China has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.

we hear so much about trans people from the British press yet so rarely hear from them - I'm really pleased this piece was commissioned, and will also be in the physical paper: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

⚡ Kyiv Mayor Klitschko says 600,000 people left Kyiv in January amid Russia's attacks on energy infrastructure.

One of the big media failures of the past decade is the ongoing search for the deeper side of Trump. There isn't one. His ideology, such as it is, is personalist, transactional, and zero-sum. That's as vain, vulgar, and wrong as you can get. He likes gold shit and applause. There's nothing beneath.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago

It is striking how Americans who strongly disapprove of Trump outnumber those who strongly approve by more than 2-to-1. Data via @today.yougov.com

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

He's a fucking quisling and we should be blasting him on it until Reform collapses

as an author getting any kind of sales bump out of a viral post is so rare you might as well hope to gain notoriety by standing in a field and waiting to be the first writer to catch a meteorite with your teeth instead

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

This is probably the most accurate description. Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.

We had endless articles and TV clips about Biden's mental capacity but silence about Trump's obvious unfitness when he says he's going to start a war with Denmark over Greenland because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Omg. Iran killed 16,500 protesters and injured 330,000 in two days.

The creation of the DHS was absolutely classic Joe Lieberman -- creating a wedge issue for *the other party,* resulting in a substantively worse policy outcome

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me

These total frauds.

"When America sneezes, the world catches a cold." Well, some of it does.

When are people going to be held accountable for the nonsense slop and puff they emit.

Syria decree grants Kurds new rights, formally recognising Kurdish language https://aje.news/a5ob3i

protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed. disgusting.

It is genuinely interesting that when you try to make a chatbot "unwoke" and edgy, it tends to run away down the slope to Nazi. It's clearly a feature of the underlying data space.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

It will never not be funny to me the way that Google's AI search returns a result you don't want and didn't ask for in an incredibly surly tone. 'No, this [thing you did not ask for] never happened. Are you dumb?'

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

There’s “allyship” and then there’s this: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

As usual, the story here isn't about "divides" or cosmopolitan elites looking down on rural populations. It is about radicalization. This woman wants violent vengeance for things that did not happen.

The deck is stacked in about 10 different ways to give extra power and money to rural areas, but it's never enough. Right wing propaganda continues to tell them they are out upon victims powerless against the mighty cities.

this is fucking incredible

Just going to reply with this chart whenever I hear people telling me how the triple lock will destroy the public finances from now on.

this is good news - for a change!

Over 20 years, Iran has been the No1 country of origin for asylum seekers in the UK. Those who campaign to slash the rights of refugees, but today decry the savagery of the Iranian regime, need to have a little think. There is no safe route to the UK for Iranian asylum seekers.

There seems to be a mind-boggling collapse in Americans' ability to understand the concept of speech acts. When the president makes a declaration, that's not "mere" words. The statement constitutes a foreign policy action. I feel like I'm going crazy here. Nobody has ever not understood this before

PS. Make protests comfortable for the most normal, conventional people you can possibly get out to them. This has got to be a mainstream movement. It’s not the place for people to reserve for edgy thrills. It’s not time for factionalism. We need the optics of regular folks on the street.

New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis. The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.

From arrest to execution in less than a week is outrageous even by the standards of the Iranian judiciary.

Scenes from the NY State Department of Wallet Inspection...

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed. everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016

Iranian student (23) killed during protests shot in head ‘from close range’

Disinformation works.

Almost can't believe I felt the need to write this but... Is Trump about to attack Greenland? There has been a clear escalation in rhetoric in recent weeks. christinapagel.substack.com/p/is-trump-g...

I mean, at this point a "counter narrative" on X is an image of a fully clothed child