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Virginia’s new governor ends #ICE program

https://boltsmag.org/virginia-spanberger-quits-ice-program-287g/

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One of the weirdest things about the Epstein files - and maybe this is just how the ultra-wealthy work - is how much of it consists of him engaging in elaborate back-and-forth email chains with underlings who are arranging things that normal people have no trouble doing themselves with little effort.

Like there are pages and pages of him trying to score tickets to DEFCON, which anyone can get simply by showing up and waiting in a short line.

So many of our problems could be solved if we just took domestic violence seriously.

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I beg you to share and help 🙏
Our situation is very dangerous, we are close to the eastern area 😭

Help link: https://gofund.me/220484fd1

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@fkamiah17 The MAGA lout has been arrested.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/texas-man-fight-student-ice-protest-b2913866.html

Concentration camp NIMBYs

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/concentration-camp-nimbys.html?m=1

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The Great Migration 🚀

X ➡️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG ➡️ https://pixelfed.org
FB ➡️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok ➡️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube ➡️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp ➡️ https://signal.org

Ethical. Federated*. Open.

Spread the word ✨

* - I know signal isn't federated, consider @matrix or @xmpp alternatively

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It always comes back to abuse or, more precisely, it is always about abuse: "He [#Trump] has shifted into the same logic as a jealous wife-beater, threatening to destroy the object of his obsession [the Kennedy Center] rather than allow her to leave."

https://www.salon.com/2026/02/04/kennedy-center-teaches-maga-a-tough-lesson/

#USPol
#KennedyCenter

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Most definitely.

A photo of talk show host/comedian John Oliver and a quote attributed to him.

“THE FOUNDING FATHERS CREATED A SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES TO LIMIT THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENT, BUT IT ONLY WORKS IF SOMEONE FUCKING CHECKS OR BALANCES. AND IF YOU DON'T, IT'S NO LONGER ON TRUMP, IT'S ON YOU. BECAUSE WHEN YOU'VE GOT THE PRESIDENTIAL EQUIVALENT OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLD SHITTING ON THE SALAD BAR OF A RUBY TUESDAYS, AT SOME POINT YOU STOP BLAMING THE FIVE-YEAR-OLD, AND YOU START BLAMING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT STOPPING HIM.
STOP THAT BOY, THAT'S WHAT I AM SAYING. STOP THAT BOY, NOW.”

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I think Odin sincerely believes humans can conjure bacon out of thin air if you stare at them cutely enough #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Odin the Newfie staring with heartbreaking sorrow and pleading

A little smile because he’s sure it’s working

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WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Marissa J. Lang
@Marissa Jae
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I was laid off today by The Washington
Post.
I'm proud of the work I have done at this place — not just the award-winning work, but the stories that spurred change, that were steeped in this beautiful local community.
Job tips welcome. DMs open. Or: marissalang(@)gmail(dot)com
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Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post focused on high-impact stories in the D.C.region. She previously covered housing and gentrification, zeroing in on the affordable housing crisis, homelessness and the transformation of cities. She joined The Post in 2018 as its lead protest reporter. Her coverage of domestic extremism and the violence that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol culminated in her on-the-ground reporting of the insurrection and its aftermath. Marissa was part of the team of journalists recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

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This makes me sad (been there). From Joe Menn at WaPo: "Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things."

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“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

Periodic reminder that Rosa Parks was part of a community that trained for resistance and civil disobedience. Parks was an organizer and activist. She did not simply “decide to sit down one day.”

These moments are not about us as individuals. These moments are about forming and supporting community that includes us. Together, we are less afraid.

Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks

#BlackHistory #history

Digital collage: Rosa Parks booking photo. A young Black woman in a suit, glasses, hair in a braid around her head, holds up her booking number.
Quote text overlaid: “knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

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A measly 25% decrease after an increase of…what, 10x? 20x? feels like 100x?

With no timeline? no transparency, no accountability?

And they’ll wear body cameras? eventually? they say? with footage that…who can view, again? Oh, we don’t know??

This all means nothing — •nothing• — except that they’re afraid: afraid of losing funding, afraid of consequences.

•• It’s working. Punch harder. ••

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-drawdown-minnesota-homan-963adf341325d7f6eb5673e1c00d3c2a

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The members of @propublicaguild are preparing to strike to win their first contract: https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-propublica-guild-is-ready-to-strike-for-a-fair-contract

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Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month. Seven! 98 diesel cars & 29 hybrids were also sold, but the rest were EVs. And this comes after Norway cut EV incentives. https://electrek.co/2026/02/03/even-after-cutting-ev-incentives-norway-only-sold-98-diesel-cars-in-january/

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I think I woke him up

#dogs #roughCollie

A big, fluffy black and white rough collie, with one eye open and the tip of his tongue hanging out

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INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

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