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<\/a><\/p>\nKareem Abdul Jabbar: \u201cI have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs.\u201d – Muhammad Ali<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\nI still remember the first time I met Muhammad Ali. It was 1966 and I was a freshman at UCLA. I was with a couple of friends walking down Hollywood Boulevard when we happened to see him. He was performing magic tricks on the street. That moment stayed with me. It wasn\u2019t the disappearing coins or the crowd, or even the fact that he was already the heavyweight champion of the world when he stopped to entertain a sidewalk full of passersby. It was the way he carried himself: unafraid, unbothered, unbowed. A force of nature, gentle but unstoppable. That was the first time I not only understood but saw that conviction isn\u2019t something you talk about. It\u2019s something you live. Long before I understood all the stakes, I recognized the thing that made him unforgettable: conviction you could see, not just hear.<\/p>\n
Within a year, that same certainty would harden into something costlier when he refused the Vietnam draft and paid for it publicly.
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\n(Kareem Abdul Jabbar more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Joyce Vance: An Agenda of Joy<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- Spending time with animals\n
- Movement + Fresh Air\n
- Escapist reading and comfort TV\n
- Making things with your hands\n
- Art, creativity, and learning new skills\n
- Music as medicine\n
- Cozy comforts at home\n
- People, community, and the \u2018we\u2019re not alone\u2019 effect\n
- Doing something purposeful\n
- Mindfulness, faith, and perspective practices\n
- News boundaries, rest, and \u201cpermission to step back\u201d\n<\/ol>\n
(Joyce Vance more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – February 14, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nOn Valentine\u2019s Day in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt lost both his wife and his mother.
\n…<\/p>\n
Roosevelt\u2019s profound personal tragedy turned out to have national significance. The diseases that killed his wife and mother were diseases of filth and crowding\u2014the hallmarks of the growing Gilded Age American cities. Mittie contracted typhoid from either food or water that had been contaminated by sewage, since New York City did not yet treat or manage either sewage or drinking water. Alice\u2019s disease was probably caused by a strep infection, which incubated in the teeming city\u2019s tenements, where immigrants, whose wages barely kept food on the table, crowded together.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Reuters: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn\u2019t stopped.<\/a><\/h2>\nHundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.<\/p>\n
The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.
\n(Reuters more…)<\/a><\/p>\nRaw Story: Experts stunned as ICE finally acknowledges its ‘culture of abuse’<\/a><\/h2>\nNY Times: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts<\/a><\/h2>\nThe department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.<\/p>\n
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Conversation: Martha Washington\u2019s enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom \u2013 but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exhibit<\/a><\/h2>\nOn the evening of May 21, 1796, Ona Judge made the daring decision to free herself.<\/p>\n
Considering the prominence of her owner, the laws of the time<\/a> and the dangerous trek<\/a> to New Hampshire, a place where she could discreetly live freely, the act carried remarkable risk. Nevertheless, she slipped out of the President\u2019s House undetected while the first family dined.
\n(Conversation more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Steven Beschloss: Is Love More Powerful Than Hate?<\/a><\/h2>\nI had in mind to write about villainy.<\/em><\/p>\nBut on this day\u2014Valentine\u2019s Day\u2014I want to turn this over and look at the flip side. … <\/p>\n
I\u2019m thinking more about the guidance found in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the topic of love. Let me share four shining examples:<\/p>\n
\n- \u201cLove is the greatest force in the universe. It is the heartbeat of the moral cosmos.\u201d\n
- \u201cHate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.\u201d\n
- \u201cI believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.\u201d\n
- \u201cI know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind\u2019s problems.\u201d\n<\/ul>\n
(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo-1519456264917-42d0aa2e0625.jpg\" "\\"Photo")
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John Pavlovitz: America’s Boys Deserve Better Than MAGA Masculinity<\/a><\/h2>\nWhile so many of us here in America are rightly lamenting the devastating emotional effect this repulsive regime is having on girls and young women, we\u2019ve only been getting half the story.<\/em>
\n(John Pavlovitz more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"Bad](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/badbunnysb.avif\" "\\"Bad")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Jon Passantino: MAGA\u2019s Hopped Up Outrage<\/a><\/h2>\nMAGA Media and Republican lawmakers whipped themselves into a frenzy over Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show\u2014only for the FCC to quietly determine the outrage was built on lyrics that were never performed.<\/em>
\n(Jon Passantino more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Hans Christensen: Merz-Macron: European Nuclear Deterrence<\/a><\/h2>\nThe United States\u2019 culture wars are not ours. And we don\u2019t believe in tariffs and protectionism, but in free trade, says Merz. Still, Even they are not powerful enough to succeed alone<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Heather Delaney Reese: Trump is showing us what comes next<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nICE deaths 2026 – They deserve remembrance and justice.<\/em><\/p>\n\n- January 24: Alex Pretti<\/a>\n
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez<\/a>\n
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz<\/a>\n
- January 9: Parady La<\/a>\n
- January 7: Ren\u00e9e Good<\/a>\n
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz<\/a>\n
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres<\/a>\n
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos<\/a>\n
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\nWalk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMargaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\nNPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\nAccountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Kareem Abdul Jabbar: \u201cI have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs.\u201d – Muhammad Ali I still remember the first time I met Muhammad Ali. It was 1966 and I was a freshman at UCLA. I was with a couple of friends walking down Hollywood Boulevard when we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8732,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n(Kareem Abdul Jabbar more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
- \n
- \n
Joyce Vance: An Agenda of Joy<\/a><\/h2>\n
- \n
- Spending time with animals\n
- Movement + Fresh Air\n
- Escapist reading and comfort TV\n
- Making things with your hands\n
- Art, creativity, and learning new skills\n
- Music as medicine\n
- Cozy comforts at home\n
- People, community, and the \u2018we\u2019re not alone\u2019 effect\n
- Doing something purposeful\n
- Mindfulness, faith, and perspective practices\n
- News boundaries, rest, and \u201cpermission to step back\u201d\n<\/ol>\n
(Joyce Vance more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – February 14, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
On Valentine\u2019s Day in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt lost both his wife and his mother.
