Black sharecroppers in West Tennessee in 1959 were evicted by white landowners when they registered to vote, sparking the encampment known as Freedom Village. Decades later, the battle for fair political power and representation continues in the county.

Oregon's wildlife agency has to hold 'bake sales' to fund conservation. The 1% for Wildlife bill would change that with a small hotel tax. Hotel lobbyists hate it. Hunters and environmentalists love it. Last year, 2 GOP senators killed it. Round two starts in February.

Separatists - “Ottawa sucks so much! We’re so tired of them meddling in our affairs!” Also Separatists - “First Nations keep repeating facts that make us sad! Ottawa please audit them!” Fascinating strategy to get buy in… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Glad to see the news picking this up. I just received the proposed changes to migratory bird hunting for review and the biggest issues are the swan season and a mourning dove season. Inability to ID swan species is a huge problem and our data on dove numbers is deficient www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Excellent. Yes. The asymmetrical media environment helps explain the destruction that happened in science this year. Thanks to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @volts.wtf for highlighting our tendency to ignore the info environment. I wrote about that from 🧪 earlier this week. 1/

We are killing children all around the world because a handful of rich people who don’t understand the science think it is worse to be neurodivergent than it is to be dead.

#DBCalert: Highway 28 Both directions | Closure | Between Gold River Hwy and Quinsam Rd for 86.7 km | #CampbellRiver to #GoldRiver | Washout. Road closed. Assessment in progress. Detour not available. Watch for traffic control. At Big Den Rest Area 55km Mark. | Next update...

EVACUATION ORDER & ALERT Issued: January 30, 2026 Affecting: MAPLE POOL CAMPGROUND, STEPHEN ROAD AND HEADQUARTERS ROAD For more information visit www.comoxvalleyrd.ca/eoc

#Comox Valley RD friends - the following are under Evacuation Order. Go Now. Maple Pool Campground Three properties along Stephen Road – 3054 Stephen Rd, 3074 Stephen Rd, 3104 Stephen Rd Nine properties along Headquarters Road – 4697, 4685, 4679, 4673, 4667, 4661, 4659, 4653, 4629

“Resilience is a concept that infuriates me; it guilds suffering with nobility, distracting from what’s causing suffering.”

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A sad day at NIH... The NIH Record was a great way for NIH folks to find out what was going on across NIH. Many important stories published there over the years. nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/30/n...

The Edmonton Police Service is asking for the public's help in locating a woman from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta.

"Under the former Hamlet Food Voucher Program, a family of four with two children older than four would have received $12,000 per year, compared with the total $1,890 of relief offered by the proposed Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit." www.aptnnews.ca/featured/inu...

#DBCalert: Highway 28 Both directions | Closure | Between Gold River Hwy and Quinsam Rd for 86.7 km | #CampbellRiver to #GoldRiver | Washout. Road closed. Assessment in progress. Detour not available. Watch for traffic control. At Big Den Rest Area 55km Mark. | Next update...

Not Catherine O’Hara. My parents knew her when she was a child and loved watching everything she did through her career, as so many others have. What a gut punch.

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social can you or anyone in your foster network take Jack until his dad can get back on his feet? He’s with the Philly PAWS Safety Net Program. www.instagram.com/reel/DUE5Stb...

#DBCalert: Highway 16 Both directions | Closure | Between Penny Access Rd and Dome Creek Rd for 23.0 km | 56 to 33 km east of Purden Lake | There is a multi-vehicle incident. Road closed. Detour not available. | Next update Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 9:30 AM PST

In the 1960’s, racist government officials called civil rights protesters ‘outside agitators’ & ‘professionals’ because they couldn’t accept that their neighbors & many others acted morally to right the wrongs. They couldn’t accept it. Today our government is doing the same crap

🚨 ATTN North Carolina: We know recovery from Hurricane Helene is far from over. With RenewNC, the state housing recovery program, closing applications on Jan. 31, ProPublica & @theassemblync.bsky.social want to know: Have you applied? What’s been your experience? And if not, tell us why 👇

Here is a writeup of our work on #Aninoides and how it helped us to uncover a little bit of Beothuk astronomy. Obviously :-) With huge thanks to @julialaite.bsky.social gazette.mun.ca/research/dig...

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:

#PhantomsFriday January-April 1861 A "Man in White," described as being 5'8" to 25' tall, wandered about in the dark in Cleveland, Ohio, terrifying its residents. Posses were formed; the ghost complained in a letter to the papers of being persecuted by armed gangs when it just wanted a quiet stroll.

