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Speaker Johnson denies request for Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the Capitol The Republican-led House said Jesse Jackson cannot lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol. The NAACP criticized the decision.

House Speaker Mike Johnson denied a request for the late Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol.

“Mike Johnson will defend a president who wants to unlawfully nationalize elections but won’t authorize a civil rights legend to lie in honor,” said NAACP President Derrick Johnson.

What I like most about spending years establishing a career in games and tv is that both industries are competing to see who can collapse faster

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don't know officers' names.

We don't have footage.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Marco Rubio is a whiny loser with a dirty ass, reports @attackerman.bsky.social www.forever-wars.com/the-meaning-...

This country is doomed.

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Hoooly shit

I’m not even Catholic and I know big a deal this is

A Post investigation found that at least 230 children died in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at a now-defunct, segregated juvenile detention center in Maryland.

As the lead sponsor of a new bill, Del. Jeffrie E. Long Jr. (D) is hoping it will provide some answers. https://wapo.st/4s0DBTE

shoevangelion

GORSUCH: “.. permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man. That is no recipe for a republic.” 👀

Trump Calls Justices Who Ruled Against Him ‘Fools and Lap Dogs’

"Mr. Trump appointed two of the justices who sided against him, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Really good point that a dangerous side effect of almost everything — cars, televisions, refrigerators, *medical equipment* — having computers is that they're all gonna get much more expensive now that AI is destroying the hardware market

H.R. 1’s SNAP cuts have already resulted in hundreds of thousands of low-income people losing the food assistance they need to afford groceries. This farm bill proposal would make further misguided policy changes while ignoring the urgent need to address this harm.

the Dow in the right hand corner of the c-span screen plummeting as he trumpets his Dow 50000 mark...too on the nose. this is all a simulation

Your now-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress are okay with all of this...

That's 10 million more lives than the President said he saved yesterday.

Jokes aside on this, while this strikes down roughly 70% of the new tariffs, we expect Trump to switch to using different (more annoying for him) authorities for most of these, and we think those have a higher likelihood of surviving in court.

This is just the beginning of a very, very long battle.

I am very annoyed that people think 'rich' means 'that guy has a mercedes and takes a vacation to italy once a year' and not 'that guy has more money than 40% of the world combined and can decide to start or stop wars based on his personal prejudices'

the sums involved are incomprehensible

Always read the footnotes in SCOTUS opinions

“Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Alito dissent”: hah, of course. What slavering goons.

Surely all this is not without meaning.

Ooooof

All I'm saying is it seems unreasonable to expect people to wake up every single day of their lives.

Interviewer: So this gap on your resume...

Me: Yes, I was in a voluntary medically induced coma.

Fun fact you can do everything you want with just HTML tables and people liked that version of the Internet a lot better

Choose your own adventure.