Someone just made a digital painting of a JD Vance meme by spoofing Air Force One flight data onto web-service adsbexchange.com.

You've found the start of THE daily🧵 for Day 1435 The world refuses to acknowledge the obvious: Russia is not only a rogue, terrorist state which cannot be trusted. It's also one which will do anything, incl genocide until it's stopped Please support, repost, shout at elected members to stop 🇷🇺 now

moral arc right to repair

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...

Good morning world, though the world seems to be sleeping as Russia grows in confidence it can continue to commit war crimes with impunity It's the daily Ukraine thread, Day 1434 - all the important, fact-checked news in one handy thread. Every. Single. Day. Coffee welcome☕️🙏

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov threatened Ukraine and Europe, predicting a future military alliance between the US and Russia. He claimed to understand Trump better than anyone else. If you want to see Orwellian propaganda in real life, watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PcO...

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

"“We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” he said, according to the meeting notes. “We want good enough.” Zerzan added, “We’re flooding the zone.” "

“For a month, I tried: swapping my iPhone for a Nokia which I can only use to text, call and play Snake; also, a Walkman and a film camera. I picked up physical copies of books, newspapers…” What Emma Russell learned from her digital detox. [theguardian.com]

congratulations everybody

It's Day 1433 of Russia breaking all known laws and rules of combat, Geneva Conventions, morality and its own economy. It's also called the illegal invasion of Ukraine. Here's Monday's daily thread - and it's not been a bad start to the week for Ukraine.

"One year after the #foreignaid freeze, #HIV care in Africa is in retreat.” Great reporting by @theandrewgreen.bsky.social highlights the impacts and voices like Maureen Luba & Kenneth Mwehonge who are living it. A must-read: www.devex.com/news/one-yea...

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

You sure about that?

"the conservative movement had trained its devotees to ignore mainstream media and rely completely on information supplied by its own loyalists, his ability to control his supporters’ perceptions effectively had no limit. And because his supporters would believe anything, he could do anything."

Precisely this: "there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Perhaps one should not discuss breaking laws on a 100% public social media website that we know the federal government is aware of and monitoring.

If this is true (and that’s not a small if), it is reasonable to posit that Bezos is trying to offload the Post. Or kill it altogether. Sports is a top driver of traffic and subscriptions for most news sites. And we’ve seen how Bezos and Lewis have mangled the Opinion section.

Russia appears to have used Starlink-connected Shaheds for the first time, striking helicopters near Kropyvnytskyi yesterday, Defence Ministry advisor Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov says. The drones flew extremely low to evade radar using manual guidance.

Map of Utilities outages in Russia for the week 19th to the 25th of January. This is by far the worst week I've tracked and one with highest number of long term outages disrupting life. I would point to Murmansk where they're even out of bread in places.

Welcome to a new daily Ukraine thread, documenting the country's fight against Russian tyranny. Day 1432 is Burns' Night, so it seems apt to begin with a quote from the Scottish Bard: “Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.”

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

One of the theologians I read a lot recently did a long essay on how doing a big Bonhoffer project helped him realize that MAGA evangelicals have kind of already gone through the process that made the German people see potential mass murder as sanctifying! Once you see it, it's hard to unsee

‘In major assessments for maths, science and reading from 2011 to 2019, greater in-school computer use for learning correlates with lower scores. In contrast, students in classes with rare or no computer use at all typically score highest’

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

I read the explanation of the penguin meme. It’s about a penguin intentionally breaking off from his tribe and walking towards certain death. I still don’t understand the Trump/ penguin meme.

Let me guess: The penguin is a device to amplify engagement by making people fill the comments with corrections...? Or are they actually suggesting a pivot to the ultimate deep south?

The Pentagon’s Department of War rebrand extends to space #Science #Space #SpacePolicyandGovernance #SpacePolicy #DefenseTechnology #PentagonNews

"“There’s a certain part of the Moon that everyone knows is the best. We have ice there—we have sunlight there. We want to get there first and claim that for America.” "Acting NASA Administrator, Sean Duffy. "

As I walked from the vigil toward the train station, a young man fell into step just in front of me, his phone open to what sounded like a TikTok breaking down Noem’s bullshit from the Pretti execution presser in MLPS today. The sound of a play-by-play of the murder mingled with the music of…1/

LÜGEN. trump. tRUMPs LÜGEN tRUMPS LIES www.commondreams.org/views/2017/1...

they've adjusted camera V1 to fit the double fountain, it has the best angle now. it's raining tephra (easier to see on a larger screen): www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...

After the first shots are fired, the man collapses on the ground. Agents back away. At least another 5 shots are fired toward the man who is already incapacitated on the ground.

Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes." Ernest Hemingway It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.

“... if we mask the nature of the study with usual medical terms, one can ‘get away with’ a lot,” Mr. Kirkegaard wrote in an email. “Getting samples for analyses that one doesn’t publish (to preserve your reputation!) are still useful because they allow us to validate our beliefs privately.”

This is part of the story I covered back in 2024 when I learned one of my friends from the James Randi skeptic forums was a Nazi skepchick.org/2024/10/nazi...

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I tell you, every one of them in the White House is as thick as 🐖💩 Surely every child is told polar bears in the Arctic, penguins in the Antarctic?