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1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Here's my print feature piece in @thenation.com about the rise of AI-justice. Judges are already relying on AI, more than you probably think, and with some countries *replacing* human judges with bots, we will soon have to ask: Would you rather Justice Alito or Justice Mech-Hitler?

If you looked at The Hill's homepage, you would have no idea that the FBI raided a Washington Post reporter's home and seized her phone and laptops. You would be made aware that your kids could now drink whole milk at school though. This is how self-censorship works in 2026 America.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

the primary reason rightwingers will never control culture is because everything they do is hinged upon it being a reaction to the broader culture. the TPUSA half time event would not exist without it being a representation of their grievences

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

So people are starting to learn this it seems.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

⚠️Saving lives is not a crime!

I spoke with people in Gaza who've been accused of being scammers or even AI.

this is literally a plan to do this, published in plain writing by the party that currently controls the government. if you want resistance to alarmism treated as an intellectual stance rather than an affective posture you'll need something in the vicinity of a reason bsky.app/profile/zach...

Senate Republicans advanced Trump's massive, Medicaid-slashing tax bill after key GOP holdouts fell in line

a weird realization is that the rightwing natalist is often not opposed to teenager pregnancy at all

"Don’t hold on tightly to things that have never served us. And when something can’t be fixed, we should ask: what can be built instead?" @prisonculture.bsky.social on embracing the possibility of uncertainty prisonculture.substack.com/p/the-strugg...

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kind of insane that half of the country is explicitely fascist now

“His wife, Linet Vartaniann, 37, is a U.S. Citizen. A spokesperson said she is also behind bars and will face federal charges for allegedly harboring her husband and threatening to shoot ICE officers if they entered her home.” “HARBORING HER HUSBAND”

"Instead of worrying about going back to the age of kings, we should concern ourselves with forging a future where no single person—whether king or president—can claim the right to rule over millions." #NoKings via @anarchistagency.bsky.social itsgoingdown.org/no-kings-how...

I am hearing people on our side describing Brad Lander, Mayor Baraka & Senator Padilla's arrests as "stunts" designed to boost their electoral prospects. First of all, I know that Brad Lander has been quietly accompanying migrants to their appointments for YEARS now, long before he ran for mayor.

conservatives: children are property of parents. children do not have autonomy. children do not have a choice if their parents wants them to do something. parents who don't suck ass: what if i want my child to do the thing that makes them happy? conservatives: no that's illegal

The NYT's anti-trans fear mongering was cited in a Supreme Court briefing that stripped away the rights of trans kids. They need to be fully blacklisted by queer people and their allies. Don't work for them. Don't use them for book press. Don't speak with them for stories. They made their bed.

"Direct action disrupts order...And just like things that are normally non-violent magically become violent when directed against order, things that are extraordinarily violent get erased when they’re deployed to restore capitalist order."

There's literally no point in demanding an end to authoritarian despots, if we we don't also dismantle the source of their power, the enforcers of that state domination.

The real threat from right-wingers yesterday was not infiltration or undercover provocation of anti-police activities - it was naked violence against demonstrators.

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The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

There is no way to protest that will earn the respect of your political opponents. You will never be peaceful enough. You’ll either be too poor, criminal, and uncouth, or too rich, out-of-touch, and snobbish.

ICE definitely around the Valley today. Confirmations at the Walmart at 67th Ave and Peoria within the last few hours (I’m hearing they just left). If you spot ICE, you can call the Migra Watch Hotline at (480) 506-7437 to report the tip and verified info will quickly get dispersed to the community.

RFK Jr justifies firing scientists on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee due to “conflicts of interest.” Yet RFK Jr made almost $100K a year from anti-vax lawsuits and almost $90K a month from his anti-vax nonprofit. The person with the biggest conflict of interest at HHS is the one leading it.