Janet H
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Still evolving Boomer, cat mom & grandma, addicted to reading, gardening, chocolate, coffee. Retired editor, school counselor.
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Elizabeth Catlett, Black Unity, 1968
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February 17, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Elizabeth Catlett, Black Unity, 1968
#WomrnsArt
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Wandering, and "elopement," are frightening and dangerous behaviors by people with dementia. For some families, it is the point when they begin to seek institutional care for their loved one. n.pr/3MJdW2R
This behavior can be a turning point for families caring for a dementia patient
Wandering, and "elopement," are frightening and dangerous behaviors by people with dementia. For some families, it is the point when they begin to seek institutional care for their loved one.
n.pr
February 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Wandering, and "elopement," are frightening and dangerous behaviors by people with dementia. For some families, it is the point when they begin to seek institutional care for their loved one. n.pr/3MJdW2R
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There are some Dems who are uneasy about "trans issues" and would like to "find a compromise" with MAGA but:
1) there is no compromise with this rhetoric
2) they'd never compromise anyway
3) when you try to do that, all it does is show voters who lean your way that you are weak and unprincipled.
1) there is no compromise with this rhetoric
2) they'd never compromise anyway
3) when you try to do that, all it does is show voters who lean your way that you are weak and unprincipled.
The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 5:24 PM
There are some Dems who are uneasy about "trans issues" and would like to "find a compromise" with MAGA but:
1) there is no compromise with this rhetoric
2) they'd never compromise anyway
3) when you try to do that, all it does is show voters who lean your way that you are weak and unprincipled.
1) there is no compromise with this rhetoric
2) they'd never compromise anyway
3) when you try to do that, all it does is show voters who lean your way that you are weak and unprincipled.
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Tom is so good. There is love in his work. And he grafts. Holy Trinity.
Today is the last day to read this piece for free.
It might work quite well as an intro to my writing for people who only know it via Bluesky.
P.S. It's much better if you read it all the way to the end.
I mean, I would say that, but I promise: it really does.
www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...
It might work quite well as an intro to my writing for people who only know it via Bluesky.
P.S. It's much better if you read it all the way to the end.
I mean, I would say that, but I promise: it really does.
www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...
Once Upon A Time On A Lane
A few of you - but probably not loads - will have read this before but, while I put a few finishing touches to a new piece ready for Sunday, I wanted to post it again, in slightly spruced up form, for...
www.tom-cox.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Tom is so good. There is love in his work. And he grafts. Holy Trinity.
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Jesse Jackson's death makes me remember how much longer King and others who died by racist violence could have continued their work. The men were contemporaries.
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February 17, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Jesse Jackson's death makes me remember how much longer King and others who died by racist violence could have continued their work. The men were contemporaries.
poetrysociety.org/poems-essay...
poetrysociety.org/poems-essay...
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Tricia McLaughlin is reportedly out at DHS, according to multiple sources. She’s a very close ally of Noem.
That news, plus stories like the below which are coming out daily, strongly suggest the knives are clearly out for Noem inside DHS.
That news, plus stories like the below which are coming out daily, strongly suggest the knives are clearly out for Noem inside DHS.
February 17, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Tricia McLaughlin is reportedly out at DHS, according to multiple sources. She’s a very close ally of Noem.
That news, plus stories like the below which are coming out daily, strongly suggest the knives are clearly out for Noem inside DHS.
That news, plus stories like the below which are coming out daily, strongly suggest the knives are clearly out for Noem inside DHS.
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Letters sent by @epic.org yesterday calling on the FTC and nine states to investigate and block Meta's plan to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses.
A privacy, safety, and civil liberties disaster in the making—unless enforcers step up.
epic.org/epic-urges-f...
A privacy, safety, and civil liberties disaster in the making—unless enforcers step up.
epic.org/epic-urges-f...
February 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Letters sent by @epic.org yesterday calling on the FTC and nine states to investigate and block Meta's plan to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses.
A privacy, safety, and civil liberties disaster in the making—unless enforcers step up.
epic.org/epic-urges-f...
A privacy, safety, and civil liberties disaster in the making—unless enforcers step up.
epic.org/epic-urges-f...
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“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
February 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
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This is a censorship state.
Is censorship a conservative value? Is that why Republicans are silent about this?
No, of course not. They are just happy to let Trump try to rig our politics because they benefit.
Is censorship a conservative value? Is that why Republicans are silent about this?
No, of course not. They are just happy to let Trump try to rig our politics because they benefit.
NEWS: CBS blocked Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico and ordered him not to mention the cancellation over fear of FCC chair Brendan Carr.
Colbert went on air and revealed it anyway.
“He was supposed to be here, but… 1/
Colbert went on air and revealed it anyway.
“He was supposed to be here, but… 1/
February 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM
This is a censorship state.
