Remembering for no reason that in the 1990s, French officials were charged, some of them with manslaughter, after negligence allowed infected blood supplies at the national transfusion center to be administered to hemophiliacs in the mid-1980s, leading thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

In 2025, 200+ climate disasters affected 87.8 million people worldwide, Mongabay finds. Drought drove food insecurity, while extreme storms killed 8,000+ people. Scientists say fossil fuel warming is intensifying disasters and pushing the limits of adaptation.

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

Arcyria sp slime mold. NWT, Canada. #myxomycetes #fungifriends The slime mold sporangia are about 0.5cm high.

An explosion has ripped through an apartment building in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, killing a 4-year-old girl.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election, narrowing Republicans’ already-slim majority

Man this is really something

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

i will add that the sooner people wake up and join the fight, the faster and easier it will be to win. history makes it clear that the longer we wait, the harder it will be.

Videos from Gaza show huge explosions as Israeli air attacks hit a building in Gaza City and tents in al-Mawasi. Gaza’s Government Media Office says more than 500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on October 10.

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012... Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans.

we are running out of time to stop this organization from gaining unprecedented power

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

...one third are murdered by cops. In other words, Americans are killed by their own government EVERY SINGLE DAY, and that has been true for decades. Y'all just never bothered to care when it was mostly black people, Hispanic people, American Indians, and those the government brands "criminals".

70,000 dead at the very minimum. How is this not headline news everywhere? (And yes, this is a rhetorical question, as I know exactly how and why). www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

A new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has ranked Israel as the third worst jailer of journalists in the world, behind only China and Myanmar, in a damning indictment of the state’s escalating war on press freedom. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260129-des...

Trump’s deployment of federal troops has cost taxpayers nearly $500 million so far — and could surpass $1 billion for the rest of the year. That’s after slashing SNAP and Medicaid, letting ACA subsidies expire, and gutting countless other federal programs. Priorities.

Dozens of faith leaders arrested in Washington protest against Trump immigration policies reut.rs/3NL951i

Thresher sharks…I don’t know, kind of chibi

phone wants to remind me of the time i saw a tortoise in 2022 which i am ok with

Billionaire owned corporate media has learned under this administration that challenging power brings retaliation and compliance protects profits. When journalism accommodates power, it ceases to serve the public. This is precisely why independent media has become a necessity. Let’s Address This.

There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Good news, friends and neighbors: your representatives have not fled the region. They're in our spa getting massages and manicures.

Bitch ass Nazis need to wear masks but I spent two years dealing with people threatening to kill my family because I posted on main that people should get a COVID vaccine.

my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.

People are asking a lot “how is this happening?” It’s happening the way abolitionists have warned you for decades it’s happening — you can’t dehumanize whole groups of people, pay for their brutalization & not expect for more bounty hunters to come.

Chuck Schumer is a complete, total and utter joke. Fascists are pounding at the door, and yet he cowers and caves. He is no longer fit to serve as Senate Minority Leader. He must step down or be replaced. (1/7)🧵

JWST just saw a galaxy that existed only 280 million years after the big bang

The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die

Over 90 percent of detained immigrants languish in prisons that aren't actually run by the government.

Crowd-control tactics tied to eye injuries, serious wounds and fatalities are drawing renewed scrutiny.

This is shameful. The man spent years working to undermine faith in public health, amplified by right-wing think tanks backed by big money to oppose anything big business doesn’t like. His contribution to our discourse was a declaration that we should let people get mass infected for herd immunity.

ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

The reason journalists are so particular about what’s off the record and about granting anonymity is that many of us take that very seriously. If I promise to protect your identity, I’m not just saying I won’t print your name. I’m saying I will go to jail for refusing a court order to name you.

I need folks to understand that the constitution has only ever applied to *certain* people under *certain* situations. “But that’s not how it’s supposed to be!” Correct.

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking what happens when the observer is part of that world

When everything feels uncertain, I look to the rhythms of the land. They teach me to trust what I can’t yet see. Pause for a moment today. Notice what’s quietly growing around you, and within you. #hopeinthewaiting #payattention #gentlerhythms

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

i’m holding out for a rogue gamma ray that evaporates all life on the planet but a runaway black hole works too

The only people who have died have been people exercising their constitutional rights while masked, armed federal paramilitaries have violently invaded an entire state to do a wholesale ethnic cleansing campaign.

OH BOY, AM I EVER www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The remains of a teenage boy who lived around 27,000 years ago suggest he was attacked by a cave bear—some of the first direct evidence of a predator attacking an ancient human

The threat of screwworm to Texas is growing, with 8 recent sightings in Tamaulipas, the adjoining Mexican state.

Some beautiful fungi yesterday