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‘This Is Not Our War’:
Europe and U.K. Push Back Against Trump’s Demands
While some European countries said they were discussing ways to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz,
several rejected Trump’s calls to send warships.
https://www.nytimes.…

Europe Rejects Trump’s Demands for Warships to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz
While some European countries said they were discussing ways to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, several rejected President Trump’s calls to send warships.

Ravens don't just follow wolves-– they memorize kill sites across vast distances https://www.sciencealert.com/ravens-dont-just-follow-wolves-they-memorize-kill-sites-across-vast-distances

Ravens Don't Just Follow Wolves – They Memorize Kill Sites Across Vast Distances
The partnership between ravens and wolves goes back to Norse mythology – Odin's birds scouted ahead and led prey to the god's canines, a relationship that provided food for all.

The Trump administration has been clear in its targeting of the Somali and Latino communities through Operation Metro Surge.
President Trump called people from Somalia “garbage,”
said “we don’t want them in our country,”
and told them to “go back to where they came from.”
Following Trump's comments, ICE and CBP agents have indiscriminately arrested
— without warrants or probable cause
— Minnesotans solely because the agents perceived them to be Somal…

ACLU Sues Federal Government to End ICE, CBP’s Practice of Suspicionless Stops, Warrantless Arrests, and Racial Profiling of Minnesotans  | American Civil Liberties Union
MINNEAPOLIS — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Minnesota, Covington & Burling LLP, Greene Espel PLLP, and Robins Kaplan LLP filed a...

Ukraine's robotic troops are taking back what the Russian horde has stolen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/justincaseyoumiss…

Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules.
Then They Ignored Their Findings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database

Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.

From Philadelphia to Oklahoma City and Oakland, California, many cities are developing new
– and creative
– tactics to prepare for and push back against ICE.
Here’s a look at a few.
⭐️Creating ‘ICE-free’ zones
Several cities, counties and states across the country are creating “ICE-free zones” by restricting immigration agents’ access to government-owned and public spaces.
Local officials say this makes it safer for residents to visit hospitals, courthou…

Valve FM: Internet-Radio im Terminal hören https://blog.oliverswelt.de/blog/back-to-the-roots-warum-ich-radio-jetzt-im-terminal-höre-valve-fm

Coco Gauff has had the news on in the background almost every day.
The 21-year-old says she “likes to stay informed” and admits it’s been “tough” waking up to news of harsh immigration crackdowns and the killing of protesters back home.
“Everything going on in the US, obviously I’m not really for it.
I don’t think people should be dying in the streets just for existing.
I don’t like what’s going on,”
Gauff said in Dubai on Sunday, referring to the killings of Al…

If there was a moment when the absence of a US strategy on Iran was exposed, then this was it.
Donald Trump demanded on Saturday that the UK, China, France, Japan and others participate in a naval escort for oil tankers through the strait of Hormuz.
Despite launching the attack on Iran, with Israel, the White House does not seem to have fully anticipated what was likely to follow.
Iran had few good military options for fighting back, but attacking US bases, US allies and m…

Maxx Crosby to Raiders Fans After Ravens Trade Snafu: 'I'm A Raider. I’m Back' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/maxx-crosby-raiders-fans-after-ravens-trade-snafu-im-raider-im-back

Air Canada has announced a temporary suspension of flights from Toronto and Montreal to New York’s John F Kennedy airport
-- citing rising fuel prices.
Airlines worldwide may scale back services as aviation fuel costs climb in the wake of the ongoing war with Iran
Although Iran announced on Friday that the strait of Hormuz had reopened, helping ease oil prices, fuel costs remain significantly elevated after weeks of disruption.

CALAIS, a trade and transit hub on the north coast of France, is also a portal to an underground world
—standing on the deck of a ferry as it arrives at the port city, you might spot people riding on the back of a 39-foot-tall, fire-breathing creature that’s creeping along the waterfront.
Part sculpture, part machine, part puppet, the dragon has become a beloved piece of interactive street theater—but its charming ways require the devotion of an entire entourage.

Summary:
A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized.
By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest crater,
researchers found unusual chemical fingerprints pointing to extreme heat and material loss caused by a giant impact.
The collision likely stripped away volatile elements,
reshaped volcanic activity,
and left a lasting chemical signature deep belo…

Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveal a giant impact reshaped the Moon’s interior
A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized. By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest crater, researchers found unusual chemical fingerprints pointing to extreme heat and material loss caused by a giant impact. The collision likely stripped away volatile elements, reshaped volcanic activity, and left a lasting chemical signature deep below the surface.

