Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

STOP INVITING REGIME MOUTHPIECES TO LIE ON TV.

It does not matter how "hard hitting" are your questions. They are going to deny obvious truths and replace them with their own. This achieves nothing other than giving them the opportunity to lie to a large audience. Just report the truth.

Adventurous Cat Carries Plastic Tub Up the Stairs, Then Rides It Back Down laughingsquid.com/cat-carries-...

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

I am usually skeptical of the tepid response of our bishops to moral crises, but I want to give credit that they are making good and necessary responses here ⚓️

Federal judge William Young ripped Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio apart for their efforts to deport pro-Palestinian students/academics — accusing them of "an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people." "These Cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution."

Nice trolling by @bsky.app

I find it amusing that “bleeding heart” has become derogatory from people who claim Christianity leads them when like… The Sacred Heart/bleeding heart was the ideal representation of Christ’s compassion and suffering for centuries. (Amusing/ironic/depressing)

Stars are colorful, and the brightest can appear blue, red, yellow or sometimes white. But not green--even though they emit lots of green light! Here's why

DHS said the man died while he tried to commit suicide and “violently resisted security staff.” A medical examiner called it “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression.” A witness told the Washpost *on the record* that guards choked him as he said, “no puedo respirar.” Gift link⤵️ wapo.st/49FW4NG

Trump employing literal smoke (and mirrors) to blame the violence on protestors.

About this: This practice of churches providing groceries/supplies to immigrant families who are afraid to leave their homes out of fear of ICE is widespread, and widely reported. What's different here is the *scale* of operations this one church is overseeing, and how public they are about it.

This was an intense hearing. Judge Young, an 85-year-old Reagan appointee who has served on the federal bench for 47 years, didn't mince words. He closed the hearing by reading from Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. Some of the people in the courtroom were in tears. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

“More videos are likely to emerge, but the visual evidence shows no indication that the agent who fired the shots, Jonathan Ross, had been run over” (Gift link)

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Actually this *is* the future liberals want, the fact it's sending Stephen Miller into conniptions is just a side benefit

Media talking about "protestors" in Minneapolis makes me uneasy, because that doesn't seem to be what's going on. People are protecting themselves and their neighbors from a violent, armed invasion. That's not protest.

The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.

“I am very annoyed”: Pharma execs blast RFK Jr.’s attack on vaccines arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

ICE detaining Native American tribal citizens at concentration camp boingboing.net/2026/01/15/i...

At 25, Wikipedia Now Faces Its Most Existential Threat—Generative A.I. www.scientificamerican.com/article/at-2...

RFK Jr. Says He’s Ending the War on Protein. It Doesn’t Exist www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

I see that @michellegoldberg.bsky.social and I wrote about the similar things today: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...

The NY Times concludes that the ICE agent who shot Renee Good was NOT hit by her car “the visual evidence shows no indication that..Jonathan Ross, had been run over..It also establishes-millisecond by millisecond-how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place”

“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

This is what everyone on the ground id trying to prevent, which is why they’re so active in the suburbs and exurbs, where because density is lower, rapid response networks are not as well established. People outside Minnesota need to realize that these kidnappings are happening across the state.

"We’re actually seeing new super PACs being established. One of them has already committed to spending $100 million in the midterms. And we’re seeing politicians and candidates speaking very frankly about wanting to install pro-crypto candidates" more here: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Thinking back to when a 2021 Minnesota jury convicted Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd where the deciding evidence to convict for them wasn't just that he used excessive force on an unarmed civilian on camera, but that he also denieded any potential life saving medical treatment for him.

this is pathetic to a degree i didn't realize was possible

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

I spent the week in Minneapolis. About the only thing I’m sure of now is that more people are going to die. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Look at this absolute queen

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

The poor guy is suffering from internal bleeding in his trigger finger.

📞Reminder: Please call today! Senator Chris Van Hollen: 202-224-4654 Senator Angela Alsobrooks: 202-224-4524 Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth: 202-225-4016 Tell them: Vote NO for increased funding for ICE or Border Patrol. They are tearing apart our communities! 🍃

Just got this forwarded. Here are the talking points Schumer's team just emailed out to their allies TODAY - this afternoon. The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.

"'Abolish ICE' is no longer just a far-left slogan — it's good politics. God knows why Americans reelected Trump, but they clearly didn’t envision masked goons knocking down doors and disappearing people." — @playtyperguy.com

besides all the obvious things to say, my hot take is that this is also time to retire the Nobel Prize as this whole thing is too embarrassing for words

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

Brilliant gambit sir

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

Right-wing media are backing Trump as he threatens to use the Insurrection Act.

Also: exercising your rights is not insurrection

So someone with inside information on government policy decisions is personally involved with platforms that allow people to bet on government policy decisions? The corruption is endless. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Technically, that Peace Prize is a gift to the state and President Ocasio-Cortez should wear it to her inauguration in a few years.