Die #AfD verliert die Stichwahl ums Landratsamt in Oberspreewald-Lausitz (Brandenburg). Wichtig dabei: Für die AfD-Kandidatin Ruhland-Führer hatte sowohl Parteiprominenz wie Chrupalla und Siegmund, als auch rechtsextreme Medien wie Compact kräftig mobilisiert. Hat trotzdem nicht gereicht.

ICYMI: Following Renee Good’s murder by ICE, her son’s Minneapolis charter school was forced to go fully online due to right-wing attacks sahanjournal.com/education/mi...

Nurses are pissed. This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.

Just to get it right: If you want to proof that you are a proper U.S.American you carry a #gun, because that's your God-given right in God's own country, correct? But if you carry a gun, #ICE agents are allowed to kill you properly, because that's their right, correct?

Want a found family of curious #book lovers, meeting twice a month for live chat about weird science, bizarre history, true crime & strange medicine? It’s free. It’s a safe space. Our next chat will be about @hallierubenhold.bsky.social new book STORY OF A MURDER. 📚 peculiarbookclub.com

Bessent: I'm sorry he is dead, but he did bring a semiautomatic weapon to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever Bessent: But he brought a gun! Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.

»Er war ein wirklich großartiger Kollege (ICE Opfer Alex Pretti) und fantastischer Freund«, sagte Dimitri Drekonja, der mit dem Krankenpfleger auf einer Intensivstation gearbeitet hat, der »New York Times«. www.spiegel.de/ausland/minn...

The @intcouncilofnurses.bsky.social must support the #AmericanNursesAssociation (ANA). We must show solidarity and condemn the murder of #AlexPretti unisono as a professional group. #OneofUs #respectnurses #protectnurses

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

I am seriously waiting for #California and #Minnesota to exit the #USA and declare independence from that toxic federation.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

He was an ICU-nurse and was murdered by ICE.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked the Trump admin from "destroying or altering evidence" related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

Ich teile diesen Geschenklink aus der @nytimes.com, damit für alle klar ist, dass die Tötung von Alex Pretti durch ICE Agents nichts anderes als eine Hinrichtung eines unschuldigen Demonstranten war. #AlexPretti #Minneapolis #ICERaids

Im U-Bundesstaat Minnesota hat @governorwalz.mn.gov die Nationalgarde aktiviert. Was wird, wenn sie in #Minneapolis auf die Greiftruppe #ICE von Team #Trump trifft?

The nurses are pissed

He was one of ours. #NursesUnite

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

#OtD 24 Jan 1979 a 35-year-old teacher from India arrived in London to marry her British fiancé. The immigration officer ordered that she be given a "virginity test" – state sanctioned sexual assault. Public outcry then led to the practice being ended stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9654...

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

Only her aunt Yvette came back. She was liberated in Torgau. Her mother Simone née Israël (1921) managed to avoid deportation. www.deportesdelyon.fr/les-archives...

Deported with her father Jacques (1912), her baby sister Nicole (1944), her aunt Yvette Israel (1925), her maternal grandparents Maurice (1884) and Antoinette (1892), and her great-grandmother Caroline Israel (1855).

24 January 1943 | A French Jewish girl, Doris Mireille Lewy, was born in Toulouse. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 May 1944 in a transport of 1,004 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 865 of them murdered after selection in gas chambers.

In Dresden hat der Terrorprozess gegen acht Männer begonnen, die als „Sächsische Separatisten“ einen NS-Staat in Sachsen geplant haben sollen. Für den Umsturz sollen sie Schießen und Häuserkampf trainiert haben. Drei der Angeklagten sind Mitglied der AfD.🧵

Wir gedenken heute des evangelischen Pfarrers Erich Sack (1887-1943), der die ostpreußischen „Deutschen Christen“ in die Schranken wies, die ihm anvertrauten Konfirmanden vor den antichristlichen Umtrieben des NS-Regimes warnte und schließlich erschöpft im KZ Dachau verstarb.

Monstrous.

»Der Verein R21 kritisiert die staatliche Unterstützung linker NGOs. Ein Gutachten stellt nun fest, dass die Förderung von R21 selbst fragwürdig ist.« taz.de/Rechtsgutach...

@kontextwz.bsky.social hat über Danial geschrieben. Danial Bamdadi ist Gewerkschafter, politisch aktiv seit seiner Jugend, ein Linker. Nun verweigert ihm das Ausländeramt Rems-Murr-Kreis die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft und unterstellt ihm Extremismus. www.kontextwochenzeitung.de/gesellschaft...

I am expecting to see confused penguins on the river Elbe soon. Taken in #Dresden today.

Da Frauen immer noch unsichtbar gemacht werden in der Wissenschaft, lasst #GladysWest auf die Reise gehn. #gps www.heise.de/news/Mathema...

“Our children are traumatized. The sense of safety in our community and around our schools is shaken... After our fourth student was taken yesterday, I just thought someone has to hear the story. They’re taking children.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures "‘Students?’ barked the Archchancellor. ‘Yes, Master. You know? They’re the thinner ones with the pale faces? Because we’re a university? They come with the whole thing, like rats-’"

„EZB-Präsidentin Christine Lagarde hat Insidern zufolge ein Abendessen beim Weltwirtschaftsforum (WEF) während einer europakritischen Rede von US-Handelsminister Howard Lutnick verlassen.“ Man diskutiert nicht mit rechten Vollpfosten, sondern benutzt die Blockieren-Funktion. 😊

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

Are you a professor planning to incorporate THE INTERMEDIARIES (medical #history, Weimar, #Jewish history, #transgender history, #LGBTQ fighting Nazis) into your course? I have pdf to share, additional teaching materials, images, and resources for use. Please ping me. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals “But, it was a funny thing: every day something happened that was important enough to be on the front page of the newspaper. She’d never bought it and seen a little sign that said ‘Not much happened yesterday, sorry about that’.”

They are trolling Trump in public. 🙂😂💙

It’s just perfect that this is what it took for him to show the slightest bit of empathy.

Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music

News: "In a rare direct rebuke to a U.S. president, three American cardinals urged the Trump administration to step back from foreign policy strategies and goals that threaten world peace." www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

(Call for papers) Space, Place, and Patients histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/01/espa... #histSTM

Call for papers #CFP Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present 18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... Deadline: 25 Jan 2026

Danish officials will not attend Davos as tensions with the US escalate, Bloomberg reports.

This has been confirmed by German broadcaster @zdfde.bsky.social and not by a comedy show, I may add. Nor is it April's Fool Day. The U.S.A. seem to be in the hands of either a spoiled child or a spoiled adult with an undiagnosed condition, but definitely incapable of ration behaviour.

Das Grab von Loki und Helmut Schmidt wurde mit Hakenkreuzen beschmiert. www.ndr.de/nachrichten/... Kommentare wie "das waren Linke" in 3, 2, 1...

Sechs Jahre nach dem rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau ist ein weiteres Opfer, Ibrahim Akkuş, gestorben. Der Mann war von dem Täter angeschossen und dabei schwer verletzt worden. Er habe lange unter den körperlichen und seelischen Folgen des Anschlags gelitten:

Komm ins Deutsch-Polnische Haus! Es gibt offene Stellen für ein WiMi und ein Studi: www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.