Syrian media report that Russia is withdrawing its troops from the base at Qamishli airport. Helicopters, fighter jets, and military equipment are being loaded onto transport aircraft.

⚠️Russians remotely mine Sumy region, dropping small bags from drones that can be triggered by pressing or approaching. Due to recorded cases of such mining, residents of the region are urged to be especially careful when traveling on roads.

Grokipedia ist eine KI-generierte Enzyklopädie, betreut von Elon Musks xAI-Team. ChatGPT greift auf die teils kruden Inhalte zu. #Künstliche Intelligenz

Reuters reports that the EU Council has approved a complete ban on supplies of Russian liquefied natural gas to the EU starting January 1, 2027, and on pipeline gas starting September 30, 2027. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Literally EVERYTHING else aside: Officers involved in shootings - even shootings that everybody agrees were justified - always take time off to emotionally process their experience, go to therapy, process it. Sending somebody right back out says "this is an everyday part of your job, expect it."

😱 16 ballistic missiles hit a thermal power plant in Kyiv on January 13. That's when the problems began in the capital, — Oleksandr Kharchenko, Director of the Energy Research Center

Für sein Internetangebot will Amazon tausende Satelliten ins All schicken. Die stören schon jetzt die Astronomie und beim Genießen des Nachthimmels. #Astronomie

I'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now. I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.

💔🇺🇦 Kupyansk from the height of a drone. Here, people once planned their lives: they built, loved, raised children, and waited for their relatives to come home in the evenings. An ordinary Ukrainian city, full of life. Now, every destroyed house is someone's story.

Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is: 1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which 2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that 3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...

Ironic isn’t it? Had an ICE thug been hurt at the very same location 5 minutes earlier, Alex would have dropped everything to save his life. But 5 minutes later….

Let's not kid ourselves, because we know exactly who pulled that trigger.

Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.

🇮🇷🕯️Iranian Health Ministry officials told TIME that up to 30,000 people may have been killed in just two days (Jan 8–9) as security forces crushed protests.

Heads Up Minneapolis! MAGA propagandists Cam Higby, Kevin Posobiec & Hailey West have been spotted undercover otg & filming people today. They mean to twist your anger & sorrow into demonization. Avoid or nonviolently, but firmly, demand they leave. The less content you give them, the better.

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Alex Pretti

UK among 10 countries to build 100GW wind power grid in North Sea

London mayor discusses common tribalism narratives: “…they construct lies, seek to manufacture an enemy, pit citizens against one another for political gain, and stoke fear by blaming ‘the other’ for all of society’s ills.” www.aol.co.uk/articles/sad...

Bill Melugin of Fox News may be the best-sourced journalist within ICE and CBP. If he's hearing this, the administration has a real problem.

Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

Berliner Richter: TikTok-Altersprüfung reicht nicht. Anreiz für Jugendliche, Alter falsch anzugeben. Was das für Nutzung und Datenschutz bedeutet. #TikTok

ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...

A reminder that one of the new owners of TikTok is Larry Ellison who also now owns CBS News…

Serbia’s president Vučić says Ukraine joining the EU from January 1, 2027 is part of a peace plan to end the war. He said the plan would bind not only Ukraine and Russia but much of the international community, and that EU rules would be changed despite opposition from several member states #Ukraine

Some immigrant parents, fearful of their children facing similar uncertainty if they were to be arrested, detained or deported are taking the extreme step of legally transferring parental authority to teachers, co-workers, fellow parishioners and neighbors.

Let me try to articulate what I think the central economic issue of the current moment really is.

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

The National Basketball Players Association has released a statement on the killings in Minneapolis: “Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent”

So Kyle Rittenhouse, who attended a protest armed with a loaded assault rifle and killed 2 people is a right-wing hero. But Alex Pretti who had a holstered, permitted handgun, was recording ICE, and tried to help a pepper-sprayed woman deserved to die? No one is buying this BS.

Update: In the evidence preservation lawsuit, the current Civil Chief at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office (who appears to be Ana Voss, based on the letter), refused to accept email service of the lawsuit last night and then refused to accept in-person service until Monday. Ridiculous behavior.

The green line is how much $ farmers make from selling crops & livestock. Goes up in D administrations, down in R ones. The blue line is free money farmers get from the gov't. Goes down in D administrations, up in R ones. It ain't rocket science. Source article btw: www.agweb.com/news/policy/...

Meaty explainer videos are such a fun kind of social media to make. Because by the time you make it & post it, it ain't the news anymore! Anyway, for everyone wondering why farmers keep voting for Trump despite all the ::gestures broadly:: The answer is free government money.

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.

🇨🇳 China has successfully tested a drone-sniper that has almost 100% accuracy on a target the size of a person at a distance of 100 meters, — South China Morning Post. During the tests, the drone, being at an altitude of 10 meters, hit 19 out of 20 bullets in the chest armor plate.

do we have consistent evidence that those in immigration facilities are being given food and water?

If the human shield language brings to mind the IDF, there’s a reason for that: ICE and CBP are among the US state entities who train with Israeli security forces. deadlyexchange.org/about-deadly...

Despite Russian mercenaries committing grave human rights abuses, including rape, in the Sahel, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are turning to Russia to build the Sahel’s first shared telecom satellite. Russia is expanding its influence in the region africa.businessinsider.com/local/market...

India supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine via oil purchases for 4 years…

Bovino: "Enforcing the law is a duty. Those laws were enacted by Congress, signed by the executive, and upheld -- most of the time -- by the judiciary" "Most of the time"

Amid constant power outages in Ukraine, one man finds a simple way to help - sharing electricity so his neighbors can stay connected.

In Russia, the program to revive the ancient Il-96, Tu-204, and Tu-214 aircraft is at risk of being disrupted. This is all because flight engineers are no longer being trained in the country. 1/2

As a journalist, I have concerns about how using words could result in "actions and consequences."

Walz: "What's the plan Donald Trump? What do we need to do to get these federal agents out of our state? You thought fear, violence, and chaos is what you wanted, and you clearly underestimated the people of this state and nation. We're tired but we're solved. We're peaceful but we'll never forget"

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Walz: "We're no longer having a political debate. We're having a moral debate."

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.