Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically. Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

Another victory for these savvy negotiators.

Lmao

corporate elites, the people who own newspapers, run the labour party so struggle to get what electorates are grasping intuitively: it's death camps, deportations,& deranged pseudo-science or a friendly, inclusive, multi-racial society with lots of public transit

Well, I've narrowed it down to two options. Either I am on Vienna's U1 metroline or I've accidentally wandered into 2001: A space Odyssey. 🤔

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

Remembering Hans Scholl 22 Sep 1918 – 22 Feb 1943 Sophie Scholl 9 May 1921 – 22 Feb 1943 Christoph Probst 6 Nov 1919 – 22 Feb 1943 Stadelheim Prison, Munich, 5PM

The administrators might have been conned by the AI hucksters, but the students, my friends, are all right. (The author is a history and economics major, I'll note.) www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update (#173). It begins with reports of Ukraine liberating a large amount of territory. This could reveal alot of things, in particular that the Russian system continues to lie upwards about the state of the war. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Very excited that my paper "National attachment, past in-group perpetratorhood, and out-group attitudes", co-authored with the great Elias Dinas & Ethan vanderWilden, has been accepted for publication at the British Journal of Political Science. Abstract copied below:

As a former public defender who represented thousands of people, I can’t stop thinking about the contrast the Epstein files raise. I watched 1000s face swift, devastating punishment for far less serious conduct — poor, marginalized, & presumed dangerous from the start.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

NUJ has condemned the 20-year prison sentence handed to Hong Kong media magnate, Jimmy Lai www.nuj.org.uk/resource/hon...

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

"far from being a drain on the country’s social services as critics claim – migrants play a crucial role in keeping the country’s welfare state standing.Bringing half a million workers into the formal economy will only strengthen the country’s social security system" www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

I have a creeping feeling that we're going to find out all these billionaire pedophiles hate George Soros so much because he's the only one who refused to come to Epstein Island.

Just to be clear: We’ve reached the arresting journalists stage of constitutional crisis.

Numerous MAGA media figures are urging Trump to *escalate* his paramilitary warfare on American cities. Let's be clear: What they really want is race war, with their side backed by state violence and terror. Me and @jenrubin.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”

The United Nations reports Israel displaced over 37,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in 2025, a new record. The main driver was Israel's military operations in refugee camps across the northern West Bank, but thousands were also displaced due to home demolitions and settler violence.

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...

Currently working on one of my favorite pieces ever: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle. This company is so stupid and Larry Ellison has bet the farm on OpenAI having $300 billion to give it over five years. Larry Ellison is H.R. Geiger’s Jerry Stiller and he’s rigged his company to blow

As I begin my course on Comparative Genocide tomorrow, I am thinking about how the Holocaust has been (unfairly) used as the yardstick against which to measure mass violence. Instead, we should view it in an equal relationship with other genocides and seek connection rather than uniqueness.

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time. This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

NEW: One of Pope Leo XIV’s top U.S. allies, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, is calling for the defunding of ICE. Tobin says the “lawless organization” is a “machinery of death.” This marks the first time a senior Church leader has called for ICE to be defunded. More are expected in the coming days.

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

Every administration, every faculty senate, every board of trustees who forced their institutions to bend the knee over this shit should immediately be fired. Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.

The medical association representing pediatricians broke with the CDC on childhood immunizations Monday, issuing revised recommendations against 18 diseases that contrast with the Trump administration's recently slimmed-down vaccine schedule. www.axios.com/2026/01/26/t...

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that the parents have disappeared.” - Anne Frank, 13 January 1943

My latest, for the MIT Press Reader: Why is an anti-immigrant extremist force cracking down on non-immigrants? Because when extremists can't win over their in-group, they must assign dissenting members to an out-group in order to maintain legitimacy. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/anatomy-of-e...

The Trump regime's position seems to be that Republicans have the right to bear arms and everyone else has the right to get shot by them.

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

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.

Walz press conference - "We're creating a log of evidence for the future prosecution of ice agents and officials responsible."

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

If there's anyone who still thinks this will all blow over when our big beautiful president Leaves Us, you have to realize the Republican Party is crawling with fascists

Britain feels more and more like a middle aged man who walked out on his family because he wanted to enjoy the company of multiple young ladies and now tries to convince himself he has won because he gets access to the children once a fortnight and three Only Fans subscriptions.

This was fairly obvious, but still nice to have this confirmed by reporting. Also, it worked! Trump angrily imposed sanctions because even this small deployment changed his calculations, making his threats of military action less convincing. He’d have to risk starting a war with Europe.

This shows the mindblowing seriousness of the past days. Danish soldiers deployed to Greenland were ready for direct military confrontation. This dr.dk story lays out the orders from tbe defense ministry. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Imagine if the hype was around the Greens' rise rather than Reform Imagine if instead of putting far-right issues on the agenda, mainstream parties talked about hope, justice, redistribution, public services etc That would put real change on the table and that's why Reform is a safer bet for them

Trump's Fascist Internationale is something Karl Loewenstein, the father of Militant Democracy, literally warned about in his groundbreaking 1937 articles on Militant Democracy and fundamental rights.

The new NYT poll finds Trump 17 points underwater on immigration, and the nonwhite and young voters who went to Trump in 2024 have snapped back to Dems It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary