ICE is a criminal enterprise. For every person they kidnap they get rewarded, so that the monstrous Trump administration can brag about detention numbers. No matter who you are, if you are visiting the US is can happen to you. Avoid the country at all costs.

Why can't we have this here?

Knowledge is a public good and must be treated as such. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PygU... #democracy #access #knowlege #books

When a regular waiting room isn't enough ... :-/ #Waiting #WaitingRooms #SubWaitingRooms #healthcare

London doing the work ! ❤️‍🩹

GIFT LINK Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old I.C.U. nurse gunned down by federal agents, represents one set of values. Gregory Bovino, represents a different set. Do we want to live in Alex Pretti’s America? Or Gregory Bovino’s? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

If they are truly "only after dangerous criminals" ICE should not be able to lay a hand on ANYONE unless they have a warrant for that person. Random abductions of US citizens should be punishable. ICE should be held accountable for bodily injury, damage to property and loss of life. ICE OUT NOW!

“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

GIFT LINK “Bringing to Milan a militia which distinguished itself — this is not my opinion — with criminal acts, which kills, which enters in the homes of American citizens without authorization, I do not think that that is a good idea.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

100% agree. Perhaps to help everyone (i.e., US citizens) realize that they could become victims of ICE too, so they can't just scoff it off as "I'm not an immigrant so I'm safe" .. that's the most benevolent take I can come up with.

GIFT LINK "Soon after the agent opened the civil rights investigation, she was ordered to reclassify it as an investigation into an assault on the officer. " www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “ICE is attacking 🇺🇸 citizens, kidnapping 5-year-olds and using them as bait to open doors, and violating constitutional rights by busting into their doors… They deserve to be defunded." (H/T @meidastouch.com )

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.

The Wine Shop - Edward Hopper, 1909. Source : Whitney Museum of American Art

Couldn't love this any more than I do. Values.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

15°F (-9.4°C) in #Chicago. Cozier inside. #Caturday

#NoCat #Caturday

This.

1/17/2026- The Epstein Files www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ja...

GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

Ich lerne gerade bei „Wer weiß denn sowas?“, dass abends statistisch die Laune der Menschen schlechter ist als morgens. Man vermutet, es läge am Cortisolspiegel. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Naturlich ist die Laune abends schlechter. Da hatte ich ja schon Kontakt zu Menschen! Menschen!

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” #MartinLutherKingJr #literarybirthdays @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.

Gift Link. Good to see some backbone. Need more of this. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Trump has: - Illegally & unconstitutionally attacked Venezuela - Provided Netanyahu with $12B in arms sales - Given Argentina's president a $40B bailout - Approved the sale of jets & tanks to Saudi Arabia - Given Qatar an Air Force facility in Idaho America first? Really?

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

#NollaignamBan The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives

Gift link. Putin and Trump openly carving up the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

He's 100% right. The war in Ukraine should never have dragged on this long, it has just emboldened Putin and Trump to carve out their own spheres of interest while sowing division between partners. It's all in the open, they aren't even trying to hide it.

Happy to leave this year behind. #cats #HappyNewYear #NewYear

Painter Emma Haworth's painting depicting a day in winter #WomensArt

Saturday mood. #Caturday #Holidays #QuietTimes

From the Leo High School choir's joyful energy, to the Chicago Marathon’s collective humanity. From every act of resistance, to every holiday card writer. From every sunrise, to every sunset. 25 things I'm carrying with me into 2026. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/25/h...

Merry Christmas to everyone in the world who is Christian, and to others who celebrate it — just for the heaven of it. As for the rest of everybody, including Muslims, Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, Animists, & Jews, Happy Thursday!

When will the news industry get serious about the dictator's threats to shut them down? Do they think it's just bluster? He's willing to murder people on the high seas and send immigrants to foreign torture prisons. He's serious about killing the 1st Amendment, too.

Argh! This would have given me my first streak of 150 in #Wordle .. oh well, 149 it is. And starting over :) Wordle 1,646 X/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩

Shortest daylight of the year (over 6 hours shorter than in summer). After today, more daylight every day 🙂 Yes, I'm a nerd, and I wrote this program. No quite sure yet how I will spend the extra 2 seconds of daylight tomorrow, but I WILL find a way 🤣 #solstice #sunshine #LongerDays

Relative rotation speed and axial tilts of the planets. Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue

Sandra Victorino, Native American ceramic artist of the Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico #womensart

“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus

Cating all day is exhausting. So happy it's Saturday. #Caturday #AnotherSaturday #cats

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. Gift Link. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Immigrants didn’t just build America, they are the backbone and their labor still helps it run and to continue on. They aren’t the threat, the far right fascist neo-Nazis who were given full power to destroy it all on the basis of racism, hate and greed are the real threat.

My cat doing silly cat things. #Caturday #YogaSaturday #SillyCats