In a secret deportation arrangement,
the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries,
to the African nation of Cameroon in January.
None of them are from Cameroon, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times and lawyers for the deportees,
and the United States has not made any public deal with Cameroon to accept deportees who hail from other nations.…

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
Most had court orders protecting them from removal to their home countries, so they were sent to detention in Cameroon.

People joke and say the world got fucked when we lost Bowie. I think it goes back even further. I think it was when we lost Farley

It would take a small pickup for Democrats to gain control of the House, where they hold four fewer seats than Republicans, with three vacancies.
Winning back the Senate is a bigger lift; they would have to gain four seats, and this year’s map has them mostly playing defense of the ones they hold.


Given how many districts and states are safely in the hands of one party or the other,
the vast majority of congressional races will effectively be over when a primary win…

Analysis | Primary season has arrived. Why these races matter so much in 2026.
A 21st-century-record number of seats are opening, and races will be raucous and crowded, reflecting both parties’ ideological, stylistic and generational tensions.

In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran,
Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels.
He’s grown more agitated with news coverage
and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war
— or how he will end it
— that resonates with a public concerned by American deaths in the conflict,
surging oil prices
and dropping financial markets.
Even some of his supporters are questioning his pla…

How mixed messaging on Iran may have Trump reeling politically
Two weeks of war in Iran has President Donald Trump increasingly knocked back on his political heels. He has struggled to sell the Iran war at home as oil prices rise, his polling numbers fall and his own electoral coalition shows signs of splintering. In response, Trump has fumed at news coverage and sent mixed signals on goals. On Saturday, he posted that other countries may need to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but it was unclear how or when that might happen. Iran says it will keep u…

Stephen Miller’s January 2026 announcement to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
– telling them that they have “immunity to perform your duties”
and that no “illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist” can stop them
– may seem like an extreme statement outside the political mainstream.
And when ICE agents use facial recognition software to monitor immigrants and protesters,
that might seem like an unacceptable invasion of people’s p…

How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy
The growth of today’s aggressive immigration tactics traces back 25 years, when enforcement took on the dimension of counterterrorism.

The racist online video that Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted generated a bipartisan furor
-- because of its portrayal of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
-- What was little remarked on was how it presented Trump himself — as the “King of the Jungle.”
After a year back in the White House, Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace
that they no longer seem surprising.
He regularly d…

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality
President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.

Folks — My name is Harry Dunn, and if you chip in $5 to help send me to Congress, I’ll subpoena Donald Trump when I get there.
Please forgive me for my bluntness, but I’m DISGUSTED with Donald Trump’s disregard for the Constitution. 
The 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗬 𝗪𝗔𝗬 to fight back against Trump is to elect Democrats who aren’t afraid to call him out on his BS!
We 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 take back the House in the Midterm Elections so we can use the full weight of Congressional oversight to hold him accountable.…

Keep going back to this one. It's like, sludgy, synthy, grimy, catchy punk/post punk. This is JFK Ultra and their new single "Judge Judy Executioner" b/w "Classicide". Hope we get a full album: https://knifehitscollective.bandcamp.com/album/jfk-ultra

When we move forward from this terrible era,
I think Judge James Boasberg should get every award and medal we have in the U.S. awards and medals cupboard.
He is holding back the tide of tyranny.
https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethjacobs.bsky.social/post/3m…

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social)
When we move forward from this terrible era, I think Judge James Boasberg should get every award and medal we have in the U.S. awards and medals cupboard. He is holding back the tide of tyranny.

Harry S. Truman was the first U.S. president to formally propose a comprehensive, national universal health insurance plan
In 1945 he proposed a single, federally run system for all Americans.
While Truman is the most prominent historical advocate, Presidents Richard Nixon and Theodore Roosevelt also supported different forms of universal healthcare coverage. 

69 years ago, a president pitches his idea for national health care
Back in 1945 -- a mere seven months into a presidency he inherited from Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Truman proposed a “universal” national health insurance program. In his remarks to Congress, he declared, “Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The time has arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and that protection.”

The Trump administration ordered the restart of a Santa Barbara oil pipeline shut since the 2015 Refugio spill -- invoking emergency powers under the Defense Production Act.

California officials say the move defies court orders and state oversight.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will sue.
The order escalates a fight over whether federal authority can override California regulators blocking Sable Offshore’s plan to restart the pipeline.

Trump invokes emergency powers to restart CA coastal pipeline. Newsom vows to sue
Trump is using Cold War-era emergency powers to force a California oil pipeline back online — and Gov. Newsom vows to sue, to block the move.

