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Now is the time to start organizing groups of people who will help ensure that if ICE does surround the polls ALL American citizens who want to can access those polls in the midterms and beyond. Just like during the Civil Rights Era.

🚫🧊some new free fuck ice froggy emotes are available on my kofi and bttv

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+ any trans person that doesn't have the money or ability to get their birth certificate changed.

Mutes account for bad takes

I'm so sad he left the governor's race. They deserve better than Klobuchar.

People will come to regret BlueSky’s “let’s all follow rare bug professors!” fad.

It’s all fine until we start posting the botflies.

UT Austin Closing Ethnic, Gender and Area Studies Departments Social: X @TexasAaup and Bluesky @texasaaup.bsky.social

🚨 UT Austin is planning to shutter its African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS); Mexican American and Latina/o Studies (MALS); Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); and American Studies departments. 👇

aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-au...

Why the fuck hasn't Congress voted to unmask them?

Also waiting for them to come after all trans people despite under one percent of us being violent on this scale. I wish the trans people would consider they're also throwing us to the wolves when the wolves were already on us.

It's wild she had multiple police calls (as recent as this month) and her parent knew she had access to guns...that had been taken away in the past and her parent petitioned to get them back. Just so preventable.

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

So any married women who changed her name at any time wouldn’t be allowed to vote under this act, because her last name doesn’t match the name on her birth certificate. This is straight up disenfranchisement of female voters. Period.

I'm surrounded by maga in my neighborhood. They all speak Spanish, are Catholic, and vote red.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Project Salt Box: How citizen sleuths are monitoring ICE in Maryland Inside their homes scattered around the Baltimore area, the group of watchdogs is unearthing records, like property filings, contracts, and government procurements, that are otherwise overlooked.

On Monday evening, Rachel Maddow spotlighted this group working out of Baltimore. Just another in a long list of unsung, American heroes. Donate to their project!
www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

White and yellow text to left of image of Amber Glenn reads, "I am now receiving a scary amount of hate...but I will never stop using my voice for what I believe in." -Amber Glenn, LGBTQ+ U.S. figure skater, on speaking out about LGBTQ+ issues at the Olympics.

We’re with you all the way, Amber. 💙💛

It takes strength and courage to stand up for what’s right.

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

It's so obvious that we're in the biggest failure of checks and balances. The whole system has got to change.

Impeachment and conviction is the way. And I have a feeling they won't do that without a mass labor strike. They only care about money.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

two giraffes greet a newborn giraffe

ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

These farm workers are preparing for the strawberry harvest. They're weeding & removing the runners (leafless stems) that can steal nutrients from the plants. This step will also make it easier for workers to move efficiently and harvest more during the harvest season. #WeFeedYou

And...prosecute politicians who abuse insider trading, Nancy included. No age limits for prosecution, just like how they stay in office until they kick the bucket.

tamarins and marmosets at The Art Gym. This one is saying to get the bad drawings out!

Drawing little primates today: Marmosets & Tamarins!
www.twitch.tv/kaseysnowart

I am notoriously avoidant when it comes to drawing primates...trying to work on that! We'll show off studies at the end of stream!

but if we get rid of the unaccountable and unrestrained murderous criminal gang that's acting as an ethnic cleansing paramilitary force for a demented Nazi authoritarian, who will keep the streets safe?

17 times. I checked.

Chocobo! Spacesuit! 🐥

Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics – Physics World Mats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal why Chien-Shiung Wu never won a Nobel prize

Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...

What Do Tear Gas and ICE Raids Do to People? Podcast Episode · Science Vs · 01/29/2026 · 41m

"It does seem like people are generally less healthy and less safe when ICE raids happen" @sciencevs.bsky.social

First half is on the science of what tear gas does to the human body (what we know is not good)

Second half is the impact of ICE raids on communities.

TL;DR our govt is torturing us

We know shit is bad. We need you and Schumer to do a press conference of what concrete and measurable actions you'll take to show you're an actual opposition party.