Palestine Action activist Heba Muraisi, 31, said to be “near death” after 70 days on hunger strike,

ICE would be the 16th most-funded military in the world. 🇺🇸$895.0 B 🇨🇳$266.9 B 🇷🇺$126.0 B 🇮🇳$75.0 B 🇸🇦$74.8 B 🇬🇧$71.5 B 🇯🇵$57.0 B 🇦🇺$55.7 B 🇫🇷$55.0 B 🇺🇦$53.7 B 🇩🇪$50.0 B 🇵🇱$48.7 B 🇹🇷$47.0 B 🇰🇷$46.3 B 🇨🇦$41.0 B 🧊ICE $37.5 B 🧊 🇮🇹$30.9 B 🇮🇱$30.5 B 🇳🇱$27.0 B 🇧🇷 $26.1 B 🇨🇭$25.0 B

Hali Rahbani, youngest son of 🇱🇧 icon Fairouz and her late husband, composer Assi Rahbani, has died at the age of 68, just months after the loss of his brother, Ziad Rahbani. Born with physical and intellectual disabilities and multiple medical conditions, spent his life under the care of his mother

These dancers are a common sight at Minneapolis protests and cultural events. Protesters are gathered around as they wait for the protest against ICE to start in south Minneapolis.

This is a really positive policy action. It does not matter which party does it but this one has so. 🚍

🚍 🪙| Since becoming a Member of the Senedd, and long before, I've been campaigning for capped bus fares in Wales. So I was delighted to be in Wrexham at the launch of Welsh Labour's Senedd manifesto pledge to cap bus fares across Wales at £2, plus 100 new bus routes to be picked by the public.

Meanwhile, on X a US Congresswoman is calling for full sanctions against the UK in case of further action against X. Although I estimate both the UK outright banning X and full US sanctions as unlikely, this shows how the mood even towards the 'special relationship' closest ally is changing.

"Ardnamurchan teaches you to slow down, to breathe, to let the work ripen." Spiorad aird nam Murchan / Part 23 / The art of reflective practice: www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2026/1/... #SlowCreative #ArdnamurchanSpirit #LandscapePoetics

When all protest becomes ‘terror’, we have imprisoned ourselves as well as the demonstrators @natashawalter.bsky.social on Palestine Action how language has been used to strip the Palestine Action hunger strikers of humanity. www.thenerve.news/p/palestine-...

Something lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

Redgrave is another of my ancestors villages. In fact many of the Scarfes are buried at that church including James and father George. Small world. Also Phil Collins the singer and drummer is a descendent. My 5th cousin once removed. Would have preferred him not to be though tbh 🤣

What a fine bunch of folk #VoteGreen south wirral folk.

If you've got a clear sky, Jupiter is shining beautifully in the east, can see several of its moons through binoculars

Here’s some of what I got up to in December. I’m aware some bin collections are still outstanding and this will be escalated in the week. If there’s anything you want me to look at in Cambridge Ward, please get in touch.

Another 5.5 miles completed today around The Ercall and down to my favorite "haunt," Dairy Pit. A landscape with 500 million years of history, The Ercall has one of the largest sessile oak woodlands in the West Midlands and is considered ancient woodland. fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/27886

Isn’t this where Isabel Oakeshott is living? Hmmmmm interesting

@cwacgreen.bsky.social Check your Insta feed please. You've gained Ellesmere Port Central ward by the look of it. 🌞

Israel, according to Kaja Kallas "a good ally" of the European Union, with whom EU "stands in solidarity" according to Kallas, killed 14 people - including at least 5 children - yesterday in occupied Palestine's Gaza in relentless attacks during a supposed 'ceasefire'.

The @guardian gets the headline right 🏆 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

This is what #MutualAid means Offer to *Pick up and deliver groceries and medication *Walk kids home *Take out the trash * KEEP PAYING people when if they can't make it to work These are Anne Frank Days: we have to help people hide

Somewhere there's a little girl hiding in an attic in Minneapolis writing in her journal about ICE.

Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."

Goodnight. 🖼️ Winter Night, Karl Nordström, 1915. #GothicChill

Ball. His court.

And for what it's worth, Grok generated all these images of me this morning. Even though the Grok account on X is now only generating images for paid subscribers, the Grok app is still doing it for free.

There is *nothing wrong* with protesting an event that you believe is unjust (even the synagogue agreed on this). But shouting support for terrorists is not the way to go!!!

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

It’s wild how European leaders are wringing their hands about a US invasion of Greenland being a violation of international law when just the other day they stood aside or even cheered as the US invaded Venezuela in violation of international law.

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Unsolicited advice for anyone on Bluesky who wants to fight fascism in 2026 - don't stress about following big national accounts. Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪

Musk needs surgically removing from the UK

#stormgorreti caused a lot of damage to trees here, blocking roads and falling near buildings. Still deep #snow everywhere. #LongMynd #ChurchStretton #Shropshire.

I seem to remember Adolf Hitler tweeting something similar from his bunker.

Loved meeting today with @nsomersetgreen.bsky.social who showed up big time for Dave Skinner their candidate for the Clevedon byelection! Plenty of residents talking about @zackpolanski.bsky.social proving his airgame cuts through even on VERY cold air days! Seems hope is warming...

No interest in working with Keir Starmer. The public know who he is. We're replacing Labour - and taking on Reform. No vested interests. Just standing with the 99%. And that's powerful. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Spot on Zack 👇

#Gaza #Genocide #Palestine 🇵🇸☀️🩸

I have always liked how doable #strawbuilding is, a #strawhouse is very fast more than a hut, this can be high performance construction by laypeople. This is human scale tech. Ekodama Architektura (Poland) Foto: Ingo Joseph from pexels www.instagram.com/p/COhmJqioLo1/

More about spring and neap tides here, in a thread about storm Eowyn last year. In this case I was talking about Millport near Glasgow, at Jersey the tide makes much more difference. But Jersey is very exposed to waves, as we saw in 2023. bsky.app/profile/jowi...

Denmark isn't mucking about.

Sometimes I almost feel sorry for would-be scammers. Easy to lose count of how many 'hints' there are that this is probably not from BT.

Russia has launched an Oreshnik missile into Ukraine for the second time since the full-scale war began 2022, in a strike Kyiv’s allies say is meant as a warning for the West. Here’s what we know: https://cnn.it/45MPjsf

If a dial phone has a lock on it you could still make a call by pressing and releasing the phone cradle to dial the number.

To be clear, generative "A.i." is theft and garbage for ANY kind of creative work. Do not use it. Your work will suck and people will laugh at you if you do.

Winter storm sweeps through northern Germany - DW p.dw.com/p/56ZzH