Social Security COLA Increases Suddenly Look a Whole Lot Higher
“March’s 3.3% year-over-year inflation rate, up from 2.4% in February, could translate into a
Cost Of Living Adjustment of
3.2% for 2026,
according to Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security and Medicare policy analyst who calculates the projection.
Back in January, she had pegged the increase at just 1.2%.”

Social Security COLA Increases Suddenly Look a Whole Lot Higher — Barron’s
Higher gas prices drove the uptick in the projected cost-of-living adjustment.

The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…

US State Department halts passport services at nonprofit libraries
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service. In late fall, the agency started sending cease and desist orders, which take effect on Feb. 13. It says these libraries cannot collect and keep passport processing fees under federal rules. Librarians say the service has worked for years and residents still call every day. Members of Congress from several states pushed back in a letter to Secretary of State Marc…

Ruptured pipe that leaked millions of gallons of raw waste into the Potomac is back in operation
The massive sewage pipe that ruptured and leaked millions of gallons of raw waste into the Potomac River returned to operation Saturday after the completion of emergency repairs

The scale of Orbšn’s defeat has left Moscow with little choice but to acknowledge the loss of a key partner in Europe.
“Hungary made its choice. We respect that choice,” Russian Foreign Minister Peskov said on Monday.
“We were never friends with Orbšn,” said Peskov,
adding that Moscow remained open to dialogue and to building good, mutually beneficial relations with Budapest.
Moscow appears to be playing down the loss of a key ally in Europe,
striking a tone rem…

Past administrations had been war-gaming an Iran invasion for decades
– but with Trump in the White House, observers said that the rigidly closed circle of advisers around him,
the collapse of an interagency process in the government
and his erratic decision-making process made this unlike any other US military campaign in recent memory.
Donald Trump’s back-of-the-envelope plan for regime change in Tehran ran into the reality of the largest US intervention in the Midd…

After surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety
Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad,
the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial
law-enforcement technology company.
https://www.theverge.co…

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Amazon-owned Ring has canceled its proposed integration with Flock

WELKER: You voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt earlier this year for failing to comply with subpoena.
Why shouldn't the same standard apply to the former AG Pam Bondi?
BYRON DONALDS: We'll see what happens when we get back to DC
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/p…

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
WELKER: You voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt earlier this year for failing to comply with subpoena. Why shouldn't the same standard apply to the former AG Pam Bondi? BYRON DONALDS: We'll see what happens when we get back to DC

The Senate returns to work today, while the House will hold a brief procedural session before getting back to regular business on Tuesday.
Lawmakers have still not passed a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subagencies affected by the record-breaking partial government shutdown, now in its ninth week.
During the two-week recess, House Republican speaker Mike Johnson took no action to advance a Senate-passed measure that would reopen agencies like th…

The White House is forcing countries to choose between opening up a potentially unbridgeable rift
or playing down the climate crisis and trying to squeeze in green priorities by the back door.
Last autumn, the US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, demanded the removal of some climate finance targets from the World Bank’s aims
and insisted it must “finance all affordable and reliable sources of energy … [with] an all-of-the-above approach to energy that includes financing fo…

The Argentinian president, Javier Milei,
is facing his lowest approval ratings since taking office in 2023
as newly published evidence allegedly reveals a
$5m financial agreement connected to his public endorsement last year of a controversial crypto project.
The scandal has tarnished crypto’s reputation across Argentina
and set back the ambitions of industry insiders who saw the country as fertile soil for the growth of digital money.
Milei’s promotion of…

New polling suggests, in the wake of Donald Trump firing former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi #Noem from her position, that a plurality of voters would like to see the firings of numerous other Trump administration officials.
The latest Economist/YouGov poll published on Tuesday found huge support for Noem’s firing.
Just 15 percent said they disapproved of Noem being remov…

Plurality of Americans Back Firing Multiple Trump Cabinet Members
Many members of Trump’s cabinet — including Trump himself — receive low favorability ratings from Americans.

The conflation of Jews and Israel is dangerous antisemitism.
And yet it’s harder to fight back as the mainstream Jewish establishment insists that Zionism is nearly as integral to Jewish identity as circumcision.
Increasingly, though, many Jews are searching for another point of view:
Feelings about Israel are wobbling within the community
— and disapproval is rising among the young;
pro-Palestinian Jewish groups are growing, and more and more Jews view “Zionis…

Book Review: ‘Here Where We Live Is Our Country,’ by Molly Crabapple
In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor.

Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps. It’s truly remarkable.
Republican "Southern Strategy":
Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3]

Southern strategy - Wikipedia

James Blair, a White House deputy chief of staff, is taking over Donald Trump’s outside political operation and its $300 million-plus budget,
Trump said Friday on social media.
The move is an indicator of how Trump and his allies are preparing for the November midterms,
in which Democrats see a ripe opportunity to win back control of the House and perhaps the Senate.
Trump and his team have sought to ensure he has personnel working full time on his political matters.

