There was a time when clear physical and cognitive decline in a sitting U.S. President would trigger nonstop news headlines.

AI empire at work: "Ruinous technology like AI, reports have said, are slated to be a major part of the White House’s plan for Gaza, with other slides in the pitch deck reported by The Wall Street Journal showing a transformation of the Strip into a 'smart city' with 'tech driven governance.'"

👁️ For Brexity #irony, this very definition of masterpiece was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic 🇬🇧 ...and became the EU anthem 🇪🇺

Cruise Kidman Kubrick...

When he 'joked' to a MAGA crowd that he liked uneducated people...this is what he meant. They would be ripe for his versions of history...🫩

457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.

Jack Smith on Jan 6 pardons: "I do not understand why you would mass-pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will." Watch our LIVE special coverage here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNnz...

I see that the paramilitary choking a detained Cuban man to death is a just minor story in the news cycle.

Emma Stone. 7 Oscar nominations by 37 years old. #Oscars #Filmsky

For the record. #Jan6th ☄️🇺🇲👀

Neguse: "This is theater. Republicans are trying to rewrite history. That's what this is ... it's an outrage that Republicans now sit here and have the audacity to try to rewrite history in front of the officers who sacrificed everything to protect them."

you just don't see language like this in right-wing spaces anymore, quite shocking to see it.

For the second time this year, students in early weeks of a class have mentioned feeling that liking books and even reading in public is seen as ‘performative’ and pretentious, and man, that makes me sad.

the lack of investigative reporting on his health is pretty remarkable

Before “Special Counsel,” Jack Smith worked at The Hague, where the job is to look power in the eye and keep writing anyway. War crimes. Chains of command. Evidence over excuses. That kind of work leaves you with one stubborn belief: no one is above accountability. We see you, Sir.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

Jack Smith, answering a question from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), said the failure to hold Trump accountable for attempting to overturn an election could have "catastrophic" impact on democracy

☄️ 'Although Trump abandoned his tariff threat on Wednesday, EU officials said the summit remained necessary.' 🇪🇺⚠️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

If you can’t identify the man who touched you, searched you, or transported you, you can’t report him. That’s not enforcement. That’s a predator’s dream.

The perils of ambidextrous handshaking? This is Trump’s left hand. If there’s something wrong with the President’s health, the public needs to know about it.

I'm pleasantly surprised that the short Jane Austen's Period Drama made it to the final nomination list. Usually comedic shorts don't stand a chance but this one really taps into greater discussion of women's bodies and autonomy. #Oscars

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

This lineup is exactly what the Academy votership overhaul several years ago was going for: More room for genre. A year when the huge, popular movie with the black cast ISN'T the surprise "Oops" omission. And a more international look--nineteen nominations for foreign films this year.

We used to mark today with celebration — today, we must mark it with action. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Illinois has safeguarded and expanded existing protections for medical professionals, as well as made contraception and the abortion pill more accessible.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

The WH responds to Trump's left hand bruises vis Sara Cook of CBS: "Per Karoline Leavitt 'At the Board of Peace event, President Trump hit his hand in the corner of the signing table, causing it to bruise.' A WH official also noted his aspirin usage. He didn’t have one at the start of the BoP event"

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Jack Smith: "Trump was charged bc the evidence established he willfully broke the law -- the very laws he took an oath to uphold... After leaving office, Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club... highly sensitive natl security info was held in a ballroom & bathroom."

The vultures circle Gaza.

Disaster capitalism without shame... 💰⛳💲 #Gaza

Commander Bone Spurs speaks...

Easy days in the office #DisasterCapitalism

“If you can tell me the difference between these two descriptions, then you are a wiser person than me.” @mrjamesob.bsky.social reads out two excerpts, written 82 years apart.

Hundreds of British soldiers died in Afghanistan after NATO came to America’s defense following 9/11. Here are some of their faces. www.theguardian.com/world/2009/a...

24 hours after artists called foul the AI-friendly policy, Comic-Con updated the language on its site. “Material created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show,” it now says. AI is now banned at the art show.

Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address. @josephcox.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch our latest episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-QH...

Trump's *left* hand -- not the one that is usually disfigured -- now has a large bruise and is discolored These pictures are from today in Davos and are via Chip Somodevilla (Getty) and Fabrice Coffrini (AFP)

Good Morning! On this day, (Thurs) Jan 22 in 1858 Beatrice Webb was born. She was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. It was Webb who coined the term collective bargaining. She was among the founders of the London School of Econ. #WomeninSTEM 🧪

Trump will die a property developer. 👁️

Cruise Kidman Kubrick...

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.” ― George Gordon Byron

6 Lessons From Lord Byron – How To Make Others Swoon With Words Lord Byron was born on the 22nd of January 1788, and died on the 19th of April 1824. In this post, to celebrate his birthday, we examine how he moved others with his language and how we too can make our readers swoon.

Weaving! Quite a cluster of ironies here as he conflates a loving chat with his mama with the mentally 'sick', and urban developments. 👁️ #r4today

🇮🇪 Forty shades of rental troubles. ⛈️⚠️

Benjamin Netanyahu can't sign the Gaza Board of Peace agreement in Davos because Switzerland have said they will arrest him if he enters the country. It is a Board of War Criminals.

The US is due to officially exit the World Health Organization in the face of warnings that it will hit both US and global health, and in violation of a US law that requires Washington to pay the UN health agency $260 million in fees that it owes reut.rs/4a6aQPg

The other thing I point out here is that the winter storm - despite being cold - could bear the hallmarks of climate change. Relatively high sea surface temperatures, and warm air, made it easy for LOTS of snow to fall. Climate change could make these snowstorms *more* common in Alaska.