Back to back headlines: “Ukrainian Olympian Is Disqualified Over Helmet With Images of War Dead” “Russia’s Time as a Sporting Pariah May Be Coming to an End” What a world, what a friggin world

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

I went to a rated R film today and the theater employee asked to see ID before letting me in. It was the highlight of my week.

I’m furious at AI because it steals our work, consumes vast resources and produces mediocrity, but along the way it also traumatises the people - mainly in the developing world - who are paid a pittance to train it. Theft, abuse, environmental destruction, all to make rich men richer. Burn it all.

February 11, 2011 Fifteen years.

The sense of despair i feel when I think about AIs impact is getting harder to keep at bay.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

This is the scene I was at this morning. I know Minnesotans filming ICE in their bathrobes is becoming a bit of a thing, but after you laugh, let it dawn on you that people here hate ICE so much that we rush out half-dressed to film even when there are already dozens of others doing the same thing.

Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Holy shit.

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Big brains are so big on the internet theyre now saying bad bunny at halftime was a conspiracy to distract you from the real issues!!!! Hey what if pop culture is pop culture and the conspiracies that actually exist to disempower you are much more direct and probably dont need NFL halftime shows

In addition to Ari Ben-Menashe, we know Dodik has retained the services of convicted felons Rod Blagojevich, and Mike Flynn. There is also every reason to believe that Lara Logan and Laura Loomer have been paid for their posts re: Dodik in recent months. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BiH's FM has revealed documents from September 2025 which he says show that Bosnian Serb secessionist Milorad Dodik paid Canadian lobbying firm Dickens & Madson, headed by Montreal-based former Israeli intelligence operative and arms dealer Ari Ben-Menashe, at least $2m to assist with securing...

Honestly everyone who is able should leave Columbia.

Ending violence is not the same as building peace. Do grassroots peacebuilding efforts matter for starting or ending wars? We reviewed the evidence on peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding.... and found 3 tensions. Now out in Economic Policy: academic.oup.com/economicpoli...

Brad Lander: To build a just and safe future for Israelis and Palestinians, and to move toward a US foreign policy that aligns with our principles and our interests, it’s time to block the bombs. https://bit.ly/3LZNZfe

BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June

I think the people at Columbia who enabled this, including the admin that Mahmoud Khalil implored to protect him and who at best did nothing, at worst entrapped him, should be ostracized.

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure. Her whereabouts & health are now unknown. The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

After illegally taking control of the Rafah border crossing, Israel is now violently assaulting and harassing Palestinians who attempt to go back to their homes in Gaza. “They want all of Gaza. They want the land without its people.”

"ItS a RePuBlIc NoT a DeMoCrAcY" That's what you sound like. Shut the hell up.

I want to leave a 👍 to every online poindexter in my mentions saying "its the US not america!!!" Facile. This is social media not a peer reviewed paper. You all know what I mean when I say it, & that i dont mean erasure. Find something better to do then tell people what words theyre allowed to use

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

"...how can it produce thinking subjects in a world organized to neutralize thought itself? That is the deeper violence of the terror regime: it doesn’t need to close universities outright if they can remain open only as shells, bereft of the very possibility that once justified their existence"

What other choice does a person have?

During freezing temperatures in Port Arthur, Texas, a 61-year-old homeless man was found dead in his wheelchair outside a convenience store. He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day. This is a diseased society.

Emboldened by his DC visit (via lobbyists Blagojevich, Flynn) Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik says his party is pulling out state institutions, wants to abolish state courts, recreate VRS, the military force which perpetrated the Srebrenica Genocide. www.vijesti.ba/clanak/74085...

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When federal agents harass immigrant workers, research shows that it ends up hurting *all* workers, as well the economy. For the sake of everyone, it’s time for us to organize and defend our immigrant neighbors, writes @sarahlazare.bsky.social.

"In a phone interview from the facility, he said conditions there are 'like a concentration camp, absolute hell.' "He has been locked in the same large, cold, damp room for 4½ months with 70+ men...constantly hungry...toilets are filthy...allowed outside <12 times" www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.” From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

My dudes what is america without this? We immigrants are attracted to america because of Black culture, because of Latinx culture, because of the cities full of every type of person, because the prospect of coming to this country and succeeding despite not being white and wealthy.

The crashout i was waiting for

Anyway I can turn this boring ass sport off now. Sorry, I am actually a real american so I like the real football

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

I saw cardi b in there. Was that Pedro Pascal also dancing in the background? Or is my little brain just high on dopamine

Im 35 but I respect my elders

Sign me up for that america

Here's what I know about football: "Go birds, fuck ice, free palestine"

Sorry? How does Liam being in this country hurt his 5 year old american friend?

God damn it i missed green day?! No one told me bad bunny and green day are not at the same time!!! My attempt at participating in american culture is going badly!

Mohammed Ibrahim, the Palestinian-American boy who was imprisoned by Israel for nine months, lost his cellmate, another child, to forced starvation, and his cousin, who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/04/m...

Me fully buying into the Bad Bunny hype googling "when is the super bowl and where can I watch"