Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Surreal

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp. Every time. The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.” 👀

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Jay Bhattacharya has not only never treated a COVID patient, he has never treated any patient himself. As a scientist, his biggest COVID “research” publication is not just methodologically (and ethically: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/step...) flawed, but his results were wrong by a 35-fold margin!

It used to be the case that FBI agents were supposed to dress like white collar employees. Now they have their camo vests on as if they are about to be dropped in Fallujah...to pick up some paper ballots.

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the last great U.S. particle collider—is no more. But its end also signals a new beginning for the nation’s particle physics community. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Police in Atlanta are being sued for targeting protesters of Cop City. The suit argues that activists are being subjected to false arrest and malicious prosecution, undermining their rights. #StopCopCity

Our flagship public universities are already not "public" universities. Soon, they'll either be fully privatized, or they'll be "universities." The question for places like UW - Madison is which one we'll become. Others have already made their choices. And the rest simply haven't admitted this yet.

Read it all please.

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

One of the (many) reasons I would make a bad politician is that I would say things like “Your right to subject your kid to your own medical quackery is not as important as everyone else’s right to not be exposed to plagues we have vaccines against”

Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]

A moment of silence in honor of Jimmy Carter and his foundation's tireless efforts that contributed so much to this progress

I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration.

We’re literally killing ourselves. They’ve been working on cutting edge cancer vaccines

Hi folks, if you're in WI, please consider emailing your state leg & gov to oppose codifying the IHRA def that conflates Israel criticism w/ antisemitism. Votes next week. Here's WI ACLU against it: www.aclu-wi.org/legislation/... And UW-Madison PROFS against it: profs.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

I clicked through thinking it was going to be a list of nail polish companies that had made anti-ICE statements – and I was here for it – but these are nail polish companies that literally have charity polishes where they’re donating the proceeds to immigrants rights orgs, bail funds, etc. HELL YES!

My sweetheart’s new song. Enjoy, and #FuckICE youtu.be/Avxg6fv3KiY

The NLG and its partners create guides in order to respond to the escalating attacks by our government. We are re-sharing these three guides, since they deal with the Federal government's escalating tactics against everyday people, trying to do the right thing for themselves and their communities.

Measles case at UW Madison. Unvaccinated students being told to quarantine for two weeks. Universities should require complete vaccinations (among healthy ppl) & bar admissions & hiring to anyone who can be but isn’t vaccinated.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

As always, @millbot.bsky.social and @cometstarmoon.bsky.social produce a helluva show. Thank you, from all of us in the adoring audience.

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

ICYMI: Wisconsin joins filing to support Minnesota lawsuit against ICE deployment. Via @henry-redman.bsky.social

Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live." That's a death threat. If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.

Just found out this dude’s store is called Dreamhaven Books. dreamhavenbooks.com

"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

For those outside MN, this from @naomikritzer.bsky.social is still a great set of recommendations, even after (especially after?) today's events.

Please do. Let the rich leaders see and feel the world’s condemnation of the USA’s growing fascism.

I will be looking for an RA soon as my amazing postdoc has got a permanent role on our team. I will be looking for an emerging Māori researcher who has a social science background preferably :) dm me if you know of anyone or want to kōrero

We’ve been in WHO since 1948.

Stop using ring cameras! Ffs. futurism.com/future-socie...

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.

My last two shots before my world went dark.

✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.

COVID pandemic enters 7th year with no end in sight. "It's strange to think that the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent the world into lockdown 7 years ago never ended. It continues to kill and cripple us, to this day. We simply stopped talking about it." boingboing.net/2026/01/16/c...

My sweetheart’s most recent song, inspired in part by the mayor of Minneapolis: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujMr...

My sweetheart’s most recent song, inspired in part by the mayor of Minneapolis: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujMr...

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

📰 Newly-discovered medieval cargo ship in Denmark is the largest of its kind yet found ⛵ It could carry ~300 tonnes of cargo, indicating a greater scale of trade across medieval Europe than previously observed. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

WisconsinEye - the state's version of C-Span - announces launch of GoFundMe campaign www.wsaw.com/2026/01... #wipolitics

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

"What took you so long" is always bad, because you must *never punish the behavior you want to see*.

We don’t have room for a Unit of Severe Preventable Disease where I work. The NICU and PICU are already full.

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

I have had two patients decline a tetanus shot this week.