A few months ago I read a story about a whale that was tangled up in fishing gear and another whale tried to lift it up to the surface to breathe and then stayed with it as it died so it wouldn't be alone. I still cry when thinking about it. But hey, gotta keep taxes down for the wealthy somehow.

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

*anxiously stares in Mediterranean*

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

BREAKING: Young people have taken over the Hilton in NYC where ICE agents are staying. We will not stand by while Hilton houses ICE in our city. As long as Hilton chooses to host fascists, we will disrupt their operations.

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

Canada is helping the United States built a fleet of new icebreakers — but those ships could enable the US to further threaten Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic. (The United States does not recognize Canada’s claim over the Northwest Passage.)

everyone believes that democrats are solely responsible for everything that happens in american politics

The extent to which many Americans think Britain is a devastated and zombie-filled hellscape cannot be overestimated.

This is more or less what happened post-Bush and why we are where we are today... electoral politics is a good tool for minimising harm, point is that for structural & systemic changes we need more than electoral politics. Why reduce this nuanced take to a "they are anti-vote" strawman argument...

Every time I see a cyclist in the snow, I think of Carla Sands, the former Trump-appointed ambassador to Denmark.

While Ankara has recently shown signs of rapprochement with the Alevis, a similar initiative is underway with the Yazidis. A delegation from the community has just been received at the Presidential Palace and the Grand National Assembly. t24.com.tr/haber/ankara...

Ingrid and Quolngea Bhranapapthevadd VII, Wandering Piquol-sorcerer 2022

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

In memory of: Amir Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Sheikh / أمير أحمد ابراهيم الشيخ Age: 11 We will not forget you.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Anne Frank's family had their German citizenship stripped from them under the Eleventh Decree to the Law on the Citizenship of the Reich in 1941. Since they had never become Dutch citizens, they were officially stateless at this point, lacking what Arendt termed "the right to have rights."

Pepperball guns, tasers and tear gas are among the weapons recently deployed against protesters in the US. In a new guide, @easybakeovensz.bsky.social details some of the “less-lethal” equipment federal agents have carried during the current immigration raids. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Per AFRICOM reply to query the recent press releases covered two and three strikes respectively. That brings the total for the month so far according to our count to at least 17.

This is unhinged. ICE will be in Italy participating in US security during the Olympics.

Watching this NHK documentary on gyouza and [1] turns out gyouza is not an earlier import & mostly came post-WWII, [2] they never address *why* there were Japanese people, publications etc in Northern China in 1930s & *why* they suddenly had to come back & started selling gyouza. 🙃

Average rents in Quebec have increased by $1,800 per year since 2023 “Renters can no longer keep up. This is no longer an isolated crisis: It is a social emergency that is hitting Quebec hard.” #polqc

"Turkey is planning to establish a buffer zone on the Iranian side of the border if a worst-case scenario unfolds and the government in Tehran collapses, Middle East Eye understands" www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-...

You can tell Macron is devoted to protecting children and teenagers, he said so on the CSAM and non-consensual porn site. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

Reminder of the pattern: when the real trump falters, he is removed from the news and replaced my in headlines by a fake, imaginary trump who is instead doing reasonable and popular things.

I manually maintain a tankie block list on an alt account bsky.app/profile/did:...

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Je suis profondément ému d'avoir le soutien d'Élise Gravel, une autrice intègre et compatissante, aimée par tant de gens.  Luttons pour un monde aussi beau que celui qu'elle imagine pour nos enfants. Ensemble, nous pouvons le construire.  Rejoignez-nous : https://avilewis.link/adhesion

“The divide between Zhang and Xi no longer centered on debate or planning and instead shifted to execution and direct noncompliance. This problem was clearly visible across the PLA, and it posed a serious threat to Xi’s authority.” jamestown.org/zhang-youxia...

When I was saying the other day that people were pushing meshtastic as a secure messaging option I wasn't joking. Meshtastic objectively has worse cryptography than signal. The SIGINT aspects are far worse than Signal Chat also.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

This is advance propaganda for WH to make Noem take the fall

In December, the Canadian government gave $1 million to Ottawa's JSI Telecom to commercialize AI-driven data analytics. JSI, a wiretaps and investigation support firm, had a banner year in U.S. government sales in 2025, including a big new contract with ICE. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

My Turkic blood mostly makes me a yoghurt purist. And short.

Just saw that Rania Khalek is still around pretending to be a journo. My disgust is bottomless. It is not just Assad who [so far] got away with massacres, but unfortunately all those who shilled for him, cheered as thousands upon thousands were murdered.

Once you've been through enough cycles, it becomes easier to see the candidate elites are trying to make happen vs. ones that have genuine popular appeal.

The Gulf Arabs (+ Jordan) do not want another US-Israeli war against Iran. Increasingly states like KSA see Israel, not Iran, as the primary threat in the region. Unfortunately for them, they've spent the last 50 years subservient to the US military order, and can't back out now w/o total severance

I think this means very little in practice, but for what it's worth the UAE said it doesn't want its airspace/waters/territory used in an attack against Iran. Typically these statements vaguely say they "don't want their airspace used for military operations" so explicitly naming Iran is unusual

This group was founded post 10/7. They cleverly chose a name that makes them sound venerable and respectable but they are basically the Jewish version of Moms for Liberty, completely batshit.

Every 1960s Cantonese wuxia film looks like it only exists on a series of glass plates or something.

DHS is using explosives on people’s homes??? “Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

AAP Releases 2026 Child Vax Schedule, No Longer Endorses CDC's Version www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...