@gentlystream.bsky.social
Pro-kindness, pro-planet, pro-democracy. For my children and grandchildren.
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This is why local elections matter more than ever. It’s really the last bulwark protecting us from a corrupt federal government.
Get involved in your community. Support local news organizations. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org and other outlets that are focusing on local news.
Get involved in your community. Support local news organizations. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org and other outlets that are focusing on local news.
Zahilay's first executive order bars ICE from King County-owned properties
In his first executive order since becoming King County executive in November, Girmay Zahilay has barred immigration authorities from conducting enforcement activities in non-public areas of county-ow...
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February 14, 2026 at 6:22 AM
This is why local elections matter more than ever. It’s really the last bulwark protecting us from a corrupt federal government.
Get involved in your community. Support local news organizations. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org and other outlets that are focusing on local news.
Get involved in your community. Support local news organizations. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org and other outlets that are focusing on local news.
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Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.
February 14, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.
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For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
Never reactivate it.
BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security shuts down as the White House and Democratic leaders continue to discuss changes to U.S. immigration enforcement.
February 14, 2026 at 5:24 AM
For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
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no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
February 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
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If the evidence warrants it, officials should be fired.
If the evidence supports it, indictments should follow.
The DOJ should unredact and release all 6 million of the Epstein documents and investigate everyone implicated.
Transparency is the only way this ends.
If the evidence supports it, indictments should follow.
The DOJ should unredact and release all 6 million of the Epstein documents and investigate everyone implicated.
Transparency is the only way this ends.
February 14, 2026 at 3:57 AM
If the evidence warrants it, officials should be fired.
If the evidence supports it, indictments should follow.
The DOJ should unredact and release all 6 million of the Epstein documents and investigate everyone implicated.
Transparency is the only way this ends.
If the evidence supports it, indictments should follow.
The DOJ should unredact and release all 6 million of the Epstein documents and investigate everyone implicated.
Transparency is the only way this ends.
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Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained.
The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.
The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained.
The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.
The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.
NOTE: Trump said today it wasn’t racist, it was vote security messaging… (equally racist, vile, grotesque)
February 14, 2026 at 1:56 AM
NOTE: Trump said today it wasn’t racist, it was vote security messaging… (equally racist, vile, grotesque)
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Seems like a good time for everyone to re-read "American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery" by
@craigunger.bsky.social
@craigunger.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Seems like a good time for everyone to re-read "American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery" by
@craigunger.bsky.social
@craigunger.bsky.social
THREAD: selfish Trump admin sacrifices our future, tossing climate concerns aside. @votersoftomorrow.org @youthvgov.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social
Today, we taught med students about climate change
I had to begin by telling them how the richest country in the world & biggest contributor to climate change is now in complete climate change denial
And how this administration is actively bullying other countries to also give up on climate action
I had to begin by telling them how the richest country in the world & biggest contributor to climate change is now in complete climate change denial
And how this administration is actively bullying other countries to also give up on climate action
February 13, 2026 at 10:29 PM
THREAD: selfish Trump admin sacrifices our future, tossing climate concerns aside. @votersoftomorrow.org @youthvgov.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social
Imagine similar parallels in the US… @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy @rbreich.bsky.social
@juddlegum.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @velshi.com
@juddlegum.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @velshi.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Imagine similar parallels in the US… @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy @rbreich.bsky.social
@juddlegum.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @velshi.com
@juddlegum.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @velshi.com
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In 2020, Jim Ratcliffe moved his fortune to Monaco, saving himself an estimated £4 billion in tax.
In the same year, immigrants in the UK contributed around £20 billion in tax.
That says it all.
In the same year, immigrants in the UK contributed around £20 billion in tax.
That says it all.
Guardian view on Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Britain does not need political lectures from a billionaire tax exile | Editorial
Editorial: Comments on the ‘colonisation of the UK’ by the co-owner of Manchester United were erroneous, crass and a gif
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:16 PM
In 2020, Jim Ratcliffe moved his fortune to Monaco, saving himself an estimated £4 billion in tax.
In the same year, immigrants in the UK contributed around £20 billion in tax.
That says it all.
In the same year, immigrants in the UK contributed around £20 billion in tax.
That says it all.