Trump Moves Top Aide James Blair to Political Operation Ahead of Midterms
Mr. Blair will “lead the charge from the outside,” the president said on social media. The move comes as Republicans are bracing for a potentially difficult November election.

After Trump administration officials gave a closed-door briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday,
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said on social media that the administration had “NO PLAN” for the Strait of Hormuz
and did “not know how to get it safely back open.”
Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war.
But they have been careful not to express that directly to the presiden…

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

Sunny Naqvi, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen, is now back at home
after her family says she spent about 43 hours in Department of Homeland Security custody.
Customs and Border Patrol officials are now disputing her relatives' claims.
Naqvi was born in Evanston and raised in the Chicago suburbs.
A few weeks ago, she was set to travel overseas on a work trip with five other people. That group included three U.S. citizens and three green card holders, all in the U.S. legal…

DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days
Family said agents told them Sunny Naqvi was not in custody despite her phone location showing her at the Broadview facility.

Artemis II re-entry, livestream
https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-comes-home-official-broadcast/

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Comes Home (Official Broadcast)
Around the Moon and back. Watch the Artemis II astronauts come home. NASA's Artemis II mission is splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at about 8:07 p.m. EDT

DOJ seeks to undo Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena
-- its latest shift in a legal position to benefit a close ally of President Donald Trump.

In a Monday legal filing, the department asked the Supreme Court to send Bannon’s case back to the district court,
where the U.S. attorney filed a separate motion seeking to dismiss the charges against Bannon.

DOJ seeks to undo Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., said a judge should dismiss Stephen K. Bannon indictment over defying a Jan. 6 subpoena “in the interests of justice.”

Groundwater contamination was top of mind when Medcalf heard about a new draft bill crafted by the House of Representatives in January.
The bill would amend large portions of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act
— a series of EPA regulations meant to police the manufacturing, processing and use of chemical substances,
including such contaminants as those found at Jones Road.
In 2016, Congress reformed the act, commonly referred to as

After Years of Gains, GOP Pushes to Roll Back Chemical Regulations
In Texas, environmental activists and experts raise the alarm about the impact on the state's petrochemical industry.

People come to the Fediverse to connect with others around communities and topics of interest.
We’ve seen people enjoy their time on Mastodon the most, when they can follow and engage with individuals and organisations that have interesting things to share.
We want to help those who are new to the Fediverse discover these communities more easily.
Back in October 2025, we shared our initial ideas about a new feature that’s coming in Mastodon 4.6, that we’re calling "Coll…

Designing Collections
A new way to share and discover accounts on Mastodon

Each year in Italy, a centuries-old practice known as #transhumance takes place,
where donkeys and mules help shepherds carry newborn lambs down mountains to grazing areas in the plains.
This tradition, dating back over a thousand years, was recognized by UNESCO in 2019 as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Why Donkeys and mule nannies carry lambs down Italian mountains
The 1000-year-old annual tradition known as transhumance was recognised by UNESCO in 2019 as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

Student loan debt tops $1.6 trillion
The average tuition has doubled in the past 30 years.
At the same time, new federal caps on how much parents can borrow for college placing higher education further out of reach for some families.
Against that backdrop, a growing number of schools are making college more affordable
by providing free tuition to undergraduate students from low- and middle-income families.
The movement dates back 20 years but has gained momen…

More colleges are offering free tuition. Explore our database.
Explore our database of nearly 1,000 colleges and universities that offer free tuition programs.

It has been an extraordinary 24 hours in global markets
Oil prices have tumbled back from the four-year highs they hit on Monday
after Donald Trump suggested the US-Israel war on Iran could end “very soon”.
This time yesterday, Brent crude, the international benchmark, surged beyond $100 per barrel for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022
– triggering stark sell-offs across leading Asian and European stock indices.
Wall Street also started t…

In a thread on X, Adam Back,
a London-born computer scientist and entrepreneur
denied being the mysterious
– and presumably ultra-wealthy
– inventor of Bitcoin.
“I also don’t know who satoshi is,
and i think it is good for bitcoin that this is the case,
as it helps bitcoin be viewed [as] a new asset class,
the mathematically scarce digital commodity,” he wrote.
Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity has been the subject of speculation for years.…

Video: Unraveling the Mystery Behind Bitcoin’s Creator
Our investigative reporter John Carreyrou spent 18 months digging through the archives of online cryptography communities in search of the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous inventor of bitcoin.

