This piece by Elizabeth Ginexi is a must read. Trump, Vought, RFK and Bhattacharya are destroying the NIH simply ignoring the law and the US Congress. It’s illegal and immoral. The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

As a Labour leadership contest nears I doubt whether there are any top Labour MPs who haven't been caught up in scandals involving expenses, corrupt contracts, lying, 2nd homes, support for genocide, friends of paedo-buddy, dodgy donations, privatisation company links ... meme Peter Symons

I am speechless. "The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

Minns: "I think they are crazy to invite that author when you think about how divisive it is, and how difficult it would be for the organisation as a result of the notoriety." & what exactly does he imagine inviting Herzog is doing to 🇦🇺national & state government credibility & the "Labor brand"❓

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

England's water companies have 1,200 criminal convictions. They lose a trillion litres of water to leaky pipes. Dump sewage in rivers for 4m hours. Customers fleeced. None has its licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Corporate fines are not collected Whatever happened to democracy, rule of law?

One lesson MAHA disinformation doctors learned regarding COVID is they could make outrageous fake claims and except for a few people here, everyone else would forget. Things are no different today.

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

"Toxic Colonialism" "Last year, 85 percent of all scrapped ships—when measured by weight—ended up on just three beaches in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan..." 👇🏻

New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car. Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX. /1

"I don't think people are scared enough." Polly Hemming on how to cut through on climate messaging. Read more from Polly here: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251110-caution-is-killing-us

"We can either tax you out of existence or we can launch you into the sun with a trebuchet. Your call!"

Warnock on the arrest of Don Lemon: It’s chilling, and I think that is the intent. They intend to send chills down the backs of journalists. The authoritarian march is happening in real time, and it’s way past the time to wake up.

Each time I see an email from one of these academics to Epstein (which is FAR more often an occurrence than it should be), I think of Claudine Gay and grow irate.

Trump claims people “are going after Kristi Noem …because she is a woman.”

The Albanese Government has overseen a massive increase in investment in Palantir by the Future Fund since the genocide in Gaza began (and was facilitated by companies like Palantir)

Amy Remeikis - "Beware the new normal" "Some people just like power. Those same people enjoy sowing seeds of discord that they never have to actually solve, in order to keep it. They are able to do that, because many of us in the media work to make their offerings seem sane and normal."

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

Kevin M. Kruse on ICE and masks: "While they might not technically act with immunity, ICE agents are certainly acting with impunity these days. And that comes less from them having the cover of law and more with them having a literal covering of face masks that give them anonymity."

Reporting the Trump had “pivoted” was journalistic malpractice popular.info/p/how-legacy...

Good journalists will make sure you—not a public figure, not a commutations pro—understand what talking to reporters means. They will clearly explain what on/off the record, on background mean and ensure you know what applies when you’re speaking to them. And they will put source protection first.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

"[A]busive behavior by DHS has stood out in the chaos of Operation Metro Surge. But the Justice Department has done its part, too."

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Now Dr Oz is trying to do the whole Somali fraud thing but for Armenians, painting an Armenian bakery in CA as a nefarious hub of home care fraud

This is accurate. Trump has not changed course. He is trying to contain political damage. That's it. There is not pivot. There is no shift at this point. Past experience shows the "new tone," if you can call it that, will be temporary. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

I can’t quite convey how frightening it is that people who think it’s fine to let people catch deadly diseases like polio rather than have a vaccine are in charge of US vaccine policies

Matt Novak "at the Otay Mesa concentration camp in San Diego"

"Off duty" ICE officer - another deadly outcome: "Family and friends of a Los Angeles man who was killed by an off-duty US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer over the holidays are urging local officials to arrest and prosecute the federal agent."

Meanwhile — in other news - We are now 37 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

‪Nah. There’s not very fine people on both sides. Fuck outta here. ‬

Everything you need to know about ICE is here: "I asked the ICE agents if the victim had a pulse, and they said they did not know." Instead they were standing around counting bullet wounds. This is from a medical eyewitness: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Brexit already hinted there were no ‘guardrails’ preventing far-right radicalization in the UK. This proves to be more correct day by day.

Political history is set to be rewritten with both Labor and Liberal parties pretending that their pissweak or absent climate policies have nothing to do with these dangerous conditions. And most mainstream media aiding and abetting that shameful denial. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

And @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty tried to give themselves millions of dollars for receiving these calls🤔

Carney’s rallying cry to ‘middle powers’ includes Australia - and we should heed his call theconversation.com/carneys-rall...

There are approximately 3 million undocumented persons in Texas and Florida, and there are about 100,000 in Minnesota. Ask yourself why ICE has been deployed to MN, but not even close to the same way in FL and TX. This isn't about immigration, it is all about politics and retribution.

Farage pays for nothing himself. He rakes it in from media, crypto, gold bullion, X… Clacton isn’t worth his time. He’s a rep for the US christofascist far right and is being paid to bring that shit over here. It’s all a grift. A pisstake. A very sinister betrayal. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about

Jo Dyer on the Adelaide Writers' Week destruction - "Writers understand the importance of free speech and civilized debate even if politicians have forgotten."

I posted this on Insta on Jan 9 2020. Hasn't dated...

"Above the waves, the turbines do what they were built to do: generate renewable electricity. Below the surface, they are also “producing” life."

And the same paper that platformed Farage & Badenoch attacking our government over Chagos, a deal Trump was all for, even praising us is now of course platforming Trump yet again. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Why would they block them? Why? It’s just morally obscene.

The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.