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A confidential agreement provides yet more evidence of the administration’s campaign to interfere with upcoming elections. bit.ly/46tX4nd
“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data
At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.
www.brennancenter.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A confidential agreement provides yet more evidence of the administration’s campaign to interfere with upcoming elections. bit.ly/46tX4nd
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Did You Know: More than 90% of hotels in the United States refused to take reservations from Black guests? The Green Book Project tells the story Black travel during Jim Crow. Share your story and contribute to the Community Map: greenbookproject.osu.edu
#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Did You Know: More than 90% of hotels in the United States refused to take reservations from Black guests? The Green Book Project tells the story Black travel during Jim Crow. Share your story and contribute to the Community Map: greenbookproject.osu.edu
#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
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There’s a modern Swedish word, skämskudde, which is a pillow that you use to cover your face in an embarrassing situation (for example, a sex scene in the middle of a film you’re watching with family). You could translate it as “shame pillow” or, if you prefer, “cringe cushion.”
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
There’s a modern Swedish word, skämskudde, which is a pillow that you use to cover your face in an embarrassing situation (for example, a sex scene in the middle of a film you’re watching with family). You could translate it as “shame pillow” or, if you prefer, “cringe cushion.”
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if you read one essay today public health friends, make it this one. buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 PM
if you read one essay today public health friends, make it this one. buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
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That blows my mind.
February 9, 2026 at 5:39 AM
That blows my mind.
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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theres this veblen book about how the problem with america is Absentee Ownership,
I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
February 8, 2026 at 1:45 PM
theres this veblen book about how the problem with america is Absentee Ownership,
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All. Of. This. From Jack White:
February 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM
All. Of. This. From Jack White:
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someone came into my mentions a week or so ago talking about how abolishing ICE was necessary but defunding the police is a bad slogan because we need police and i’d like to wish that person a very merry shut the fuck up because they’re two sides of the same coin.
February 7, 2026 at 2:30 PM
someone came into my mentions a week or so ago talking about how abolishing ICE was necessary but defunding the police is a bad slogan because we need police and i’d like to wish that person a very merry shut the fuck up because they’re two sides of the same coin.
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I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
lataco.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
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THIS stuff is one of the main objections "progressives" had to "trade" deals like the TPP. They are not about "trade" they are about establishing corporate supremacy over governments.
Shell sues Netherlands for billions in secretive ‘corporate court’ over Groningen gas field closure, says @globaljusticenow.bsky.social
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/shell-s...
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/shell-s...
Shell sues Netherlands for billions in secretive ‘corporate court’ over Groningen gas field closure - Global Justice Now
Shell has launched an arbitration claim against the Netherlands under a secretive court system for potentially billions of euros. The British multinational oil and gas company is suing the Dutch […]
www.globaljustice.org.uk
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 AM
THIS stuff is one of the main objections "progressives" had to "trade" deals like the TPP. They are not about "trade" they are about establishing corporate supremacy over governments.
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DOGE isn't really gone, it's just become the way that the Office of Management and Budget operates, writes our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social.
prospect.org/2026/02/05/d...
prospect.org/2026/02/05/d...
DOGE Lives On Through Russell Vought
Trump’s White House OMB director has quietly institutionalized the government demolition agenda set in motion by Elon Musk’s wrecking crew.
prospect.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
DOGE isn't really gone, it's just become the way that the Office of Management and Budget operates, writes our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social.
prospect.org/2026/02/05/d...
prospect.org/2026/02/05/d...
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When It Comes to ICE and CBP, We Know Enough
From testimony at a town meeting in Surprise, AZ, about a proposed ICE concentration camp: I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd…
From testimony at a town meeting in Surprise, AZ, about a proposed ICE concentration camp: I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd…
When It Comes to ICE and CBP, We Know Enough
From testimony at a town meeting in Surprise, AZ, about a proposed ICE concentration camp: I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany.
mikethemadbiologist.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
When It Comes to ICE and CBP, We Know Enough
From testimony at a town meeting in Surprise, AZ, about a proposed ICE concentration camp: I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd…
From testimony at a town meeting in Surprise, AZ, about a proposed ICE concentration camp: I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd…
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Soooo what’s this thing where people are pushing back so hard on calling their civil disobedience “protest”, like it’s a slur?
February 4, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Soooo what’s this thing where people are pushing back so hard on calling their civil disobedience “protest”, like it’s a slur?
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BREAKING: Viewers of “Melania” Documentary Receive Call Telling Them They Will Die in 7 Days
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
BREAKING: Viewers of “Melania” Documentary Receive Call Telling Them They Will Die in 7 Days
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This is an excellent, accessible, if long, piece by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social & @adambonica.bsky.social. Drawing on scientific evidence and ground-truth logic, they dismantle calls for Democratic moderation and prescribe a path that is pragmatic and courageous.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
www.bostonreview.net
February 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM
This is an excellent, accessible, if long, piece by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social & @adambonica.bsky.social. Drawing on scientific evidence and ground-truth logic, they dismantle calls for Democratic moderation and prescribe a path that is pragmatic and courageous.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
www.thehandbasket.co
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
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How do you like to travel?
1. wandering ghost ship
2. interdimensional wormhole
3. Baba Yaga’s magic hut
4. hallucinogens
1. wandering ghost ship
2. interdimensional wormhole
3. Baba Yaga’s magic hut
4. hallucinogens
February 2, 2026 at 3:03 AM
How do you like to travel?
1. wandering ghost ship
2. interdimensional wormhole
3. Baba Yaga’s magic hut
4. hallucinogens
1. wandering ghost ship
2. interdimensional wormhole
3. Baba Yaga’s magic hut
4. hallucinogens
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One of the biggest cultural reforms we're going to need to institute in Woke 2 is no more copaganda
February 1, 2026 at 7:02 PM
One of the biggest cultural reforms we're going to need to institute in Woke 2 is no more copaganda
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This is an act of violence.
“about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally and putting them at risk of immediate detention and deportation”
"‘Reminds me of Anne Frank’: Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms"
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 PM
This is an act of violence.
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A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
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It's a bad game on the merits that is coasting on several centuries of being renowned as an intellectual game for smart people and societies without enough wealth to fund competitors.
Chess is the perfect board game
I know I need to be the change and everything but we need more board game discourse on here. It could mostly be the same cast!
January 29, 2026 at 4:11 PM
It's a bad game on the merits that is coasting on several centuries of being renowned as an intellectual game for smart people and societies without enough wealth to fund competitors.