Trump just attacked Tom Suozzi PERSONALLY and
endorsed his opponent in NY-03
The MAGA machine is coming.
Help Tom fight back
>> https://suozzi4congress.us

Suozzi for Congress - Let's Fix This!
Tom Suozzi is running for Congress in 2024 to take back the Third Congressional District of Long Island.

The United States and Iran reached an 11th-hour ceasefire deal on Tuesday night,
pausing for two weeks the threat of military strikes that Trump had warned would wipe out a “whole civilization” unless Tehran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Accepting ceasefire, Trump agreed to negotiate on Iran’s terms
-- He did so stating that diplomacy would revolve around a 10-point proposal from Tehran,
a framework he described as a
“workable basis on which to negotiat…

Trump pulls back threats of destroying 'whole civilization,' gives Iran two more weeks
President Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die” on Tuesday night if Iran does not meet his deadline to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 5 p.m.

There are now just two days until the special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
20 Republicans are running.
One Democrat is running.
I'm that Democrat.
This is how we win.
This is how we take back the House and put a check on Trump's rampage against our Democracy.
I'm Shawn Harris. I'm a Democrat, Husband, Father, Retired Brigadier General, Farmer, and I'm running to represent Northwest Georgia…

Help Defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene
Chip in $3 to support Shawn Harris for Georgia!

Ben Stiller voiced his anger at the White House‘s use of a clip from
Tropic Thunder to support its war initiative on Friday.
“Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip,” he wrote on social media.
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. -- War is not a movie.”
The White House’s X account on Thursday published a montage of scenes from movies and TV shows including Tropic Thunder, Braveheart, Top Gun: Mav…

‘War Is Not a Movie’: Ben Stiller Claps Back at White House Propaganda Video
Ben Stiller has sounded off about a White House propaganda video about the war against Iran using a clip from 'Tropic Thunder.

There are now just three days until the special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
20 Republicans are running.
One Democrat is running.
I'm that Democrat.
This is how we win.
This is how we take back the House and put a check on Trump's rampage against our Democracy.
I'm Shawn Harris. I'm a Democrat, Husband, Father, Retired Brigadier General, Farmer, and I'm running to represent Northwest Georg…

Help Defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene
Chip in $3 to support Shawn Harris for Georgia!

It Can Now Be Plainly Said:
Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off.
Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.
Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to democracy.
We can debate the effectiveness of her, and their, rhetoric.
But on a cert…

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

“The vision of the U.S. as a more or less stable and steady power whose foreign policy had some elements of predictability...
I think this is permanently gone.
The U.S. now has a big constituency for authoritarianism. ... Europeans know that.
And so I don’t think that the status that the U.S. once had, the automatic acceptance as the leader of the democratic world, comes back anytime soon.”
— Anne Applebaum

Alcatraz has been practically frozen in time since the day that the storied prison saw its last inmate 62 years ago.
When the federal government closed the facility, officials had deemed it a deteriorated relic that was insufficient for housing inmates.
Alcatraz closed in part because it was far more expensive to run a prison on an island than on the mainland since everything had to be shipped in.
The small number of prisoners made the extra expense even more questionable…

Trump’s Idea to Turn Alcatraz Back Into a Prison Draws Criticism From Tourists
At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary.

CPAC "faith summit" speakers
called for Christian nationalists
to "rise up" and "take the country back
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/cpac-faith-summit-calls-unapologetic-christian-nationalism…

CPAC ‘Faith Summit’ Calls for Unapologetic Christian Nationalism
CPAC "faith summit" speakers called for Christian nationalists to "rise up" and "take the country back"

The Trump administration’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion has rolled back decades of progress for women,
who now face a widening gender pay gap and narrowing employment protections.
In the process, discussions about women have become a third rail,
a toxic topic that is too politically charged to touch.
Companies, universities, law firms and cultural institutions are all expunging references to “women” and “gender,” even under the most benign circumstances…

Opinion | I’ve Covered Women in the Workplace for 15 Years. Something Alarming Is Happening.
As women are erased from the narrative, injustices against them go unnoticed.

The Trump administration has spent the better part of a year quietly negotiating agreements with poorer nations
as it seeks to scale back and reimagine U.S. foreign assistance for efforts like HIV and tuberculosis prevention through a new “America First” global health strategy.

To date, 28 deals have been negotiated with foreign governments, mostly throughout Africa.
But in a break with precedent, the administration has refused to disclose their full terms publicly.

…

Trump administration’s secrecy on health deals alarms experts, governments
A dearth of information has been disclosed about the agreements, fueling speculation that the “America First” approach to foreign aid is exploitative.

