That’s the thing about the future:it doesn’t exist yet. or, in fact, ever. Because when it does exist, it’s the present. The future (the new « present ») will be shaped by our actions and attitudes now. We don’t get to make it up « from scratch » but we CAN contribute to its shape and form.

French manufacturing production rises at strongest rate in almost four years, PMI shows reut.rs/4tuSsHJ

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

Please pay attention to decimal places as you read this post. He paid $750.00 in income taxes [I am neither an accountant nor a lawyer so will make no further comment on that] and wants $10,000,000,000.00 because somebody leaked that fact.

I’m so glad I came for this and more than a little sad that I will be back to Heathrow in 10 hours.

This DID make me laugh

This is a five-alarm fire not just for Texas A&M but for higher education and the country more generally. And it’s old news to say it, but this resides in a different universe of consequentiality than any of the perceived transgressions that triggered the Harper’s letter.

"the Clouds thicken fast, where they will burst I know not, but we should be armed at all points." - George Washington to John Hancock, 30–31 January 1776 founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Last week a border patrol agent was filmed pepper-spraying a detained protester at point-blank range. @pacantifa.is identified agent as Tyler Gramlin. For @us.theguardian.com I asked Gramlin for comment. His response? He sent me a weird far-right "Amelia" meme. "DEFEND YOUR HOMELAND," it said.

It's not good for my spine, my carbon footprint, or many other things, but I am making an insanely fast trip to London and back so I can be there at the Launch Party for HWJ 100 (cc @historyworkshop.org.uk ) at Birkbeck on Saturday at 2:00 local time. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/podcast/work...

This DID make me laugh

Our excellent and reasonable president just grounded, by my count (based on Wikipedia), 231 out of 544 aircraft in the American Eagle fleet. Good luck to us all.

If DHS/ICE is admitting to having kidnapped 40 people/day, how many did they actually take? Averages are of course deceptive but the population density of Maine overall is ~40 people/square mile. So they’re admitting to emptying at least 5 square miles in the last week

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Eighty year olds in Maine physically blocking ice agents from accessing ice offices. Faith leaders in DC up to #GoodTrouble. High schoolers and nurses striking. Shame on those who aren’t willing to sacrifice anything.

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

The ICE surge in Maine seems to be targeting church-going, fully legal, asylum seekers. Or maybe those are the victims who have someone to speak for them. It’s so shameful and sickening.

The parents are legally in the U.S. as asylum seekers. This is lawless behavior by ICE. #mepolitics

Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF

This will force the other news outlets to cover it. Based on past performance, most of that will be to cover the controversy of Trump claims X, everyone says not X, which will further promote nothing being true & everything/anything being possible. Which is what Trump & the MAGA movement want. end/

We're once again going to get to watch Trump, his aides, & his fellow travelers run a complete influence operation based on baseless & long debunked conspiracy theories through his press gaggles & social media posts through Fox News & now CBS News right into Congress. 4/

For those not familiar with "destructive scanning", this means Anthropic would buy up millions of physical books, use “hydraulic powered cutting machines” to chop them up, scan the pages on “high speed, high quality, production level scanners,” then send the pages to recycling companies!!!

Children are dying in the US concentration camps www.cbsnews.com/news/anadith...

The news from Minnesota is rightly in all the headlines but the news from Maine is terribly ugly as well: wgme.com/news/local/s...

Trump really doesn’t give a damn. It’s not his money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Here's a gifted copy of the article... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Related, "polarization" as a problem is one of the most destructive ideas US political science has ever helped popularize.

New planet just dropped and it 1) is almost exactly Earth-sized 2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year. 3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡 Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪

Raskin: ICE and CBP — these are not law enforcement entities, and at this point they’re completely lawless. They’re outside of the Constitution.

A start. How about neither ICE nor C.B.P. shall be allowed within 500 yards of any polling place, upon penalty of (take your pick) immediate revocation of federal employment?

This is great! Philly DA Larry Krasner vows to "hunt down" ICE agents who are breaking the law like Germany hunted down Nazis after WWII. “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades

We are at war with Somalia in Minnesota and Maine and even in Somalia.

From a cat, who is at least 112th-generation American.

The date for the next No Kings Day is set. But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵

1/With $ in free fall, re-upping @himself.bsky.social and my piece on the Other Thucydides Trap. When Athens turned its economic power into a system of tributes, allies turned into subordinates and left Athens in the lurch. US is committing the same mistake. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The other thing that really grinds my gears about the anti-"ultra-processed" crowd is the assertion that the profit motive somehow taints UPFs as a category, but not other foods. You don't think the profit motive is behind the factory farms that churn out billions of "unprocessed" chickens?

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Important read by @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

Janet Mills: Maine ‘will not be intimidated’ amid ongoing ICE surge

A kindergartener is one of a growing number of children in Maine who have been left without a parent as the Trump administration carries out a major immigration enforcement effort, according to local officials.

Trump triggers flight from US dollar reut.rs/45AEVny

Time to take stock!!

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

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...

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