Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12 ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12 ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14 Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23

Booking a flight to terf island to visit a friend in London and apparently one must choose an honorific/can not leave such things blank. I will sadly be Mr. although I'm wondering what the ramifications would be if i choose Viscount 🤔 (plan to get the fuck out of dodge/head north to Scotland ASAP)

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

First beer night of the new year in the books, Christmas leftover edition. Evening came complete with flaming pudding, assorted cheeses, leftover olives, apples. chocolates and beer (not pictured except for the lovely 4% west coast pale ale collab from luppulo and changing colours).

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

“Doctors Without Borders, the international medical aid group, said Tuesday that Israel had ordered it to cease operations in the Gaza Strip after it failed to comply with new restrictions that include registration of all Gazan employees and limits on criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war.”

Growing up as a metal kid / transitioning to a punk kid in university apparently explains so much…

Just excellent and all they deserve. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

Gender studies taught me about disability justice, which is also why I don't use the term "psychosis" to describe what's currently happening because we don't need to demonize mental illness.

It's eugenics. All of this anti-vaccine policy BS being pushed by the incoming administration is designed to harm those who are already sick or disabled and they're trying to sell it as some sort of big holistic movement so it is more palatable and better accepted by the public and lawmakers.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.

Tokyo is a city that makes the argument that architecture is irrelevant. What matters more is urbanism: The street network The density The freedom of uses The clustering around rail

“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

RFK Jr's HHS had a press call to announce they were — based on no new data — overhauling the childhood vaccine schedule. Senior officials at HHS answered questions but refused to go on the record, saying we could only attribute the quotes to "officials." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Björk on Greenland.

Evidence from British Columbia shows decriminalisation reduced police interference with access to harm reduction — a key public health objective. Rolling it back didn’t correct failure. It reversed progress. Full study:

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

will always and forever be here for beagle content #releasethehounds

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments. One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

In the vein of posts today from @billmckibben.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @volts.wtf @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and many others about how we can fight back against the forever wars by embracing a vision of a world where oil becomes irrelevant, I offer the following:

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

Rare good news post today outside from people’s lovely dog photos…

In hindsight it was a bad idea to put a child molester with dementia in charge of everything. That’s our bad. That one’s on us

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

This is getting closer to something I've long wanted: an in-depth book length account of just what the hell has been going on at the NYT for the last ten years, a story of oligarchs and old money NY clashing with labor and their own expanding readership, and its transformation into a gaming company.

I suspect transgender rights and higher education are two issues where NYT leadership is as opposed to the progressive left's positions as the right's. So they lean into right-wing framing of those subjects to rebut broader liberal bias charges. transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office. Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.

boosting for visibility

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

Happy New Year. A new chapter has begun! Manage your spoons and energy to help prevent burnout. The Neuro-Affirming Wheel of Life & Journal. Instant download. Designed for neurodivergent & disabled people. Reflect on your energy, flow, sensory needs & more! autisticrealms.com/neuro-affirm...

Blockbuster interview about institutional transphobia at the New York Times that names names of the bigots responsible: A.G. Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, Carolyn Ryan at the top, plus Pamela Paul, Jeremy Peters, Azeen Ghorayshi, Katie J.M. Baker, & an entire anti-trans pro-mgmt splinter group in the union

Conservative outlets love this pocket-watching hypocrisy trope, especially as some sort of gotcha for WOC, by willfully conflating left politics with forced universal aceticism. To them, socialists are not supposed to be stylish or attractive. Rama's both, and on her own terms, not maga aesthetic.

I am ok with this…

Ringing in the new year with a balvenie 12 and palace’s “new partner” on the turntable and already looking like 2026 will not suck as much as 2025…

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Violinist undeterred by Vancouver orchestra’s legal threat over sexual assault claim

that fucking newspaper

Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.

Gift link for a fascinating & characteristically problematic NYTimes article: What's problematic is the wholesale importation (pun intended) of the empty-headed zero-sum Trumpian view of trade. China sells & finances African solar, which is bad because...Africa won't build solar factories? C'mon

Marjorie hasn't asked for an invitation into your imaginary antifascist tent 😂

In English these are the Lions, in Squamish they're Ch'ích'iyúy Elxwíḵn - the Twin Sisters. I've heard a few versions of their story but the one I like best is the that this is them frozen in time, turned to stone while knitting a wool blanket -- which, now that they're all snowy, makes sense.

Started An Yu’s “Sunbirth” so i guess i’m always destined to end up a pharmacist :/

"Annoying 8 year olds keep wanting to walk and bike to school despite city's best efforts to make it too dangerous." creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

David Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1