NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning.

“SAY HER NAME!”
“RENEE GOOD!”

The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See YouTube video by Cory Booker

Everyone should watch the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT the horrific prison in El Salvador & sending of Venezuelan immigrants there from the USA! This is well done journalism! Every American should be outraged! Shame on Trump stooge Bari Weiss!!! youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...

Resigned CDC official: I was really optimistic that we could continue to improve public health infrastructure across our nation. But with losing 30% of my staff, not able to execute contracts, not be able to hire new individuals, it became apparent I wasn't going to be effective in my role

We found the waste, fraud, and abuse…

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.

As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

"Hi, we are calling you about the unpaid bills you have"
-"I can't be in debt"
"Yes you are"
-"No because I follow Absolutism"
"I don't follow"
-"Which means that there can't be any negative numbers"
"I'm sending you to collections"
-"An array or using some some tree structure?"
"I'm hanging up"

Make Sure You Have It In Writing is amazing widely applicable advice for all situations always

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

SEIU’s Verrett: Unions will not allow the illegal seizure of workers’ complaints at the Department of Labor

Unelected, union-busting billionaires have no business trying to get access to complaints workers have filed for their personal advantage. We are fighting back in court to make sure this illegal power grab is shut down.
www.seiu.org/2025/02/seiu...

Again, I say this all the time, but the specific anti-trans rhetoric that pervades now *literally doesn't make sense* unless we magically popped into existence 10 or so years ago making new demands. It can all be traced directly back to this manufactured panic around that time.

A group of 94 concerned citizens visited #LindseyGraham 's office in Greenville SC on Wednesday‼️

Thanks to INDIVISIBLE for spearheading this event.

Project 2025 Co-Author Caught On Secret Camera Talking About a National Porn Ban YouTube video by The Intercept

Senate Democrats are doing an overnight filibuster to protest Russell Vought's nomination for OMB, so we can't pass up the opportunity to re-post video of Vought talking about a national porn ban:

Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's equipment at the time of Musk's assault.

USAID was investigating Elon Musk’s Starlink contracts in Ukraine 👀

Also, can we agree that it's pronounced U-S Aid and not U-S-A-I-D?

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

I... have no words for how... just... what... I mean... holy shit...

TRUMP TRADE WAR UPDATE:

Colombia: Lasted 4 hours - Trump accepts what was already offered.
🇨🇴

Mexico: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts worse than before.
🇲🇽

Canada: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts what was already agreed.
🇨🇦

Two-step process established:
1. Try to look tough
2. Just fold

🤡

The Right to Pee Is Everything

I wrote about the right to bathrooms, trans rights, executive orders, personhood, the history of politicizing peeing, Susan Stryker, Sarah McBride, and public space for @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Sen. Schiff presses Kash Patel to look at the Capitol Police officers behind him. Patel doesn't.

"I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage … and tell them you're proud of what you did. Tell them you're proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues."

Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”

Trans Woman Sues After Being Notified Of Transfer To Men’s Prison One of the women sued the Trump administration, alleging the order violates her constitutional rights and puts her “at an extremely high risk of harassment, abuse, violence, and sexual assault.”

NEW: Trans women in federal custody were placed in solitary and told they were going to be moved to men's facilities days after Trump's exec order. Other trans folks have issues accessing HRT.

Advocates fear this is just the beginning.

from me + @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/35x3azm7

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

Bowling For Soup - Hello Anxiety YouTube video by BowlingForSoupVEVO

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSl...

a raccoon that listened could fix me

Prison Terms for Navalny’s Russian Defense Lawyers Last week, a Russian court sentenced three lawyers who had represented the country’s leading opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, to imprisonment on bogus extremism charges following a sham trial.

Russian court sentences 3 lawyers to prison for providing legal services.

Yep, you read that right: lawyers jailed for doing lawyer things.

Their client was Alexei Navalny, once Russia's leading opposition politician, who died suddenly in a prison colony last year.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral

If you have watched the last 2 and a half minutes of the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde's homily this morning, I urge you to watch the whole 15 minutes. My first impression is that of the entire inauguration, this speech will be the one remembered and studied for decades.

If you are a federal worker reading this, you do not need to immediately return to the office five days a week based on a single vague paragraph. Look to your union for guidance

At least Costco isn’t getting on its knees to kiss Trumps ring and lick his boots. Though his boots gotta be real clean already considering how much Zuckerberg, Musk and Disney are licking it.