Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

It is not an exaggeration at all - at all - to compare this to how segregationist terrorists would murder peaceful civil rights activists and then their political and civilian allies would immediately laugh about it. It’s the exact same moral and policy cadence

This Day in Labor History: January 24, 1848. James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, near modern Sacramento. Let's talk about the California gold rush and the racialized and gendered labor that resulted as 300,000 people rushed there for gold!

I know this isn’t the most pressing thing, but the amount of times Mr Rogers has been mentioned in the last two wks alone is why they’re trying to cancel PBS. They told us we could be good people and we believed them, and good people are hard to control. They don’t want any more good people.

“The peasants you kill are your own brothers and sisters. … No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you; in the name of God I command you to stop the repression.” - St. Óscar Romero

Extrajudicial killings are not the sign of a strong regime but they may be the portent of a bloody one.

NEW: I spoke with the Texas inmate who was put in solitary confinement after a GoFundMe for her sick prison cat went viral. While she's since been returned to regular housing, she and her longtime friend worry that more retaliation could be on the way. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

Recognized from both O Brother Were Art Thou and hymns I know via singing with my family

"This was a man who changed my musical life by giving me a whole new perspective on the guitar and, on an even more profound level, my relationship with sound..." Willie Nelson talking about Django Reinhardt, born 23 January 1910.

nine years old

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

Dismantling state sponsored paramilitary aparatus is not easy... ask people of Guatemala, Honduras. El Salvador, and Nicaragua where corrupt governments, armed forces and economic elites continue to reactivate them decades after the end of the Cold War

Just remembered that I’ve seen a Nobel Prize up close, actually 2 because it was Linus Pauling’s medals on display at OSU Corvallis’ archives. The archivists told me that Pauling had them clean out his garage as part of the donation & included a bag of his beard & nail clippings w/the prize medals.

latest story in @briangaar.bsky.social’s now four-part series on Orange Julius just dropped — his incarcerated caretaker has been released from solitary confinement thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/22/t...

You know that JD’s family was involved with the Trail of Tears

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

One of my favourite pics of Barbara Stanwyck, 1931. By Elmer Fryer #botd

In France, schools often have a poignant plaque on the wall near their entrance recounting how many students were kidnapped by the Nazis from that school during the occupation. Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.

I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare: “the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”

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...

I know the theory here is “Mock and belittle Trump,” but there’s a point where it sounds like you’re just a callow dolt who doesn’t understand the gravity of the situation.

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

i am GOING TO get my hopes up every single time. NOT because i am gullible or desperate but because it is FUN

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

What do a Twinkie, a butterscotch candy, a ball of foil and a severed head have a common? They’re all things crows have brought to Marylanders. www.thebanner.com/baltimore/cr...

When one of the cats isn't getting the attention she wants bc the humans are busy, she will sabotage things so that the all attention is redirected to her. She’s unplugged a land line bc someone was on a 45+ minute call. Just knocked a teapot off of the counter bc she wants someone to play w/her.

Visit StopTheDemolition.org to take action and save the New Deal Social Security murals!

Remember, WW3 is not a reason to skip coming into the office. It's important for the culture of this company

Not sure why my governor is being a scold unless he's yelling at billionaires, not European leaders. He needs to yell at billionaires more, including the California tech billionaires backing Trump and his rampages.

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.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Dolly Parton Grace Jones Los Super Seven Caetano Veloso Tom Waits

As with targeting refugee, also obscene. As both an ESL teacher & Peace Corps volunteer (my host nation is on the list despite providing a large % of healthcare workers in NYC) the lesson I learned over an over again is that we Americans are the (undeserved) recipients of other peoples' generosity.

My first adult job was an ESL program where the majority of our students were Hmong & had came to California as refugees after assisting the US military in Vietnam. They’re here because our government owes a debt to them, same w/Afghan refugees who are now also being targeted.

OK so it's Monday here but it's still Sunday the other half of the world. Here's my late #SundayFishSketch of an arapaima, inspired by a fun reel that my friend @seaofglitter shared, giving me a #SciComm chance to say "hey, that's a real fish actually!" 😄🦑🐡🧪

Went to the cemetery to clean up the holly & ivy that we put up for Dad’s birthday/Christmas & learned that not only had some kind soul (I suspect that I know who) had already done it, they left behind a 🪩 to go with the Lucky Cat who watches over the niche.

Poster child for the CA GOP

Life and Liberty for All Who Believe (1982) is a documentary produced by Norman Lear's People For the American Way. It features Burt #Lancaster trashing Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson & Heritage Foundation founder Paul Weyrich who famously proposed voter suppression as winning tactic for Republicans.

Absolutely shameful targeting refugees and especially the Hmong & Afghans

“He’s a big enough bully to stand up to Trump,” yeah I don’t know, I kinda feel like if a *podcaster* got him to walk back an allegedly principled stand, he won’t stand up to shit

Actually I think it's the precise opposite of clear what a prospective candidate for high office thinks if he refuses to articulate what he believes something is or is not and what he would or would not do to change the situation.

Here's an enraging story I wrote about today: A lady currently incarcerated in Texas has been taking care of a stray cat. It got sick. Her daughter started a fundraiser to pay for the vet. The prison now has put her in solitary confinement. thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/15/p...

At the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Riches of African-American Art - WSJ

Some of it has to do with California politics, especially the CA GOP losing power despite Props 186/209 & recalling Grey Davis and then stewing in their resentment.