Landslide leaves Sicilian town teetering on cliff edge reut.rs/4t0HMQy

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.

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This never goes well ... whispers in Canadian, Post Media

“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out BUT MY CAR”

Well, I did send some money (I honestly don’t remember where; I was very angry at the time), so … I bet there are a lot of us angry someones.

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

This should be just like Tom Holland's Umbrella video. If you see it you have to watch it and then repost it.

No one's life should be at risk for simply existing in their communities or exercising their rights. Learn these. Remember them. Share them with your neighbors. I will continue to use every tool my office has to protect our immigrant community and ensure our residents know their rights.

How fast can you get your phone/camera from its resting state to recording? How fast can you pull a sim card? How fast can you download/upload images? Can you maintain framing during gunshots/explosions? *questions for the civilian war photographer #WarPhotography #FuckICE

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

These monsters are sick.

The number of US MAGA talking heads talking about annexing Canada, supporting Alberta separation is increasing Trump has not backed down on Greenland The foreign influence and potential force campaign against 🇨🇦🇬🇱is increasing And Danielle Smith is helping

Canada Lives Because…

This is so fucking haunting.

The database was hosted by one of these affiliates in Canada...

If you live in the US, you could apply for MRT positions in #Saskatchewan (see /2 /3) Sask. struggles to recruit, retain techs as demand for mammograms grows Nine full-time MRT positions created in regional and rural areas since 2024; four still vacant /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🇳🇬 Nigeria's floating slum undergoes demolition Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen roar through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above the lagoon in the heart of Lagos.

In other abhorrent cop news, still no justice for the #Uvalde families. Former police officer, Adrian Gonzalez, was acquitted Wed evening of charges he failed to confront the gunman at Robb Elementary School of one of the deadliest school shootings in US history. 370 LEO + 77 min = 21 dead 1/2

A shuttle bus for staff at the luxury Estelle Manor club has been withdrawn after a local councillor complained about “minibuses parking outside residents’ homes while dropping staff at local bus stops”. Cllr Sarah Veasey (Con, North Leigh) said the withdrawal was “a positive outcome for residents”.

NOTE: The politics of grievance has a shelf life, and Trump is incapable of pivoting to governing when the anger stops working.

Brief summary of the next trade negotiations between the US and EU www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2...

Tourguide welcomes you to Scotland in January youtube.com/shorts/vbtmA...

⚡️Fewer than 20% of Kyiv's apartment buildings remain without heating amid winter crisis, mayor Klitschko says. Kyiv's utilities workers have reconnected 650 high-rise apartment buildings in the past day, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Jan. 23.

When I first read @anneapplebaum.bsky.social’s Autocracy, Inc., I didn't think we would literally see the creation of a parallel global organization of tyrants and business autocrats, but Trump is doing just that with his Board of Peace.

It appears the jetway photos at Logan were part of CBP "biometric exit" program, which has been tested for years but was quietly approved for wider rollout in Sept. (Doesn't explain threats to passenger) Some really creepy, damning details in NYT report from Sept: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...

"Who is we?“ As we wait for events in Davos to unfold, a thread about a question posed to me in London a few weeks after the invasion of Ukraine, and why I am thinking about it today, on a day of severe crisis for the Western Alliance. 🧵

part of democratic backsliding is it becomes tacitly accepted some people never face consequences

The sentence exceeds the prosecution’s request, which had called for 15 years in prison.

Three former municipal officials sentenced to 10 years over deadly hotel collapse in 2023 quakes bianet.org/haber/three-...

“They just need more training and body cameras”

This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key. “nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”

Your face now is the new Papers please.

Red was out there today reminding everyone whose territory this is😄

I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.

This is quite possibly, and worryingly, the only interesting thing to have ever come out of Davos in my adult life.

“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.” Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off... bsky.app/profile/unrw...

The judge said, on French TV, that she was so taken aback by the tone of the conversation that she did something she doesn’t usually do when she meets with foreign officials and notified the French Foreign Office, “I felt it was my duty to do so.”

If anyone deserved to go viral it's this person. Their timeline has always been a fascinating look at DC politics and a delight of cultural serendipity.

Zelenskyy: In the coming days, we must remain extremely vigilant—Russia has prepared for a massive strike and is waiting for the moment to carry it out. Please pay close attention to air raid alerts. Every region must be ready to respond quickly and support our people.

Today, we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Brennan Center is committed to fighting for the democratic principles that Dr. King fiercely championed.

Japan's lower house of the Diet to be dissolved Friday with snap elections Feb. 8. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne...

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Louvre heist: French TV broadcasts images of robbery

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

Fantastic photo from Phil Laybourne capturing the moment a Red Deer steps on some Lego.

From the archives...

On this week’s Power Vertical Podcast, I examined Russia’s war against Ukrainian children with Katya Pavlevych and Andreas Umland. www.powervertical.org/2026/01/16/r...