Deep sea test mining at 4,280m depth caused 37% drop in seafloor animal density and 32% loss in species richness 🌍 Areas untouched by drilling but hit by sediment plumes saw #biodiversity shifts www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MarineEcology

12 January 1976 Crime writer Agatha Christie died (aged 85). She’s the best selling novelist of all time and created private detectives Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. #History #HistoryMatters #Literature #crimefiction

Memory post from today. Amazing💕 youtu.be/DtQt8EiosKk?...

Greenland mineral wealth is an expensive trump fantasy. share.newsbreak.com/grcxsosj

Explosions have been reported in multiple locations across occupied Crimea, including Feodosia, Kerch, and Dzhankoi. In Kerch, Russian air defenses reportedly opened fire, while in Dzhankoi, gunfire was heard near the airfield targeting drones.

To sway the election: “…the federal government is waging an unprecedented legal assault on states to collect your Social Security number, your signature, your address, and a complete history of how you’ve voted…” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The streetcar is coming back Feb 3rd! I'm excited. I like our little streetcar (though I'd like it even more if it was on the Eastside Beltline too). www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/01/12/m...

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

Ironic that after the fraudster in chief, the grifter in chief, the traitor-king, inflicted Elon Musk on us to gut the fed govt, should now say thru the treasury secy that our govt is being defrauded so bigly.

So this is why we don't rally behind rightwingers who superficially agree with one or two human rights positions. Bigots are not your friends, regardless of their political party. #resist

Minneapolis right now— At 35th and Park, a crowd has gathered after a car crash involving the feds. Agents just launched tear gas and pepper balls at people.

Flying foxes die in their thousands in worst mass-mortality event since Australia’s extreme heatwave of Black summer #xwx #heatwave Rapid Anthropogenic Climate #MassExtinction #ClimateExtinction www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Telling us to protect our natural food resources.

Keith Moon said that.

Released on this day 57 years ago. And they said it would go over like a... 1972 Canadian Atlantic press

🚨BREAKING: Lawmakers from both parties and former U.S. monetary officials are sounding the alarm after Fed. Chair Jerome Powell announced Sunday evening that President Donald Trump was attempting to pressure the central bank into cutting interest rates through the threat of criminal prosecution.

New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

thehill.com/homenews/sen... Our military is in crisis. There is no longer lingering doubt. The Republican President of the United States is a raving lunatic. The US military which is us - needs to tell Trump fuck NO or paticipate in the distruction of the United States.

Trump is itching for protests to turn violent so he can send in his goons and kill people. Protest have NOT been violent so he is sending his goons in to kill people anyway.

Have I found the key to getting young men away from their game controllers and back into healthy social in-person interaction? Please check out my latest Psychology Today Blog: #psychology #adolescence #music #wellness #socialization www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rich...

This week, we’ll have to keep focus on multiple important issues at the same time. We can’t let Trump get a pass on any of them. Here’s some information and analysis designed to help. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The day after Good’s death, Noem signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week’s advance notice. Joyce Vance

12 January 1976. Crime writer Agatha Christie died (aged 85). She’s the best selling novelist of all time and created private detectives Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. She has sold more books world-wide than pop records by The Beatles, David Bowie and Elvis Presley combined.

a pod of wild orca, including a tiny calf 🖤🤍 so beautiful I felt like bursting into tears. seen yesterday in the waters around Skjervøy, Norway

Wow, fast-tracking a trio of bills to protect NJ residents. Must be nice to have a functioning state government. #Mapoli

This 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked the Trump administration from freezing roughly $10 billion in federal funding for child care and social services destined for five Democratic-led states. Jessica Craven

Having served in multiple countries run by ruthless dictators, I am accustomed to their tactics for keeping their populations under control. One of them is to employ a legion of fake opposition figures who promote the false narrative that "all parties are the same, so why bother voting?"

Three dead. Many more transported to outside hospital after melee inside Georgia prison Sunday afternoon. www.11alive.com/article/news...

Seen earlier & agreed— There is NO reason for ICE /CBP/DHS agents to have guns. Period. No one is shooting at them.

Read the Constitution sometime.

Thousands 'without light and warm water' — At tournament, Ukrainian tennis player speaks out on Russian energy grid strikes "I play every day with pain in my heart... My sister sleeps under three blankets because of the cold at home," Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostiuk said...

Russia launched their second Oreshnik IRBM against Ukraine. Putin knows he is losing this war and he does not know what else to do except continue saber rattling his nuclear weapons.

"Petition demands school board trustees remain as elected officials.The future of local representation in Ontario's public education system is under threat, as the government considers removing elected school board officials- sparking widespread concern" www.sudbury.com/around-the-n...

2 people were injured in the attack by the Russian Armed Forces on Odessa, local authorities reported.

The president of the United States is extorting the Federal Reserve Board Chairman by threatening criminal prosecution if he doesn't lower interest rates. DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."

Making minorities the enemy, extreme nationalism, a cult leader, denying election results, normalising corruption, a secret police, attempts to control health, education and media, loyal rich rewarded, excusing and glamourising violence. When do we admit that the USA is becoming a fascist state?

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

House Democrats sucessfully united the votes to pass the discharge petition to bring ACA extensions to the floor. Bipartisan support passed the measure, last week.

The Republican party has the majority in both houses of Congress. Democratic party members of our US Senate have brought war power measures checks on the executive branch 4 times this year. A couple of cognizant working members of the Republican party have also joined in support. Passed last week.

1/11/1862 — b. Edith Wharton, American author, designer. Novelist, short story writer, poet; wrote 50+ books in 40 yrs Best known works: “The House of Mirth” (1905), “Ethan Frome” (‘11) + “The Age of Innocence” (‘20) which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction #womenshistory #womenwriter #BookSky #BOTD

Today is Alice Paul’s birthday! Alice was instrumental in getting women the right to vote in 1920 & then went on to introduce and lobby for the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923! She’s quoted as saying: “There will never be a new world order unless women are a part of it.” — Alice Paul, 1885-1977

This should be the biggest story in South Africa. E Cape officials should be jailed for failing to prevent this. Corporations should be devoting most of their charitable spending on solutions. It is insane that 973 kids have died of starvation (that’s just a hospital count) when we export food.

Make it viral.