This is bad not just because of the direct infections but there's growing research that suggests vaccines also stave off things (like dementia) that we don't typically associate with vaccine prevention.

"An FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis this month has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter." - NYT

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

Im am so proud of you Minnesotans. Never doubted you for a second.

Not only is it morally repugnant for the White House to use AI to make Nekiva Levy Armstrong appear to be crying— it also appears to be illegal In case anything still matters

"Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating... at Minnesota’s largest airport... as thousands gathered, despite Arctic temperatures..." It mentions "DHS confirms the detention of a 2 year old and a 5 year old" They try to weaponize and hide behind faith, but only if it supports cruelty #Pinks

From Steve Simon, MN Secy of State. ICE agents chase down and handcuff a child in negative temperatures while he's saying "I'm legal". How is this making us safer? #ProudBlue 📹: @MNSteveSimon/X

Once again, these people aren't "patriots". They hate their own countries and have built an entire career out of attacking them, while cheering on any foreign leader who does the same

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Northern Lights shine in breathtaking blue over Osoyoos #Osoyoos

Trump has now been in office for an entire year. And we are not safer. 🧵

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012... A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral galaxy about 200,000 light-years in diameter

Keith’s Reminder: tomorrow morning MS Now will be covering Jack Smith’s Live Televised Congressional Questions on Evidence gathering onTrump in Two Ironclad Indictments which would have Sent Trump to Jail had he not become President again 😡⚖️ Smith investigated January 6 & Classified Documents REPOST

This headline is admirably straightforward. This is exactly what the 8th Circuit has done through their one-sentence administrative stay of a district judge's detailed, 80-page ruling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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

Jamelle Bouie: "most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office. His letter to the prime minister of Norway suggests that this is a mistake. It shows that he is essentially unable to serve as president"

are they not monsters?

only thing blue line i recognize 🫡

An attempted traffic stop by two ICE agents did not involve the man they ultimately shot in north Minneapolis. Details from a FBI agent's sworn affidavit contradict what DHS officials initially stated — and later repeated for several days — about the highly charged encounter.

Jack Smith is “not afraid” of Donald Trump, whom he unsuccessfully tried to take to trial during the 2024 campaign, his legal team told CNN. The former special counsel has spoken to the House Judiciary Committee before, in private, but on Thursday the cameras will be on.

As Texas awaits a massive freeze that will hit the state this weekend, Ted Cruz is on a plane out of Texas headed for warmer climes in California.Ted Cruz always abandons us here in Texas. He flew to Cancun during the last major freeze and was on a beach while children died at Camp Mystic #ProudBlue

If you gave me decent odds I would bet big bucks that the number of senators who are “actually concerned” right now about anything but the midterms is less than 25%

Two little friends are joining us at Casa Crits to see if they feel like becoming socialized or if that window has closed for them. They’re at the far end of the ideal window but we will see if some Churu will open their hearts and minds. This one is calico and the other is a very fluffy little tux.

I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise. The floor is now The Hague.

This week I wrote about one of my favorite commissioned maps: a 2022 map of the silk roads in Muslim lands. In this week's post, I write about how I drew the mountains. And there are so many mountains on this map! The post is free to read, so have at it! www.patreon.com/posts/silk-r...

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions

AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.

Why can’t Greenland’s sovereignty & NATO co-exist together w/the U.S. as a NATO partner as it is now? Why is it an all or nothing/zero sum game to that bully Trump? This isn’t the American way at all. We never seize territory & occupy what doesn’t belong to us - that’s imperialism/morally wrong.

Nurses are on strike while the CEOs of their hospitals rake in millions.    It was an honor to visit the picket line with @sanders.senate.gov and demand a fair contract for NYSNA nurses so they can get back to work.

I think this is right. So much of how they’re going about this, from the needless brutality to the masks and unofficial gear, really only makes sense if the calculated goal is to provoke violence against ICE agents.

Two employees of Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Social Security Administration violated security rules by sharing highly sensitive data, according to a DOJ court filing. This is far from the only damage DOGE is leaving behind. Watch.

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

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When the Law Enforcement Baronial Class starts to eat its own.

So tired of having to bully and drag congressional Democrats into doing the right thing. None of them do it enthusiastically. Very few are leaders. Most are corrupt and happy with the current system that made them senators and representatives in the first place. It's exhausting.

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Canada ‘strongly opposes’ tariffs over Greenland, won’t waver on Article 5 - Global News globalnews.ca/news/1162085...

Pal @zhandlen.bsky.social is short of funds, and conveniently, he has a Patreon where he writes reviews! Particularly of Star Trek, though he just started watching Babylon 5 for the first time, which I guarantee will be worth a couple of bucks a month! You should sign up: www.patreon.com/cw/zhandlen

Anti-ICE rally at Copley Square #Boston #resist #ICE

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Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly

I keep coming back to the fact that while Denmark did a ton of fucked up shit to Greenland in the past, they legit made restitution for it, including a major ongoing expenditure of resources. a practically unique example of a former empire trying to do right by a *nonwhite* former colony

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

US climate obstruction used to be about profits. Trump’s scorched earth policy is something else theconversation.com/us-climate-o...

French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — and details how he has used similar fascistic tactics to intimidate other judges around the world who rule against his alt-right friends.

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.