And loving America means fighting to make it better.

When the music's over
When the music's over
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights

RIP Val Kilmer 🕯️

At a time when real leadership is scarce, Senator Booker is stepping up—his tireless filibuster proves he’s willing to fight when others won’t.

Facebook’s secrets, by the insider Zuckerberg tried to silence Careless People author and former Meta director Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals what it was like ‘babysitting’ her boss

“She describes [Zuckerberg] as a cross between a truculent teen and a toddler: he doesn’t like to get up before midday, even to meet prime ministers, and his obsequious colleagues feel obliged to let him beat them at board games.”

Sigh. The tech bros are all the same.

The Supreme Court Ducked Another Big Abortion Case. Clarence Thomas Is Livid. You can’t blame him for being disappointed.

Five conservative justices have spent the last few years laying the groundwork to strike down abortion clinic buffer zones. So it's pretty surprising that the Supreme Court ducked an opportunity to do just that.

Legally, it's odd. Tactically, it makes a lot of sense. slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is what the world thinks about us.

WE WILL HOLD EVERY SENATE REPUBLICAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION PATEL WILL DO!

Elizabeth Booker Houston on Substack Discover and discuss great writing with the world’s smartest readers on Substack.

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Marlon Weems on Substack Here’s my man Joshua Doss, who I haven’t posted in a while, and he is taking folks straight to church

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JoJoFromJerz on Substack Hold the fuck on — the Department of Government Efficiency, the entity which claims its mission is to end “wasteful spending”, was given SEVEN MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to cover its “expenses” in the s...

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If you think Special Education funding is wasteful spending,
You are a piece of shit.
You are a fucking piece of shit. There is no way around it.

Tristan Snell on Substack Trump is doing by executive order what he is too weak to do by legislation. He does not have the votes in Congress. He wouldn't be able to get ANY of this passed if he tried. He is the WEAKEST inco...

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I feel this deeply could be many of us!!!

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🚨 CANADIAN HOCKEY FANS BOO DURING U.S. NATIONAL ANTHEM AT OTTAWA SENATORS GAME

BREAKING NEWS:

Canada’s BC Liquor Distribution Branch will immediately stop buying American liquor from red states, including Whisky and Bourbon, and will have the top-selling “red-state” brands removed from its shelves.

#cyberbarons . . . the term perfectly captures what the resistance needs to focus on fighting

After being refused service at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's, four African-American men launched a protest that lasted six months and helped change America. Photo credit: Jack Moebes / Corbis

#ResistanceRoots
#Voices4Victory

Today in history, 1960: The Greensboro sit-ins begin, with four Black students challenging the segregationist policies of F.W. Woolworth Co. They sat down at the Woolworth lunch counter and refused to leave when they were denied service. /1

Black students sit at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. Photo credit: Bettmann Archive / Getty Images

The next day, more than 20 Black students joined the protest, sitting at the counter from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This time, the sit-in made the local news. On Feb. 3, their number grew to more than 60, and on Feb. 4, more than 300 people joined in. /2

Greensboro, N.C., sit-in, 1960. Photo credit: Bettmann Archive / Getty Images

The protest expanded to Greensboro’s S.H. Kress store. Students met with the stores’ representatives but the stores refused to integrate. The protest went on for almost six months and expanded to other stores in other cities. Ultimately, some 70,000 people participated. /3

Greensboro, N.C., sit-in, 1960.

The protest wasn’t spontaneous — the students had planned it extensively with guidance from other activists. That summer, the protesters coupled the sit-ins with boycotts that cost the Greensboro Woolworth store almost $200,000 in losses ($1.8 million in 2021). /4

MEXICO ANNOUNCES RETALIATORY TARIFFS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.

Here is a translation of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's statement:

The clearest explanation of tariffs I’ve ever heard

BREAKING: Canada announces 25% tariffs on billions worth of American goods