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Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries The Struggle Against Defunding Libraries Continues...

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

Why LeBron James Ignores Genocide and Stands With Israel The basketball great once said he wanted to be like Muhammad Ali. He can’t do that and shrug off Israeli war crimes.

I wrote about LeBron James' Israel comments. The article starts with me quoting an article I wrote 22 yrs ago about the aspirations of a 19 year old LeBron and then I look at how the 41 year old James ended up compared to his hero Muhammad Ali. Also, I feel old AF. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.

“I hear people talking the language of participation, justice, equality & transparency but almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance…& of the rich just not paying their fair share.”

“Just stop talking about philanthropy & start talking about taxes… All the rest is bullshit in my opinion”

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

i think most (not all) of the "you must vote for Newsom" people are just Newsom supporters who want him to win because they like him and his policies, not because they have high minded ideas about harm reduction.

Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) 1h CBP didn't give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken Into custody, she began having selzures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d20TJ 7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Custody ydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are Inadequate facilities to detain them.

sharing this as if it just happened (this story is from eight years ago) really hides the important reminder that DHS was broken way before the current administration.

National COVID-19 Estimates (U.S.) Feb 9, 2026 Infections: Proportion Actively Infectious: 1 in 65 (1.5%) New Daily Infections: 752,000 Infections in the past week: 5,350,000 Infections in 2026: 35,000,000 Cumulative infections per person: 5.07 Long COVID: Long COVID cases resulting from new daily infections: 38,000 to 150,000 Long COVID cases resulting from New Weekly Infections: 268,000 to 1,070,000 Excess deaths: Excess deaths resulting from new daily infections: 210 to 360 Excess deaths resulting from new weekly infections: 1,500 to 2,500

Did you know: every COVID infection increases your chances of developing Long COVID symptoms Number of COVID infections / % with Long COVID symptoms / lower bound / upper bound 1 of more infections: 19.00% / 17.30% / 20.90% 1 infection: 14.60% / 12.80% / 16.70% 2 infections: 25.40% / 21.50% / 29.70% 3 or more infections: 37.90% / 29.50% / 47.00% Long COVID can wreak utter havoc on your life It's absolutely worth the effort to not get any more infections Logo for Public Health Action Network (https://phan.global)

Just over 750,000 people in the U.S. are getting infected with COVID every day.

The risk of developing Long COVID goes up with each infection.

The upper bound for developing Long COVID after three+ infections is 47%.

The average American has had over 5 infections.

www.pmc19.com/data/index.php

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.

Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

Court overturns UK ban on Palestine Action Ministers argued the direct action group engaged in a campaign of criminal damage and violence

Wow: Court overturns UK ban on Palestine Action

Why do people like getting tax refunds? It just means you paid the government more tax than you were supposed to and didn’t spend the (kind of) annoying amount of effort to avoid it

Goldman Sachs’ Top Lawyer Resigns After Epstein Files Reveal Emails To ‘Uncle Jeffrey’ The latest Epstein files dump included multiple email conversations spanning several years in which Kathryn Ruemmler referred to Epstein as “Uncle Jeffrey.”

The latest Epstein files dump included multiple email conversations spanning several years in which Kathryn Ruemmler referred to Epstein as “Uncle Jeffrey.”

Universe, take the worries we carried today, quiet the overthinking, hold what feels heavy so we can rest; we release what didn’t go right, forgive what we didn’t finish, and wake up tomorrow to a clean page.

Goodnight 🌙

Palantir made $1.8 billion in 2025 by helping ICE deport people How surveillance company Palantir made record profits helping the Trump administration with 'unusual operations.'

This should infuriate everyone.

Palantir must be destroyed.

boingboing.net/2026/02/10/p...

Orwell was a profit.

EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

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at an event with Mahmoud Khalil and he just said America is a democracy “when it’s convenient” and …whew

Zenni ID Guard: Helps Disrupt Unwanted Tracking & Defend Your Privacy | Zenni Optical Anti-infrared lens technology reflects near-infrared light—reducing unwanted tracking signals and long-term IR exposure from the sun.

There's a real reason I only order glasses from Zenni these days:
www.zennioptical.com/id-guard

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

That said, ring is still surveiling and sharing with local cops and also owned by Amazon so keep boycotting!

This is a win for class consciousness. I hope people continue to understand the collective power we have to shape what companies do when we pushback and boycott because ultimately they rely on us to buy the crap they produce.

The exact thing that antizionist/non-Zionist Jews have been warning would happen, is happening — thanks to the Israeli government's insistence that Israel, by definition, speaks for world Jewry and that any criticism of Israeli's policies is antisemitism.

This inevitably LEADS to antisemitism.

Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.

After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists.

2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).

I know everyone is focused on Abolishing ICE but also please don't forget ACAB

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**

He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

During a congressional visit, Congressman Joaquin Castro discovered that babies as young as two months old are being held at the Dilley, Texas Family Concentration Camp. (February 10, 2026)

YouTube video by Johnny Harris How the US Stole Puerto Rico, Mapped

Check out the comments on this video from two years ago. Bad Bunny inspired a bunch of people to learn about Puerto Rico.