The Other Red Hat (You'll like this one better)

February 26 is an important date in the history of resistance, and it has to do with knitters during WWII. Come read the story. If you’re a knitter, maybe you’ll want to cast on with me tomorrow? And if you aren’t, there are other ideas for you here. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Financial Times exclusive: Tens of thousands of internal emails and documents released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files paint for the first time a vivid picture of how Deutsche Bank rolled out the red carpet for the serial sexual abuser.
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

It will be tough for America’s global reputation to recover after this absolutely shameful vote.

This is clearly blatantly intentional voter suppression and any claim otherwise is completely unserious

How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All The Golden State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money

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"...individual states have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because states determine what powers corporations have...the power to define their form, limits, and privilege has belonged only to the states..."
#blueCrew

The President made it clear tonight he has no interest in solving the health care crisis that HE created.

Whatever Candycorn Caligula says tonight you know for sure he'll never acknowledge the Epstein victims in the audience

Boy that’s weird

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Why DHS suddenly reversed course on suspending TSA PreCheck The Department of Homeland Security has said Global Entry, a program run by Customs and Border Protection, will remain paused.

LOL what a surprise

"The Department of Homeland Security’s plans to temporarily suspend TSA PreCheck were conceived by DHS Secretary Kristi L. Noem and her top adviser, Corey Lewandowski, but then pulled back after the White House intervened..."

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

‘We’re not hippies’: why these Iowa farmers swapped pigs for mushrooms Faaborgs rail against oppressive industrial agricultural system with unexpected evolution into indie artisan food firm

A sixth-generation Iowa farmer changed his family’s farm from a livestock operation to one that grows mushrooms—a move the family says has made them feel excited about their work again. The transition was supported by the Transfarmation Project: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Livestock >>

The Righteous EV Owners Who Won’t Let Their Broken Cars Die Fisker went out of business in 2024, but its biggest fans want to bring the “right to repair” to the masses.

I spent many months wondering why every other Uber I got was a Fisker Ocean. @aarianmarshall.bsky.social answered that question and MUCH MORE in this fantastic story about what happens when your car's company goes bust...

Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

A reminder that fake voter fraud and false claims of election rigging were always the plan. Here’s a direct message from Assange to Don Jr way back in 2016.

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The Woman Nobody Asks About Is the Person Connecting Every Thread of the Epstein Network by Kait Justice

Lynn Forester de Rothschild

2013 - Deutsche Bank appointed Lynn Forester de Rothschild to an advisory board. Peter Mandelson was appointed at the same time.

Plans for proposed ICE facility in Merrimack, N.H., won’t move forward, governor says - The Boston Globe “We can breathe easy again,” said the chair of the Merrimack Town Council, which had opposed the warehouse.

“Today, the people of Merrimack and all of New Hampshire proved that organized, local voices are more powerful than a federal agency’s ruthless expansion,” she said. “This is a victory for us and all of New England but it is not the end of the fight.”

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/24/m...

YouTube video by MS NOW Judge blocks release of Jack Smith's classified documents report

Judge Alline Cannon has permently blocked the release of volume II of Jack Smith documents case against the Convicted FElon. Now the decision is being appeal.
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America 2026.

BREAKING:

Peter Mandelson has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

He was taken into custody by plain clothed police officers at his home.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson.

The King’s brother and a Lord have both been arrested by British police within the past week on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

This is how a functioning democracy responds to evidence of criminal activity in the Epstein files.

Title is irrelevant. No immunity. Equality under the law.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered.

~ Veterans for Peace

Uncle Jeffy Tiedrich says today in his newsletter:

"Here’s one sure way you can tell you’re living in a shithole country: when the following two headlines appear one after another."

Ghislaine Maxwell Fights Release Of More Epstein Documents Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Lawyers for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell.

... Because, after all, she doesn't want to lose her leverage.

👀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...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement

How the military criminalized blackness in Vietnam: my essay on an eye-opening new history of the war. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b...

Who could’ve possibly anticipated it would be a clown show?

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

NEW: South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. by @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

Bad day for the dictator. Good day for the Constitution.