The calls to 911 poured in from staff at "Camp East Montana" in Texas,
the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility,
at a rate of nearly one a day for five months,
-- each its own tale of pain and despair.
A man sobs after being assaulted by another detainee.
Another bangs his head against the wall after expressing suicidal thoughts.
A pregnant woman complained of severe back pain and also had coronavirus.

911 calls reveal pain, despair at ICE'S largest detention camp
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas. The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutriti…

Democrats watched with mouths agape this week as Latino voters,
many of whom have sat out previous primary seasons,
turned out in droves for James Talarico in Texas.
But the push to win back the elusive and swingy coalition that proved pivotal to Donald Trump’s 2024 victory goes way beyond the closely watched Lone Star State.
This is a story that kicked off last year as Democrats overperformed in Latino-dominant districts across Virginia and New Jersey.
It’s o…

Iran’s foreign minister said the passage through the strait of Hormuz would be allowed for the next two weeks under Iranian military management.
Trump had earlier warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Iran failed to allow commercial shipping to pass safely through the strai.
The president’s comments were swiftly condemned by Democrats, longtime supporters who have broken with Trump over the war, and Pope Leo, the first American po…

Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, said that the lower chamber should vote immediately on a war powers resolution to curb the Trump administration’s war on Iran.
“We need a permanent end to Donald Trump’s reckless war of choice,”
Jeffries told CNN shortly after Donald Trump announced the two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday.
“House Democrats have demanded that Speaker Mike Johnson immediately reconvene the House back into session so we can move a war powers res…

At first, sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas just wanted to put up a modest ad above a garbage can in the back of a New York airport terminal to advertise her law firm's services.
It read:
“When HR called it harmless flirting … we called it exhibit A."
But when the airport authority rejected the ad copy and asked her to tone it down, she filed a lawsuit claiming her free speech rights under the U.S. constitution had been violated
A judge agreed,
and …

When an airport rejected this sexual harassment lawyer's small ad, she sued. Now she has a giant billboard | CBC Radio
A New York airport authority rejected sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas's ad copy and asked her to tone it down, so she filed a free speech lawsuit. The judge took her side, and now she has two massive ads on full display.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared Thursday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe”
to call for stricter governing of ICE agents and push back on the Trump administration’s targeting of local voting officials in Georgia and other swing states,
declaring, “We’re not going to let them be intimidated.”
The New York senator’s remarks came after recent calls from Trump to 🔥nationalize voting ahead of this year’s midterm elections
and after National Intelligence Director Tulsi…

Chuck Schumer Promises ‘Morning Joe’ Democrats Will Not Let Trump Bully Voting Officials After Georgia Raid | Video
Chuck Schumer appeared on "Morning Joe" to call for greater governing of ICE agents and call out the targeting of local voting officials.

James Talarico’s victory in the Democratic Senate primary race in Texas
was powered in part by a sizable advantage among Latino voters,
a sought-after group that Democrats are hoping to win back.
Latino voters, historically a Democratic-leaning group,
have been slowly shifting to the right, including a significant move toward Trump in 2024.
This year’s midterm elections will be closely watched to see whether these voters who were moved to support Republicans tw…

How Latino Voters Helped James Talarico Win in Texas
The state legislator’s apparent strength with Latino voters in the Democratic primary for Senate suggested that he might be able to make inroads with a crucial demographic that has shifted away from his party.

As the Artemis II mission heads for a flyby of the moon,
the Orion crew module is testing one of NASA’s most ambitious upgrades to space communications yet:
a laser-based system called O2O.
Short for Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System,
O2O caps more than two decades of work by NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
to build better high-bandwidth links for deep space.
The system is designed to send data down to …

NASA’s Artemis II laser communications system is beaming 4K video from the moon
A new laser system aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft is sending sharper video and more data back to Earth

Barry Jones had been thinking about climate change since the 1960s.
But as he would discover, foresight rarely aligns with political incentives.
“I would say to Bob Hawke: ‘Look, we’ve got to take the issue of climate change seriously’,” he recalls.
“And he’d say, ‘but when’s the impact going to be seen at its worst?’
“And you think, well, it might be another 25 years
and he’d reply:
‘Well, you come back to me sometime later, before the 25 years is up, …

The man who knew too much: Barry Jones on Albo, Putin and the end of the line
At 93, the Labor legend and former science minister is eyeing the “exit ramp”. But he isn’t going quietly, taking aim at Anthony Albanese’s lack of courage on reform and a political system that has lost its way.

