Lauren Vreeland Long
@advoca8.bsky.social
Advocate for Age and Disability Friendly cities and communities. Advocate and Community Educator for Alzheimer’s Assoc.
League of Women Voters. Unitarian Universalist. Marin Organizing Committee. Older Adults. Physical Therapy. Caregivers.
League of Women Voters. Unitarian Universalist. Marin Organizing Committee. Older Adults. Physical Therapy. Caregivers.
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🚨 Breaking news in Epstein Case 🚨 The New Mexico Legislature has passed HR1 to convene a Truth Commission and investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM, including at Zorro Ranch—led by State Reps Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya.
Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...
Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...
February 17, 2026 at 3:50 AM
🚨 Breaking news in Epstein Case 🚨 The New Mexico Legislature has passed HR1 to convene a Truth Commission and investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM, including at Zorro Ranch—led by State Reps Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya.
Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...
Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...
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Thomas J. Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, stepped down from his role as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation — becoming the latest person felled by an association with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
Tom Pritzker, Citing Epstein Connection, Steps Down as Hyatt’s Executive Chairman
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Thomas J. Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, stepped down from his role as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation — becoming the latest person felled by an association with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
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When RFK Jr. was picked in November 2024 to become the next health secretary, public health experts worried that the longtime vaccine skeptic would wreak havoc on the fragile business of vaccine development.
Those fears are beginning to come true www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
Those fears are beginning to come true www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:13 AM
When RFK Jr. was picked in November 2024 to become the next health secretary, public health experts worried that the longtime vaccine skeptic would wreak havoc on the fragile business of vaccine development.
Those fears are beginning to come true www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
Those fears are beginning to come true www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
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Dismantle it all.
BREAKING: FBI notifies Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension that it won’t provide access to evidence it’s collected on the killing of Alex Pretti by armed and masked federal agents.
Perhaps this would be a good time to note that 187 members of Congress are signed on to Impeach Kristi Noem:
Perhaps this would be a good time to note that 187 members of Congress are signed on to Impeach Kristi Noem:
Kristi Noem Must Be Impeached
Members of Congress have a constitutional duty to remove this gangster from office.
www.thenation.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Dismantle it all.
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The DOJ is hiding Epstein files
So we @democracydefendersfund.org sued under FOIA & are moving for summary judgment
It's a democracy 2 step: Art. I Congress leans in while we step forward in Art. III courts
Explained on @ms.now 👇
So we @democracydefendersfund.org sued under FOIA & are moving for summary judgment
It's a democracy 2 step: Art. I Congress leans in while we step forward in Art. III courts
Explained on @ms.now 👇
February 17, 2026 at 2:21 AM
The DOJ is hiding Epstein files
So we @democracydefendersfund.org sued under FOIA & are moving for summary judgment
It's a democracy 2 step: Art. I Congress leans in while we step forward in Art. III courts
Explained on @ms.now 👇
So we @democracydefendersfund.org sued under FOIA & are moving for summary judgment
It's a democracy 2 step: Art. I Congress leans in while we step forward in Art. III courts
Explained on @ms.now 👇
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Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President's House in Philly www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House
The order does not give the federal government a deadline for restoring the President's House site.
www.inquirer.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President's House in Philly www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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From @theathletic.com: Team USA's Elana Meyers Taylor is 41 years old, with an all-time great bobsledding career already to her name. She is a mother twice over, with two deaf sons under the age of 5. And now she's an Olympic gold medalist.
nyti.ms/4amQilT
nyti.ms/4amQilT
February 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM
From @theathletic.com: Team USA's Elana Meyers Taylor is 41 years old, with an all-time great bobsledding career already to her name. She is a mother twice over, with two deaf sons under the age of 5. And now she's an Olympic gold medalist.
nyti.ms/4amQilT
nyti.ms/4amQilT
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Hillary Clinton states the US is fighting an ideological battle that is as old as time.
Straight facts all throughout this.
Straight facts all throughout this.
February 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Hillary Clinton states the US is fighting an ideological battle that is as old as time.
Straight facts all throughout this.
Straight facts all throughout this.
