I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

I'm ready for the fascists to lose, I'm not at all excited for how many people they hurt before they do, but I'm taking a sick glee in how awfully they've chosen the hills they're going to die on. Minnesota? Maine? In JANUARY? Be goddamn serious.

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Is it finally happening?? Please tell me it's happening

“We cannot simply sit by and allow this to continue. We must use every tool that we have to fight back.”

As a transsexual I can't tell you how thrilled I am that fascists are feeling unsafe in bathrooms.

Nope, it's mostly on them.

Grey days deserve better than “just getting through it”. Our pick and mix chocolate boxes are back in stock, looking fancy and ready to be devoured. 🍫 Perfect for gifting, or even better, for treating yourself.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

1. Looks like 2026 will be a big year for #measles in the US. The #CDC reports there have already been 416 confirmed cases in 14 jurisdictions; only 3 of those have been imported. 94% of the cases this year were either unvaccinated or with unknown vax status. This is up 245 cases in a week.

Today’s Minnesota Star Tribune front page will be hung in museums in future. Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.

i left the church and have nothing to do with it anymore but something happens when i see priests and pastors and rabbis and imams and sikhs at protests going so hard in mega harsh conditions i get choked up. this is how all of that is supposed to be. that's what all of that is supposed to be for.

And everyone knows how foxes describe strong winds...

PENNSYLVANIA: Final #ACA Open Enrollment deadline is 1/31; avg net premiums have more than DOUBLED; over 70,000 have already dropped coverage: acasignups.net/26/01/23/pen...

NYC friends! Consider coming to this before the big Union Square march, this Friday (1/23), coinciding with Minneapolis & St Paul's citywide shutdown and strike. We can all hop on the train down to Union Square together afterward (protest car!).

I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.

What happens when the one “friend” who listens is built to keep you hooked? AI companions don’t just chat – they shape behaviour. Our article asks who’s in control.

The Dem chatter on affordability might resonate more if they hadn't spent the last three fucking decades rubber stamping shitty mergers, appointing feckless careerists to key regulatory positions, and, with occasional exception (Khan/Porter) being unwilling to challenge consolidated corporate power

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

It’s currently operating totally outside of our constitutional rules. Habeas corpus , due process of law, equal protection, freedom of speech, 4th amendment protections against search and seizure, are all not being enforced in any common sense or meaningful way.

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

There is so much good stuff in this report but man does this stand out - it has never been so important to switch from fossil to clean rather than from coal to gas. This is great to see

If we're going to do things like this, we have to make sure that, when* it works, we keep fucking DOING it, and expand it where we can. Otherwise it ends and things go back the way they were. *not if, we know the outcome. It's been tested so much it's practically a fact.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

I'm looking for witnesses/victims of DHS retaliating against people who were recording their agents (ICE, Border Patrol, FPS, etc.) in Southern California. This is for LA Press Club v. Noem case, but victim does NOT need to be press/journalist. Everyone has right to record. We're fighting for all.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

What ICE is doing in the United States Nigel Farage has told us he wants to do in the United Kingdom.

And why wouldn't you?

Beyond all the other legal and moral points to this, simply the unkindness that this nation has subjected the trans community to, is something that makes me feel ashamed to the core of the UK.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

"When the facts are plain and the law is clear, accountability must follow" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/21/carbon-dioxide-co2-emissions-fossil-fuel-firms-study

Look, it's simple. We just want the worst person in the world to die

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

“The humanities simply don’t fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way the sciences or even the social sciences are. And the deeper reason they’re coming under attack is that free thought and rigorous, free inquiry is dangerous to executive power.”

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

I hear a lot of people say: Trump is escalating. I don't know if that's quite le mot juste. Trump is *spiralling*. There's quite a big difference. The lack of any discussion around the 25th Amendment is astounding.

This is really not much less than some authors would get from someone buying their book on a discount from The Evil Bookshop. Never feel bad about getting that book from the library! We want you to do it! Most of use use/have used a library a lot! We still get paid!

this is because NO ONE WANTS YOUR SHITTY AUTOCORRECT, YOU KNOBHEAD

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Path To Peter Tavy coombe this week, Dartmoor, I thought I’d explain a bit more about how I take many of my pictures. Because of my health I can’t stand or walk for more than a couple of metres at a time so most of my photos are taken near roads.

Excruciating back pain in the middle of the night but wasn't wearing my glasses when I reached for, and took what I thought was codeine. I managed to worm myself. The dog now has her own medicine shelf.

Only 4238 finders are reporting to PAS (up from 2023's 3877... but considering the huge boom in the numbers of those detecting, this is still only 1-10% of the number of detectorists in UK). AKA we're still in a mess and it's only getting worse... 2/4 bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/t...

Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox

I finally figured this out in a visceral sense when I first visited Africa. Just so. much. BIGGER than I'd ever realised

The metaverse was another "inevitability" that just didn't happen.