Kristi Noem repeatedly declined to deny her widely-reported sexual relationship with her shadow chief of staff Corey Lewandowski,
twisting into all sorts of remarkable rhetorical shapes to avoid uttering the word “no” while under oath.
“I am shocked that we’re going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today,”
Noem told Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.),
who pushed back: “You should be able to answer if someone asks if you or any federal official is …

What Trump REALLY Thinks About His Iran War
What’s (likely) going on in the president’s head.

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As tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;
a video posted on social media recorded eight,
as well as countless smaller pops.
At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protes…

How to tear gas children
A family-friend labor march full of teachers and nurses in Portland, Oregon ended with tear gas billowing over several blocks.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116347564877809517
In response to an NPR request,
a Navy spokesman acknowledged that
1,500 sailors, their families and several hundred pets were relocated back to the U.S. from NSA Bahrain.

ON JAN. 20, 2025, his first day back in office,
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the United States would henceforth recognize only two sexes, male and female.
Trump framed the move as one meant to protect the dignity, safety, and well-being of women. But the order also upended a long-standing policy at the National Institutes of Health
— one that was crafted to ensure that females are adequately represented in biomedical research.
Imple…

The Future of Sex as a Biological Variable in Health Research
An executive order upended an NIH policy requiring researchers to account for both sexes in preclinical animal studies.

We are at untold levels of delusional cope right now.
These words are indistinguishable from the lofty dreams of being welcomed as liberators within Iraq back in 2002.
You should never listen to a single thing these pundits say lmfao this is incredible.
Ahistorical commentary is worthless!
-- @Mako69@bsky.social

Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
Have airstrikes by a hostile foreign country ever produced this outcome? The reactionary centrist blob keeps pretending this is part of a duly considered long-term strategy from Trump but that is not how he operates and even if it was, this is a dumb strategy.

Steve Bannon, the rightwing media host and ally of Donald Trump,
appears likely to have his criminal conviction dismissed.
The US supreme court filed a brief order on Monday that vacated a lower court ruling that had upheld Bannon’s conviction
and sent the case back to the US court of appeals for the DC circuit for “further consideration in light of the pending motion to dismiss the indictment”.
The Trump administration had moved to dismiss Bannon’s conviction
…

The video clip posted last week on social media by Rogelio Martinez,
a mayoral candidate for the city of Long Beach, was short and to the point:
"I need to see 55 gang leaders here this coming Monday,
we need to take back our city,
enough is enough,
ICE needs to get out of Long Beach
and this is the only way that I know how to get them out;
peacefully, but with strong force, but peacefully."
The video quickly went viral and landed Mar…

The Stock Market Is More Expensive Than It Looks. Tread Carefully.
Up 8%, down 5%, down 4%, up 6%
—these are just a handful of the single-day herk-a-jerks since the beginning of February for shares of America’s largest company, Nvidia.
The broader S&P 500 index this past week had briefly slid 9% from its January high, then rocketed back several points, and was last seen trying to decide on its next adventure.
This isn’t a call to flee stocks.
It’s a suggest…

The Stock Market Is More Expensive Than It Looks. Tread Carefully. — Barron’s
Corporate profits have been wonderful, but they seem puffed up by an accounting quirk and more.

I don’t think Trump is unsophisticated in the way he wields language
— far from it.
He can load up the graphic detail through vivid, dynamic verbs when he wants to,
-- such as in one of the stories of bravery he told in his State of the Union address, perhaps with the help of his speechwriters:
“He absorbed four agonizing shots, shredding his leg into numerous pieces. … And even as he was gushing blood, which was flowing back down the aisle — helicopter lands at a s…

Opinion | What Trump Is Doing to the English Language
There is a morality to verbs, especially in political speech.

A look beyond official channels indicates that at least some service members active on TikTok
– a subset of an online space known as #MilitaryTok
– are not channeling Trump and his administration’s "warrior" mentality.
Instead, their posts convey vulnerability, anxiety, and in many cases, snark over the prospect of shipping out to the Middle East.
As Trump flirts with…

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Susan Glasser • @sbg1 • 2h.:
"Honestly, this seemed like Pete Hegseth imitating Colin Jost imitating Pete Hegseth"
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg3fb4myfn2i

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Hegseth: "It's the typical NBC gotcha-type question. President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about how long it may or may not take. 4 weeks, 2 weeks, 6 weeks. It could move up, it could move back. We're gonna execute at his command ... Joe Biden didn't even know what he was doing"

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During her detention, Yu said uncertainty weighed heavily on her.
Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurant locations for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness.
Supporters said she has no criminal record and has been active in giving back to the Peoria community.
Her release came after U.S. District Court Judge Krissa Lanham granted a habeas corpus petition filed on her behalf.
The petition argued that her continued detenti…

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This DHS funding battle is part of a bigger question Democrats must answer as they fight to regain power.
Large sections of the Democratic base are now echoing calls to “abolish ICE.”
Some Democratic leaders, like New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader,
are pushing back against this with much more tepid, unwieldy, and frankly pretty weak ideas to “restrain, reform, and restrict” the agency.

