Mary
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CBS cooked tRump/repuBlicans goose by giving more attention to Colberts interview of
James Talarico. I'm not in TX , so I'm not familiar with him. After listening to James speak, count me in as a member of #TeamTalarico 🩵🌊💙
James Talarico. I'm not in TX , so I'm not familiar with him. After listening to James speak, count me in as a member of #TeamTalarico 🩵🌊💙
James Talarico: Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor.
There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.
There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.
February 17, 2026 at 8:54 PM
CBS cooked tRump/repuBlicans goose by giving more attention to Colberts interview of
James Talarico. I'm not in TX , so I'm not familiar with him. After listening to James speak, count me in as a member of #TeamTalarico 🩵🌊💙
James Talarico. I'm not in TX , so I'm not familiar with him. After listening to James speak, count me in as a member of #TeamTalarico 🩵🌊💙
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I grew up in SJ. He seems like 100 guys I knew who mind their business, do their job, and have had enough.
“As he dashed out, Zobel also grabbed one thing — the American flag he flies in front of his house most of the time (except during football season when an Eagles flag replaces it).”
#GoBirds
“As he dashed out, Zobel also grabbed one thing — the American flag he flies in front of his house most of the time (except during football season when an Eagles flag replaces it).”
#GoBirds
SCOOP: I have the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times
How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
South Jersey guy becomes the face of ICE resistance | Will Bunch Newsletter
Last Friday, Joseph Zobel, “an average Joe who grew up in Haddon Heights” saw a video that shocked him. First interview with the ICE protester whose viral video reaction has been seen 3 million times.
www.inquirer.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I grew up in SJ. He seems like 100 guys I knew who mind their business, do their job, and have had enough.
“As he dashed out, Zobel also grabbed one thing — the American flag he flies in front of his house most of the time (except during football season when an Eagles flag replaces it).”
#GoBirds
“As he dashed out, Zobel also grabbed one thing — the American flag he flies in front of his house most of the time (except during football season when an Eagles flag replaces it).”
#GoBirds
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The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
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Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
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RFK Jr. Went ‘Dinosaur Bone Hunting’ with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
people.com/rfk-jr-went-...
people.com/rfk-jr-went-...
RFK Jr. Went ‘Dinosaur Bone Hunting’ with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went on a 'dinosaur bone hunting' trip with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The trip was confirmed by an email exchange between Epstein and Maxwell released in January 202...
people.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:07 AM
RFK Jr. Went ‘Dinosaur Bone Hunting’ with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
people.com/rfk-jr-went-...
people.com/rfk-jr-went-...
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IMMIGRANT PROBLEMS:
Founder MUSK entered on a J-1 student visa, graduated then launched Zip2 with brother remaining on student visa status.
Brother openly admits being an "illegal immigrant" in interviews, including misleading border officials while crossing .
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Founder MUSK entered on a J-1 student visa, graduated then launched Zip2 with brother remaining on student visa status.
Brother openly admits being an "illegal immigrant" in interviews, including misleading border officials while crossing .
share.google/jwQq1oO80W1k...
February 17, 2026 at 12:43 PM
IMMIGRANT PROBLEMS:
Founder MUSK entered on a J-1 student visa, graduated then launched Zip2 with brother remaining on student visa status.
Brother openly admits being an "illegal immigrant" in interviews, including misleading border officials while crossing .
share.google/jwQq1oO80W1k...
Founder MUSK entered on a J-1 student visa, graduated then launched Zip2 with brother remaining on student visa status.
Brother openly admits being an "illegal immigrant" in interviews, including misleading border officials while crossing .
share.google/jwQq1oO80W1k...
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thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
![Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. There’s historical continuity between blacks being amassed in prison after 246 years of legal slavery. When there was a contest about it [in Dred Scott v. Sandford], the Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights. [After emancipation and the Civil War] those who had been slave masters became segregation masters. They took our freedom away from us; they began to lock up blacks by the thousands to do prison labor, farm labor—the whole range. They just put us back in slavery.
We finally, in 1954, broke the backbone—legally—of that system [with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were never—there was never repair for damage done. Two hundred and forty-six years of slavery, then legal Jim Crow and [nearly] 5,000 lynchings without a conviction. And even today, discrimination by extension of that system has not completely ended.
So we had been fighting for repair. We fought against the barbarism for our freedom; now we’re fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American society—not the bottom, the foundation. When the Declaration of Independence came, we had been enslaved for 157 years. We made cotton king. We are due a different kind of recognition.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vkwol5raj4hnslvsqvmpiqw/bafkreic4dao7rhh7274jfmz3jjnb6s3ak5c2ag75h4jha7mgli3r3fqbey@jpeg)
February 17, 2026 at 12:54 PM
thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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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%.
(Published Feb. 2025)
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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%.
