Most people want gun laws tightened. They're on a losing argument. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

White people are ridiculous. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If he was justified, they shouldn't be scared of a proper investigation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Racist arseholes. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Removed from the US Passport database and flagged by Global Entry possibly for being an ally to the Trans Community. Part 2 in the comments pls share

Greenland V Trump Fascism www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

I have family fighting the Lockwood fire right now. Can’t imagine the extra stress it puts on firefighters to have people driving blithely through an active fireground as if their presence doesn’t make things infinitely harder. My thoughts to all of you in Vic facing this awful situation #vicfires

The response of the poster: “Just tryna get home to Bendigo and not be stranded. There were many firefighters so I felt safe”. There are shelters open. Driving around road blocks by taking backroads and depending on emergency services to save your ass puts CFA/SES lives at extra risk

Rick Morton on the government's increasing use of automation for disability assessments, and the NDIA’s cuts to plans as reforms accelerate: satpa.pe/HnLHT85

I don’t know why but this is the photo that really got me. (They’re all harrowing.)

Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:

Two to 2024-25, NDIA rejected half the internal reviews brought by participants on funding. But in the most recent financial year that proportion soared to 70 per cent. Now, as we reported Oct last year, automated planning. With even fewer review rights. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/01...

From May last year, when NDIS execs backflipped and introduced default 3-month funding "periods" more than 20,000 plans -- one third -- were cut by an average of 22.5 per cent. Rest increased but this includes across the board indexation. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/01...

Yeah - I mean it's also a *new* choice. Grok used to be prevented from doing this (with varying amounts of success). Like the safeguards that were in place in December were removed.

The creators of these apps make choices. Grok was created with the production of deep-fake abuse imagery as an option and that was a choice. The fact that the app is still producing these images, for free, with no restrictions, for anyone who wants them, is also an ongoing choice by its creators.

Closer view of Trump's pin of himself that he was wearing today (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty)

By the way, if you’re on the side of thinking that ICE is going to win whatever this “war” against the people they talk about…. They aren’t And the statute of limitations goes past three years for a lot of crimes

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK" The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"

It’s the Northern Cardinal edition of #PhotoFailFriday! #birds 🌿 #WorstBirdPic

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

We are experiencing the worst people our country has ever produced.

Oh

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Like the January 6th violent insurrectionists.

USA records a total of 23 billion dollar weather disasters in 2025. The long term average (in adjusted 2026 $) is 9. Only 2023 and 2024 had more BDWD than 2025. The LA fires alone cost $61b. www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Tina Smith: "I've worked closely with law enforcement in my roles at state and local government, and I have never seen anybody describe as protocol holding a cell phone and taking video while you are simultaneously shooting a gun that ends up killing somebody. It's kind of unbelievable."

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

To paraphrase Margaret Atwood…”men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”

once again we are all tapping the sign

How can anyone listen to this drivel and think he's wonderful?

#Feathers&Form is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay. I thought this hummingbird’s feathers were worthy as their feathers diffract the sunlight into a rainbow of colors. #birds #RainbowWings

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

The tail wagging!

I am increasingly convinced that the real target of this action is Louise Adler, and the humiliation (again) of Randa Abdel-Fattah is just a bonus.

Breaking: NEW YORK (AP) — Judge stops the Trump administration's freeze on child care and other social service funding for 5 states for now.

The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”

“When people give me things, I post them.” That’s a terrifying decision rule for someone comfortable wielding unchecked power over anyone in this world.

white guys who want to sneer at the resolve of liberal and left wing white women right now: this is a superb time to shut the fuck up and go do something useful instead

Isn’t that what the body cam is supposed to be for? juggling a cell phone and gun at the same time is protocol nofuckingwhere

Tricia McLaughlin on why the ICE officer was filming with his phone as he shot and killed Renee Good: "Our law enforcement officers are trained to document when operations are impeded or there's assault happening"

Former leaders of the Adelaide Festival have written to the board. They call it a grave mistake which brings the Festival and Writers Week into disrepute and which may have far-reaching consequences for both the Festival and Writers Week well into the future."

America is broken. A family ordered Door Dash and ICE pursued the woman delivering the food. She ran into the house and ICE cowards hiding their faces surrounded the property. A Native American woman living in the house started broadcasting online, telling ICE to leave unless they have a warrant.

this was interesting, was wondering while beside the car he switched phone to left hand and why the heck he stood in front of the car

AOC: That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

“We have to find common ground…”

Found this: www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Geothermal energy is essentially carbon-free, it is available at any time of day and in any weather, and it leaves a small footprint on the landscape. New approaches to harnessing it may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pvWVGb

Alien has a deliberate pace: there’s time to introduce the entire scifi world and explain how the crew travels long distances, it shows everyone’s respective job on the ship and how they go about work and interact, it has long leisurely shots, and then the Alien shit happens and it’s still two hours