New RCT findings from MDRC on the impact of raising salaries for ECE teachers: Teachers were less likely to work 2+ jobs, experience food insecurity, and have unpaid bills Teachers reported more job satisfaction Mixed evidence there was greater teacher retention www.mdrc.org/work/publica...

We all have a right to be angry at GOP voters -- that almost goes without saying. But I still maintain a special reserve of vitriol for people who can't be bothered to vote at all. They, by themselves, could have prevented this. They, by themselves, can stop this whenever they want to.

Evil is a choice. ctmirror.org/2026/01/19/c...

Ohio voters should prepare to face higher levels of intimidation & disinformation during 2026 election cycle according to Jen Miller, @lwvohio.bsky.social “The good news is that our boards of elections are bipartisan-run & our poll workers are community servants” www.toledoblade.com/local/politi...

Since Jan 20 is #PenguinAppreciationDay here's an old artwork of Magellanic Penguin. #Birds #art #ColourPencils #ColorPencils #BeginnerArtist #birding #TraditionalArt #SketchBook #DrawingOfTheDay #Nature #DrawingChallenge

From the NYT Editorial Board: @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Federal Vote Intention Among: Men: 🔵 CPC: 46% 🔴 LPC: 33% 🟠 NDP: 10% ⚜️ BQ: 7% 🟢 GPC: 3% Women: 🔴 LPC: 46% 🔵 CPC: 29% 🟠 NDP: 12% ⚜️ BQ: 8% 🟢 GPC: 4% Pallas / Jan 12, 2026

Ukraine is winning now Zelensky Claims Ukraine’s Army Has Mostly Shut Down Russian Attacks www.kyivpost.com/post/68356

I'm scanning the webcams, and I'm seeing aurora as far south as the German / Austrian border and Swiss Alps. So if you're cloud-free in central or Northern Europe, look up! :) Screen grab from Jungfraujoch, Switzerland live cam. #northernlights #aurora #switzerland

I keep seeing posts stating that ICE cannot enter your home or a private business without a judicial warrant. While that is legally correct, in reality ICE routinely violates the law by forcing their way in, often by smashing down doors, before violently assaulting people. Trumpism is fascism.

Jasper Feargal looks sweet … he’s a Tasmanian devil. #dogsofbluesky #rescuesofbluesky #pup #mutt #jasperfeargal #jazzyb #TerrierMutt #TerrorTerrier #AdoptDon’tShop

You do get to choose who you are going to be in this current moment. That's all you can control [and even that is a challenge].

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Andy McCabe could do the funniest thing right now.

“the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That…is fascism – ownership of government by an individual/group/by any other controlling private power.” Roosevelt

A small note: terrible things are happening in Minneapolis. But also in Saint Paul. And in the suburbs. And though most of the push is in the metro, things are happening all over the state. I've been trying to refer to the events as happening in the Twin Cities or in Minnesota.

From Google: Based on Elon Musk's estimated net worth of over $600 billion to $700 billion in late 2025, a $10 million donation represents a microscopic fraction of his total wealth—roughly 0.0014% to 0.0016%.

It’s quite fascinating that there seems to be no actually practical way to stop an American president who has no sense of shame.

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Here's a rundown of what I know (or seen evidence of) to be in Greenland: Denmark has 300 (visually confirmed) to 500+ troops including many from Jaeger Corps – one of the top arctic warfare special ops groups in the world, led by the commander of the Danish Army, Maj. Gen. Peter H. Boysen. 1/

Really good speech from Carney at the World Economic Forum today. Genuinely gives the impression he understands the gravity of the moment, which is why I'm struggling to square it with his actual actions and policy re: the United States. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStu...

Very important speech here from Carney. Watch it in full at this link. "Canada ‘strongly opposes’ tariffs over Greenland, won’t waver on Article 5" globalnews.ca/news/1162085... #cdnpoli

The U.S.A. is the least respected nation within the NATO Alliance. Republican Congress - hope you are proud of the generational damage to our country that you parents, grandparents, children, friends, and neighbors sacrificed their lives to defend.

REMINDER: The only reason #Missouri Republican lawmakers are putting eliminating the income tax before voters is because they can’t expand sales taxes without our permission so they are sneakily combining them.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/20/u... fuck Trump and his Republican co-conspirators.

What if the Republican complaints about "big government" were total bullshit and Republicans were plotting the whole time to impose their own big government? Discuss.

Healey just launched her reelection campaign and it’s looking like she’ll have three Republican challengers and no challenger from the left. At what point do Democratic voters in Mass. start taking a closer look at our leaders and their records?

Don't fund anything until the Republican Majority stops funding ICE. There is no good goverance or "just keeping the lights on" while presidential goons are paid with public money to murder and disappear our neighbors www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

ICE got plenty of money when Chuck Schumer folded and now they're saying fuck you. What a shock. If anyone continues to fund the government at the end of the month they are Republican.

One of the biggest challenges in public life is convincing people that Republican leaders and office holders support the things the Republican leaders and office holders are doing on behalf of other Republicans, and this isn’t all some big misunderstanding.

Minnesota organizing against Republicans. www.theverge.com/policy/86419... America will thwart the Republican take over attempt of our freedom. Wanna help? #BoycottRepublicanBusiness

"...Dems are actively voting to expand funding for an agency they cannot control even when they do hold power. The bill doesn’t represent a strategic retreat or damage limitation — it represents a capitulation to Republican priorities on immigration enforcement". migrantinsider.com?utm_source=n...

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

I deeply appreciate this podcast episode.

Thank you for your resilience, your persistent brilliance...it transformed how the world navigates & understands our planet. Your work touches nearly every modern device & journey and more people should know your name. Goodnight and godspeed, Gladys West.🕯️ thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d... #WomenInSTEM

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THE WOMAN WHO WAS DRAGGED OUT OF HER CAR AND ARRESTED BY ICE SPEAKS OUT… We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself. 📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

These are not detention centres, they are concentration camps for ethnic cleansing.

Strong speech by @mark-carney.bsky.social in Davos today. He invoked Vaclav Havel's 1978 essay "The Power of the Powerless" - which was first translated into English by Canada's Paul Wilson. www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/u...

I always thought MLK’s ‘Mountaintop’ speech was his best, which was given the day before he was killed. It is especially relevant given what is happening now in MN and elsewhere. He was getting many serious threats, which he references in his line “I may not get there with you.”

The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”

Gee if only the USA had like an amendment to get rid of obviously demented presidents I mean it could have been invoked at least a dozen times already

All right, tonight's local urgent needs. Just one. It has been A DAY, I am beyond beat, and this one really, really needs some help. Cindy was appointed guardian to her little niblings last year. The LL refuses to do repairs on the house; it's now a safety issue for the kids.

Ireland failed to remove the 3-day waiting period for abortion, which "...reinforces the idea that abortion is uniquely regrettable, that it carries an exceptional emotional risk, and that guilt is not just possible but expected. This belief is widespread, deeply ingrained, and wrong."

Justice Dept. to remove restrictions on fully automatic weapons. So our children can get slaughtered ten times as fast.

First is the necklace, called "The Mysteries of Night": wingssilverwork.com/the-mysterie.... Beads:  giant beveled black and white sardonyx focal; sterling silver; white onyx; black onyx; snowflake obsidian; white coral/shell; jet:

All right, tonight's inventory selections. Today's feature is a photo, so we can only match it in shade or spirit. We have two gemstone-bead works that do both, in a sense: largely black and white, and emblematic of winter.

I fear for this country. Not because the president is a madman, but because the people who could stop him aren’t.