting of St. Valentine by Sebastiano Ricci. Image credit: Mondadori via Getty Images.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 270 AD: A priest named Valentine is executed for defying the Emperor Claudius, who outlawed marriages to recruit more men for his army. Valentine continued to perform marriages in secret. Valentine's Day is first mentioned by Chaucer in 1375.

The Siren (@thesirennetwork) This is absolutely heartbreaking. Senator Chris Murphy visited some of the children being being held captive by ICE. Murphy said: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They were alive on the outside. The...

Alive on the outside. Dead on the inside This is what we’re doing to human children. Our government, paid for by us.

substack.com/@thesirennet...

These are letters from kids detained by Kristi Noem

She has tantrums about her blankie

They can’t drink the water

“I..spent more than 60 days [here]..seeing people cry every day..trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed..the water..makes people sick..people who no longer have hope”

Hegseth blew up another boat and killed more people. We have no idea who they were or what they were doing because it’s just “trust me, bro” while we kill people.

Bondi was given her orders as to what her priority is.

The most corrupt pro-Putin president in US history endorses the most corrupt pro-Putin leader in Europe.

Russia confirms $12 trillion pitch to Trump tied to Ukraine deal — White House stays silent on proposals Russia appeared to confirm on Feb. 13 the existence of a sweeping U.S.-Russia economic proposal known in Kyiv as the "Dmitriev package," days after President Volodymyr Zelensky first disclosed it publ...

The Oligarchs want to split up Ukraine and call it a war...

Russia confirms $12 trillion pitch to Trump tied to Ukraine deal

kyivindependent.com/russia-confi...

Great news

In the Omelnyk and Pokrovs'ke directions, Ukrainian forces continued their counterattacks, and have made significant progress over the last week.

After recapturing the rest of Ternuvate and clearing Prydorozhnje..

+ 63.59 km² Ukraine.

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