Canadian Inuit head to Greenland to show solidarity, attend consulate opening #Canada #Greenland🍁 halifax.citynews.ca/2026/02/05/c...

NASA astronauts have long captured amazing photos from the space station, but having a smartphone on hand will open up a world of video possibilities.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business…like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.” — ICE director Todd Lyons, April 2025

This is very on point. 👏🏽 As I keep saying — he has been positioning himself to become the next Rupert Murdoch who will dominate and control comms. No matter the cost or impact on everyone else. #SpaceX

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

It's got to be Willem Dafoe, right?

I watched this five times last night. Never ceases to amaze me how Shakespeare nails the human condition.

“Gay Christmas cookies for festive decoration as well as good eating” from the 1951 version of the Fannie Farmer Cookbook. This is the world we fight for.

“The ship! The hearse!—the second hearse!” cried Ahab from the boat; “its wood could only be American!”

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the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale

Folks: This is important. SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history. More at the link below.

Welcome to Paris.

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I'm a plant guy, not a rave guy. But when I learned that there was a rave being thrown at a greenhouse, I knew my time to party had come. www.coyotemedia.org/im-just-here...

5) ICE also begins warehouse buying spree to convert into immigration detention facilities. Gift 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Is the steward an apothecary, sir?

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

But: CBP is uniquely lawless. As this piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social points out, CBP has a LONG history of lawlessness--it's officers likely get arrested at a HIGHER per capita rate than undocumented immigrants ... and that's not taking into account our general unwillingness to arrests cops.

Not ICE, but CBP. ICE is terrible, but CBP is orders of magnitude worse. In many ways, abolishing or radically overhauling CBP is of greater urgency than ICE, but likely tougher to do. One can argue that ~all of ICE's duties can be reallocated. Harder to say that with CBP.

When ICE finally releases someone who's been unlawfully detained after flying them halfway across the country, they just dump them outside of the detention centers here in Texas. help pool frequent flyer miles to get these folks back to their homes, pets, families.

this is up to 5,335,376. wow.

Hi it's me! I'm the science guest, it's me! 😊 PNW tweeps, come say hiiiiiiiii.

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Now on spotify! open.spotify.com/track/2h8SuO...

@rami.spaceaustralia.com @urbanastronyc.bsky.social @cosmicrosie.bsky.social 🤩

“After their humans were disappeared by ICE”

The DOJ won’t investigate the ICE agents who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But now they’ve arrested journalists like Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and others for filming and reporting on an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church. This is an attack on the First Amendment like we’ve never seen.

Good for Luigi and all BUT THE GOVERNMENT HAS JUST ARRESTED A HANDFUL OF BLACK JOURNALISTS FOR COVERING A PROTEST HAD AT THAT CHURCH WITH THE ICE AGENT MINISTER — INCLUDING DON LEMON AND GEORGIA FORT

California becomes the next state to create a documentation bank for criminal misconduct perpetrated by ICE and CBP agents to serve future prosecutions. www.offmessage.net/p/california...

HAPPENING NOW: KNOXVILLE/KNOX COUNTY students walk out to protest ICE (H/T @votegloriaj.bsky.social )

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...

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I'd really love a graphic that combined Amazon layoffs, WaPo gutting, and Melania spending, with all the empty seats. Not least bc Bezos should be shamed as a failure. Maybe blame his marriage.

Best review ever : On the Amazon Melania “documentary”: "If they showed this film on a plane, people would still walk out." - Variety 💀

Right? Love the energy of "let's have a general strike" when we couldn't even master the concept of "let's have a general showing up for elections day"

"Professors are fighting an asymmetric battle against the tide of anti-intellectualism, illiberalism and bad-faith complaints, and will be for the foreseeable future."

More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises: -- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation -- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.

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It’s the 1990s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see at Ruby Ridge and Waco reflect entrenched practices of law enforcement. It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement. It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.

I see your "should be removed from their jobs" and raise you "should be prosecuted for murder."

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

A couple things if you’re sharing resistance art: •CREDIT the artist. Share their original post. Don’t silence someone’s contribution to the fight for some clicks or engagement. •genAI is what the fascists use, don’t use or share that slop! •Support small businesses 🫶

Made with paper and an empty toilet roll. Will be a future painting reference 💚⭐️

My Mardi Gras “throws” this past weekend 😊

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really good thread on the state of particle physics 🧪

Not one Academy voter should vote for Ben Safdie for anything “Three sources say Josh, who is now vying for this year’s best director Oscar, became aware of the girl’s age on the day of production, shortly after the scene shot, as the traumatized girl spiraled.” pagesix.com/2026/01/26/h...

READ: Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism and procedural tricks to prevent her release. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...