Judge Biery: “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.”

Judge Biery: “Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.”

Also, new euphemism for sex trafficking just dropped: “aggressively fundraising for one’s lab.”

holy shit in this one, in September 2009, marc hauser asks jeffrey epstein to fund a new project, when he knows that his federal funding is all gonna disappear because of his scientific misconduct. wild www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls www.justice.gov/epstein

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

This is so anti democratic I don’t even know where to start. What a depressing, elitist, and almost quasi authoritarian way to view politics.

We don’t want Trump’s dangerous policies here. https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/30/reform-uk-nigel-farage-plans-for-a-british-ice/

Is this the most British thing!!? Got an NHS text basically saying: "Let me squeeze your boobs in the carpark behind the ASDA" I'm not kidding!

Yet another report calls for a national urban/village default speed limit of 20mph. This time its from the Faculty of Public Health, Transport and Health Science Group and the Royal Society for Public Health. See action No. 5 www.fph.org.uk/media/tr2bnu...

Amid heated public debate about whether trans children are dying by suicide, campaigners say we need to "take the politics out of policymaking" www.wearequeeraf.com/one-in-six-c...

“At her knitting shop in Minneapolis, Mashaal typically avoids discussing politics. But as a Jewish woman and an immigrant herself, she felt she had no other option than to find a way to protest.” 🧶

This made me smile!! I'm here for this woman! I've done plastering and it takes persistence beyond belief to skim it and walk away happy

Car ads should be made reflect real world conditions. So if in a city, there should be traffic

A friend asked if I still have videos of Len testing out the prototype of "touch-activated saxophone that can be used to make cats play Careless Whisper," since I pulled all my old content off the hellsite ages ago. And I do!

New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.

Finally wrote about it. "I’m calling it the Cookie Theory of Collective Action: Everyone has a role, anyone can start small, and joy is an essential part of the broader fight for your community." snackstack.net/2026/01/30/t...

Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

A sad day at NIH... The NIH Record was a great way for NIH folks to find out what was going on across NIH. Many important stories published there over the years. nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/30/n...

Now that the $500k chatbot is gone, probably another $2 billion available for disbanding the NYPD drug squad. To generate revenue, rehire 10% with clean records to a new agency investigating white-collar crime.

‼️This famous photo from the Minnesota Tribune on Jan. 21 is from this incident, involving at least three of the same agents from Alex Pretti's killing. Thanks to the people replying who tipped me off to this.

Just a heads up for those of you blessed to be viewed positively in your workplaces: It costs you almost nothing to do this for somebody, and it could make the difference between them getting an opportunity and killing it and continuing to be overlooked. If you know somebody good: pump them up!

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds

Useful explanation. This is bleak asf.

If Labour wants town centres that feel alive, safe, and prosperous, it must say this clearly: Britain overbuilt for cars and underbuilt for people. Fixing that is the route to cheaper living, stronger local economies, and streets that actually work.

This is not anti car. It is pro choice. Pro how towns and cities really work. People should be able to live near services without owning a vehicle. That means density, slower streets, better walking, better buses. Cars still exist. They just stop being mandatory.

Every policy dodge that avoids confronting cars makes Labour look unserious. You cannot revive high streets while defending free parking, wide roads, and car first planning. That is like trying to fix housing while banning building.

Red Squirrel will return in Avengers:Doomsday

As people in Iran intermittently regain connectivity, they are sharing that they feel abandoned. They have risked their lives in the streets, and the government killed tens of thousands of people. But instead of expelling Iranian diplomats and shutting down embassies, foreign governments are doing…

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

This is one of the reasons we should be *very* wary of things like digital ID, extended facial recognition and AI policing. These are tools we should not put in the hands of fascists.

No sorry you don’t get to ignore how Starmer’s appeasement of the far right is laying the groundwork for a Farage takeover. You don’t get to ignore how Labour’s xenophobic rhetoric is already making our lives more difficult.

BUT ALSO: find a party you like and join it. Help make it better and help it create good policies. Help its local councillors help your community. Campaign for it where it’s the best placed party to beat Reform. You can still vote for a less optimal other party if you need to, to stop Reform.

I argue that we should call Reform’s plan British ICE, and this Reform councillor agrees. I genuinely believe that doing so would be terrible for them politically here. So let’s all make sure we call their plan British ICE. bsky.app/profile/dail...

I wrote in detail about Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover of the UK using “uncontrolled illegal immigration” as their way in. Around 3,500 words. Reading time 15-20 minutes (I think). I’m gonna read it out for Shado’s podcast “Shado in focus” soon as well shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

I just finished reading and it is so much worse than I even imagined. Palantir effectively controls some of our most sensitive data - from nukes to the NHS - and Palantir is loyal to the US.

The UK government figured things weren’t dystopian enough for British kids as is. If only there was a way to pay teachers better and hire more teachers from abroad. Inconceivable! Blasphemy! Here’s an AI, kid. We can’t afford a human for you. Sorry. Humans are for the rich kids.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Lots of folks getting radicalized by the snow across much of the country right now. What gets plowed, when it gets plowed, and how often it gets plowed reveals a lot about your city's priorities and who it values.

Okay, I might be crying about this, but I'm also howling with laughter at how mad it would make one specific fascist ghoul. archive.is/2026.01.28-1...

Speaking of Jane Goodall, my favorite quote by her: “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

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Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here. The Scottish Government must show that actions have consequences by evicting American troops from their base at publicly-owned Prestwick Airport

From the past. A look back to on this day 28th January with our farmily of farm animals & our work in Watamu, Kenya