ICE keeps abducting babies. www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

The route for our Dublin March for Palestine on Saturday THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE! End Gaza Genocide | End West Bank Attacks | Let Aid In 1pm, Barnardo Sq, City Hall Enact the OTB | Arms Embargo Now | Stop CBI Funding Genocide | US Military Out of Shannon #FreePalestine #SanctionsNow

First Trump's tariffs tipped the Canadian and Australian elections to the center-left parties. Then his interference in Brazil flipped Lula's numbers, and Greenland threats revived the Danish left — both ahead of 2026 elections. Trump is the international left's best friend.

Trump is weak, Bondi is weak, Miller is weak. The administration is filled with cartoon bullies who crumple when they face real opposition. Minnesotans get it. Denmark gets it. Lower court judges get it, and the best have moved into DGAF mode. When will SCOTUS get it? slate.com/news-and-pol...

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Europe should ask for Star Trek in the divorce. America can make do with Star Wars.

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Delighted that the proposal from @seamasbelfast.bsky.social and myself has passed to suspend Council use on Twitter. There was only opposition from the DUP. We won't be rolled over by Tech Bros who have contempt for laws to protect women and children. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...

Outrage is mounting in the US state of Minnesota after ICE agents detained a five-year-old boy during immigration raids in Minneapolis. A school official described the move as “essentially using a five-year-old as bait” jrnl.ie/6936711

This is like something from Black Mirror

Is Europe's TikTok the Chinese spyware version or the US spyware version?

Pixelfed, Olvid, Proton Mail, le Chat… Face à notre dépendance aux services numériques américains, des alternatives existent ⤵️

3/4s of Europeans want to ban Grok

Dublin City Council CEO Richard Shakespeare says "I have now taken the decision to suspend all posting by the City Council on the X.com platform. This applies to all City Council X accounts and will be actioned with immediate effect."

Imagine if the hype was around the Greens' rise rather than Reform Imagine if instead of putting far-right issues on the agenda, mainstream parties talked about hope, justice, redistribution, public services etc That would put real change on the table and that's why Reform is a safer bet for them

Danish Radio reports that the Danish and allied forces deployed to Greenland were sent to deter the US, they were armed with live ammunition in case there was an actual attack, and their deployment was sped up due to unspecified developments. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

The Brexit latest seems to have moved from strong independent sovereign nation to country entirely dependant on US funding and defence for its survival. Thanks.

Of course it is. Pathetic of Starmer and others to pretend otherwise

I just thought everyone should see this

I already have access to my own likeness

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

The image below shows a five-year-old boy being detained by ICE officers outside his home in Minnesota after returning from school with his father. A local school superintendant has described the detention as “essentially using a five-year-old as bait” jrnl.ie/6935715

One of the worst aspects of the current global chaos is the need to know Yeats again.

If you've heard me cite the Yeats poem, The Second Coming, to describe what Trump is doing then you'll enjoy this little bit of genius as much as I did...

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

He's still talking about greenland

Frederiksen says Europe has " learned something during the last couple of days and weeks" “When Europe is not divided, when we stand together, clear and strong, also in our willingness to stand [up] for ourselves, the results show.” (ie stand up to Trump works) www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

And he'll lauch his Mars mission in 2018.

Life, Jim, but not as we know it.

He has greyscale

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Emmanuel Macron’s softly-softly approach to Donald Trump is over, it appears. As you'll see below, the Elysée Palace has published a gif of Trump  labelled with one of the US president’s own favourite slurs: “Fake news”.  1/

If this is used by EU and European governments, utilities and public services for the updates that currently go on X, I think its a great idea. I wouldn't load up my image to access but unclear why one would need to for read only access. Removes X as unpleasant point of failure for comms.

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States. www.wired.com/story/donald...

US announces initial withdrawal of officers from NATO structures

That logo is a bit 'mirror universe'...

"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"

Thank you Mr President, that clears things up.

"We have seen empires fall and civilizations crumble. But we’ve almost never seen a people renounce their leadership of the world—all at once, in full public view. That is what has happened in the 365 days since January 20, 2025."

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

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

Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get out our real winter gear out of the box for the year." He was an audio engineer whose kid went to school in the area. No way in hell was he going to let anyone come for the kids on his watch.

Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself). She didn't even have a hat on.