NEW: Trump's Department of Homeland Security bought an Atlanta-area warehouse it's converting into a migrant jail. I found the LLC selling the warehouse shares a DC address with The Carlyle Group, the Baltimore Orioles new owner's private equity firm. All the pieces matter. issa new [eyeblack]:

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Every activist needs to know this rote:

So that's at least two of the top programs for archivists & librarians being subsumed into a new unit for computing and AI, and I'm guessing many more to follow.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

TIL that my supervisor doesn’t know what’s in a particularly noteworthy collection that I catalog.

do YOU have any experience in art, social, organizing, fundraising, comms, graphic design, & want to help us try to raise an insane amount of money to keep immigrant families in MN housed? I am looking for folks who would want to throw down. having a meeting monday evening. DM me if you're in.

You don't need to be antisemitic to criticize Epstein. You don't need to be a misogynist to criticize Bondi. You don't need to stoop to the lowest point of human character just to take a swing at an evil person. They're bad because they're hurting people, not because of their group.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...

I guess they’re not friends anymore

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

A historical thingy happened here, but we can't tell you what it is

I think they might not be friends anymore

I am no longer alone in the fitness center, so I have had to cut short my enthusiastic lip sync to “Johnny Q.”

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

This little guy lives on the blank leaf H8 of De termino Pasche anno iiii Edwardi quarti, printed in London by Richard Pynson in 1524.

Not me repeatedly refreshing the OPM site to see if we get to work from home tomorrow, too

"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.

Oh. Found the LRAD. In Minneapolis. Being used on Americans. By their own militarized state police forces. That we all pay for. www.reddit.com/r/NextGenReb...

IT’S A TE DEUM OF COURSE IT’S IN LATIN THERE IS NO NEED FOR THE 240. I feel better now.

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Fucking hell, the Nats just traded Gore — their best arm — to the Rangers for 5 prospects.

Start the year off right by signing up to our short course on Greek Palaeography with Dr Laura Franco 4-6 February. Find out more and sign up here: buff.ly/XSr1Krk #GreekPalaeography #ShortCourse

Heads up SoCal folks

New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

Anders Vistisen, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Denmark, to Donald Trump on his threats to steal Greenland: ”Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”

It's now also available as a website: www.standwithminnesota.com

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) is excited to announce 3 new roles on our groundbreaking Valuable Lives project! 🔍 Open roles: • 2 x Research Assistant (Digital Humanities) • 1 x Research Fellow (Digital Humanities) 🗓 Closing date: 23 Jan 2026 shorturl.at/OCpLP

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

I need you to FOLLOW THIS STORY and share! ICE has kidnapped and currently holding 3 tribal members of the Oglala Sioux Nation hostage unless the tribe agrees to relinquish their tribal lands for fed access and abuse. Breaking treaties, the constitution, and fed laws. #ProtectTribalLands

Protester: This is nuts. What the fuck is going on, dude? This is insane. They tell you it's immigrants, only immigrants. It's fucking anybody. I have friends that got detained and all they were doing was fucking driving home from work. What the fuck?

A thing I have now said at work: “God DAMN it, one of these had BETTER fucking be the 1490 printing of the Decretals.”

ICE rammed into a car at 34th and Park And then began to question the immigration status of U.S. Citizen Latino’s they crashed into. They also deployed chemical irritants into the eyes of the press. Abolish ICE now.

Academic and Native friends, please share this CFP and/or consider submitting a proposal! The organizers would love perspectives from outside the academy as well. www.historic-deerfield.org/call-for-pro...

#Italy #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #GLAM 'The platform, developed by the University Library System, offers online access to more than 200,000 images representing around 4,000 digital objects.' www.theflorentine.net/2026/01/09/f...

Ditto Alt Library of Congress (but without the grifting)

ICE is in Philly posing as Septa workers

The newly re-released Medieval Libraries of Great Britain database, MLGB, as it is now commonly known, aims to list every manuscript and printed book associated with an institutional library during the Middle Ages. #siteoftheweek

So, how are we all doing with the not screaming? Not so well here.

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.