Is censorship a conservative value? Is that why Republicans are silent about this?
No, of course not. They are just happy to let Trump try to rig our politics because they benefit.
Is censorship a conservative value? Is that why Republicans are silent about this?
No, of course not. They are just happy to let Trump try to rig our politics because they benefit.
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I was once was talking to Jesse Jackson and he blurted out, "Text without context is pretext." As if he just made that up. I can't recall what he was discussing, but I have never forgotten that line.
BREAKING: Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84
“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.
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February 17, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I was once was talking to Jesse Jackson and he blurted out, "Text without context is pretext." As if he just made that up. I can't recall what he was discussing, but I have never forgotten that line.
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Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson of Chicago
Oct. 8, 1941 - Feb. 17, 2026
Oct. 8, 1941 - Feb. 17, 2026
February 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson of Chicago
Oct. 8, 1941 - Feb. 17, 2026
Oct. 8, 1941 - Feb. 17, 2026
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Minneapolis has set the standard. Let us all follow.
February 17, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Minneapolis has set the standard. Let us all follow.
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One part of Jesse Jackson's legacy I feel able to talk about is that he absolutely helped to pull the Democratic Party forward on gay rights. He did so out of both moral conviction-- because it was right--and a shrewd belief in coalition politics. That's one of many lessons we can learn from him.
February 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
One part of Jesse Jackson's legacy I feel able to talk about is that he absolutely helped to pull the Democratic Party forward on gay rights. He did so out of both moral conviction-- because it was right--and a shrewd belief in coalition politics. That's one of many lessons we can learn from him.
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Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
February 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
Your phone’s apps can collect and sell your location data without your knowledge, revealing your every move. States can take the lead passing laws that ban the sale of your geolocation data; sign our petition supporting the State Location Privacy Act. action.consumerreports.org/nb_20260211_...
Let’s ban the sale of our phone location data
Sign petition to stop cell phone tracking
action.consumerreports.org
February 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Your phone’s apps can collect and sell your location data without your knowledge, revealing your every move. States can take the lead passing laws that ban the sale of your geolocation data; sign our petition supporting the State Location Privacy Act. action.consumerreports.org/nb_20260211_...
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Note that this is a newish amendment to the Save America Act. The earlier version was plenty bad. But this is even worse. Curiously, I had a really hard time finding this latest version online. I knew to look only bc the Brennan Center alluded to an amendment along these lines.
Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/
February 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Note that this is a newish amendment to the Save America Act. The earlier version was plenty bad. But this is even worse. Curiously, I had a really hard time finding this latest version online. I knew to look only bc the Brennan Center alluded to an amendment along these lines.
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"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook". ~ Harry S. Truman #PresidentsDay
February 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook". ~ Harry S. Truman #PresidentsDay
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"Hypothetical questions can only be given hypothetical answers..."
February 16, 2026 at 4:51 PM
"Hypothetical questions can only be given hypothetical answers..."
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New research by the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners used published death figures to make daily, life or death decisions, reshaping how governments managed public health and personal freedom for the first time www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...
New research shows how Londoners used death data to survive the plague
What a 350-year-old diary reveals about public health power.
www.port.ac.uk
February 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM
New research by the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners used published death figures to make daily, life or death decisions, reshaping how governments managed public health and personal freedom for the first time www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...
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Duvall appeared in over 90 films over the course of his career, imbuing stock Hollywood types — cowboys, cops, soldiers — with a nuanced sense of vulnerability. n.pr/4rUDvwW
Actor Robert Duvall has died — he brought a compassionate center to edgy hard roles
Duvall appeared in over 90 films over the course of his career, imbuing stock Hollywood types — cowboys, cops, soldiers — with a nuanced sense of vulnerability.
n.pr
February 16, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Duvall appeared in over 90 films over the course of his career, imbuing stock Hollywood types — cowboys, cops, soldiers — with a nuanced sense of vulnerability. n.pr/4rUDvwW
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February 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/
February 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/
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Many small business owners are waiting on the U.S. Supreme Court, which has been mulling since November what was supposed to be an expedited opinion on whether large shares of the president’s unilateral emergency tariffs are legal, Ashley Murray reports.
Small business owners squeezed by Trump tariffs await Supreme Court decision • Iowa Capital Dispatch
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimated as of August Trump’s tariffs will cost America’s small businesses about $200 billion annually.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Many small business owners are waiting on the U.S. Supreme Court, which has been mulling since November what was supposed to be an expedited opinion on whether large shares of the president’s unilateral emergency tariffs are legal, Ashley Murray reports.
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Wow. Just read the opening grafs of this opinion on Trump's ordered removal of an exhibition on the treatment of slaves in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 16, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Wow. Just read the opening grafs of this opinion on Trump's ordered removal of an exhibition on the treatment of slaves in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...