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Singing at a local church this morning and the building engineer observed that the now-demolished East Wing was full of abestos that is now flying around the DC area as particulate matter. So we are now being *literally* killed by the powers that be.

Happy Saturday.

New Yorkers to foot bill for pipeline pushed by feds, new report says costs will rise A rendering of the Williams pipeline proposed for NYC An analysis by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reveals that the proposed NESE pipeline will increase utility bills. [ more › ]

New Yorkers to foot bill for pipeline pushed by feds, new report says costs will rise https://gothamist.com/news/new-yorkers-to-foot-bill-for-pipeline-pushed-by-feds-new-report-says-costs-will-rise

WATCH: Republican Rep. Malliotakis struggles to remember the words to the Pledge of Allegiance, gives up, and walks off stage without finishing

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today.

Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!"

It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

The "EXTREME HEAT" warning is just too perfect for this story

Know your rights in this moment. You have the power to document, protest, and protect.
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Stay alert. Stay safe. Stay loud.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Resolution Copper is blocking comments and hiding replies from anyone calling out what they’re doing at Oak Flat. They’re trying to mine on sacred Native American land, with the government’s help, and don’t want the public to push back.

Opinion | The Jet Set has a survival plan. What about the rest of us? We need a new civil defense, tailored to the unprecedented threats we face today.

"The rich are buying bunkers," Christian Ruhl and @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social write.

As the threat of global catastrophe — especially the risk of another devastating pandemic — grows, the world’s wealthiest people are preparing for the worst: wapo.st/4iXhTei

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

My Weekend Take: What's at Stake in Kilmar's Case America must reject Trump's attempt to normalize cruelty

My weekend take on Kilmar’s case: Do Americans believe in cruelty? Are we cruel? Do we want our children to be cruel? Forget about the politics of Kilmar. This is a question about whether we are going to make Trump‘s cruelty our own. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Trump Is Spending Billions on Border Security. Some Residents Living There Lack Basic Resources. The president has reportedly urged Congress to pass $175 billion for border security. But residents of Del Rio, Texas, and Douglas, Arizona, say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and…

NEW: Trump has reportedly urged Congress to authorize $175 billion for border security, more than 10x what was spent in his first term.

Meanwhile, border residents in Texas and Arizona say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met.

W/ @texastribune.org

They mean it.

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action.

"It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."

www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.

When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

🧵 time!!!! This will be long so strap in!!! The TL;DR version is simple: if you are a naturalized citizen, you need to check your status at SSA immediately and if you aren’t listed as a citizen, you need to correct that. Immediately. Ok so here’s the news article we are discussing. Let’s go. 1/?

A worker has died at an Amazon warehouse.

The tragic death took place at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, home of the first Amazon union in the country.

Amazon Labor and the whole Teamsters union are mourning and demanding Amazon take steps to protect workers on the job.

I’m a broken record but: yes, individual agencies know things about you related to that agency’s job. But these records are covered by privacy laws.

DOGE combining all these records is UNLAWFUL. DOGE compelling access to IRS data for immigration enforcement is UNLAWFUL.

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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

Trump administration acknowledges it wrongfully deported a man to El Salvador terror prison but argues to the judge that he lacks the ability to order the man’s return www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.

Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Opinion | Don’t think ‘it can’t happen here’ — it’s already happening Demonizing rhetoric from the White House, arrests without due process, deporting immigrants to a brutal prison in a foreign country. This is America today.

OPINION by @letsgomathias.bsky.social:

Christopher, a journalist covering the far-right, warns how ‘the last couple of weeks have offered a preview of some of the horrors to come.’

“The Trump administration is proud of what it’s doing.”

READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

New measles cases tied to N.J. patient who visited 3 health facilities The New Jersey Department of Health confirmed an initial measles case on Feb. 14 in an unvaccinated individual, and by Feb. 20, two additional cases were identified in people who had close contact wit...

An unvaccinated NJ traveler who returned to the US infected with #measles went to 3 health facilities earlier this month seeking care before being diagnosed. Not surprisingly, additional cases are now being detected.
Measles will spread if we give it the chance. www.nj.com/healthfit/20...

Trump Proposes Fines, Prison Time for Migrants Who Don’t Join Registry Under existing rules, immigrants in the U.S. illegally are committing a civil offense and can be detained and deported on that basis, but aren’t considered to be committing a crime.

President Trump is now threatening to punish immigrants as young as 14 years old with criminal penalties, including jail time, if they fail to sign up for a government registry.

Our loved ones and neighbors deserve dignity and an earned path to citizenship — not the threat of a police state.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Colin Kaepernick taking a knee.

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.