It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

Comme promis, un texte où je persiste et signe : le film "Le mage du Kremlin" est dangereux, car il se met au service du pouvoir russe en diffusant une vision du pays exactement conforme à ce que le Kremlin veut nous faire penser. colinlebedev.fr/2026/01/22/h...

Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.

As far as I can see in the Danish media, nobody really knows what Rutte has said to Trump. As far as I can see in the American media, Trump also does not seem to fully know what was said to him.

We're being put through this because a good portion of the country were so angry a Black man was elected president, gays could marry, and trans people existed that they decided to elect the worst possible person to destroy the country. The rest were rubes fooled by mis and disinformation.

Latvija atrodas sarežģītā ģeopolitiskā situācijā, taču mums ir jāatceras, ka ASV ir (diemžēl) aizejošs drošības garants. Mēs nevaram visas olas likt vienā (caurā) groziņā. Kā min Kanādas premjerministrs: “Nostaļģija nav stratēģija.” Pielīšana arī nav stratēģija. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTvF...

Gan Mieriņas rīcība, gan šī retorika no @edgarsrinkevics.bsky.social puses Latvijai rada neuzticama partnera reputāciju. Haotiska valsts, kurā līdzās oficiālajai nostājai pastāv arī amatpersonu personīgās pozīcijas. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

Vērts izlasīt vai noklausīties — sevišķi tiem priekšstāvjiem Saeimā, kuri Trampa prezidentūru Latvijai vērtē "ar plusa zīmi". "when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. [..] It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination."

Peak imperialism: your country is descending into the darkness at the speed of light, your own party is doing close to nothing to prevent it, but you travel around and condescendingly lecture other states about how to better resist the aggressor that your compatriots elected.

Mark Carney skarba, laba runa Davosā. Pasaule mainās, "rule-based order" vairs neeksistē www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...

Labi, ka Latvijai nepiedāvāja, jo Mieriņa jau būtu izmēģinājusi piekrist.

Everyone in Europe is having intense debates about the future of the transatlantic security alliance. Meanwhile, the president of the United States is reposting the claim that the real enemy of the US isn't Russia or China, it's NATO (and the UN and Islam).

Mieriņai pēc šī ir jāatkāpjas. Ja cilvēks šādos laikos nesaprot, ka viņa ir amatpersona un nevar savu parakstu privāti "izmēģināt" uz dažādām vēstulēm, tad ir laiks atpūsties.

Neliels spļāviens Ukrainas un citu mūsu sabiedroto sejās. Es nezinu kā te ir vairāk nekompetences vai arogances. ir.lv/politika/sae...

as we all should

Hey friends, I’m alive. But the night hit hard. It was a massive attack - Shaheds, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles. All night long. I wanted so badly to sleep. Every time I almost drifted off, another explosion. Too loud. Too close. Too real.

Latvija ir maza valsts grūtos laikos, un jā, protams, nav jālec uz ecēšām. Bet ir jāatceras tāds minimums kā: neizturies pret citas valsts (pie tam tuva sabiedrotā) suverenitātes apdraudējumu tā, kā tu negribētu, lai citi izturas, ja būtu apdraudēta Latvijas suverenitāte.

Es nezinu vai Latvijas ārpolitikā kopš 1991. gada ir bijis kāds vēl vairāk no realitātes atrauts paziņojums. Es ļoti gribu redzēt, kā Latvija tagad deeskalēs Trampu. Un kāda tieša saruna mums būs ar Amerikas Savienotajām Valstīm?

UPD already 8 people wouded by Russian bombing of Kharkiv, Ukraine, today. 1 person killed. 1 person is missing. Search and rescue operations are ongoing.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

The US is not an ally; that should have become clear a year ago when they tried to bully and humiliate the president of Ukraine. Now, Trump wants to invade Greenland. What's next?

The US has beaten the Caligula horse tale in the mad rulers competition. Humanity (if not blown away in a nuclear war or extinct due to the climate crisis) will wonder about how this was even possible for the next 2 000 years.

