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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks during a press conference. PHOTO: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Ilhan Omar: “As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know that bombs do not build peace or create stability—

Military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions & push the region further into chaos — every time we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction”

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Let’s hope TACO happens soon because this is getting waaaay outta hand

B cell area circle reminds me of Th2 or cells with even cxcr5 and ccr7 in David A. Randolph et al. ,The Role of CCR7 in TH1 and TH2 Cell Localization and Delivery of B Cell Help in Vivo.Science286,2159-2162(1999).DOI:10.1126/science.286.5447.2159

🚨 BREAKING — At the request of Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Supreme Court has halted a Dallas judge’s order to extend voting hours.

Much stronger things should be being said at this point

1 in 3 voters in Jasmine Crockett's home county of Dallas turn up to vote, and are turned away?🤡

Then the news talks about the issue in Dallas (pop 2.7M) and Williamson (pop 800K) as if they are the same?🤡

And they extend voting hours in both places, knowing that poor people are impacted more.🤡

UI African American, Gender Studies faculty prepare for program closures University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of "low-enrollment" degrees and majors ...

The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

Americans Who Can't Afford Beef Have 'Many Proteins to Choose From,' Says US Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Americans who can't afford beef a year into Trump's second term "have so many proteins to choose from," said U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Americans who can’t afford beef a year into President Donald Trump’s second term “have so many proteins to choose from,” U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, said in response to a question about steep food costs.
www.mississippifreepress.org/americans-wh...

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

Warnock: "We heard tonight the rumblings of a desperate man who's trying to present case he can for the midterms. It was half lies, half grievances. He knows he is quickly losing power."

Well, the training worked

In case you missed it: yesterday, a former ICE attorney testified to a Congressional forum that ICE was not only trained to violate Constitutional rights, but also that there would be no written records that this is what ICE cadets were being trained to do.

Jesse Jackson’s Timeless Economic Platform He ran for President twice on the concerns that still define American political life—inequality, affordability, and vanishing jobs.

Read this. Especially if you are trying to decide who to vote for in Texas!! Jesse Jackson and others could see this world coming in 1988. Hope it’s not too late for our government to care at all about us.

Jesse Jackson’s Timeless Economic Platform www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

After I heard about the incident a few hours ago, I spent some time reading about N-word tics and intrusive thoughts and what I came away with was a feeling of deepened anger about the way white supremacist society has associated “Black person” with this word so it’s there, in people’s brains

Let’s hope not tho

‘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...

Imagine taking a vacation abroad & being disappeared to a jail for 40+ days for no reason.

That’s what this Admin is doing to foreign tourists. It's outrageous & hurting our businesses. 

When will other nations start holding the Admin accountable for mistreating their citizens?

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism | Jason Stanley Fascism feeds on the arbitrary killings that have long plagued the US. Ending the horror starts with abolishing ICE

Don’t forget this is not unprecedented

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I spoke with @melodyschreiber.com about the deep irony of Bhattacharya serving as Acting Director of CDC & Director of NIH simultaneously.

For years, he has advocated for separation between these role, framing this type of arrangement as a conflict of interest that would have chilling effects.

Texas is 84% Urban! Statewide elections count all votes. Saying that Jasmine Crocket, an actual elected National leader, can’t win in Texas is pure projection and dog whistle. Vote for who you want to represent you!! Not who the pundits @nytimes.com David Goodman tells you to!! Go vote please.

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

This aged pretty well.

Oh, plus any Trump looked at sideways over endowment “taxes”

Yeah, every school in the reddest states

Extra “kudos” to those who caved pre-emptively to this now defunct directive

“first in 14 primaries and caucuses and second in 36 others, among them such overwhelmingly white states as Maine and Minnesota…That a flamboyant black activist … could proceed so far on “the heat of his message” and his public persona was .. a remarkable feat of imagination and audacity .. -NYer’92

All you voters who “don’t believe” Jasmine Crocket can win in Texas should look at some actual history. Jesse Jackson won 14 states primaries, including several very white ones, and Obama is also Black. So, you don’t know very much about how white folks vote, or the particular holes in stereotyping

Phone bank into Texas Join the Environmental Voter Project to turn out low propensity environmental voters in Texas ahead of their March 3rd state primary election!

No matter what - getting Texans out to vote is what matters most.
Early voting for primaries have begun.

Phone bank w @environmentalvoter.bsky.social to reach voters and get them to vote!!
These people are ones that care about climate but don’t vote consistently.