The United States has become an economically stagnant police state governed by a senile dictator with a bad personality disorder. But at least now I can use plastic straws again.

While communities in Minneapolis & across the country mourn the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was executed by ICE, ICE has revealed that 4 people died in its custody in the first 10 days of the New Year: Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz, Geraldo Lunas Campos, and Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres.

⭕Un ancien soldat #Israélien décrit la réalité des territoires occupés. Des incursions nocturnes dans des maisons palestiniennes, des familles réveillées, humiliées, terrorisées au hasard. Pas pour prévenir une menace, mais pour instaurer la peur et rappeler la domination.

Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"I don't recognize America anymore, this is not the United States I know!" *blinks Indigenously*

Transpose this to another country and any American would recognize it as a general-purpose regime-directed paramilitary force

Shooting protesters in Iran is barbaric and tyrannical. Shooting protesters here in the United States is patriotic and brave.

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

It is to the eternal shame of that country that people this fucking stupid were ever placed in positions of authority. You sowed. You reap.

How rotten does X have to be before politicians finally leave it?

To destroy seed banks is to destroy the future of hardy plants that will grow in these harsh places. Learnt only through years of experience. It is stupid and petty to destroy that which can feed anyone. Talk about biting off your nose to spite your face. Shame on you, who did this.

If Zionists can't kill every Palestinians with bombs, drones, sniping they'll finish them off with disease, cold, starvation ... meme via Middle East Monitor

My esteemed colleague Vincent Lemire on the Israeli decision to cancel his visa and ban him from entry. The government which has banned foreign journalists from entering Gaza for more than 2 years is now banning historians from visiting Jerusalem.

Afrique de l'Ouest: Sénégal - Une pirogue avec 300 migrants disparue en mer depuis un mois

• Je suis privé d'accès à mon terrain de recherche, mais mes livres continueront de voyager, y compris en hébreu et en arabe. • @nirhasson.bsky.social @haaretzcom.bsky.social raconte l'histoire de cette censure d'État, partageons-là largement & joyeusement ☺️ #OneWorld #ScienceMatters

Wanda Sykes was the best part of the Golden Globes tonight. After this, she thanked Ricky Gervais "for not being here" and then proceeded to act "on his behalf" and thank the trans community. She was not pulling punches, she hates these fuckers and didn't hide it.

#OpenAccess highlight, 'Urban rebels in medieval Connacht: the revolt of Galway, 1388-9', by Patrick McDonagh is available through the following link! @universitypress.cambridge.org

If there was a child porn factory down the road, it’d be closed immediately. The Govt’s response wouldn’t be “hang on, they let us print flyers there too”.

Sexualized deepfakes created without a subject’s consent = “Racy”. @kateconger.com @nytimes.com

🇮🇷 The death toll from Iran’s nationwide protest crackdown has risen to at least 538 people, according to the US-based group Human Rights Activists in Iran, which says more than 10,600 people have been detained. The group reports that 490 of those killed were protesters & 48 were members of the...

It’s no surprise that the Trump regime’s paramilitary army, ICE, is behaving like a lawless hit squad. They’re advertising for recruits using far white White supremacist iconography. Interestingly a search for ‘far right groups joining ICE’ brings up claims that anti-ICE protesters are being paid! 😳

"If freedom is simply the opposite of bondage, while affording nothing other than the right to compete with other free people in a human scrum for income, food, clothing, and housing, then it is an exceedingly thin and narrow conception of liberty.…" - Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection

Today in FB ads for AI. "Perfect for students"! In addition to everything else I think we need to talk more about how this relentless messaging is shaping the way students think about writing and what this layering of tools--generators, checkers, humanizers--is doing to the way we see each other.

I’m at an anti-ICE protest in Encinitas, California. Protesters have gathered on both sides of 10 lanes of traffic. Hard to get more Californian than that.

Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R

2000 people killed by the regime in the last 48 hours, according to opposition news agency Iran International.

A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

Scheme designed by property investors to increase the value of property investment, results in increased value of properties. #EatTheRich

"Gaza’s population now stands at 2.13 million, reflecting what PCBS describes as a severe demographic hemorrhage caused by killing, displacement, and deteriorating living conditions."

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

I beg us not to lose sight of the role queerphobia played along with misogyny. Becca Good’s tone in interacting with Ross was just like her late wife’s: calm yet lightly mocking; neither scared nor deferential; and because of that deeply, deeply subversive. katemanne.substack.com/p/renee-good...

Today, this artist, Noval Noir, was painting a stunning portrait of Renee Good at the site of where she was killed

Unacceptable. A road — possibly associated with Tren de Aragua — left unpaved by Minnesota radicals weaponized itself against two of our courageous officers, causing one to discharge his firearm in self-defense. We stand by our brave boys.

Read what happened here:

#IceOutForGood #ReneeNicoleGood

"The machinery of our state was built to protect and defend institutions of power." Truer word were never written.

It sure seems like the murder of Renee Good was a HATE CRIME. “Fuck that bitch” Maybe Vance released the killer’s video because he figured the public would be okay with open season on lesbians too. #ICEOut #Resist

Legit tho ‘I think that you know as well as I do that five years from now, things are going to be five years worse, unless action is taken at both a civil society and legislative level to constrain the wanton behaviour of those with money and power and vast technological resources.’

I don't subscribe to your paper, is there a way I can sponsor a current subscriber to cancel

Cell phone footage shows that Renee Good tried to drive away from the ICE agent who shot her. But an AI video shows Good pledging allegiance to ISIS before plowing her car into a crowd of blonde Christian children. For busy presidents of the United States, it can be hard to know what to trust.

New tone

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

www.bostonherald.com/2026/01/09/m... META is planning to build a massive nuclear power plant in New Albany, OH, most likely on land that's owned by Les Wexner, who was a major partner with Epstein. The Wexners have bought & are developing the entire town of New Albany, OH. META partnering with pedos

In his new book "Firestorm," journalist @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reexamines the Los Angeles fires that razed whole neighborhoods and displaced tens of thousands of residents, with the scale of destruction heralding a "new age of disaster in America."

Navigating the night sky can have a positive effect on our well-being. This will be the year I learn the constellations, resolves Michael Brooks

thinking a lot lately about our surprise when the victim of state violence is white, a citizen, a priest, a veteran, some category viewed as exempt from that violence. it’s time to understand you aren’t. no one is. whiteness isn’t the color of your skin it is a conditional privilege you can lose.

This is a Bad Take. I left X this time last year, reluctantly. My Twitter community built my career. I had (I think?) about 50k followers. But it became clearer and clearer after Musk took over where it was going. Bots, nazis, all manner of hate speech and vileness. No going back.

Listen if you want entertainment and top notch interviewing, a masterclass in calmly asking questions of a fascist, showing exactly where it leads (there's never a coherent logic beyond racism, and inability to see capitalism as the problem) www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

🇻🇪 DÉCLARATION DU CRP-QI. « Impérialisme yankee hors du Venezuela » : pour une mobilisation continentale et internationale ! Une réponse de classe est nécessaire, pour freiner l'agression impérialiste & expulser l'impérialisme yankee du Venezuela.