53 International NGOs warn against consequences of Israeli government’s decision to deregister humanitarian organizations - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/53-international-ngos-warn-against-consequences-israeli-governments

I find it more than ironic that at a time when almost the entire conservative moment is trying to defend their Dear Leader's relationship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker, their new celeb of choice is the wife of a registered sex offender.

Mamdani: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy ... I will govern as a Democratic Socialist"

#FreeIran www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yshYt9/

"The team pores over satellite imagery, building permits, and other local legal documents to build a map of the massive computer filled buildings... They take that data and turn it into an interactive map that lists their costs, power output, and owners." Transparency shouldn't take this much work.

Curtis Yarvin is not a deep thinker, he is the silicon village idiot.

Chemist Alice Ball died #OTD in 1916. The first Black woman to earn a Master's in Chemistry, she developed the Ball Method & it became the standard treatment for leprosy worldwide for >2 decades. BUT, just a year after her discovery, others took credit for her work. #WomenInSTEM (1/3)

Here’s a wrap of some of my 2025 highlights from TikTok, featuring @davidho.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @amywestervelt.bsky.social @lisaschipper.bsky.social @laurengifford.bsky.social @pammcelwee.bsky.social @rodschoonover.bsky.social @adamconover.net 🤩🤩

A wonderfully hilarious thread to begin next year with.

Happy new year. Let’s hope it’s a good one and without too much fear and misery. This is a good start.

#BestOf2025, from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: The Texas Observer revealed that ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden operated "GlomarResponder," a white supremacist account on the social network X.

Don't stop chewing out your electeds about this. Gender-affirming healhcare IS healthcare, period, and cis kids are allowed the exact same hormone therapies without all the brouhaha. Banning care WILL kill kids, period.

He’s such a fuckin rube! Jesus…

As these war criminals meet, remember that Israel is still bombing Gaza with US weapons, the genocide is ongoing, and at least 8000 Palestinian hostages remain in Israeli prisons. Corporate media will likely ask about none of these atrocities.

less than two weeks ago marjorie taylor greene introduced and successfully passed a bill that will get trans kids killed. she did it right before christmas to maximise the cruelty.

I wish there was an option to do a humble bundle for independent journalists or publications. I get that it’s not possible to trust most legacy media but it’s too expensive for most people to subscribe to 100 individuals. Make a collective or something 💗

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

Not gonna lie he has such warmth and love about him. He made me start tearing up.

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trump has a billion terrible qualities but his worst may be his simpleminded gullibility and the ease with which he can be manipulated

AI and Race Science: How plans for “racial hierarchy”, “genetic optimisation” and “population culling” are circulating inside the billionaire Epstein and Big Tech networks

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Urgent

Last phone call Trump had today like last time: Putin. We all know that nothing good will happen today. 🥺

To me, this is impressive. This is what we should be doing here EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I feel we are worth it - you, me, our children, everyone as well as our planet that they are destroying. Who would commit to this?

The problem I see with this is, he’s been doing it for months now, right out in the open. So obvious but it is now an “OMG” moment that we’re all supposed to be surprised and shocked? WSJ is complicit. All MSM is complicit. Complicit with all his crimes. All they do is kiss lower each time. Idiots

I was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter.... (1/10)

There seems to be no end to #Minns fucking stupidity is there? Arming vigilantes? Is he actually OK? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Donald: "Whenever one side is ready for for peace, the other decides they don't want it"

Not a ceasefire: a slowed genocide

A more accurate headline would be that Donald Trump is pursuing legal action.

Irony is dead

We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.

Fun fact about Nigeria: they recently shut down a lot of car battery recycling outfits to conduct tests. Tests to study the large amount of lead being let off by these companies, poisoning the local populations. These companies? US automakers that refuse to start certification programs.

Cory is on to something here, if Canada got rid of its Anti-Circumvention Law we could be better off. doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Evil

At the start of 2025, some people questioned whether the resistance was dead. They doubted that Trump’s authoritarian agenda would be met with defiance and backlash. You proved them wrong: indivisible.org/groups

I do a prayer once a year. It’s before we eat our Xmas dinner. It’s a heartfelt thank you to Mother Earth. Because she has given us everything and without her we wouldn’t exist. 💗🌎

Obviously 🙄

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Stephen Miller’s sadistic designs go? trib.al/zSclato

I suspect there will be many fafo moments for executives in the upcoming year.

NEW: Alan Dershowitz tells Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor "You are a real mensch:" Newly released emails show that Florida federal prosecutors had "social" meetings with Epstein's lawyers as they worked to mitigate the sex trafficker's sentence. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

Nigeria is not a failed state. It is a founding member of ECOWAS, for God’s sake. There is no domestic security problem in Nigeria that Nigeria cannot solve. Do they need help or cooperation with a big power? Yes. But conducting strikes on them like this is an utter violation of their sovereignty.

Four senior former British Army officers – Brigadier John Deverell, Lieutenant General Sir Andrew Graham, Major General Peter Currie, and Major General Charlie Herbert – have urged Labour leader Keir Starmer to impose a full arms embargo on Israel and ban any dealings with Israeli defence companies.

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Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.