SHOP SALE: we have boxes and boxes of lovely books in storage and need to make some room on the shelves to fit them in the shop. Until the end of February, buy three or more books at once in the shop and get 20% off! The discount will be automatically applied to qualifying purchases at the till.

peter theils obsessed with the anti-christ yet everything he does makes him seem like he’s the anti-christ

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Excellent news.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Swalwell: The guy said he would cut prices, and instead he’s killing people—and I’m not signing off on that.

After triggering an influx of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, right-wing provocateur Nick Shirley is reportedly trying the same stunt in San Diego. Read more from @miasato.bsky.social:

Pop the kettle on and have a listen to Woman Zone's latest podcast! Nancy from Woman Zone in Cape Town visited the Library last October and met with Gaby and Wendy to chat all things GWL! Happy listening <3 open.spotify.com/episode/4jwA...

In celebration of #LGBTQHistoryMonth & in anticipation of our upcoming event “Queer Speculative Love Letters” with Istanbul-based writer Secil Epik in April, GWL volunteer Ari gives a brief intro into some of the most prominent queer love letters from history ⬇️ womenslibrary.org.uk/2026/01/30/q...

Agnes Owens’ writing was championed by Kelman and Gray but she remained mysteriously un-celebrated. “One publisher said people don’t want that kind of writing… about poor people.” Agnes Owens, as seen through objects in the Glasgow @womenslibrary.bsky.social womenslibrary.org.uk/exhibition/a...

“I know of no other poet in modern times who can so rouse the reverberations of meaning within a word” Open the Door: Olive Fraser – from 2018, Jess Orr looks at the life & work of Olive Fraser for the @womenslibrary.bsky.social #poetry 2/6 womenslibrary.org.uk/discover-our...

National Storytelling Week 2026 begins today with the theme of 'Soundtrack Your Story'. Public #Libraries do so much to promote the joy of storytelling, providing books to inspire for all ages and rhyme and song sessions for the young. literacytrust.org.uk/resources/na...

We promised to throw the kitchen sink at this election. Well we've definitely voted for the right candidate with the skills for the job! Hannah & the Greens are taking the fight to Reform. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Lochhead’s Mary 26 March, Perth. £7.50/£5 Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is one of the most iconic plays in modern Scottish theatre. This special event will reflect on Lochhead’s enduring influence on Scottish writing & identity www.culturepk.org.uk/event/lochhe...

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

🚨THIS IS NOT GOING AWAY PRIME MINISTER How hard can it be to give these national heroes an actual date for the meeting you promised on BBCBreakfast four months ago? You shook their hands in opposition, I won’t let you shake them off now youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...

Art by @swedishsummers on Instagram

“From Minneapolis to Palestine,” Ibsais said, “occupation must be dismantled completely and entirely, or it will keep killing and keep expanding until none of us are safe from it.”

We refuse to live in a society that profits off death, racism, and genocide. Just as speaking the truth about the Israeli military’s genocide of Palestinians is a moral obligation, so too is standing up against ICE killing and disappearing people in the US.

For months, ICE has been using the same tactics we see the Israeli military carrying out across occupied Palestine: racial profiling, militarized checkpoints, arrests without due process, and violence against civilians and journalists.

From Minneapolis to Palestine, the US is using our tax dollars to carry out and enable state-sanctioned violence. Again and again, we see the same lies about those who defend justice and speak truth to power.

“This is what occupation looks like everywhere it exists, in every context where armed agents operate with total impunity over populations denied meaningful legal protection or political power,” wrote Ahmad Ibsais for @mondoweiss.net, comparing tactics used against Palestinians and Minnesotans.

As we continue to rise up against authoritarianism everywhere, we do so carrying the memories of every person whose life has been stolen by state-sanctioned violence with us.

We demand justice for Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse federal agents shot as he protected his neighbors in Minneapolis. In the same breath we demand for justice for Anas al-Sharif, a 28-year-old Palestinian journalist assassinated by an Israeli airstrike for telling the truth about genocide in Gaza.

