Villagers near China’s capital are facing a bitter winter, with many unable to afford gas heating after the phaseout of local subsidies intended to relieve the cost of Beijing’s campaign for cleaner air

With the UAE apparently pulling out of Socotra am I finally going to stop getting astroturfed white girl influencers "discovering" Socotra in my Instagram feed

Reposting this tonight for no particular reason.

A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.

In memory of: Duha Samih Othman Al-Arnaut / ضحى سميح عثمان الاْرناؤط Age: 6 We will not forget you.

Fox is emphasizing this because, to the Trumpist right, these are all things that justify her being repeatedly shot in the head and murdered by Trump’s shock troops.

My most nuclear philosophical take, particularly as a student of Black and Africana Philosophy of liberation, is that there is no such thing as a "non-violent" protest. Any protest that disrupts the activities of life to call attention to injustice is "violence" in the eyes of an oppressive state.

This picture, from Karem Yucel, on instagram. Outside Roosevelt high school, At dismissal. AFTER Federal agents KILLED A WOMAN EARLIER IN THE DAY The parents.

You never see these freaks happy. There is a sort of libidinal joy they perform, mostly for each other, but it comes only from of the immiseration of their enemies. No victory brings relief, just a temporary reprieve of grievance. I do not believe the machinery which drives us and them are the same.

Chat is this good

Somalis are also predominantly Muslim... yet another reason why the racist regime and its goons cannot sto attacking Somalis; Black Muslims, many of whom came as refugees and immigrant.

This is quite literally the 2nd amendment

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

This story kinda came and went but the fact that the government is explicitly and vocally thanking all the major media outlets for adhering to the bro code feels very relevant right now!!

Massachusetts is currently prosecuting a juvenile, a minor child, for reposting a meme without any additional comment. A meme that was reposted by thousands of other posters on TikTok. The Trump Regime absolutely will lock you in a small box for what you post on this app

I have now seen two separate AI reconstruction pictures of Renee Good’s murderer and they are different, which tells you that they’re not good and you should stop sharing them.

The Department of Homeland Security released a Maryland woman who was held for 25 days despite evidence that her lawyers say proves she was born in the United States and is a citizen.

Jacob Magid reports that the US has decided it will not, despite Israel's wishes, condition the advancement of the Gaza peace and reconstruction process on Hamas decommissioning its weapons or returning the body of the final hostage.

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

With an annual budget that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending for the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history. Here’s what they are buying. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Off of X, it's worse. According to Wired, the Grok app is more privately generating "photorealistic people, very young, doing sexual activities." Full nudity, full videos with audio. And it still has payment processing. "It's disturbing to another level."

Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.

Overheard at CES 2026: "Nobody goes public these days, they just get bought and killed by someone bigger."

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... check out the second post down in this liveblog and how many observers showed up *after* the murder at a high school enforcement action nearby. Minneapolis is having none of this crap.

taking up several blocks

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

The US just left the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC), which it was a founding member of in 2011 and chaired in 2023. FOC was established to protect free expression and human rights on the Internet in coordination between governments, civil society, academics, and businesses.

Lack of Arab contingent on here means most users are not aware how seething mad Khalijis are about Saudi intervention against the STC

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

I met Renee and her wife just a few weeks ago. She fed me tea and cookies at her house while we talked about school stuff. Such a warm and loving mother. This is tragic beyond words.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Who will be the first member of Congress to introduce legislation named after Renee Good that abolishes DHS?

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict... #books #literature #language

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

Fish Rock (1993) rock carvings designed and created by #Greenlandic artist Aka Høegh #womensart

I have nothing but contempt for this kind of thinking or political advocacy; anyone who joins this man's campaign is taking up with the opposition. He waves no battle standard, his white flag is ironed, clean, unimprovised, and ready to be unfurled.

In memory of: Sabah Mustafa Mahmoud Khadra / صباح مصطفى محمود خضرة Age: 53 We will not forget you.

Changing Classes

A warning I constantly make: as climate activists, we must denounce how frames of national sovereignty/interest are used not only to advance fossil fuel operations, but also to persecute and slander climate justice points and advocates.

The silencing of activists continues. India govt is in effect saying opposing fossil fuels going against Indian interests. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/m...

"Turkish and Israeli planners increasingly assess their areas of competition as interconnected, narrowing the margin for miscalculation and raising the risk that indirect or peripheral disputes [...] spill over into more consequential forms of confrontation" www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...