It's vital that we acknowledge the racism and violence that has ALWAYS been integral to the USA: a settler colony built on genocide, land theft and the most horrendous chattel slavery ever known. To treat current ICE/policing as exceptional ignores centuries of suffering and compounds the harm.

A moment of rainbow in the pause of the ice storm. May all our days have such moments.

a lot else going on tonight so just worth noting: standing up to Musk was a genuine risk for this govt that took some nerve (US has sanctioned govts in past for blocking twitter/X, a lot else is at stake in relations with US) but looks like it's working and he is backing down.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

is there a word for living at a time of incredible, unimaginable scientific expertise 😻 but also the most stupid organised assault on science 😾

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

It’s actually three guys but they’re all Peter Sellers

Respect, solidarity and gratitude for the Palestine Action activists who have ended their hunger strike after 73 days having secured important concessions from the UK government - whose actions have been shameful and cruel

Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike Four more who had paused their strikes choose not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

strangely, inexplicably, I've been on a Homeland Security list for years — from during Obama's time despite everything, I like a lot of things about the USA I am trying to hold onto the hope that it will recover from this insane moment, and return to the rest of the world, and also better 🙏🏽

2/5 This morning while walking my kids to their elementary school, I was greeted by parents and other volunteers who are stationed in watch at the corners and nearby streets… …because ICE has been in our neighborhoods, and have already shown they have no reservations about terrorizing schools.

This is where we gar in Minnesota. I always have a little gar figurine in the vest pocket of my fleece, but was recently given a whistle (ICE alert) that now goes alongside the gar. 1/3

"Beneath the state’s brutal repression, signs of internal strain are accumulating, legitimacy continues to erode and Museveni’s succession plan remains unresolved." Great look at why tomorrow's "election" could be the beginning of the end for the Museveni regime, by Michael Mutyaba. (Gift link.)

Been thinking a lot about how we are talking about health and society so I wrote down some thoughts about what happens when self-care replaces collective care, and why joy, connection, and shared spaces are as essential to a nation’s wellbeing as any diet zoegrunewald.substack.com/p/when-whats...

A small and exotic Buddha found far from home in #VikingAge buildings on the Swedish lake island of Helgö. Probably made in the Swat Valley, the Buddha travelled some 5,000 km from its place of origin, encapsulating the idea of long-distance trade during the Viking Age. #Archaeology

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles 👇🏽

with allies like this who needs enemies?

not trash — weaponised

Being shoved to the ground and threatened with arrest by the police at the Sarah Everard vigil was probably the single most radicalising moment of my life. But everything about her murder showed the terrifying violent and exculpatory potential of the British state.

the map is not the territory

there are American antecedents, but I'm also now thinking of the Spanish Inquisitors, and how they held terrifying murderous power

If you haven't seen it, Bill Watterson gave a speech in 1990 to his alma mater, Kenyon college Full speech is here and it is absolutely worth your time: www.neil.blog/full-speech-... This is my favourite part

honey we matrixed the kids 😞

Why Minnesota? It's not merely the most horrific kind of ill-luck that delivered another caught on video state mandated murder. Minnesota represents a direct assault on the white nationalist narrative & thus claim to power. 🧵

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

It can be hard to see the success of prevention efforts because we can’t see inside the minds of the people who changed their behavior because of those efforts. But there are a lot of reasons to believe ICE watch is working. And it’s also part of why ICE watch is generally safer than it sounds.

The success of ICE watch interfering with ICE’s mission is almost certainly why DHS keeps sending more agents to Minneapolis. They used to execute their raids with just a few agents. Now they need 6-12 to even begin to disrupt the social pressure to be nonviolent.

Time for folks to wake up. we are in the thick of it

yes, i've seen the same shift and in fact have also come to the same conclusion: now is not the time for dire warnings anymore, it is the time to imagine how we win and what world we want when we win

Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week. Writing for Guardian Australia, Adler says she ‘cannot be party to silencing writers’ after Adelaide festival board cancelled Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to appear. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

I'd love to see this made by the team behind Shin Godzilla, completely deadpan

i regret to inform you that we are going to win with some of these guys on our side

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

We’re one day closer to Trump leaving office (one way or another).

reminded of how the major train routes into London stations still describe the boundaries of powerful landed estates rural England is just as complicated: topography and competing layers of competing legacy infrastructure I don't think you can see, let alone get to the future, from England alone

It is time to Make Social Media Lawful Again. Elon Musk has a 'pick and mix' approach to which laws apply to him. But government + regulators risk mirroring that - until they recognise X's routine protection of unlawful racist abuse breaches its legal duties too www.easterneye.biz/technology-g...

I SMELL MARMALADE

One feature I use a lot is "hide post." This is useful when everyone is quoting a post, when I see a disturbing image, or when someone's writing a thread I'm not interested in. It hides everyone's quote posts and entire threads. Click the 3 dots below the post and "hide post" (not "mute thread").

It's also where Dred and Harriet Scott were enslaved, and then denied standing in the suit for their freedom on the grounds that Black people could not be citizens.

I'm working on a foresight review on the use of AI in safety-critical, cyber physical systems, and very sensible engineers keep saying to me, "Well I can't see untested and unsafe AI being deployed in safety critical systems!" Got news for you buddy abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

what a time to be alive etc 🤕

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

the CSAM & 'MechaHitler' platform? Grok isn't sentient, but regurgitates unhinged right-wing content, designed by a Nazi-saluting sociopath to reflect his own views Hegseth has extremist crusader tattoos — '𝔇𝔢𝔲𝔰 𝔙𝔲𝔩𝔱' but it's still not sparkling fascism unless it's from 1930s Europe…? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hate the title and tone of the Lucy Worsley 'Murder Club' series on BBC2. Brutal murders that actually happened narrated as amusingly salacious 'cosy crime'. Horrible.

My new paper on time and studies of human behavior and evolution is out - Just FYI it's a theory paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I'd ever want to unwrap it 😭😹

first rule of Cambrian Explosion Fight Club right there 👇🏽

[nodding so vigorously I've injured myself 🤕] What Everyone Knows About Britain* * except the British @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social

I think she'd be our first indigenous woman senator, and I also think she's kind of great (and who can resist "fish family freedom" as a slogan?).