That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today

this weekend i visited a beloved local cafe/record store and they had a bathroom labeled "Gay Bathroom". when we complimented the sign the barista said sometimes shitty people ask if there's a different bathroom they can use, so they have a second one in the other room labeled "Super Gay Bathroom"

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Russian History, 1796-1917 2. Elements of Politics with Dr. Goldberg (iykyk) 3. Conspiracy Theory seminar 4. Introductory Pathology 5. Business German

Finally, the regime has no conception of exerting power beyond brutal force. That is why they’ll continue to escalate. It’s extremely dangerous. But this kind of violent spectacle is simply not an effective strategy of consolidating authoritarian rule against majority opinion in a massive country.

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

the existence of the biscuit and the triscuit tantalizingly implies the existence of the (forbidden?) quadscuit

organized, unseen, unpaid labor acting rapidly and effectively? yeah that'd be women

Hearing Greg Bovino has been carried off by a hawk

ARTE

Welp looks like it’s gonna be a doozy.

New estimates put Africa’s solar at 63GW, shattering previous counts of 23GW. Driven by flood of off-the-radar imports, Africa went from zero to 63 GW in under a decade Africa is now the fastest-growing region for solar globally. Slowly, then suddenly. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/22/a...

The power outages and freezing conditions in Ukraine right now are insane. Greenland news and war “coverage fatigue” not giving it the presence in headlines it deserves. The humanitarian impact is absolutely staggering.

Top of the charts at my house today

If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

My message to Noem, Miller, Bovino: You’ve lost. Go home. You can’t move without us following you. You can’t get out of your cars without 100 times your number descending on you. You’re setting millions of dollars on fire only to kindle a hatred against you that will never die.

“He walked downstairs to pick up the food and was taken by ICE. They took him and they left my baby in the apartment, all alone." www.nj.com/morris/2026/...

this is clearly retribution for @hannahnatanson.bsky.social’s coverage of illegally fired federal workers. serious escalation against 1a by this regime

Consulted with our entomologist at SUFS on what kind of invertebrate Thom Tillis is:

If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+

Guaranteed not to be reported in US media.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Kari Lake has blocked Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from using a USAGM transmitter in Kuwait to broadcast news and protest updates into Iran amid the Islamic Republic's government-induced internet blackout, reports Oliver Darcy in his Status newsletter.

Between the popular backlash to ICE brutality and Jerome Powell‘s statement, we are getting more and more signs that Trump is failing to consolidate an authoritarian regime

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

Absolutely nuts. Seems way crazier than the MN fraud scandal, but has received comparatively little attention. Why has nobody gone to jail?

91,000 women age 20 and older left the labor force in December, while 10,000 men joined it, per @nwlc.org

UNC Chapel Hill's decision to close six area studies centers is the Carolina Way version of Trump withdrawing the US from 66 global organizations -- narrow-minded, ill-considered, and devastating for both the university and the wider world. @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social amp.heraldsun.com/news/politic...

Protesters filled the park in response to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent Wednesday.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Jesus. Need to be careful about sharing photos, but these were taken by Chris Juhn, a photojournalist in Minneapolis. You can find them on his FB page below. The officer is firing a pepperball. www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

🚨EMERGENCY PROTEST IN CHARLOTTE TOMORROW: STOP ICE TERROR! FROM MINNEAPOLIS TO CHARLOTTE: ICE OUT! 🗓️ Thursday, Jan 8 ⏰ 5:30PM 📍First Ward Park 🤝 Organized by PSL Charlotte #NorthCarolina #IceOUT #IceOutOfNC #NC #Charlotte #CLT #NorthCarolinaProtest #IceOutOfCharlotte #IceOutOfCharlotteNow #WNC

I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.

"Witnesses said a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but the ICE agents refused to let the doctor in to help. Up to 15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles that had occupied the street."

This should rank as one of the most serious corruption scandals in history- the White House sharing top secret military information with oil company executives but not with Congress, creating massive opportunities for insider trading and other corrupt deals.

The hater becomes a waiter at the table of success

“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”

Jeffrey Epstein, with an unidentified (redacted) woman, holds a large novelty cheque for $22,500 signed by…Donald Trump. It's a framed photo, an the frame says "once in a blue moon". What on earth is going on here?

Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.

Everytime I read something like this it makes me so angry. The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics

Day 1 of the freeze-dried ice cream advent calendar!

i have been radicalized into agreeing with the car speed governor idea michael expressed at the top of this thread more or less entirely on the basis of the totally garbage responses to it. everyone who complains should also lose 1mph per complaint.

Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs will abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs. The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.

We really should be leaving the leaves where they are, as this podcast from @xercessociety.bsky.social explains. Leaves provide crucial habitat for overwintering insects. (1/2)

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.