"a senior U.S. official said Trump is concerned that the ICC could one day seek to prosecute him or senior members of his administration ... would impose additional sanctions if the court didn’t amend its founding statute to explicitly bar investigations targeting Trump or his top aides."

Working on a #Schutzmantelmadonna and calling senators

Especially for those of us in the climate and energy community, this fundraiser to pay energy bills for those affected by ICE terror is a great thing to donate to. #energysky secure.givelively.org/donate/energ...

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Camp East Montana, the tent camp in El Paso, is reportedly a terrible place. And I struck by news that the admin wants to build warehouse detention facilities that are nearly 200% larger — holding up to 8,500 people in a single location.

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

On the frigid and crustacean-filled waters of Penobscot Bay, Mrs. Oliver was known as the Lobster Lady. She was a folk hero to Mainers — an enduring, if fading, emblem of the state’s hardy, matter-of-fact work ethic. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...

Because

The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

NEW: The story of America’s largest national strike for 100 years. Here are the biggest protests from Jan 30, 2026. And national news still did their best to ignore the scale of what happened yesterday. Soundtrack courtesy of The Boss 💪

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

“.. the largest expansion of such detention capacity in US history.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Quilt by Jen Kingwell, techer, quilt designer and author #WomensArt

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

A great short piece on doing climate work when fascists are trying to destroy your country.

Waldrand (1924) by Conrad Felixmüller

Tower of Mothers by Käthe Kollwitz

Protecting the people

Breaking News: A Cuban immigrant’s death in an ICE detention center in El Paso was ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"

Lucy Telles (1870-1956) with grandchild, basket weaver of Yosemite Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute descent #WomensArt

Franz Marc (1911)

Classical Vienna. -- Beautiful door at Schottenbastei. #photography #Vienna #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria

Home again, home again….

NEW: @globalrefuge.bsky.social condemns the Trump administration’s arrest & detention of lawfully resettled refugees in Minnesota, upending decades of U.S. policy and inflicting needless harm on families who were invited to rebuild their lives in safety. 1/ www.globalrefuge.org/news/refugee...

Oskar Kokoschka

Hairdressing (1906) by Pablo Picasso

“The dual state is a model in which the functioning of a state is divided into a normative state, which operates according to set rules and regulations, and a prerogative state, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees"”

Pam Bondi is the worst of the worst, along with some others. Everyone has an inner light, but some like her have a very scant measure.

The Poetry Reading (1939) by Ivan Gregorewitch Olinsky

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

12 Jan 1638: b. Charles Perrault, collector of fairy tales, member of the Académie française #otd

Here are the facts on what our laws demand, and how the US Administration violated those laws during the killing of an American.

Eugen Bracht, 'Lunch break' (1907)

La Madre (1924) by Felice Casorati

Sunset Near Bar Harbor, Maine http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23490

Henri Matisse (1899)

Bucks County

trending on German-speaking Twitter: "Violation of International Law"

White Night (1900-01) by Edvard Munch