The Washington state Senate voted Wednesday to ban law enforcement from covering their faces in response to growing concerns over masked federal immigration agents. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/28/w...

ALERT: FBI confirms it is on-site this afternoon at the headquarters of the Fulton County, Georgia Department of Elections

1/2: Washington Attorney General Nick Brown has secured an agreement with a state vendor to protect the private, personal data of more than 1 million Washington residents who receive federal food assistance benefits.

#Ukraine I can’t imagine living in a freezing apartment, with nowhere else to go. Russia is demoralising, destroying Ukrainians, and there are still no real consequences for what it’s doing right now. It’s -4C in Kyiv today, and it will get colder again next week. There must be a response to that.

One of my all time favorite movies. A couple of minutes late but happy birthday Mr Newman you made the world a better place.

Orion's Treasures over Snowy Mountains apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012... Rising over a frozen valley in the Tatra Mountains, the familiar stars and nebulas of Orion dominate this wide-field nightscape. The featured deep photo was taken in southern Poland's highest mountain range last month.

Protesters gathered outside the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Maple Grove to make noise Monday night. Organizers believed it is the hotel where order Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is staying. Video: Jeff Wheeler and Elliot Hughes/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

Secretary Noem, your administration now openly authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter people's homes without a judicial warrant. That is blatantly unconstitutional – ICE cannot authorize itself to break into people’s homes. If ICE attempts such unconstitutional measures in Washington...

Memento Mori, European, 17th century, limestone, height: 11.5 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: 13 cm, private collection

Topsy the artist deserves all the credit. It just impacted me emotionally so I shared. Topsy has an instagram if people with an account want to support them. www.instagram.com/topsy_paints/

NEW: Another declaration you have to read! Alex Pretti was shot near the apartment of a doctor, who saw the shooting occur and rushed to provide emergency aid as he lay dying on the street. They describe what they saw: "The victim had at least three bullet holes in his back."

“One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling (protesters): ‘Boo hoo.’” apnews.com/article/immi...

China chimes in

Waking up to a new horror every fucking day.

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

#StarTrek #FunFact the inspiration for Tom Riker came from Jonathan Frakes himself who was an identical twin in the womb. But he didn’t absorb or kill his twin, no. The twin came out eight years later fully formed, changed his name to Scott, and is now doing 20 to life for stealing an armored car.

"If we thought Covid went badly in the United States, we have no idea what we’re in for,” Senior Fellow Nikki Romanik, who served as deputy director of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy during the Biden administration, says of the US leaving the WHO.

NEW: Federal agents have detailed a Spokane 10-year-old and her father. They remain in a Texas immigration detention center. The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

This country has rapidly descended into nazism because these are the people who think they are the 'adults in the room'.

Dementia Cheeto loves to put his name and big dumb head on things, right? So I propose the Epstein files should be called the trump/ Epstein files. His name should be first because he would have it no other way. Cheers!

Whenever I see progressive accounts praising Gavin Newsom I want to roll up a newspaper and swat them on the nose.

One-year-to-the-day after his pardon from Trump, Jan 6 rioter is back in jail and facing trial in February The rioter faces molestation charges and accusations he pledged to payoff victim with a Jan 6 “payout” www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...

The Trump administration can’t threaten to punish media organizations like ABC and the New York Times because they don't like what they have to say. The right to speak freely, protest peacefully, choose our own religious practice, and access a free press is foundational to our democracy.

If he is dying, I hope it hurts, and I hope he's scared.

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order trying to end DC's long-standing common-sense cash bail reforms. The order also threatens to withhold federal funding for other cities with similar policies that ensure people aren't incarcerated simply because they can't afford their freedom.

The Farthest Shore, the third Earthsea novel, was first published by Atheneum Books in 1972.

silver dragon restaurant sign, coeur d'alene, idaho, 1987

To everyone! Going out or no. May your Saturday be a a punk rock Saturday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMdJ...

What’s up? To my soul siblings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jge1...

Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and frontman of  Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Teen Idles and Embrace, born on this day in 1962, Washington DC #punkrock #IanMacKaye #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

September 1994, NYC. Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star onstage

Mountain Graveyard by Kurt Schwitters, 1919 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137777

Remembering Jeffrey Ross Hyman aka Joey Ramone, singer-songwriter of the punk rock band Ramones, who died far too young on this day in 2001 in the New York Presbyterian Hospital #punk #punks #punkrock #joeyramone #ramones #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890) was so influenced by Japanese Woodblock he painted an entire series called "Japanaiseries" that he used to introduce Japananese work and their creators to the West. Title: Bridge in the Rain after Hiroshige

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

DHS is paying the president of El Salvador to imprison immigrants from the U.S. in brutal conditions — and today, Trump welcomed him to the White House. Our government shouldn’t ship people off to be tortured.

“I think there should be more factories but only the ‘lesser than’ people should be working in them”

Dictatorships grab people off the street and jail them. Dictatorships demonize vulnerable minorities. Dictatorships destroy data. Dictatorships reject independent courts. Dictatorships buy the backing of the super-rich. Dictatorships persecute dissidents. See what’s happening, fellow Americans.

Unknown Photographer #FoxCubs #FollowingTheLeader #Nature ##Photography

RFK Jr. is gutting disability services even Project 2025 didn't target: Community members must "come together and start filing lawsuits because this is incredibly illegal—to be reducing staff and the ability for individuals with disabilities to receive services.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

First song that came to mind today because my brain is just weird. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y380...

[April 13th, 1945] Prisoners shipped eastward by train from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp freed by members of the 743rd Tank Battalion near Farsleben, Germany #history #OTD #WWII #1940s

'Young Americans' by David Bowie, released in Japan by RCA in 1975.

On this day, 42 years ago, David Bowie released his Let's Dance album in 1983

This baffling “unzipped” building in Milan was installed by British artist Alex Chinneck for Milan Design Week in 2019 www.dezeen.com/2019/04/09/a...

Since there are unfortunately no moving images of the legendary concert in Kyiv, here's another concert by the band with a great guest appearance. Sonic Youth – I Wanna Be Your Dog – Live with Iggy Pop at the Town & Country Club | London #punkrockhistory

36 years ago today Kim Gordon – Sonic Youth at Kiev, Ukraine 🖤, April 14, 1989 #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #kimgordon #sonicyouth #history #punkrockhistory