“Nobody thinks that how Trump is using law enforcement right now is appropriate or consistent with the principles of a free society.”

it doesn't matter if you don't want to have this fight, it doesn't even matter if it's not politically optimal to have this fight the fight is here and sitting it out is not an option if you can't see that get out of the way

Our constituents are being surveilled, threatened, tear gassed, shot, subjected to warrantless arrest, kidnapped, and disappeared. 35 people have died in detention in ICE’s deadliest year yet. ICE’s terror and violence need to end.

"[T]he long history of the smaller conservative coalition partner exercising it’s influence over the larger party’s leadership."

"Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father. Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia"

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

"Two new studies this week have advanced our understanding about the potential biological impact of the Shingles vaccine, independent of its effects for preventing Shingles or direct action vs. herpes zoster virus and reinforced its protection from dementia ..."

Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there. When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...

"A fellow detainee, Santos Jesus Flores, said Lunas Campos was choked to death by detention center guards."

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

"This is the violent world Trump wants to create – a world divided into fiefdoms run by Mafia-style bosses paid simpering tributes by their weaker supplicants."

"Fifty years ago, a military coup violently ended Chile’s political experiment with socialism, and with it the nation’s technological experiment with cybernetic management."

If the question is "can you accuse Israel of genocide without fear of prosecution" and the answer is anything other than an unqualified "yes", then there is something dangerously wrong with your "hate laws". www.youtube.com/shorts/YmEcn...

"A CSIRO PhD candidate accused of planning to use Molotov cocktails in a terror attack on the Gold Coast on Australia Day has been denied bail."

"The Gates Foundation Trust holds hundreds of millions of dollars in fossil fuel extractors despite Bill Gates’ claims of divestment made in 2019."

Could we have a Royal Commission into successive Australian Govts' failure to act on the recommendations of Royal Commissions? #auspol #AgedCare #Robodebt

Having read the draft of the Australian government's new "hate" legislation, the scope it gives the government of the day to restrict civil society is massive. It's very clear that it could be used to outlaw a Palestine Action-style organisation www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

"Authorities recommend practical evacuation essentials for people living in bushfire-prone areas. We asked residents of the Victorian town and surrounds what else they took – and what they wish they had remembered"

Every time I glance at Australia's persistently disappointing centrist PM I then look at the UK's one and realise how much worse it could be

afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/01/prep... #medsky

Easterwood’s church is connected to Doug Wilson’s churches. It is in the CREC network. Doug Wilson is Pete Hegseth’s pastor. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"A professor at John Piper’s Bethlehem Seminary prayed on Sunday not for God to protect the terrified people of Minneapolis, but for God to protect ICE from the violent people of Minneapolis."

JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS- JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS- JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS. #Justice4ReneeNicoleGood ⚖️

"Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action in 2025, a record figure that reveals the scale of the backlash against net-zero in the right-leaning press."

Board of Peace

Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Google using AI to kill the sources of information that it uses to train its AI is the short-sighted, venemous oruboros of stupidity that 2026 deserves. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

If we had a government with integrity, courage and concern for Australia's future beyond the next election, fixing #inequality and #poverty would be the priority for the next Federal Budget. #auspol

"Data collected by Oxfam shows 48 billionaires hold more wealth than bottom 40% of the population – 11 million people – combined"

This is pretty much the only post anyone should need to understand that Farage is a traitor, a conman and a populist simpleton who must *never* be given power.

"The most alarming feature of the present moment is not outrage, but normalization. Each uncorrected violation lowers the threshold for the next. Each silence under fear teaches power that it need not explain itself."

For those asking for more practical steps, here's some of the tools and platforms we use at Bellingcat. The AutoArchiver allows online media to be collected and automatically archived, allowing centralised collection of sources www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Labor are still trying to get the Coalition to support dangerous proposals to amend the Migration Act and allow the Home Affairs Minister to ban organisations and criminalise membership of those organisations. These changes are bad and the Greens stand with the community to oppose them.

"Graham’s is the seventh case ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman in a state that significantly restricted abortion died after she was unable to access standard care."

When you lose Piers Morgan.

“The Trump administration is attempting to effectively criminalize unlawful presence in the United States,” said immigration attorney Danny Upton, “to facilitate (immigrants) own eventual removal.”

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

"President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to sue JPMorgan Chase over allegedly “debanking” him following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol."

The X Terms of Service are amazing in many regards, but the choice of law and choice of forum parts (in Section 6) are a real standout. They apply to everything, including patent disputes, apply to pending and future disputes without regard to when the conduct occurred (or will occur)...

"This is the “Gaza experiment” scaled: control the narrative, control the infrastructure, eliminate the capacity for collective resistance. The betrayal is total."

"Funding cuts shuttered many long-standing development and humanitarian programs, with devastating consequences. According to expert estimates, the dismantling of USAID could result in more than 14 million deaths by 2030 ..."

Don’t just film ICE—-document it like it like a pro so that it matters. Read these tips to BECOME A TRAINED WITNESS: what to record, how to do it, where to send it. #FuckICE #ICEOutForGood #ICEOut #NoICE [t6242] https://tinyurl.com/hbc4623k

"A quiet revolution is being legalised in Canberra. Behind the Albanese government’s public rhetoric of “strengthening democracy” ... lies a convergent legislative framework designed to neuter a free press, criminalise dissent, and enshrine state-sanctioned narrative as the only safe option."

"The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC."

PBS right now: What else can they do to us at this point? So fuck it, here’s what’s really happening. Posted in three parts for BSKY limits Part one: /