Today is #Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. On this solemn day, we honor the memory of the six million Jews and countless others murdered by the Nazis. We are reminded of the catastrophic dangers of #fascism and hatred left unchecked.

If ICE had anything remotely to do with law enforcement and safety, they wouldn't be leaving "death cards" on Latino workers' cars. www.cpr.org/2026/01/23/i...

ICE agents are kidnapping, brutalizing, shooting, and killing people, using fraudulent intimidation tactics, violating our laws and the Constitution, exploiting children, taking trophy photos of their victims, and leaving death cards on people's cars. ICE is the Trump Gestapo and must be abolished.

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

This is how we know that ICE is being used as a criminal terrorist organization, and how we know that ICE must be abolished and every one of its officers who have committed crimes should be imprisoned for their crimes.

We also know because research consistently shows that immigrants commit fewer crimes than U.S.-born citizens. This reveals that their use is political, not necessary, and intended for terrorism in advancing a white nationalist agenda.

We know that ICE is working as intended because the pattern of crimes and brutalities they commit persists and rather than reining them in, the Trump administration automatically defends them with lies and pre-written scripts and tries to surge their presense.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

It seems an obvious measure from Trump’s administration to stop athletes defecting and also to control what they say and who they interact with #BoycottTheWorldCup

Not to mention that Elon Musk, Melania Trump, and many others in Trump's own circle would have been deported for violating their visas and lying on their immigrant applications.

Just a reminder that if Trump's policies had been in effect in the past, there would be no Apple (Steve Jobs is the son of Syrian immigrants), no Google (Sergei Brin immigrated from the USSR), and no WhatsApp (Jan Koum immigrated from Ukraine). 65% of all top tech companies has immigrant founders.

In the UK Farage is also fascism

Unless Americans stand up to stop the carnage, then the answer is clearly that the Canadians are right: American isn't the way it is today because of Trump. Trump is in power because of the way America is.

A protest sign in Minneapolis. Having lived and served in Ukraine, this one really hits home for me.

A few years old, but even more true today.

Stella Carlson, who was previously known only as "the lady in pink" who recorded the most revealing of all of the videos of Alex Pretti's murder, has come forward to speak out and ask others to be brave as they confront ICE. A true hero who is risking abuse to encourage others to take action.

While Gregory Bovino and the two CBP officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti have been pulled out of Minnesota, that is not justice. All three were immediately sent back out on the street in another American city to terrorize, and possibly even murder, more Americans. Congress needs to act!

Watch Anderson Cooper’s full interview with Stella Carlson, the brave woman in the pink coat who witnessed & videotaped the ICE murder of Alex Pretti. The FBI has not yet contacted this key witness. Pam Bondi should also be impeached for this reprehensible coverup. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

Agreed. Abolishing ICE is the only solution for a corrupt rot this deep and severe

A French NBA star poised to be the next face of the league is speaking up about Trump's ICE abuses. Why aren't more athletes calling out the administration?

This may be the best and only opportunity we get to pressure the Senate to defund ICE. PLEASE take the time to call Republican Senators up for reelection and tell them it needs to be DEFUNDED and nothing less will suffice. 202-224-3121

An incredible special election result in St. Paul, MN. Despite ICE’s reign of terror and frigid weather, Dems showed up while GOP support utterly collapsed. Special election turnout is often low, but I have to wonder how much of this was GOP voters flipping or sitting it out in protest of Trump/ICE

🔊 'News that ICE would be helping out with the security for the U.S. delegation did not go down very well at all.' On the Reuters World News podcast today, we discuss the news that ICE agents will be deployed to the Winter Olympics in Italy reut.rs/4a0jFZw

One security guard restrained this MAGA terrorist. That is what professionalism looks like versus Trump's MAGA militia at ICE and CBP