i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

he is trying so hard to be trump. do you think it will work?

If ICE agents didn't wear masks, they would be FAMOUS for all the wrong reasons. So if you wanna see mass resignations, prevent them from wearing masks. That said, abolishing ICE is the only way to truly prevent more violence, harm and murder.

No progress in Poland to ease the strict abortion ban because of anti-choice politics or reluctance in the gov't - but five years after Poland's top court gutted abortion rights, access to legal abortion has expanded a bit – only for women who learned to work within a system designed to say ‘no’.

Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"

I wrote about the shift we're seeing—the one that millions have been working toward. Terrible things are still underway, but so many people coast to coast are making a constellation of stars to help all of us steer through this darkness.

A warmer than average weekend here in the #Sonoran #Desert meant that we saw some lizards basking on our #hike, including this Common Side-blotched #Lizard. 🦎 #wildlife #photography #nature #reptiles

Things you learn reading district court rulings about US immigration policies.

“... microelectrode [is still] no match for a notebook or diary in probing the reveries, daydreams, half-awakenings, and other dimly lit vestibules through which we pass as we commute between sleep and wakefulness.”

some hope or some despair, they all kinda blend together www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a playlist called “lofi beats i fucked your dad to”

"The patient lying before David Hill was in labor, but it was the first time in her pregnancy she had seen a doctor. It was too late. A stillbirth was inevitable." ... once again, the 'pro-life' side is nowhere to be seen. www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/i...

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Renee Good's brothers sat before a group of U.S. senators and representatives on Tuesday afternoon and asked for their help. Their testimony was part of a public forum held by Congressional Democrats. Video: Sen. Richard Blumenthal livestream via Facebook.

Let’s have a moss break

#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography Flammulina velutipes brightens a very dull and rainy day.

🔴 Breaking: The first moments after Israeli forces bombed a condolence tent in Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing and injuring mourners, Shehab News reports.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that an Israeli decision requiring it to end its activities in the Gaza Strip by 28th February would pose a direct threat to patients’ lives and further worsen an already deteriorating humanitarian situation. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260202-msf...

Slime mold, Trichia decipiens in front of bright green #moss. NWT, Canada. #myxomycete #fungifriends The slime mold is about 0.5cm high.

yikes www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

it's so sad that they really have to consider this possibility because America is a drunk baboon with a gun, pointing it and firing at anything apnews.com/article/viet...

Turtle and vulture gathered the bones to awaken margay, tapirus and human iguana (2025) Priscilla Dobler Dzul Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Kudos to Mayor Mamdani. This is what economic justice looks like. And it's a reminder of how we can fight corporate greed at the state and local level. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mamdani-ice-delivery-workers-settlement-backpay-uber-gig-workers-million/

Polar bears in Svalbard depend on sea ice to hunt seals. Even as that ice disappears, their physical health remarkably appears to be holding steady. A new study in Scientific Reports shows how these bears might be adapting their hunting methods. 🎤✏️: Carin Leong 📝: Jackie Flynn Mogensen 📷: Jon Aars

so glamorous

Going to see that Anne Frank exhibit got me messed up. I know things are bad now. I know things were horrific then. The confluence of these truths, to truly hold them at the same time is some heavy, painful work. AND I’m watching “The Plot Against America.” WE CANNOT LET THEM BUILD THESE CAMPS.

"If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever." Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell rendition

Chuck Schumer wants to fund more ICE controlled body worn cameras that will inevitably be hooked into that Palantir facial recognition system, so maybe the two of you should have a little chat?

Going forward, barring super specific circumstances, I'm retiring the term "white supremacy" to describe Trump & his sycophants—because there's nothing "supreme" about them. Instead, I'll use the term "white narcissism," because they arrogantly and falsely think their skin color makes them better.

you say the Beatles stopped the war they might have helped to find a cure but it’s still not over youtu.be/86FwKvORUcg

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Ørsted, the company behind this, is Danish, which maybe gives a little more insight into why Trump tried (and failed) to cancel this project—because he's in the business of pissing off Denmark. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Slime mold hanging with lichens. The orange grapey thing is slime mold, Badhamia utricularis. The structures to the right and all around the slime mold is Cladonia lichen. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fingifriends The photo covers about 3cm left to right.

Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.

Our friend the São Bento Toad is a common toad who lives in the Atlantic rainforests of the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil! (photo by Mathias Hofstatter)

Remembering for no reason that in the 1990s, French officials were charged, some of them with manslaughter, after negligence allowed infected blood supplies at the national transfusion center to be administered to hemophiliacs in the mid-1980s, leading thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

In 2025, 200+ climate disasters affected 87.8 million people worldwide, Mongabay finds. Drought drove food insecurity, while extreme storms killed 8,000+ people. Scientists say fossil fuel warming is intensifying disasters and pushing the limits of adaptation.

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

Arcyria sp slime mold. NWT, Canada. #myxomycetes #fungifriends The slime mold sporangia are about 0.5cm high.

An explosion has ripped through an apartment building in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, killing a 4-year-old girl.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election, narrowing Republicans’ already-slim majority

Man this is really something

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

i will add that the sooner people wake up and join the fight, the faster and easier it will be to win. history makes it clear that the longer we wait, the harder it will be.

Videos from Gaza show huge explosions as Israeli air attacks hit a building in Gaza City and tents in al-Mawasi. Gaza’s Government Media Office says more than 500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on October 10.

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012... Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans.

we are running out of time to stop this organization from gaining unprecedented power