NEW: Cicih Sukaesih helped bring worldwide attention to the working conditions at Nike suppliers in Indonesia. “She helped to birth, I would argue, the Indonesian trade union movement within Nike’s supplier factories,” one labor activist said. With @oregonian.com

NEW @ms.now: Pardoned by Trump, anti-abortion activists plan a nationwide revival of mass blockades at clinics & pharmacies that dispense abortion pills — in part, bc they know this DOJ won't prosecute them. "This is our window," Randall Terry told me. I caught up w/ him & others in DC last week:

Rachel is driving down to the Twin Cities next week and offering to do some care work for any one who's doing frontline responder work. Reach out to Rachel if you could use a little help with your dishes, errands, cooking, childcare, cleaning!

In the Philippines, some renewable energy activists have subsequently been charged, their organisational and personal bank accounts frozen. Here are the lived realities of red-tagging. This article was first co-published in English by Kodao Productions and @dialogueearth.bsky.social:

We’re looking for some help for Cupcake! 🥰 She has a condition that affects her esophagus. She requires lifelong, special-order meds, and careful feeding. We’re committed to Cupcake’s care until she finds a home willing to embrace her special needs. Donate at care.aarcs.ca/participant/3/128

This is Westwood Primary School in Cambridgeshire. They're the latest recipients of £500 of books, courtesy of Big Green Books 500 Club. THANK YOU so much to everyone who's helped and supported this. I love it so much. www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

FELLOW OZMIPOLITANS! It's time for an event of bewilderfying proportiations! Join Dumpster Raccoon Cinema on ONE NIGHT ONLY for our SINGALONG OPEN STAGE PERFORMANCE of WICKED & WICKED: FOR GOOD! BOTH FILMS - BACK TO BACK! Sponsored by @baystreetvideo.bsky.social ! revuecinema.ca/films/dumpst...

Some of the books banned books by the UCP... • A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One • George Orwell’s 1984: The Graphic Novel • The Book of Genesis by Robert Crumb • Breakdown: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! • Andy Warhol • Introducing Camus #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

Happening now! Excellent opening remarks from Beth Jarosz: "If data were frivolous, people wouldn't be trying to erase it."

Teachers may be getting home around now, so a reminder that i'm giving away these books. If you want them for your school, just get in touch. I'll choose someone a bit later this evening.

📢 Our next series of free online art history talks kicks off again next Thursday 5 February! 🎨 Join Professor Conor Carville as he explores our collection of artwork depicting the Irish writer, James Joyce. 🔗 collections.reading.ac.uk/art-collecti...

I was gonna hold off on releasing these shirts, BUT they are sick as hell & I wanted to show you. Imagine a world... in which Goth Girls Gardened... GASP! You're living in that world RIGHT NOW. Bring the Goth into Gardening at SquidFacts.net Designed by the amazing @seaofdoom.bsky.social

Help save the #WooltonCommunityCinema in #Liverpool The "all or nothing" fundraising campaign is up and running! Details of how you can help/donate click here: buff.ly/vokeLaD If the target of £700,000 isn't reached by May 2026, all donations will be refunded.

In small and welcome mercies, huge thanks to @torontofire.bsky.social for leaping out of their truck with shovels to dig through a metre of still falling snow to the front door on Monday, so that the ambulance personnel could get to the medical emergency inside.

Amazon found hundreds of thousands of CSAM images in its AI training set, which they reported to authorities — but without telling them where it came from

People who oppose #vaccines often claim that doctors push them because they're paid to by Pharma or that vaccine administration is a big revenue source for doctors. The reality: Delivering vaccine puts an economic strain on many pediatric practices. www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/p...

This Day in Labor History: January 29, 2009. President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act. Let's talk about this key if narrow law to fight gender discrimination on the job!!

Community governments in the NWT are being invited to apply for a total of more than $74 million to be spent on water, wastewater or solid waste projects.

OMFG! New (old) protest song. Frankly, it’s perfect. youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM

I’ve spent 15 years challenging a flawed explanation for an infant’s death. Credit to The New Yorker for patient investigative journalism that corrected the record when institutions did not.

Want more audiobooks? (Obviously.) Want to support a great cause? (Double obviously.) 🎧 Tomorrow, you can bid on 12 audiobook credits in support of Publishing for Minnesota, an auction raising funds to support immigrant communities and those most impacted by ICE ⏬

A court-approved settlement claim for former Indigenous patients that attended federal Indian hospitals is now open. Those who experienced abuse while admitted at one of these hospitals can now submit a claim for compensation.

Albertans should just blindly trust that the UCP has their best interests in mind when it comes to investing your pension money. Especially with former PM, Stephen Harper, now in charge of AIMCo. Read: abpolecon.ca/2025/12/02/a... #abpoli #UCPCorruption #ableg

Misoprostol and methotrexate do more than end pregnancies—but anti-abortion pharmacists can now refuse to offer them and still get federal funds.