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The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is clear — under Trump’s agenda, the US has forfeited its global leadership role.👇🏼 Today at the Munich Security Conference. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @portlandken.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @frost.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @mayor.nyc.gov
"The culture war of the MAGA movement is not ours. Freedom of speech ends here with us when that speech is directed against human dignity and basic law. We do not believe in tariffs and protectionism, but in free trade. We stand by climate agreements: Global challenges can only be solved together."
February 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is clear — under Trump’s agenda, the US has forfeited its global leadership role.👇🏼 Today at the Munich Security Conference. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @portlandken.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @frost.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @mayor.nyc.gov
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A remarkable and powerful speech by Friedrich Merz at the Munich Security Conference is filled with surgically precise criticism of Trump and JD Vance. Their game will not destroy NATO or the EU, he says, but it may produce a NATO without the US. America has forfeited its leadership position.
Merz speaks about a "program of freedom" | MSC 2026 | BR24
YouTube video by BR24
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
A remarkable and powerful speech by Friedrich Merz at the Munich Security Conference is filled with surgically precise criticism of Trump and JD Vance. Their game will not destroy NATO or the EU, he says, but it may produce a NATO without the US. America has forfeited its leadership position.
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@davidkurtz.bsky.social on Trump ending the EPA's endangerment finding: "Beating back the flames of fascism while the fascists fan the flames of global warming is the dual-threat 21st-century apocalypse that I can still scarcely get my head around."
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Boasberg Bashes Admin’s Latest Conduct in AEA Case
‘The Solution-less Mire’ In a careful, incremental, and modulated ruling designed to...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:59 PM
@davidkurtz.bsky.social on Trump ending the EPA's endangerment finding: "Beating back the flames of fascism while the fascists fan the flames of global warming is the dual-threat 21st-century apocalypse that I can still scarcely get my head around."
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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I have multiple videos of ICE agents doing this to legal observers. They did it to me too.
SLOTKIN: So the fact we have ICE agents saying out loud to people they're trying to arrest that 'we're gonna put you in a database,' they are making that up?
LYONS: We do not do that
LYONS: We do not do that
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I have multiple videos of ICE agents doing this to legal observers. They did it to me too.
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There was indeed one instance of voter fraud in Bridgeport in 2023. Guess what? The perpetrators were all caught, prosecuted and sentenced. Justice prevailed.
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
Trump calls Connecticut 'an extremely corrupt voting place' on Fox News, takes swipe at Blumenthal
In Connecticut, if a voter doesn't have an accepted form of identification, they can sign an affidavit attesting to their identity.
www.ctinsider.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
There was indeed one instance of voter fraud in Bridgeport in 2023. Guess what? The perpetrators were all caught, prosecuted and sentenced. Justice prevailed.
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
Unsurprising, given Mercer-CNP-Breitbart-Bannon-2016. Is that in the files? Epstein managing Mercer money? @janemayer.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @sarahkendzior.bsky.social @anelsona.bsky.social @timobrien.bsky.social @ronanfarrow.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Unsurprising, given Mercer-CNP-Breitbart-Bannon-2016. Is that in the files? Epstein managing Mercer money? @janemayer.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @sarahkendzior.bsky.social @anelsona.bsky.social @timobrien.bsky.social @ronanfarrow.bsky.social
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“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 PM
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
THREAD: Women get the complex threats of AI, and we’re not hysterical. @karaswisher.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
THREAD: Women get the complex threats of AI, and we’re not hysterical. @karaswisher.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
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As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding
The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
www.nature.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:45 PM
As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
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Dear news media,
When you question Trump, don’t ask: "Do you still have confidence in Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein?"
Ask: "Why haven’t you fired Howard Lutnick for lying to the American people about his friendship with child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein?"
When you question Trump, don’t ask: "Do you still have confidence in Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein?"
Ask: "Why haven’t you fired Howard Lutnick for lying to the American people about his friendship with child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein?"
February 12, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Dear news media,
When you question Trump, don’t ask: "Do you still have confidence in Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein?"
Ask: "Why haven’t you fired Howard Lutnick for lying to the American people about his friendship with child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein?"
When you question Trump, don’t ask: "Do you still have confidence in Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein?"
Ask: "Why haven’t you fired Howard Lutnick for lying to the American people about his friendship with child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein?"