The election is being called. Get set to be swamped in a toxic sea of hate and disinformation. This is the right wing playbook in action. Please check out my latest piece on the role Facebook has played in driving disinformation. charlieangus.substack.com/p/my-canadia...

Good Morning Resistance

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

FACT OF THE DAY. 25 January 1890. The attempt by American journalist Nellie Bly (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran) to travel around the world in less than 80 days was successful. She aimed to emulate Jules Verne’s fictional character, Phileas Fogg, in Around The World in 80 Days. Bly took 72 days.

New findings by researchers at the #UniversityofHelsinki highlight the importance of education in preventing memory disorders and provide new information on why some people maintain good cognitive function despite their advanced age www.helsinki.fi/en/news/brai... #EduMatters #Age #Memory #Cognition

Donald Trump: Self-absorbed, arrogant, boastful. It does not take a mental health professional to recognise these features. Research unpacks the toxic environment fostered by leaders high in grandiose narcissism www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulf... #Trump #toxic #narcissism 🖌️benzohickey on IG

History won't be kind with Donald Trump, Commander-in-Chief. Ben Jennings on Trump the peacemaker 🖌️ cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com #Trump #GazaAgreement #Israel #Hamas #Ceasefire with @filosia.bsky.social 🐬 #UnitedBlue 💙

More exposure to mom’s voice may prevent preemies’ language delays news.cornell.edu/stories/2025... #PrematureInfants #NewBorns #LanguageDevelopment #MotherImpact #Language #Cognition #ChildrenDevelopment #ResearchNews

Stephen Skowronek warns that America’s Constitution may no longer sustain the democracy it created — its legendary adaptability has turned into a source of paralysis and conflict isps.yale.edu/news/blog/20... #Democracy #USPolitics #Constitution #TrumpAdministration with @filosia.bsky.social 🐬

Viewing art has an immediate positive impact upon the body according to new research from IoPPN) at King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/news/the-pos... #Art #PositiveImpact #Psychology 📸The youthful lightness of Degas’ sculpture “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” #Degas #B&EGoulandris #Athens #Greece

Well, here WR Mr Trump! “Quiet Piggy,” has told us all we need to know about a "president" ’s attitude toward women. Sure, that hasn’t been in doubt since we saw you on tape saying, “Grab them by the p*ssy.” #Epstein #Trump #Association #KnewAboutTheGirls #EpsteinScandal #CoverUp 🖌️Mike Luckovich

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? #LangstonHughes HARLEM #America #noplace4ignorance

“The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations. Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously.” #ZohranMamdani, the 1st Muslim and South Asian to serve as mayor, the 1st to use a Quran at his swearing-in and the 1st millennial mayor #NewYorkNewYork #NYCMayor ✌️❤️

And the world has one less Dictator to worry about. Who's THE clown now? #DonaldTrump #Maduro via Tom Adelsbach on fb with @filosia.bsky.social 🐬 #MeidasTouch #Resist #StrongerTogether #MeidasBoosts #StopTheMadness

"Why don’t we have that? You take a look at a map. So I’m in real estate...It’s not different from a real-estate deal. It’s just a little bit larger, to put it mildly.” Snow plow by Vasco Gargalo 🖌️ #Trump #TheMadWorldOfDonaldTrump #Greenland #ShowMeTheMoney #WorldOrder with @filosia.bsky.social 🐬

“To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.” Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay #ThePowerOfEducation

GRIFTERS GOTTA GRIFT youtu.be/1GfwpIpBRX0?...

AMOC AMOK! youtu.be/_Q1BfnoHCKE?...

🤣😅😂😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅😂😅🤣 youtu.be/5lYXb2mSUDE?...

Batman and the Creeper by José Luis García-López

And all the money went into his offshore account!

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” ~Ida B. Wells. Image: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center.

At our February meeting (Sunday 1st February, ONLINE via Zoom) we welcome Dr Mélanie Flossmann-Schütze who will give a talk on "Animal cult in Tuna el Gebel: the animal necropolis and the priest settlements in Ptolemaic times" (1/5) #egyptology #ancientEgypt #TunaElGebel #necropolis #ancientHistory

The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) Day 25 of #birbfest2026 Oil paint sketch over acrylic on A5 paper #birbfest #birdart #oilpaint

🎈🥳💙💛🎉🎈💙💛🎊🎈🍀 Happy Birthday, Mr. President 💝 BEST LEADER of the world🫡 We wish you all the best! May your wishes come true soon.🍀

The "Seaweed" pattern, William Morris.

Trump isn't just firehosing us with lies, he's doing it with crimes and scts of terrorism, too. This is an assault and requires appropriate defense.

Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi phys.org/news/2026-01... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Democratic members of Congress are demanding access to Ghislaine Maxwell after reports of her again recieving preferential treatment in prison. That alone tells you oversight has been missing for years.

#StreetArt in #Paris 4th

Jonesy cartoon in Private Eye No. 1667

Before 2013 when Sea Star Wasting appeared these giant Pisaster sea stars were common. This one is pulling a clam out of it's burrow at Coal Oil Pt. Canadian researchers found that Vibrio, closely related the agent causing Cholera, killed off millions of sea stars.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

BREAKING: The ayatollah of Iran says he is weighing up the possibility of a war of liberation if ICE agents don't stop murdering peaceful protesters in the US

If Kamala Harris were president today, Renee Good and Alex Pretti would still be alive.

It’s popcorn eating time🍿🍿

. wishful thinking .

Paris #photography #blackandwhite

9am was especially pretty this morning

They can kill and jail citizens and legal immigrants, bomb Venezuela, break the NATO treaty, WE STILL WANT THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!! #RESIST #BLUECREW #VOTEBLUE #PROJECT2026 #CALLOUTTHEIRNAMES #TRUMPISAPEDOPHILE

#StreetArt by Loch Stencils #Lavomatik #Paris 13th

Fairyland Loop, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.

We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow. Here it is:

Hey, Christians! Are you marching against the Pedo Protector yet? #EpsteinFiles youtube.com/shorts/EvOXY...

New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: HH211NIRCAM. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Take a look at news_by_date.html

Scarlet Elf Cups in the woods this afternoon #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends #mycology