This is Kyiv. Ukraine’s capital. An apartment building where the temperature is below 0. Where people live. Some of them can’t leave. (UNITED24)

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

1. Almost every night, I hear explosions from Russian missiles and drones in Kyiv. Although the Russians practise double strikes, rescuers and electricians instantly appear at the sites of damaged civilian infrastructure. 1/5

16 January 1904 | Jewish man Alexander Karl Claes was born in Rēzekne, Latvia. He was a hairdresser. His family in 1913 emigrated to Norway. In #Auschwitz from 1 December 1942. No. 79092 He did not survive.

Islande : après une mauvaise blague, le nouvel ambassadeur américain s’attire les foudres de la population et du gouvernement Billy Long, allié de Donald Trump, a suggéré que le pays nordique devienne le 52e Etat américain, sous-entendant au passage que le Groenland serait le 51e

It's surreal that the terrorist state russia openly puts to death the entire Ukrainian nation by weaponizing frost while it hardly even makes breaking news anymore. It's -12°/-17° today with new massive attacks expected soon. 📷: Stas Yurchenko.

They tried their bully diplomacy with Zelensky. Did not work. Now the same tactics are deployed against the foreign minister of Greenland. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Bluesky draugi, esat laipni aicināti ņemt dalību šajā priecīgajā notikumā!

Our RUTA webinar, that will focus on latest books on Romani histories will be held in late February (TBA) The webinar will also follow-up on crucial discussions we’ve had at our 2025 RUTA conference in Ukraine, especially our featured panel on Romani Visions for the Future bsky.app/profile/asso...

Many people in the Baltic countries have been asking themselves this very question about Russia for a long, long time. So we know how it feels. Solidarity with Greenlanders. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Tartu Universitātei 3 (!!!) ERC Konsolidatora granti vienā gadā. Latvijas Universitātē vispār, jebkad bijuši tieši divi. Ja paskatās cik EE iegulda zinātnē un cik LV, tad var saprast kāpēc tā. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Kyiv said goodbye to Serhii Smoliak,a medic killed by a Russian attack on January 9 Serhii to arrived at the site of a strike to help people,then Russia launched a 2nd strike,killing Serhii&injuring more people Serhii escaped from Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka.He was 56yrs old Deepest condolences

We are way past this but the fact that "big beautiful bill " is how actual adults in a real country call their legislation blows my mind.

Latvijas augstākajām amatpersonām arī nav nekādu problēmu ar šādiem sīkumiem.

Kyiv. No water. No electricity since 5 a.m. I couldn’t reach my granny today on the phone. In the coming days, temperatures will drop almost to −20°C. Russia is using the cold weather to terrorize civilians. I hate that fucking country.

President #Zelenskyy reports 4 deaths (including an ambulance worker) and dozens injured after 242 drones, 13 ballistic missiles, and 22 cruise missiles struck Kyiv, Lviv, and other regions, damaging 20+ buildings and the Qatari Embassy.

This is eerily similar to the way [state] media targets professors and intellectuals under Turkey's authoritarian regime. Trump of course mimics Erdogan when he calls protestors terrorists. The playbook is all too familiar

fox news putting in the legwork on my posts

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Whether it's conservative men with guns shooting Honda-driving women in the head or Honda-driving women making conservative men with guns feel scared, both sides share blame for conservative men with guns shooting Honda-driving women in the head.

They are desperate to frame a 37-year-old mother in a Honda Pilot as a well-trained “domestic terrorist.”

Allow me to translate: “it’s okay to kill these people because they’re queers”

The scenes from Minneapolis are absolutely heartbreaking. The wife of the shot woman screaming for help, a doctor begging to be allowed to assist the victim, and ICE just yelling at him to stay away. Every single American should be outraged by this.

During today’s shelling, Russia killed a 68‑year‑old local resident in Kherson. He sustained multiple shrapnel wounds and died at the scene‼️ Bastards. Murderers.

WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”

"Local leaders disgaree" ? Why is BBC is presenting this case a some sort of divergence of opinion? Anyone can watch the video and see that the victim was trying to drive away and not trying to run over any ICE agents as Trump claims. www.bbc.com/news/article...