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Is this making our communities safer? DHS agents are following children home from school & terrorizing them at bus stops.
This is the kind of impunity Republicans want to write another $10 billion check for.
Shame on them. Not another dime!
This is the kind of impunity Republicans want to write another $10 billion check for.
Shame on them. Not another dime!
February 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Is this making our communities safer? DHS agents are following children home from school & terrorizing them at bus stops.
This is the kind of impunity Republicans want to write another $10 billion check for.
Shame on them. Not another dime!
This is the kind of impunity Republicans want to write another $10 billion check for.
Shame on them. Not another dime!
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"CBS News has quietly decided to retain contributor Peter Attia despite the release of emails showing extensive communications with Jeffrey Epstein"
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
CBS Quietly Decides to Retain Peter Attia as Contributor Despite Epstein Fallout, Network Staffers Say
Attia was introduced by Bari Weiss in late January as a new CBS contibutor only to be featured in the Epstein documents tranche released by the DOJ days later.
www.yahoo.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"CBS News has quietly decided to retain contributor Peter Attia despite the release of emails showing extensive communications with Jeffrey Epstein"
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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The memo between Thorbjørn Jagland, the former Prime Minister of Norway, and J.E. is jawdropping.
February 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
The memo between Thorbjørn Jagland, the former Prime Minister of Norway, and J.E. is jawdropping.
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If the Supreme Court ever rules carbon isn’t a public health danger, it won’t be a legal decision, it’ll be a confession: science discarded, reality vetoed, and fossil fuel money seated on the bench. At that point, stop calling it governance and start calling it fraud.
New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on the EPA
“How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”
“How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”
"Just making s**t up" — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA
"To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."
www.publicnotice.co
February 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
If the Supreme Court ever rules carbon isn’t a public health danger, it won’t be a legal decision, it’ll be a confession: science discarded, reality vetoed, and fossil fuel money seated on the bench. At that point, stop calling it governance and start calling it fraud.
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Nominating someone who has attacked Black Americans, demeaned Jewish communities, and pushed white‑grievance mythology to a global diplomatic role doesn’t just test our standards. It exposes them. And it tells the world, with perfect clarity, exactly who we are willing to empower.
Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Nominating someone who has attacked Black Americans, demeaned Jewish communities, and pushed white‑grievance mythology to a global diplomatic role doesn’t just test our standards. It exposes them. And it tells the world, with perfect clarity, exactly who we are willing to empower.
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The two parties are the same, you see, & Kamala Harris simply did not offer enough concrete details about her policy positions in August/September 2024 🧐🤷♂️🤦♂️
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups.
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The two parties are the same, you see, & Kamala Harris simply did not offer enough concrete details about her policy positions in August/September 2024 🧐🤷♂️🤦♂️
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REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”
February 16, 2026 at 3:42 AM
REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”
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After a year of spectacular deregulation, “the United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
After a year of spectacular deregulation, “the United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
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New Colorado exhibit doesn’t whitewash history — a novel approach in today’s political climate trib.al/ETdfSTd
New Colorado exhibit doesn’t whitewash history — a novel approach in today’s political climate
History Colorado has named its newest exhibition “Moments that Made US,” but the most important word in that title is “US.”
trib.al
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
New Colorado exhibit doesn’t whitewash history — a novel approach in today’s political climate trib.al/ETdfSTd
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
February 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
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America250 insists they are planning nonpartisan festivities, rather than creating a slush fund to throw the president militarized birthday parties.
But in reality, US history is being subordinated to Trump’s cult of personality.
This Presidents' Day, check out our latest feature:
But in reality, US history is being subordinated to Trump’s cult of personality.
This Presidents' Day, check out our latest feature:
Trump's war on history
As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.
www.motherjones.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
America250 insists they are planning nonpartisan festivities, rather than creating a slush fund to throw the president militarized birthday parties.
But in reality, US history is being subordinated to Trump’s cult of personality.
This Presidents' Day, check out our latest feature:
But in reality, US history is being subordinated to Trump’s cult of personality.
This Presidents' Day, check out our latest feature:
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Well well well
February 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Well well well