"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm"
@thelancet.com
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Wild story from @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social:
ICE "wasted millions" to buy "thousands of employee vehicles that the agency cannot use to arrest illegal immigrants"
The problem: the vehicles are marked with ICE logo and motto
“ICE has never had marked vehicles,” person familiar said
ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it
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"Jews don't belong in American society."
Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.
But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.
People can take shelter, get hot meals and donated goods at Union City school after tornado.
BREAKING via NYT
American employees of the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia have been told to leave the country under mandatory departure orders issued by the State Department.
Full Story: nyti.ms/4riXl3Y
Whitmer's office questioned whether the lack of a tornado watch alert could be attributed to funding cutbacks at the National Weather Service.
“If the United States is at war, then Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. If the United States is not at war, then Pete Hegseth is a murderer.” www.commondreams.org/news/hegseth...
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Holy cow!
The Anthropic dustup has one clear message: Our privacy rights should not be dependent on backroom deals between tech CEOs and the surveillance state.
Top officials at FBI headquarters were tracking violence in Mexico after its military killed a drug cartel boss when social media erupted with images of Director Kash Patel chugging beer in the locker room celebration of the Olympic US men’s hockey team.
It’s Day 87 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
Everywhere you go, you’ll still see patrollers keeping neighbors safe.
And also everywhere you go, someone is raising money for rent for their community.
Give what you can at StandWithMinnesota.com
The U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, members of Congress said Thursday, and the FAA responded by closing more airspace near El Paso.
It's not clear why the laser was deployed, but it's the second time in two weeks that one has been fired in the area.
Brianna Tucker @BriannaATucker The top @PostGuild donation to laid off workers is $10,000 from a donor named Dorothy Gilliam. If that's the Dorothy many of us are familiar with — who in 1961 was the first Black female reporter at The Washington Post — it's profoundly bittersweet: Anonymous $100 • Recent donation Dorothy Gilliam $10,000 • Top donation Linda McConnell $200•14 d 7:28 PM • Feb 24, 2026 • 1,669 Views
@briannatucker.bsky.social, former national politics breaking news reporter for the Washington Post, made this observation on X tonight.
The largest contribution to the union's fund for laid off Post staff came from the Post's first Black woman reporter.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
The City Council of Romulus, home to Detroit Metro Airport, passed a resolution last night opposing an ICE detention facility in a warehouse building.
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
A protest drew fisticuffs as captured here by photographer Jose Juarez:
He *should* be joined by others.
The White House is obsessed with hiding the President's involvement in a child sex ring. It's what they spend most of their time on.
Just to remind everyone, Trump is a very dangerous 8-year-old who didn't get what he asked Santa for deanbaker22.substack.com/p/are-you-ta...
I am wearing white with my colleagues in the Democratic Women’s Caucus today to honor the suffragists who fought for our right to vote and to make clear that we will not let that right be taken away.
New York City nurses get a deal, end strike, ratify contract. “The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended this weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labor action overwhelmingly voted to ratify a contract and agreed to return to work, officials said." abcnews.com/US/largest-n...
Romulus, Michigan
"Romulus Mayor Robert A. McCraight said he was telling lawmakers 'at all levels' that a detention center is not permitted and will be opposed by the city..."
www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
Are you going to be around Romulus MI Monday Feb 23? There is an event you may want to attend. We don’t want ICE facilities anywhere. Make your voices heard!!!
www.mobilize.us/downriveruni...
A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.
The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
JD Vance has changed his name, his look, his religion, his positions many issues and people, but he won’t ever be able to change the fact that he’s a smug, insufferable, unlikable ass.
The deputy was taken into custody by the Battle Creek Police Department on Wednesday, Feb. 18.
Walgreens is cutting hundreds of jobs across the country.
Last years the company was bought by private equity firm Sycamore Partners.
Once again: (massive trigger warning)
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