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Judge Abelson of the USDC MD issued a preliminary injunction against the anti-DEI executive orders on Feb 21. His compelling opinion outlines numerous grounds for deeming the EOs unconstitutional, including 1st A freedom of speech. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

Read this measured but heartbreaking account of the disastrous Musk/Trump destruction of USAID and what its devastation portends for the world and our nation’s indispensable role in relieving global suffering www.thebulwark.com/p/the-human-...

If Hooters had started a home delivery during the pandemic and called it, "Knockers," they wouldn't be bankrupt.

The nature of “shock and awe” is that it makes it hard to see or think clearly. What’s playing out through a veneer of chaos is a deliberate tactical program to create a system in which the President has sole authority over the entire executive branch: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

When you stare at a fox and the fox stares back..✨

To all who said they wanted less government, I can’t remember a time when there was more interference in our daily lives than we have now.

#Krasnov

When you are the object of pity you are in no position to demand your rights.

We should all applaud Judge Ho’s appointment of former Bush SG Paul Clement to present a perspective distinct from those of the indicted NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the Trumpservient DOJ prosecutor Emil Bove. Well played! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/n...

The very basics of constitutional protections in the US are crumbling fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

MAGA-Republicans are coming after Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits you and your family may rely on now or in the future. This isn’t my opinion—they just confirmed it. They're calling your benefits “waste, fraud, and abuse” to justify the cuts. More on their plan 🧵

Eye to eye with a Cheetah www.scottflahertyphoto.com #flashes #bluesky #wildlife #photography #nature #bigcats #cheetah

This makes so much sense

🚨West Virginia introduced a bill in the Senate & aims to make opioid treatment programs ILLEGAL in the state. Senate Bill 204 targets programs that provide on-site administration or dispensing of opioid agonist medications, like methadone, commonly used in treatment.🚨 www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/...

Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

There’s more of us than there are of them. Let’s show them what we can do!

Dozens of Russians are being subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment because of their political views, according to lawyers and human rights groups — a trend they say has gathered pace since the start of the war in Ukraine reut.rs/42YChra

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

The entire democratic world wishes Zelenskyy was their leader, so I would say he is doing an admirable job. Carry on and Thank you for the example.

Rho Ophiuchi in all its beauty. The closest star forming region to our own planet at 390 light years away. Brighter stars standing out due to JWST's characteristic pattern of diffraction spikes. Image Credit: #NASA, #ESA, #CSA, STScl, Klaus Pontoppidan, Alyssa Pagan. 🔭 #Astronomy #Space

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

"the house of the USAID mission director in Kinshasa had been looted, and videos of the ransacking began circulating on social media..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Git Along Little DOGEs (Illustration by Nicola Jennings).

Last night @60minutes.bsky.social opened an otherwise superb segment on Germany’s approach to online hate speech by saying “in the U.S., most of what’s said on online [social media] platforms is protected by the First Amendment.” No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.

Federal Workers File Class-Wide Complaint Challenging Mass Terminations with Office of Special Counsel democracyforward.org/updates/fede...

Are we on the brink of a constitutional crisis? “We’re at the Rubicon,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., told David Remnick. “Whether we’ve crossed it is yet to be determined.”

No international body is searching for hundreds of Yazidi women and girls still held captive by the Islamic State. Instead, that task has been taken up by a sprawling network of activists, survivors, family members, informants and amateur detectives.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.

It is important to celebrate the wins when we get them.🥳 President Donald Trump’s administration halted defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after Democracy Forward, on behalf of the city of Baltimore and a nonprofit, filed a lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

This is a very heavy day for us. To those who lost their jobs, we are with you and will work with you again. To those struggling to see a future for our work, do not give up. Real change in public health has always been a battle. Now it’s a war. We will win it. This is our country. #RISEUP

Our colleagues at the @AP are the best in the business, total professionals and straight as they come. Since I started covering the White House in 1996, no president has punished a mainstay of the press pool to enforce his personal choice of what words they use in their stories.