\n…<\/p>\nRoosevelt\u2019s profound personal tragedy turned out to have national significance. The diseases that killed his wife and mother were diseases of filth and crowding\u2014the hallmarks of the growing Gilded Age American cities. Mittie contracted typhoid from either food or water that had been contaminated by sewage, since New York City did not yet treat or manage either sewage or drinking water. Alice\u2019s disease was probably caused by a strep infection, which incubated in the teeming city\u2019s tenements, where immigrants, whose wages barely kept food on the table, crowded together.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Reuters: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn\u2019t stopped.<\/a><\/h2>\n
Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.<\/p>\n
The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.
\n(Reuters more…)<\/a><\/p>\nRaw Story: Experts stunned as ICE finally acknowledges its ‘culture of abuse’<\/a><\/h2>\n
NY Times: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts<\/a><\/h2>\n
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Conversation: Martha Washington\u2019s enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom \u2013 but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exhibit<\/a><\/h2>\n
On the evening of May 21, 1796, Ona Judge made the daring decision to free herself.<\/p>\n
Considering the prominence of her owner, the laws of the time<\/a> and the dangerous trek<\/a> to New Hampshire, a place where she could discreetly live freely, the act carried remarkable risk. Nevertheless, she slipped out of the President\u2019s House undetected while the first family dined.
\n(Conversation more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Steven Beschloss: Is Love More Powerful Than Hate?<\/a><\/h2>\n
I had in mind to write about villainy.<\/em><\/p>\n
But on this day\u2014Valentine\u2019s Day\u2014I want to turn this over and look at the flip side. … <\/p>\n
I\u2019m thinking more about the guidance found in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the topic of love. Let me share four shining examples:<\/p>\n
- \n
- \u201cLove is the greatest force in the universe. It is the heartbeat of the moral cosmos.\u201d\n
- \u201cHate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.\u201d\n
- \u201cI believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.\u201d\n
- \u201cI know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind\u2019s problems.\u201d\n<\/ul>\n
(Steven Beschloss more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
John Pavlovitz: America’s Boys Deserve Better Than MAGA Masculinity<\/a><\/h2>\n
While so many of us here in America are rightly lamenting the devastating emotional effect this repulsive regime is having on girls and young women, we\u2019ve only been getting half the story.<\/em>
\n(John Pavlovitz more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Jon Passantino: MAGA\u2019s Hopped Up Outrage<\/a><\/h2>\n
MAGA Media and Republican lawmakers whipped themselves into a frenzy over Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show\u2014only for the FCC to quietly determine the outrage was built on lyrics that were never performed.<\/em>
\n(Jon Passantino more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Hans Christensen: Merz-Macron: European Nuclear Deterrence<\/a><\/h2>\n
The United States\u2019 culture wars are not ours. And we don\u2019t believe in tariffs and protectionism, but in free trade, says Merz. Still, Even they are not powerful enough to succeed alone<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Heather Delaney Reese: Trump is showing us what comes next<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/p>\n <\/center><\/p>\n
\nICE deaths 2026 – They deserve remembrance and justice.<\/em><\/p>\n- \n
- January 24: Alex Pretti<\/a>\n
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez<\/a>\n
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz<\/a>\n
- January 9: Parady La<\/a>\n
- January 7: Ren\u00e9e Good<\/a>\n
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz<\/a>\n
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres<\/a>\n
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos<\/a>\n
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\n
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\n
Accountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\n
GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
- \n
- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
curated news excerpts & citations Kareem Abdul Jabbar: \u201cI have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs.\u201d – Muhammad Ali I still remember the first time I met Muhammad Ali. It was 1966 and I was a freshman at UCLA. I was with a couple of friends walking down Hollywood Boulevard when we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8732,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez<\/a>\n
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