Some folks say they see no ethical issues since Guinea-Bissau is “too poor” to roll out the birth dose & that won’t happen until next year—with Gavi funding But you can’t ethically exploit scarcity. The trialists will knowingly protect just half the newborns; they have the means to protect ALL.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. We have to demand leaders who recognize this fact and are animated by it.

It’s quite likely that being called a “fucking bitch” is one of the last things a dying Renee Good ever heard. I demand leaders who are as filled with pure, diamond-hard rage over this as I am. I believe this is absolutely not asking for too much.

Update: A bid to safeguard the National Center for Atmospheric Research failed Thursday after the Senate passed a spending package without an amendment to save the center's funding. eos.org/research-and...

NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force. w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

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So with Queer Eye coming to a close, it's time for Trans Eye, right? I'm serious Queer Eye was massive for shifting public opinion on gay rights, simply by humanizing them. We need that now for trans people If done as well as the original or reboot, it could show America... We're just people

Sometimes I worry that I've wasted my life. Then I think about how many people I've managed to reach through social media, and realise I've probably wasted thousands of lives.

I'll say again that this is little different from the gestapo going door to door rounding up Jews.

Let's gooooooooo With alt

I was today years old when I found out that Knut Hamsun gave away his Nobel Prize medal, too -- to Joseph Goebbels in 1943.

Look I know corruption defines the current US administration but if I were a journalist I'd do some digging into what a private studio art school in Ridgewood, Queens with no apparent humanities instruction will be doing with $2 million in NEH funding grandcentralatelier.org/about/about-...

MAGA, a movement of cynical cruelty that is fueled by atomization, has accidentally created the conditions for in person communities to be formed around resisting their repression bsky.app/profile/aaro...

“It would be such a gift to Putin. As I said on the show, Trump could fly to the Kremlin, get down on his knees, and lick Putin’s boots, and it still wouldn’t be an act of subservience as gratifying to Putin as the United States invading Greenland.” Highly, HIGHLY recommend listening to this:

“the visual evidence shows no indication that the agent who fired the shots had been run over. The footage provides visibility into the key moments of escalation. It also establishes — millisecond by millisecond - how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place.”

A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

This resonated deeply for me—gift link for easy access. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

I am so deeply grateful to the Black and brown organizers and neighbors of Minneapolis for what they have built here. Without them, none of this care and love happen.

Which wholly undermines the (bullshit) argument that the ICE agents were acting in self-defence. Obviously, a new excuse will be found but you should be clear that US citizens now have fewer rights than enemy combatants in an actual war do.

Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.

For the first time, a map has been created that allows people to type in their ZIP code and see an estimated percentage of their neighbors who have been vaccinated against measles, which can help determine the risk of the disease in their area. abcnews.go.com/Health/new-m...

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

It is genuinely the case that plague polls better than using military force to take Greenland. 4% of Americans think attacking Greenland would be a good idea.

The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.

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Shoot this right into my veins.

"Before long, you realise the music isn’t so much “freeform” as creating its own forms, pulling them apart and recombining them in real time. The music can have melodies and grooves, but it takes them places. It can be cacophonous, but it can also be meditative, eerie, absurd, and beautiful."

Perhaps surprisingly, the Washington Post is comparatively sensible, saying that Machado “presented” the medal as opposed to “Trump accepts Nobel Peace Prize.” You can’t accept something that has not been given to you. He was given a piece of hardware, not a Prize.

DHS said the man died while he tried to commit suicide and “violently resisted security staff.” A medical examiner called it “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression.” A witness told the Washpost *on the record* that guards choked him as he said, “no puedo respirar.” Gift link⤵️ wapo.st/49FW4NG

THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact

Gift link - we all need to read this. Shoot this Resistance into my veins! After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

Every one of them are also wearing a "Police" tag. The line between cops and criminals is getting really blurry.

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

In an attempt to finally break even on these trans ferns and clear some space in my flat, I'm running a January sale for the pin versions. For the rest of the month, you can get them for £10 instead of the higher price I usually charge for this full 3d moulding canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312...

Non-transferable. Definitely pathetic.

When you think of it, a person who says this shouldn’t hold elected office.

May be first published photo of Mobile Fortify app in use. 📸: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu/Getty Border Patrol agent scans the face of a driver as they stop and question him in the street...in Minneapolis. 13Jan26 Please keep/attach photo credits. Bassim is a well-known, courageous photojournalist.

“Institutional Betrayal” is the defining characteristic of this moment.

Read your comment section, NYT.

Trump as the Florida Panthers stand behind him: "What's going on in Minnesota -- we're taking out some of the worst criminals in the world are being taken out of our country. Murderers, drug dealers. We have the best crime numbers we've ever had."

The question to ask- Am I free to go If the answer is no- On what grounds. Unless they articulate a specific reason- ask again. Am I free to go? If they give a reason- shut up, don’t answer questions, and just say “okay, I want a lawyer”

Meanwhile, universities in the US are gifting Claude subscriptions to undergraduates & pushing faculty to integrate AI into classes...then showcasing it all as a grand perk for everyone. This is the most bizarre, self-destructive thing I have ever seen from university admin in 27 years as a prof.

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

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Project 2025 is obsessed with China as our biggest international threat and their solution to that problem is to attack US higher education. That’s thinkin’.

Watching this is heartbreaking. Watching the milquetoast Democratic response is revolting. It's not enough to 'negotiate'. The weak response from ALL DEMOCRATIC leadership is astonishing and anti-American. Use your power or leave office. Do not fund ICE because they are only terrorists.

Gentleman on the scene who talked to this Dad said that he asked ICE officers if he could vacate his family and they said that's fine. He loaded up the car and as soon as he put it in drive, they lit the car up with flashbangs and tear gas. The 6mo old stopped breathing and EMS had to be sent in

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.