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Jesus Ochoa and Raymondo Guiterrez. The two Border Patrol thugs who executed Alex Pretti and Noem and Trump protecting. Two Latinos, who are hunting down immigrants and executed a US citizen right on the street. Both hail from South Texas.

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-...

with all the other noise going on, this piece of good news might be missed ...

On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.

Human-made materials make up as much as half of UK beaches, study finds

Artist: Suren Nersisyan “Sunny Day, California”

Important story. This researcher looked at decades of data on formerly democratic countries that fell to authoritarianism. He says the U.S. has a chance of coming back, but mainly because states hold elections - NOT the Federal govt. But that is exactly what trimp is trying to change:

DILLEY DETENTION CENTER Did you know that there appox. 1,100 people being held there & many are children in horrific conditions Trump's ICE ATROCITIES have done a surge in family detention. Reports indicate that 1,700 CHILDREN were placed in custody across ALL FACILITIES since 2025 CALL⬇️

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Image of the week: First images from Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 www.eumetsat.int/image-week-f... From its position 36,000km above the equator, the satellite monitors the full Earth disc, covering Europe, Africa, and the surrounding atmosphere.

Yes, ICE is killing or permanently maiming people & getting away with it. "...said one of the nurses, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. “There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.” #Pinks #ProudBlue

Alex Pretti's parents have retained Steve Schleicher, a former prosecutor who helped convict George Floyd's murderer. Schleicher is taking on the Pretti case PRO BONO.

The Explorer Who Faked His Way Through the Hajj Englishman Richard Burton wore several disguises, ranging from merchant to doctor to pilgrim in the holy city of Mecca. By Kayla Johnson daily.jstor.org/the-explorer... Burton at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature #history

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Friday permanently blocked key portions of the sweeping anti-voting executive order that President Donald Trump signed last year. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

SPARC Europe Publishes 2025 Annual Report sparceurope.org/sparc-europe... #publishing #oa #scholcomm @sparc-eu.bsky.social

NEW @ms.now: Anti-abortion activists pardoned by Trump for invading clinics are joining a new effort led by Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry to revive mass clinic protests. I spent some time with them in DC last week. “We’re going to disrupt this country as much as we can," one said. 🧵

‘Berend is writing with deicidal intent: once the myth has been fully exposed to the light of fact, she insists, everyone should stop worshipping El Cid. “His heroisation,” she writes, “must be abandoned.”’ @annadella.bsky.social on a new account of the medieval knight www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Labour accuses Reform candidate of ‘toxic politics’ after Tommy Robinson endorsement

Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI www.medievalists.net/2026/01/3200... Original paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220 The CoMMA website: comma.inria.fr/homepage #books #old_manuscripts

“I love winter… I love the blitz of wee birds at the feeders in the garden. I’m not so keen on the damp grey days, I admit. So It’s no hardship to stay at my desk” @valmcdermid.bsky.social on how winter fuels her creative process – via @literaryhub.bsky.social 💙📚 lithub.com/ice-and-insp...

"All that we ask for is justice, not mercy or palliation—simple justice. Surely that is not too much for loyal citizens to demand." ~Florida Ruffin Ridley It certainly SHOULDN’T be too much to ask!

‘Horrific’ delays push more trans people to seek gender surgery overseas

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.

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

Thank you @jules1212.bsky.social. Love Noam Chomsky. 👊

Minnesota artist: Greta Sandquist “Blooms and Blue"

Transcription Tuesday everyone! Can you palaeography lovers help us out with this word? It should be a duration (of illness) - usually along the lines of 3 months, 4 years, instantaneous etc. Could be 'unknown' but we have to squint reeeaalllyy hard! What do you think? #TranscriptionTuesday

Good. Is no one gonna make a crack about Judge Schlitz? He seems pissed. Malted, even. Is he a tall boy? What about Judges Pabst and Busch? I mean, aren't they going to convene the whole pack? Budweiser, Coors, and Miller will probably pop off, too. High life, y'know?

FBI Director Kash Patel says he has opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using to share information about federal immigration agents’ movements.

🔴How YouTube’s Algorithm Pushed People Into Neo-Nazism A new study reveals how the video sharing platform helped radicalise leading figures on the far right bylinetimes.com/2026/01/27/h...

Happy birthday Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 🎂

This article examined how AI can unintentionally reproduce social and demographic biases when applied to mental health prediction. Using benzodiazepine prescriptions as a proxy for conditions such as depression and anxiety, a study analyzed machine learning models trained on patient data to…

Oh good. Labour are putting in place the apparatus of repressive state control, just in time to hand the keys over to Reform. What could possibly go wrong?

On this day in 1302, the Florentian poet Dante Alighieri was found guilty – in absentia – of bribery, corruption, and abuse of his office. It is believed that all the charges were fabricated because of factional – and extremely bitter – politics. #WriterSky #FalseCharges #Revenge #History #OTD

Here is the letter from a Minnesota police officer reflecting the values of law enforcement officers of integrity.

‘Abdication’: Trump formally takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time

Air pollution kills thousands a year in the UK and abroad – why isn’t there a bigger uproar? | Devi Sridhar

The regime is really going with “he was there” as a rationale for summary execution. In the meantime, the President is ranting about how he already ordered lights for his ballroom & can’t change them now. I’m not sure how much more failed a state can be than America right now.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.