(Published Feb. 2025)
(Published Feb. 2025)
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Jasmine Crockett: Why are folks protecting a 34-count convicted felon while America crumbles? People are dying, rights are eroding and families are suffering? GOP priorities scream corruption. Demand better. Hold them accountable. The country's watching. #sheshed
February 17, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Jasmine Crockett: Why are folks protecting a 34-count convicted felon while America crumbles? People are dying, rights are eroding and families are suffering? GOP priorities scream corruption. Demand better. Hold them accountable. The country's watching. #sheshed
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Massie not backing down.
February 16, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Massie not backing down.
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Read and share all over..he nails it
February 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Read and share all over..he nails it
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ALFORD: We're not doing the drop boxes, which led to a lot of mistrust during the 2020 election
BORIS SANCHEZ: Well, a lot of that mistrust was sewn by the president, who made repeated false claims about widespread election fraud when there was none
BORIS SANCHEZ: Well, a lot of that mistrust was sewn by the president, who made repeated false claims about widespread election fraud when there was none
February 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
ALFORD: We're not doing the drop boxes, which led to a lot of mistrust during the 2020 election
BORIS SANCHEZ: Well, a lot of that mistrust was sewn by the president, who made repeated false claims about widespread election fraud when there was none
BORIS SANCHEZ: Well, a lot of that mistrust was sewn by the president, who made repeated false claims about widespread election fraud when there was none
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The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
February 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Women who speak up are targets.
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights.
Project 2026 is not destiny. It is a warning—and one we must answer with the full force of a movement that has never accepted a future written for us by someone else.
msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights.
Project 2026 is not destiny. It is a warning—and one we must answer with the full force of a movement that has never accepted a future written for us by someone else.
msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights
When The Heritage Foundation released its new policy blueprint for 2026 this week—an extension of the now-infamous Project 2025—it did so with the calm confidence of an institution convinced no one wi...
msmagazine.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Women who speak up are targets.
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights.
Project 2026 is not destiny. It is a warning—and one we must answer with the full force of a movement that has never accepted a future written for us by someone else.
msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights.
Project 2026 is not destiny. It is a warning—and one we must answer with the full force of a movement that has never accepted a future written for us by someone else.
msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
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Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.
February 15, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.
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Why do republicans keep referring to the stock market in dollars instead of points?
Peter Navarro: "It's the perfect Trump economy in 2026 ... we're seeing stock market over $50,000"
February 15, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Why do republicans keep referring to the stock market in dollars instead of points?
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Robin Williams on Trump in 2012: And he owns all these beauty pageants.
Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn't that a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It's a f-cking catch and release program for him.
This is a man who said, 'My daughter is hot.'
Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn't that a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It's a f-cking catch and release program for him.
This is a man who said, 'My daughter is hot.'
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Robin Williams on Trump in 2012: And he owns all these beauty pageants.
Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn't that a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It's a f-cking catch and release program for him.
This is a man who said, 'My daughter is hot.'
Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn't that a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It's a f-cking catch and release program for him.
This is a man who said, 'My daughter is hot.'
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Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
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Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
He was observing after Alex Pretti’s killing. Feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.
theintercept.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
theintercept.com/2026/02/12/m...
theintercept.com/2026/02/12/m...
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Trump created something they call:
"BABY JAIL"
There are hundreds of preschoolers, toddlers & babies in this "BABY JAIL!"
HUNDREDS!
And it's all being paid for on your dime, with your taxpayer dollars & being done in your name!
Imagine the trauma, the harm, the abuse!
BABY JAIL!
#ICELawlessness
"BABY JAIL"
There are hundreds of preschoolers, toddlers & babies in this "BABY JAIL!"
HUNDREDS!
And it's all being paid for on your dime, with your taxpayer dollars & being done in your name!
Imagine the trauma, the harm, the abuse!
BABY JAIL!
#ICELawlessness
February 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Trump created something they call:
"BABY JAIL"
There are hundreds of preschoolers, toddlers & babies in this "BABY JAIL!"
HUNDREDS!
And it's all being paid for on your dime, with your taxpayer dollars & being done in your name!
Imagine the trauma, the harm, the abuse!
BABY JAIL!
#ICELawlessness
"BABY JAIL"
There are hundreds of preschoolers, toddlers & babies in this "BABY JAIL!"
HUNDREDS!
And it's all being paid for on your dime, with your taxpayer dollars & being done in your name!
Imagine the trauma, the harm, the abuse!
BABY JAIL!
#ICELawlessness
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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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Per Meidas Touch.
US job numbers for 2025 revised down by more than 1 million, the largest in decades
US job numbers for 2025 revised down by more than 1 million, the largest in decades
February 16, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Per Meidas Touch.
US job numbers for 2025 revised down by more than 1 million, the largest in decades
US job numbers for 2025 revised down by more than 1 million, the largest in decades
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President Obama: "When I was POTUS, I could have ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
February 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
President Obama: "When I was POTUS, I could have ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed