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🔥 DENIRO AT CANNES: “In my country we’re fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted… Art looks for truth, embraces diversity — that’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists.” 🇺🇸

This is the official White House account.

The Trump administration wants to erase the story of North Carolina civil rights hero Pauli Murray. Senior Editor Billy Ball breaks down how to stop them.

“In addition, a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism, which will be integrated into the data.”

For nearly 20 years, North Carolina's Innocence Inquiry Commission has investigated claims of wrongful convictions. It's the only commission of its kind in the country. The NC Senate's budget proposal, which passed its final vote today, would eliminate the commission. www.wunc.org/politics/202...

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

How many people do you think have received threats from Trump, Musk & their goons? Thousands? This interview by Rachel Maddow was chilling. You must watch & share it because our government is being attacked from within! The bravery of Daniel Berulis is so inspiring. I hope it's contagious. 🧵

"We looked forward to installing a new exhibition in Pauli Murray's home, that centered Pauli's humanity, community and spirituality that would have drawn visitors from near and far. That exhibit is no longer feasible." www.wunc.org/race-class-c...

“Christian Afghanis who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban in the United States are being told they must leave immediately or be deported. The news came in an email to a group of migrants living legally in north Raleigh.” ⚓️

A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For @us.theguardian.com, I interviewed librarians about the impact of Trump’s administration, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services being gutted, experiences at work, & the incredible importance of library resources, programming, and support: “We get everyone at the library.”

This video is from the Krome ICE detention center in Miami. He’s saying that they’re essentially kidnapped. You can see how overcrowded it is, and other reports have stated that the detainees are denied adequate water. Translation starts below -

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. The FBI alleges that the groups are involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” JFC🤬

Texas Republican Keithself storms out of the meeting he's supposed to be running because a Democrat asked him to treat his colleague Sarah McBride with respect. These people would not last one day as a trans person.

SCOOP: The US Dept. of Education and GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw will each recognize "DeTrans Awareness Day" tomorrow with events featuring anti-trans activists. In lieu of a press release, I’m told the Dept. event will be covered exclusively by a reporter from The Federalist.

Just FYI, Tom argued for universal welfare, abolition, public education, state-sponsored pre/post-natal care, family subsidies, & retirement for workers at 50 w/state pensions that would double at 60. He also considered the American revolution a failure, co-opted by self-serving, landowning elites.

the writers aren't even trying anymore www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Modeling shows that just the 90 day pause to PEPFAR funding will kill more than 100,000 people this year. It’s also shown that ending PEPFAR will lead to over half a million more cases of HIV in South Africa alone. This doesn’t even include the other USAID funding cuts. It is genocide.

I think this is an important read. It provides an insight into what some of the richest people think about the future and how they are planning for it. And they are writing off the rest of us. Or rather they have already written us off.

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.