As of today, it is now illegal to create sexual deepfakes of other people without their consent in the UK.

Distraught, enraged, and tired. An author cc’d @fiyahlitmag on an email to The Writing Atlas, a site dedicated to “cataloging short stories.” There are 130 FIYAH stories listed with (presumably) AI summaries. Some have LINKS to a Dropbox folder. Our issues aren’t publicly available for scraping.

The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better?

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

The latest tranche of Epstein files released by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) last week includes detailed and gruesome descriptions of alleged abuse by private equity billionaire and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) trustee Leon Black.

icymi- Elon’s bro quits Burning Man board amid outrage over Epstein connection - Burners revolted over the association with Kimbal Musk, whose name appears more than 100 times in the latest DOJ documents. sfstandard.com/2026/02/04/k...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today the #writingcommunity is everywhere, so here’s a reminder: the future needs stories. Imagine 2200 is @Grist’s climate fiction project, gathering hopeful, grounded visions of life beyond crisis. Read, share, learn to write better futures. Start here: grist.org/about-imagin... #climatefiction

Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” former Trump strategist Steve Bannon said. truthout.org/articles/ban... #Midterms #Bannon #ICE

During the Vietnam War, U.S. troops regularly adorned Vietnamese corpses with “death cards” — either an ace of spades or a custom-printed business card claiming credit for their kills. Now, ICE is using them. theintercept.com/2026/02/03/i...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

ICYMI: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution laid off staff last night

The layoffs at the Washington Post have begun, with newsroom leaders telling employees its sports and books sections will be 'eliminated in current forms' and its international coverage will be downsized

No women of color appointed to federal judgeships in Trump’s first year back The administration has equated race and gender diversity with professional incompetence, and the president has publicly praised judges who rule in his favor. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wome... #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

Siemens is pumping $1 billion into manufacturing fossil fuel infrastructure on the bet that power demand from ultra-inefficient text, image and video generation based off plagiarised internet content will grow massively in the future Gift link -->> www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...

Big news: @grist.org is launching a new partnership with Montana Free Press and Mountain Journal as 2026 Report for America newsroom partners. Together, we’ll cover how climate change shapes the Greater Yellowstone region, ecosystems, economies, and communities. grist.org/updates/gris... #News

The judge included a screenshot of one of Noem's tweets about Haiti in her order, that read, “I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies,” saying they are “foreign invaders” who “slaughter our heroes.”

A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants living in the U.S., finding that statements made by White House officials demonstrate that racial bias played a part in decision-making.

I left you some rec's on Masto but others you should know about here on bsky: @tkrex.bsky.social's upcoming Wildcraft Drones bsky.app/profile/tkre... @renanbernardo.com's Different Kinds of Defiance, which has a new cover bsky.app/profile/rena...

Why Is There No Pterodactyl Emoji

Paris prosecutors raided X offices and summoned Musk as global crackdown on Grok intensifies

“The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.” - BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

No women of color appointed to federal judgeships in Trump’s first year back The administration has equated race and gender diversity with professional incompetence, and the president has publicly praised judges who rule in his favor. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wome... #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky

Already-anxious parents say their kids are missing not just school but also therapy appointments to avoid encountering potentially hostile federal agents. From @the74.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3ZEUnvg

"We are supposed to have our constitutional right of the freedom to film, to be a member of the press. I don’t feel like I have my First Amendment right as a member of the press," Georgia Fort said. https://bit.ly/4qcOQHt

where are people getting the idea that its either "supporting trans rights" or "continuing democracy". what kind of democracy do they want to live in. where "politically inconvenient" groups get thrown to the wolves every two to four years? doesnt sound good to me. why would you want that

European governments and corporations are racing to reduce their exposure to U.S. technology, military hardware and energy resources as transatlantic relations sour.

People smarter than me have surely thought about this before, but it seems as if there's such a thing as disinformation through over-information. When you release millions of unsorted documents on the web, it becomes a kind of construction kit for anybody to build their own conspiracy myth

Turmoil at FEMA adds to the revolt against Kristi Noem

Trust me, you want this! Coming May 2026: a collection of #solarpunk short stories by @tkrex.bsky.social, built off her story, A Holdout in the Northern California Wildcraft Zone, which you can read/listen to free! grist.org/climate-fict... @torystephens.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/102876/978...

Want to learn more about our work monitoring online extremism? This month the Bellingcat Open Source challenge features five exercises focused on recognising symbols used by hate groups, both online and in the real world. challenge.bellingcat.com

Russian tankers are reportedly hugging NATO territorial waters to reduce the risk of Ukrainian drone strikes. Read that again: Russia is hiding behind NATO lines because it no longer controls the Black Sea like it once did.

My new piece about Resistance 2.0 is up at @theguardian.com! Give it a read to understand why we should expect much more confrontation and disruption this time around. Thanks for the suggestions @victorerikray.bsky.social @sociologistray.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Donald Trump said he will launch legal action against comedian Trevor Noah after the comedian joked about the U.S. president visiting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s island.

The president of the United States is personally threatening a comedian for mocking him.

Me. In Absentia TW for death of a parent. This is a story ripped from my experiences.... I'd say enjoy, but it's me so um thanks if you get the chance to read! Also thanks to The Dark Magazine for publishing it. They've been a supporter of my work for years.🖤 www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-absentia/

As for other scoops in here and Mace’s role in the Epstein vote, make sure you read right until the very end nymag.com/intelligence...

Kehlani arrves at the GRAMMYs sporting an ‘ICE OUT’ pin.

EVs are already making your air cleaner

Happy to have our data from the Free America Walkout included in this piece about the activism taking place in Minneapolis in @economist.com. It summarizes the innovative and confrontational tactics that have spread to push back agasint the federal occupation. www.economist.com/united-state...

How does media consumption vary by demographic and political affiliation? Check out the results of our national survey of adults in the US from November 2025 and how media diets have shifted since March 2025 (comparing to data from @pewresearch.org). cece.american.edu/assessing-pa...

👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

THEY DID IT. EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT just voted on an amendment to DEFUND ICE (rescind the BBB slush fund that keeps ICE open during a shutdown.) This amendment failed, but it shows broad support! KEEP CALLING and make it a demand to vote for the DHS funding bill!!

Watch Women's March ED Rachel O'Leary Carmona talk about how women are on the frontline building an ecosystem against fascism in this teaser from The Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast. Full episode out soon! @womensmarch.com @piqueaction.bsky.social

Excited to support the Second Global Summit on Indigenous Peacebuilding, coming to NYC April 25–26, 2026. Bringing together 100+ Indigenous peacebuilders to share knowledge, healing, and community solutions. www.indigenouspeacebuildersnetwork.org #Indigenous #Peace #Gender #HumanRights #Justice

“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…

Excited to support the Second Global Summit on Indigenous Peacebuilding, coming to NYC April 25–26, 2026. Bringing together 100+ Indigenous peacebuilders to share knowledge, healing, and community solutions. www.indigenouspeacebuildersnetwork.org #Indigenous #Peace #Gender #HumanRights #Justice

A Nebraska utility says that its coal plant poses no ‘significant’ health threat

“Agents are at my door right now” In addition to Don Lemon the Trump regime also Arrested Georgia Fort👇🏽 for covering the church protest (where an ICE field director is a pastor)