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Sixty-eight bodies were recovered in Yemen after a U.S strike on Saada hit a detention centre hosting African migrants, Yemen's Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

If you think this stops with 3rd graders

a friend sent me this one

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

Ice detention is a very lucrative business for CoreCivic and Geo Group. Their privately owned facilities run for profit and receive government funds based on head counts, so they lobby for strict immigration policies. As long as you can make money caging people, they will find people to cage.

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Thanks to the hubris of Mitch McConnell and John Roberts, we’ve gone from corporatocracy, to oligarchy and autocracy, to become the United States of complete idiocracy.

JOB: Democracy Docket is seeking a Reporter with strong news-gathering and writing skills and a passion for voting rights and democracy to join our News Team. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

Smedley Butler mentioned! Resignation letter of the director of the National Institutes of Health’s Executive Secretariat: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

US technology, provided by private companies, just ceased to be reliable

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

So much more American farmland is about to be sold to foreign buyers Probably we won’t know though because the bureau tracking those statistics is now just a TI-81 calculator from 1994 propped up against an NRA mug with googly eyes and lavender troll doll hair glued on it

Important thinking

Somehow feel certain that the story lines of “where’s the Fort Knox gold?!?” and “let me show you this crypto reserve” are going to have a cliffhanger crossover event

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

I support Zelenskyy. Slava Ukraini!

youtube.com/watch?v=D8oa... I hope she sings “Killing Me Softly” for you, Dad. RIP soul queen RIP 🤍

Two Palestinian children were shot in the back and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank aje.io/gbbln5

President Zelenskyy tears down Trump's lies; states that Trump lives in a Russian Disinformation bubble: "The U.S. has provided Ukraine with $67 billion in military aid and $31 billion in budget support. .... Trump’s $500 billion fossil fuel claim isn’t a serious conversation." #StandWithUkraine 📹🧵

How to set up and back up your Social Security data and a list of other financial data to save www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/b...

Gross www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

I’m sure “DOGE” will be all over this.. truthout.org/articles/tes...

Call it a purge, not a buyout. Call it a coup against Congress, not a spending pause. Call it censorship, not a review. Words matter, and we in the media have a chance to do better this time.

We need to pay attention to this now before it’s too late.

📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration. If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/

Mandatory reading from @hcrichardson.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Tech inaugural donations: Biden Apple CEO: $0 Amazon: $276,509 Google: $337,500 Meta: $0 Microsoft: $500,000 OpenAI CEO: $0 Trump Apple CEO: $1,000,000 Amazon: $1,000,000 Google: $1,000,000 Meta: $1,000,000 Microsoft: $1,000,000 OpenAI CEO: $1,000,000 wapo.st/3PzjIC1

www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01... Go Starmer

THE JAN. 6 SAGA OF MIKE PENCE The former VP's role in Jan. 6 has been dissected relentlessly for years, but some of the granular details have been lost. Here's a look back at his path to the joint session and his belief that he lacked authority to block Biden's victory.

⚡️ Child casualties in Ukraine within 9 months of 2024 surpass 2023 figures, UN says. UNICEF reported that 2024 had also been one of the worst years for children in conflict zones globally.

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94. His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

Truly fascinating