One thing we all need to remember guys is that even here in blue sky there are bits and accounts made to trigger answers from us, so, be careful about what you repost or comment to... many times a reaction or the spread of certain information is what they want!

The GOP and the courts let this happen.

Regime media

Otra muerte en Minneapolis a manos de las fuerzas antiinmigración y otra vez cargada de sospechas. Las autoridades de Minnesota se indignan con la aparente falsedad de la versión oficial. A Alex Jeffrey se le captó con el móvil en una mano y no armado. www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...

Nuuk, capital of Greenland saw a complete power outage during night. South Greenland saw seen a storm pass with winds up to 50 knots and this is quoted as the reason by local power company. nukissiorfiit.gl/da/nyheder/u...

#BBCNews - As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... By Allan Little

There is so much more to the full video than seen in the brief clips. So much tragedy, heartbreaking grief. And bravery. [CW] #AlexPretti fb.watch/ERwkmst4x6/?...

il manifesto is a daily lefty newspaper in Rome, Italy. "Guerra incivile" is civil war.

millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming

Previously on Bylines Scotland...

Good breakdown of a murder. youtu.be/qjN73-gn90Q?...

sorry, but i remember that time *less than 90 days ago* that senate democrats lied to all of us, saying that they’d fight for our health care subsidies. and then they folded to protect the filibuster. maybe i‘m naive for believing them in the first place, but we still deserve better

"What if we didn’t go back to work on Monday? What if we stopped paying our rent and mortgages? If we stopped consuming and shared what we have among each other instead? What if we refused to pay taxes to a government that is terrorizing us?" www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/23/o...

‘Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlan ferlie! Your impudence protects you sairly: I canna say but ye strunt rarely, Owre gawze and lace; Tho’ faith, I fear ye dine but sparely, On sic a place. Ye ugly, creepan, blastet wonner, Detested, shunn’d, by saunt an’ sinner’ ~ Robert Burns ~ To A Louse.

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Data suggests separations are now happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop. (Published Nov. 2025)

"This design is made with ear flaps to enable good hearing during telephone calls". A 1940s knitting pattern, available for download at the Victoria and Albert museum: www.vam.ac.uk/articles/194...

Welp, gonna cue up jackass two..need some life-affirming nihilistic idiocy.

This also is the only way to fight fascism - together. No heroes, only all of us

It can be hard to see where this goes next in a dark time. But having the perspective of someone who wrote a global history of concentration camps about this moment can help you see. And that's some power in itself.

I see I'm falling down on the job as editor—the word is "hectobillionaire," @aselrod.bsky.social

Shoutout to Tyrese Haliburton for being a great human being

okay, it's kind of crazy to see this typeset in an affidavit on a docket before the day is even out. on a weekend no less.

If we survive this moment—and I am still quite confident we will—what must emerge on the other side is a professional class of bloodthirsty warriors, effectively left-wing nationalists who serve society as a philosophical concept and with cold, calculant precision seek the destruction of an enemy.

British papers have largely decided that the official Trump administration characterizations of the killing of Pretti are so obviously false and potentially defamatory that they simply won't reproduce them. Instead they're posting the video so you can watch the execution carried out step by step.

Just a couple giant lightning bolts ⚡️⚡️ that’s all I ask.

Shut it down-not just strip funding.

The French foreign office has gone from pure formal diplomacy to trolling Trump with real gusto. Brilliant.

(this isn't an exaggeration)

“We look for details that might explain why these people were subjected to this treatment, details that might reassure us that we, by contrast, are not in danger. […] But that’s not how state terror works.”

This is state terror. The sides to take now are clear for all civic leaders: politicians, business leaders, media executives & editors, university presidents, partners in law firms. You stand with the people or you stand with the brutes & thugs. We will all remember. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Remember that the legal standard for deadly force is whether the agent reasonably believed that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. That is the only question that matters. And that standard is plainly not met by what we see in the video.

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away Change and decay in all around I see O Thou who changest not, abide with me

Heather: He said this government is corrupt and illegitimate. That it lied about who attacked us to seize power. Beck: You're naive. Heather: And you're a coward. Beck: Excuse me? Heather: You know there's something wrong with this country, and you refuse to open your eyes and see it. PS. - Jericho

"I'm a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting" is such a testament to the bravery of ordinary people in response to what's going on.

As I explained earlier this month, we're too literal abt what amounts to military occupation. The ICE/CPB operations in Blue cities are the kinds of garrisoning of civilian towns that the founding documents opposed. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

California is suing the Trump administration over its efforts to jump-start offshore oil drilling along the Central Coast: www.latimes.com/california/s... via @grace2e.bsky.social

“My teenager and I were one block from the intersection where Renee Good was shot in the face, an hour before it happened. What happens when you love that your kid wants to fight for her community, but you’re also desperate to keep her safe?” trib.al/bksGYlz

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages and drove so many other large mammals to extinction can help us adapt to our own changing climate.

To consider..the regime acts with accelerating lawlessness and cruelty since given permission by a minority of voters and an unconstitutional legal immunity decision. The corruption, dishonesty and violation of citizen’s rights-and murder..make this a government of, by, and for itself.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Hijacking to post the video Asha referenced bsky.app/profile/nikk...

I hope those 7 Dems who voted for ICE funding are proud of themselves

A good man.

They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence. newrepublic.com/article/2055...

Well said. Makes the current milquetoasts seem…weak

I wonder how many Twin Cities veterans had Alex Pretti as a nurse

Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.