Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

2025 Recommended Reading List Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…

Thrilled to see Jaroslav Olsa's Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list!

locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Cover of The Black Fantastic 20 Afrofuturist Stories superimposed over a banner identifying the 2025 Recommended Reading list from Locus Magazine which identifies titles in the categories of science fiction fantasy horror YA first novels translated novels collectiosn anthologies non-fiction art books novellas novelettes short stories

Thanks to @evavroslin.bsky.social for the morning shout-out that let me know The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories is on @locusmag.bsky.social's 2025 Recommended Reading list! @staceyarobinson.bsky.social @libraryofamerica.bsky.social

Yes, we need ALL the Epstein files.

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range.

And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.

Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.

By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma

The kind of thing I used to share on Twitter back in 2008 when it first started.

CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC YouTube video by eoin higgins

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

The year Trump broke the federal government How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.

This WaPo piece weaves together an incredibly powerful story about the way Trump has devastated government and the dedicated people who wake up every day to serve the public. wapo.st/4b14KAy

Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.

That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Now Trump Is Threatening Naturalized Americans He’s not just bashing refugees and illegal immigrants. He’s going after U.S. citizens born in other countries.

"First, Trump targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now, he’s attacking naturalized Americans, citizens who were born elsewhere...He’s trying to turn white against nonwhite Americans...The U.S. government now openly stands for bigotry."

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Hello

💡If approached by ICE, people should hold up this card below.

💡Please tell your family/friends to “DESIGNATE A STANDBY GUARDIAN” in an emergency for minors in case parents detained/unable to be reached.

Donald Trump’s ‘The Apprentice’ Seasons 1-7 to Stream on Amazon Prime Video Amazon announced on Monday that The Apprentice will be available to stream on Prime Video

(Variety) - “The Apprentice” is coming to Prime Video.

@variety.com $AMZN

Wow

The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster.

Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔

congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit

Is this what they meant by a Red Wave?

I.R.S. to Begin Laying Off Roughly 6,000 Employees on Thursday The terminations will target relatively recent hires at the I.R.S., which the Biden administration had attempted to revitalize.

"The layoffs come in the middle of tax filing season. Former IRS officials warned that losing such a large number of employees could disrupt Americans’ ability to easily file taxes this year, even if the layoffs are not supposed to affect those deemed 'critical'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minorrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

CFPB, the agency to help the little guy fight rich banks, is dead… murdered by the richest man on Earth and his oligarchs.

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

Trump WH has ordered CDC scientists to retract all papers under submission to medical journals containing banned terms— must be scrubbed from manuscripts, including even basic words like “gender”. Retraction even applies to accepted papers in press for imminent publication.