RODAR A PÉ: REPARADOR! #palindromo

Agentes de qual “nossa” agência mesmo? Quem sai completamente do twitter perde essas pérolas.

I was born in the 1980s in Western Europe. My first political memory is the peaceful reunification of my country, and I grew up and made my early career in the security and freedom of the Post Wall world. A world where war was a thing that happened elsewhere& liberal democracy seemed to be secure.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

The once admired American legal system is one disappointment after another. "It's forbidden to break the law, but if trump wants to, I let him." This sums up what all judges and most lawyers have to say. They are as responsible as the press and the politicians. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

A joke for the history buffs.

Article so incredibly bad it’s worth looking at. Just-so-story views history as a nonsensical category of “reconstructive” US presidents. Invents a turn to Latin America that is not happening. Confuses domestic and foreign policy picking up random coincidences. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

accurate headline: "Greenlanders in tears, Ukrainians die, Kremlin in joy" euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/19/g...

“Ignore the pundits. Listen to the conservative historians.”

Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

I can’t cope with anyone being sensible at me right now

One small thing I hope comes out of this nightmare is at least renaming the Department of Homeland Security. “Homeland” is not a word Americans use. It sounds like a translation from Heimatsicherheitsabteilung.

If I shot an unarmed person, I'd expect to be detained and questioned. Most likely I'd be charged, brought before a judge, and made to post bail. If I acted rashly and in anger, I'd expect to lose access to firearms. Why has none of this happened? #justiceforrenee

I always remember him throwing a massive strop & threatening to sue David Gilmore’s wife when she pointed out he’s a bootlicking antisemite who’s done nothing of value for over 40 years & he immediately backed down once he realised she was happy to take him to court

Calm down, people. It’s always been doctrine that the U.S. military should be able to fight two wars simultaneously. The only thing that’s new here is that one of those wars would be against its own people and the other against its allies.

There’s a company called We Are Music that reportedly specializes in making bogus claims of copyright infringement. Yesterday they came after me claiming copyright on … my conversation with Claudia Sahm. A joke for me, but probably ugly for many.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/w...

Looking like Persia, but we still have internet. Worse than Brazil under the dictatorship.

Me: "My apartment is too small for my grand piano. I'm going to store it on the sidewalk." City: "Citation issued for illegal dumping" Me: "My garage is too small for my SUV. I'm going to store it in the street." City: "Sounds great, no worries, just move it once a month, ok?"

I really think everyone should stop confidently making predictions

Ukraine are as much to blame for this war as they keep defending themselves.

is it normal for encyclopedias to include “skin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

#EuRi Da Light também, né?

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

Only Pew Research Center to go!

Via Eduardo Jorge.

To hear the Oglala tribal president tell it, they are withholding the men and any information about them until the Oglala sign some kind of agreement with ICE

This was a joke. Lord get a sense of humor.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I'm old enough to remember seeing videos like this and immediately think "man, it must suck living in that country". Congratulations Republicans, we're the shit hole now.

It's not apparent to outsiders but seeing a unified front of politicians from Greenland open endorsing being part of the Kingdom of Denmark is WILD. It is testament to how insanely bad it would be for Greenlanders to join the United States.

Trump enthusiastically endorsing keeping the Maduro regime in power in Venezuela.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Next thing they’ll cut off the internet.

It is wrong to have police using heavy military weaponry and equipment.

ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.

"Almost half of the traffic lights in São Paulo 🇧🇷 stay green for pedestrians for only 5 seconds, according to a survey." There are millions of pedestrians fighting for scraps of time against a car-centric design that treats walking as a nuisance rather than a valid way to move.

O que atiça os ativistas não é quem morre, mas quem mata. Porque o que se chora não é o morto, e nem a morte. Na verdade, nem há choro. É só grito. E nem o grito é sincero, porque não é denúncia nem solidariedade. É afirmação de pertencimento, não ao que morre, mas ao outro que grita

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

So much wrong with this but…they sold his phone?!? Like, for profit?? Now ICE can just confiscate and pawn your property???

MUSSUM! #palindromis

So relieved to learn that Texas A&M is not banning Plato altogether, but merely redacting his work to ensure it conforms to accepted state ideology