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Canada prepares aid package for Cuba as it faces fuel shortages worsened by US oil embargo Canada’s foreign minister says her country is working on an aid package for Cuba as it faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages worsened by a U.S. oil embargo.

Canada is a good neighbor. 🇨🇦

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Mar-a-Lago Gunman Was a Trump Supporter and Angry About Epstein Files Austin Tucker Martin had become “fixated” on the Epstein files.

Mar-a-Lago Gunman Was a Trump Supporter and Angry About Epstein Files @newrepublic.com

This is why we haven't heard a word about this incident from the Trump Administration.

Toxic waste from screens ends up in endangered dolphins, study finds Gene-altering chemicals found in humpback dolphins and finless porpoises, raising alarm they may end up in human food chain

We have totally trashed this planet... our home.

Toxic e-waste chemicals from television, computer and smartphone screens have been found in the brains and bodies of endangered dolphins and porpoises in the South China Sea.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

US accused of ‘shameless exploitation’ over proposed Zambian health aid deal Leaked draft of $1bn memorandum of understanding reveals mandatory targets, sharing of data, and reported access to mining concessions

These terms are vastly worse than other deals. [The US] is conditioning life-saving health services on plundering the mineral wealth of the country.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Jailed for “Standing Up”: DHS Assault Victim Aliya Rahman Arrested at State of the Union Address We speak with Minneapolis resident Aliya Rahman, who attended Tuesday’s State of the Union address as a guest of Congressmember Ilhan Omar. Rahman was removed from the chamber Tuesday and spent severa...

“I really wonder if these folks have noticed yet that every time you try and break my body, you fuel my spirit.”
–Aliya Rahman, removed from the SOTU, arrested and jailed for SILENTLY STANDING UP. A disabled U.S. citizen, Aliya was injured by masked goons in January while being dragged from her car.

The most shocking thing about this decision: 3 Justices would have let Trump use a statute that doesn’t mention tariffs to impose unrestricted ones.

YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports DAY AHEAD: House members to introduce bill banning taxpayer $$ from being given to Jan 6 rioters

DAY AHEAD: House members to introduce bill banning taxpayer $$ from being given to Jan 6 rioters

Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC): "Insurrectionists don't need to be rewarded for trying to overturn an election.. It's absolutely ridiculous”

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Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.

Climate change is wreaking havoc on our rivers.

theconversation.com/extreme-weat...

Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant left with just 22 reactor operators, far below safety levels The plant, legally owned by Energoatom, once employed 159 licensed specialists — the only people authorized to directly operate the plant’s six nuclear reactors, which, prewar, provided over a fifth o...

far below safety levels

kyivindependent.com/russian-occu...

Woooboyyyy!

Abigail Spanberger in the Democratic response to the SOTU:

“He’s enriching himself, his family, his friends. The scale of the corruption is unprecedented…

Rain is coming to Antarctica – here’s how it will change the frozen continent In the Antarctic Peninsula, precipitation is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow, with consequences for glaciers, penguins and even scientists.

It's raining more and more in Antarctica, and that's not good.

theconversation.com/rain-is-comi...

Marine veteran says wife's ICE detention is 'confusing' and 'devastating' In the past few weeks, the Department of Homeland Security has posted regular lists of criminals it is deporting. Despite the Trump administration’s claim that it is focused on the “worst of the worst...

Despite the Trump administration’s claim that it is focused on the “worst of the worst,” data from the nonpartisan TRAC clearinghouse shows nearly 75% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. https://to.pbs.org/40v74Jy

House rejects bill requiring aircraft locator systems to prevent midair collisions like last year's Legislation to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems to prevent midair collisions failed to win approval in the House on Tuesday.

Republicans don't care about midair collisions? 🤷‍♂️

apnews.com/article/wash...

At his first SOTU address, Donald Trump's approval rating has hit a new second-term low of 37% in our polling, and he no longer has a positive approval rating on any major issue. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ahead-of-s...

MoveOn Kicks Off ‘Largest Organized Boycott’ Of Any SOTU

Ahead of Trump's SOTU address, progressive groups + two dozen members of Congress kicked off their counter event down the street, the “People’s State of the Union."

“We’re making history with the largest organized boycott of any State of the Union, ever.” www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley poses for a photo in front of an installation outside of her office uplifting the stories, art, and voices of the children harmed and terrorized by ICE.

An installation uplifting the stories, art, and voices of the children harmed and terrorized by ICE.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley reads some of the letters from kids detained at the Dilley Family Detention Center.

Two letters submitted by kids detained at the Dilley Family Detention Center.

I have no regard for a man who rips parents away from children, deports families, & imprisons our babies.

That's why I'm boycotting today's #SOTU & instead shedding light on the stories of our children terrorized by ICE.

Because our children deserve a childhood free from fear.

NOTE: If you hear the N-word during tonight's State of the Union, it's either because someone in the audience has Tourette's or the president is speaking

In the first moments of his State of the Union, Trump said "our enemies are scared" -- does he mean the American people who are enduring a lawless and violent ICE force brutalizing us in the streets of our cities?

Patients hit dead ends with insurance 'ghost networks.' Now, some are suing. A recent lawsuit is challenging one company, EmblemHealth, over its so-called ghost network of mental health providers.

Patients suing over useless health insurance.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Lithium Plume in Our Atmosphere Traced Back to Returning SpaceX Rocket : ScienceAlert - United Kingdom Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found.

Lithium Plume in Our Atmosphere Traced Back to Returning SpaceX Rocket : ScienceAlert

https://www.europesays.com/uk/784255/

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns…

Victim in fatal crash identified as sole witness in shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez SAN ANTONIO - The victim of a fatal crash in San Antonio over the weekend was the sole witness to the fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez by Homeland Security

Well that's more than just a bit suspicious, especially since the case just recently came to national attention. 👀

news4sanantonio.com/news/local/v...

Reid: Attention all Maga trolls. Your bullshit is not welcome here. And to paraphrase one of my favorite actors in the world, Robert De Niro: Fuck y'all

We’re at the People’s State of the Union to tell the truth about what Trump is doing to working people.

MD AG sues to block Washington County ICE warehouse, Republican response Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown filed a lawsuit to stop the construction of an immigration detention center in Washington County.

Maryland sues DHS over warehouse concentration camps. Zoning rules can be used to block the use of these warehouses.

www.heraldmailmedia.com/story/news/l...

Wisconsin schools, teachers file lawsuit against GOP-led Legislature seeking more funding A coalition of Wisconsin school districts, teachers’ unions, advocacy groups, parents, students and others has filed a lawsuit against the state Legislature alleging that it’s failing to fund public s...

Wisconsin Republicans sued for not funding schools adequately.

apnews.com/article/wisc...

Cool!

Wait...They censured Rep Al Green when he got up and left in trump's SOTU but nobody censured Marge Greene when she disrupted Obama during his SOTU.
It's time for spineless men like Graham, Ron Johnson, Maga Mike, that mook Gosar, and John Cornyn to pay for what they've done.
#maddow

I am team shout fuck-ass bitch #SOTU

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen BOMBSHELL: Trump IMPLICATED in SHOCKING Epstein news

youtube.com/watch?v=Cdud...

Just what the world needs. 🤦‍♂️