Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

For those of you who love space exploration: we have robots exploring all across the solar system, and they can’t make anybody any money, they just discover cool stuff, so billionaires aren’t interested. Rovers and orbiters at Mars, orbiter at Jupiter, missions on the way to distant asteroids…

The long lines at airports now falls squarely on Speaker Johnson's shoulders. The Senate unanimously passed a bill to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard.

But Speaker Johnson is refusing to let the House vote on it. If you miss your flight, remember, this shutdown is on him.

On the value organizing using your own brain:
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For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones).

I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures).
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ClimSat - Climate-conditional Satellite Image Editing with Diffusion Autoencoders YouTube video by Detect-Content-Creator

🌍What would my home region look like in a different climate?
ClimSat is a diffusion autoencoder for climate-conditional satellite image generation by a #CRC1502 member. It can simulate how landscapes might appear under different climatic conditions.

📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...
🎥 youtu.be/YAPaGKBGJ3g

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

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Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.

a crab holds up a cigarette and yells "Call your senators"

JFC I've heard that Fetterman is considering supporting the SAVE act. It's a disaster of a bill that would create sweeping disenfranchisement.

Whoever your senators are, I don't care, call them. I don't wanna hear if you think they definitely will or won't support this, take 3 minutes & call.

Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

Concentration camp things happening at the concentration camps

"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November."

It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.

Global gridded dataset of heating and cooling degree days under climate change scenarios - Nature Sustainability Accurate projections of heating and cooling needs are vital for planning energy use and achieving the sustainable development goals. A global dataset now maps global heating and cooling degree days, finding future hotspots, rising cooling demand and early shifts in energy needs with major global impacts.

Net zero sustainable development remains the only established path to reversing this trend for ever hotter days. It is imperative politicians regain the initiative towards it. @nature.com  @ox.ac.uk @oxmartinschool.bsky.social 

STATEMENT REGARDING DETENTION OF STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE MEMBER IN MINNESOTA JANUARY 24, 2026 I was notified today, January 24, 2026, that a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member has been detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the state of Minnesota. Tribal leadership is actively working to locate the individual, gather accurate information, and coordinate with the appropriate authorities to secure their release. At this time, details surrounding the detention remain limited. I urge the public to refrain from spreading unverified information while this matter is being reviewed. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will continue to advocate for the protection of our citizen's rights and will provide updates as appropriate.

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month.

Statement from Standing Rock:

Masked government agents are conducting “show me your papers” stops, detaining 5-year-olds to use them as bait, and brutally murdering U.S. citizens.

Call it what it is — fascism.

History will not look fondly on politicians and so-called "leaders" of this country who stood by and enabled this.

Let's be perfectly clear: every single Republican in Congress who allows this to continue without removing this president and prosecuting these lawless ICE murderers, is declaring their allegiance to a tyrant, and themselves enemies of the very Constitution they swore to defend.

Reminder: ICE’s budget has not been renewed — the House voted, but not the Senate — It will take 10 Democratic votes to stop it

Pressure your senators

ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23.

📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

The regime’s paramilitary forces are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

On heading into year two of the second Trump administration, and the necessity of pushback The Minnesota pushback to "Operation Metro Surge" shows the power that the people maintain in the face of Trump's authoritarianism.

NEW: On heading into year two of the second Trump administration, and the necessity of pushback.

The Minnesota pushback to "Operation Metro Surge" shows the power that the people maintain in the face of Trump's authoritarianism.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

You know what we used to call "purity tests" before the internet and wreckers fucked everything up? Standards.

As Winifred said down thread: if your only standard for a representative is a letter before their name, you will continue to get played.

Translation: don't annoy my donors. Until Democratic leadership visibly sticks to its values & demonstrates integrity, they will continue to languish in low approval and weakness. As others in this thread say, the idea of rich flight has been shown a myth elsewhere eg MA

Academics’ enthusiastic (and often uncritical) embrace of LLMs and generative artificial intelligence will be a factor in the junkification of research.

You can’t outsource thinking nor the cognitive task of gradually absorbing knowledge. Nor discernment and creativity.

Atwood on the nail
#ReneeGood laughed (gently) at Jonathan Ross
So he killed her, making sure with 3 shots
Then called her a “fucking bitch” as her car veered out of control & crashed
A hate crime
US #misogyny is as grim as that of the #Taliban
Just manifested differently
Women die from both

What I call climate 'appeasement' - the idea that climate breakdown isn't actually going to be that bad - is growing fast, and presents as great a threat as climate denial

Climate appeasers denigrate reality as alarmism, so fostering inertia and inaction

We are in deep, deep, sh*t - fact

Well put.

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.