AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

Like many other women, I have been called a fucking bitch. We know what it means, and how often it comes with violence. My heart is incandescent.

Just as Laura Loomer & other MAGAs focus on Renee Good's pronouns. This is their counter to @pbump.com and @katmabu.bsky.social observing that if this could happen to Good, it could happen to any of us and our families. They're saying, no, she's not like you and your family, because she was queer.

MAGA is going full Charlie Kirk about the murder of Renee Good. "I think it’s worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some mothers shot to death every single year so that we can have ICE continue to terrorize our schools and neighborhoods."

"That's fine, dude, I'm not mad at you," Renee Good, smiling, says to ICE agent Jonathan Ross before he shoots her in the face, in a newly released video. "Fucking bitch," he says after killing her. www.advocate.com/news/ice-age...

"we had whistles, they had guns" will stay with me forever www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I share the fury @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social expresses here at Biden and other centrist Dems for squandering the best opportunity we've had in decades to weaken police power in America. And all the pro-police rhetoric didn't help electorally either. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-conseq...

Evan’s piece is here. Thomas was driven to despair by the hatred the nyt leaders stoked. Not “criticism,” not “debate.” www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Juxtaposing this with Texas A&M University censoring Plato for being too woke about gender. The world today makes no sense.

The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?

And there I was, thinking the title of this book referred to pandas.

It was good to see a lot of people in Nashville turn out this evening for a vigil for Renee Nicole Good and many others who were killed by ICE and law enforcement. Lots of good inspiring speakers, and a crowd that wants a better, more just world. www.newschannel5.com/news/watch-l...

Hello editors, our leaders lying to our face is a big story to write multiple articles about.

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

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Everything would have gone so much better if the people who murdered Renee Good had coordinated with the people who murdered George Floyd.

I've mentioned before that I like reading Alan Furst's pulp novels about Nazi-era antifascism, and this is one reason why: Furst understands, and writes about, the fact that even if you're in the actual French Resistance, there are days when you do the work, and days when you do your job.

An interesting story in @propublica.org about how SpaceX's Texas launch facility is screwing up commercial air traffic across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. www.propublica.org/article/spac...

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

TWO KEY IMAGES from Minneapolis. Left: The ICE shooter, who has crossed in front, draws his gun while the car is *in reverse.* Right: when he fires--note the smoke--neither foot is in front of the car. Fool thinks he's Wyatt Earp. Really, he's just another murderer.

While there is so much that is disturbing about this case study in the destruction of academic freedom, one high point is the refusal of the targeted professor to submit

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

ICE doesn't keep our communities safe.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

I've talked to Minneapolis DA Mary Moriarty several times, including a few months ago. Former public defender with no qualms about charging abusive cops. She has also been threatened by the Trump administration, is not seeking reelection, and doesn't back down. Shit's about to get real.

Free webinar, Jan 22 2026, about collaborative, community-engaged environmental modeling, courtesy of the @csdms.bsky.social Human Dimensions Working Group. Speakers will be Gabriela Garcia, Miyuki Hino, and @chaolim85.bsky.social

This is a great opportunity for early career scientists (grad student, postdoc, assistant professor) to get jump started in state-of-the-art numerical modeling of earth-surface processes. This is a very hands-on institute where you'll put what you learn to use right away.

Conservatives: We need to stop teaching woke crap and go back to old-fashioned classical education like the founding fathers received. Also conservatives: Plato is woke.

An important win for academic freedom. The professor fired from Austin Peay State University in TN for his social-media post about Charlie Kirk's death has been reinstated and paid $500,000 by the university for its failure to provide due process in disciplining a tenured faculty.

It is so galling, in the face of these court victories favoring patients' privacy rights, that when the Tennessee Attorney General came after trans patient records at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt did not fight the subpoena in court, but meekly turned over the full records.

Friendly reminder: Greenland is actually Indigenous territory, not "other white people".

lol accusing a Black woman of misconduct and then turning around to relentlessly defend a WHITE woman credibly accused of misconduct is.... racist. 🤷🏿‍♀️ #blacksky #harvard

Cool analysis, which finds a steadily growing polarization of the Supreme Court, beginning around 1960, with justices appointed by Republicans favoring wealthy parties and justices appointed by Democrats favoring less-wealthy parties.

Financial Times gets it.

I'm a bit surprised that no one on Bluesky has used grok to deepfake a chimera of Elon Musk and spicy Alf.

Pedals For Peace

As a graduate of HKS last year, I saw my fellow students stop engaging in anything political because of fear of doxing or being rounded up by ICE. I never saw students fearful of disagreeing with a professor on a controversial issue. I usually saw faculty bend over backwards to appear neutral.

I would think it's the doxing trucks, death threats, and the Trump admin going after international students but that's just me. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Los recientes acontecimientos en Venezuela me recuerdan lo que dijo Porfirio Díaz, hace muchos años: "Pobre México, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos."

Slaughterhouse Five is my go-to book to remind myself and others that all war, even the war to defeat Hitler, reduces to sending children to kill and maim other children, and to be killed and maimed in return. There are many excellent books that do this job. Mine happens to Slaughterhouse Five.

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

And the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The President of Peace.”

“U.S. leaders can successfully downplay or lie about the costs in order to obtain public approval. This was amply demonstrated by the Iraq invasion. Bush and his advisors insisted that taking out Hussein would be cheap and easy. Even after this story proved false, Bush was not held accountable.”

Avid Cyclists are the red dots. Build infrastructure for the people who aren't red dots.

Speaking with the president is not the same as getting newsworthy information from the president. And Trump's dishonesty can often lead to unhelpful "Trump said" articles, in which what he says is centered, rather than the truth. I suspect it also leads to the excessive emphasis on Trump's moods.

Both the NY Times and Der Stürmer identify as newspapers...