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#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
NEW: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from entering Labor Department HQ after two female staffers accused him of sexual assault inside the building, according to NYT. One alleged incident was captured on security cameras and is now part of a criminal investigation.
19.02.2026 23:00 — 👍 8952 🔁 3711 💬 1033 📌 463I'm attending California Working Families Party's event, “The Peoples' Party at CADEM Convention” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/ca-wfp/event...
19.02.2026 23:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#booksky I'm reading The Sisters
19.02.2026 18:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0More flip flopping. It is apparently good news, but I see unpredictability, characterized by this administration. Last week, Vinay Prasad overruled his staff & issued a "refuse to file" letter, which is rare. He's saving face by pivoting. Europe & China are interested.
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
I'm attending Jane Kim for Insurance Commissioner (CA Working Families Party)'s event, “Covering California CADEM Delegate Meet & Greets” - www.mobilize.us/janekim/even...
18.02.2026 19:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Democrats and Republicans have yet to reach an agreement over DHS funding.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, joins @alivitali.bsky.social to discuss more.
www.ms.now/ana-cabrera-...
BREAKING: MeidasTouch and MoveOn are hosting the People’s State of the Union on the National Mall as Dems boycott Trump’s address.
Hosted by Katie Phang and Joy Reid, it will feature lawmakers alongside federal workers, immigrants, and Americans impacted by Trump’s policies.
Watch on our YouTube.
Bipartisan governors just said NO to Trump's partisan stunt—NGA cancels White House meet after he tried inviting Republicans only. Even GOP chair Stitt called it out: We represent ALL 50 states, not just his club. This is leadership standing firm against division. Who's next? #sheshed
17.02.2026 05:20 — 👍 1080 🔁 444 💬 39 📌 36✔ Congratulations, Analila Mejia, Declared Winner, Congressional District 11 Special Election, New Jersey
10.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Next week, Trump will deliver his State of the Union address. I won't be there.
Trump is marching America towards fascism, and I refuse to normalize his shredding of our Constitution & democracy.
This cannot be business as usual.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
11.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 2507 🔁 777 💬 12 📌 31I am very much looking forward to joining @democracynow.org this morning!
18.02.2026 12:15 — 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2Scoop–CFPB just fired employee alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for allegedly disrupting &documenting a meeting a year ago between CFPB & DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info
All this ultimately means that “Europe has a choice to make,” said Parsi. “It can pursue strategic autonomy and seek to find a balance between the great powers, and within that seek a dignified partnership with America in which it is not subjugated into vassalage>>
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
NEW: Here’s our searchable list of federal judges who have ruled on the legality of ICE’s mass detention policy — with links to key decisions by each.
At least 380 district judges have rejected it in ~3,800 cases. 31 have upheld ICE’s approach ~180 times
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.
His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.
Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
Trump y sus aliados están ejecutando un asedio medieval contra Cuba, abriendo las puertas a una catástrofe humanitaria. Nos solidarizamos con el pueblo cubano y llamamos movilizarnos contra el bloqueo criminal. ¡Resistencia internacionalista frente al imperialismo! Adhiere a tu organización aquí 👉 www.tinyurl.com/cubasolidaridad
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Trump y sus aliados están ejecutando un asedio medieval contra Cuba, abriendo las puertas a una catástrofe humanitaria.
Nos solidarizamos con el pueblo cubano y llamamos movilizarnos contra este bloqueo criminal.
Adhiere a tu organización aquí
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www.tinyurl.com/cubasolidaridad
#Havana is drowning in garbage because most of the city's collection trucks have no fuel after U.S. efforts to choke off oil shipments to #Cuba, Only 44 of 106 trucks can even move, leaving mountains of trash, clouds of flies and a rising public health threat. Cuba's oil supply has collapsed after …
17.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦 is facing mounting calls to speak out against the US for widening its restrictions on fuel reaching Cuba, or to send aid to the country.
Trump has also threatened tariffs on any country selling or providing oil to Cuba. #cdnpoli
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/ott...
Marco Rubio está "hablando con Cuba ahora mismo" sobre un "acuerdo", dice Trump.
17.02.2026 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0European leaders are now pushing back against the "great replacement theory" and other "White Christian Nationalist" propaganda that JD Vance spewed at the Munich security conference.
Good for them.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
"Why Is Trump Strangling Cuba?"
How Miami elites may be behind the current blockade causing a humanitarian crisis in Cuba.
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I was struck by how similar "I am somebody" is to the spoken-word work of Gil Scott-Heron
Turns out, Scott-Heron was very inspired by the Reverend, and gave a canny analysis of Jackson's political philosophy to a reporter — from prison! — in 2007:
brooklynrail.org/2011/06/loca...
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
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