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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

How does destroying the postal service make America great?

Everyone needs to see this. Be ready to deny access, even if you don't know any immigrants. Let them waste time and you might save a family somewhere else. #Disobey #blue #fotus #FBR #immigrants #TruthWarriors #theresistance #resist #FBPE #FuckICE #SaveOurDemocracy #sanctuary #organize #fucktrump

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

With everything else going on, the fact that Lina Khan's merger guidelines have been retained by the Trump administration is a small miracle. I asked Lina about it: "I think it goes underappreciated...the degree to which there actually has been bipartisan consensus on some of these core issues."

The Beach at Trouville at Low Tide https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-courbet/the-beach-at-trouville-at-low-tide-1865-1

This makes sense to because DOGE's whole thing has been outsourcing costs to ordinary people while enriching elon. Normal people are going to have to charge personal cards and then they won't reimburse them either.

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

Trump on Hannity just now: "I always respected [Musk]" Trump in 2022:

"Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge."

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

The JFK Library in Boston is reportedly closed indefinitely because of federal job cuts

Los Angeles peeps—spread the word about ICE. We won’t know for sure until it happens, but better safe than sorry. Be prepared.

remember how i said they were coming for the 30 year mortgage specifically over 6 months ago, right?

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

Another good trope for Not My President’s Day

An important point to keep in mind.

Happy Presidents' Day to the two best presidents of my lifetime. đź’•

The amount of secondhand embarrassment I have even just watching this is through the roof.

These absolute morons are going to destroy the United States. If you’re in favor of the US leaving NATO, you either don’t want the US to succeed, or you don’t know wtf NATO does. Worth noting that Mike Lee voted to expand NATO in 2022.

the median housing project in germany is a single stair 6-plex. you want more family sized homes? this is how you get there.

This is something that doesn’t seem to be getting a ton of attention in western media outside the business press but that seems like a pretty big deal to me

#3E #USProtest #ProtestArt #Action Baltimore Resistance Art

The Dark Age of American Intelligence: Allies Will Likely Stop Intel Sharing open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/