ICE is just over 20 years old, formed as part of the sec…

Democrats Should Take Control on Immigration
The battle over DHS funding should prompt Democrats to reexamine some of their assumptions on this topic.

Following the fatal shootings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last month,
Democrats have refused to support long-term funding for the Department of Homland Security unless Republicans agree to reforms on the tactics of federal agents carrying out Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“The American people rightfully expect their elected representatives to take action to rein in ICE and ensure no more lives are lost,” Senate minorit…

If the United States is now kidnapping and killing dictators without direct provocation,
it will come back to bite us
after demolishing our moral authority in the world
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-comme…

War Is Peace: Trump’s Regime-Change Reversal
President Trump launched a war of regime change in Iran without a plan — a move that will demolish America's moral authority in the world.

It’s only February, and the November elections are already in peril.
When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered from a failure of imagination.
We knew President Trump’s lies and conspiracy mongering were dangerous,
but it’s hard to think of a single person who predicted that a MAGA mob would storm the Capitol.
Very few people anticipated the sheer scale and scope of the effort to overturn the electi…

Opinion | This Is Not a Drill
What Is the F.B.I. doing raiding an election office in Georgia?

Media Shied Away From Climate Coverage in 2025
Despite Increased Reader Interest
Mainstream media around the world last year drew back from reporting on climate change, according to new reports.
This drop occurred despite increasing reader interest in the topic,
while greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations continued to hit new historic highs.
According to a year-end analysis by the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO),

Media Shied Away From Climate Coverage in 2025 | Earth.Org
As temperatures and emissions rose in 2025, climate news coverage around the world took a dramatic plunge.

2:31 p.m. Eastern
NASA’s Artemis II crew members are boarding the agency’s Orion spacecraft to begin communication checks to confirm voice links with mission control and onboard systems. 
Before entering the spacecraft that will be their home on the approximately 
10-day journey around the Moon and back,
all four crewmates signed the inside of the White Room, an area at the end of the crew access arm that provides access to the spacecraft.
The term “White Room” d…

LIVE: Artemis II Launch Day Updates - NASA
Live updates for launch of NASA's Artemis II test flight will be published on this page. All times are Eastern.

🔥Dems win special election in Texas, narrowing Republicans majority.
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“Nuclear talks with the United States are scheduled to be held in Muscat on about 10am Friday,” wrote the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.
“I’m grateful to our Omani brothers for making all necessary arrangements.”
US officials also indicated the talks in Oman will go forward.
They will take place amid a massive buildup of US naval and airpower in the region and appear to be a last chance for Tehran to avert a US strike against the country’s leadership and nuclear …

Gold and silver retreated from record highs
and the dollar strengthened
on reports that Trump may appoint a more hawkish-than-expected Federal Reserve chair.
Trump said on Thursday that he intended to announce his pick to replace Jerome Powell on Friday,
with growing speculation that the role will go to the former Fed governor #Kevin

Gold falls, dollar gains on talk Trump wants Kevin Warsh as Fed chair
Precious metals eased off record highs and the US currency clawed back some of its losses this week ahead of an announcement from the president

NPR has learned that hundreds of sailors were evacuated back to the United States from their base in Bahrain after the base was attacked by Iranian missiles and drones.
In addition to the base in Bahrain, NPR has learned that there have been evacuations at other U.S. military bases in the region, though the exact details are unknown at this point.
Bahrain is the home of the Navy's 5th Fleet, making it a central hub for providing maritime security in the Middle East region, i…

"They literally told them, 'Get what you can get in the backpack. You've got to go,'" he said.
"They came with no uniforms, nothing. The three we met first, they came with the clothes on their back, what they could fit in that backpack."
The Navy has provided services including "crisis counseling, financial and legal assistance, relocation support, educational resources, coordination for child and youth programs,"
according to Lt. Cm…

RE: https://masto.nyc/@draken/116172740014350942
Oliver North
(He's back)

A judge on Saturday declined to order the Trump administration to immediately scale back its immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota,
-- rejecting pleas from state officials who said the campaign was stepping on their sovereignty and endangering the public.

U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez said Minnesota and the Twin Cities had not definitively shown that the administration’s decision to flood the state with immigration agents,
an initiative dubbed "Operation Metro…

Judge denies Minnesota’s request for immediate end to immigration surge
Minnesota officials had said the immigration crackdown was endangering public safety in their state.