CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
14.02.2026 16:25 β π 3119 π 1413 π¬ 276 π 539
"Continuing to clutch at the myth, aqua nullius provides the colonizer a distinct advantage in the βcompetitionβ for the water integral to the colonial project and thus remains a structural feature of... settler-states, water law, governance and science."
14.02.2026 01:38 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"invader-settlersβ separation of water and land, facilitating the extractive and exploitative understanding of water as a resource, is far removed from First Nations recognition of the inseparability of Country... and reciprocal, relational understandings of water as living entities or kin"
14.02.2026 01:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Aqua Nullius
An excellent overview of aqua nullius. I will be using this as a core reading in my future classes and I encourage everyone to read it.
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
14.02.2026 01:38 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom
We have seen this song and dance before.
There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today.
I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand.
There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.
13.02.2026 18:43 β π 5354 π 1670 π¬ 215 π 136
Fresh video shows police pushing protester before fight broke out
A new video filmed by a bystander and shared with ABC NEWS Verify shows the full minute before two police officers began punching a protester, shedding light on the beginning of the altercation.
Incredible footage - a new video shows a full minute before an incident where an protest attendee was repeatedly punched by police. Both the Premier and NSW Police have told us not to judge 30 second videos because we don't know what preceeded them. Well...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
11.02.2026 06:56 β π 218 π 106 π¬ 10 π 11
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
09.02.2026 05:14 β π 897 π 520 π¬ 25 π 17
There are some great threads going about how awful sugar plantations were.
I just want to add something as a historical romance author: every time you see someone adding a sugar cube to tea in a historical romance, think of those threads and the blood-soaked cost of the sugar.
09.02.2026 05:20 β π 1774 π 347 π¬ 20 π 23
Good turn up at Canberra protesting against Herzog and the genocide
09.02.2026 06:40 β π 393 π 77 π¬ 8 π 3
Vale, John Kudelka. Your work made a huge impact on Australian life.
09.02.2026 02:59 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
07.02.2026 00:12 β π 11855 π 2939 π¬ 73 π 190
Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
07.02.2026 02:44 β π 759 π 136 π¬ 20 π 6
βHaving neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).β
03.02.2026 01:45 β π 1053 π 244 π¬ 25 π 34
DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was βinvolvedβ in a gang shooting.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
03.02.2026 02:02 β π 8648 π 4002 π¬ 114 π 163
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmersβ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
30.01.2026 23:47 β π 1321 π 626 π¬ 36 π 65
When I resigned as co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists convention after their decision to platform Trump, I took a lot of heat for it.
I was told βBlack journalists are going to expose his racism and save Americaβ
Today, the Trump regime is arresting Black journalists.
30.01.2026 22:32 β π 3385 π 824 π¬ 30 π 18
NDP urges territory to grant Yukon River personhood | CBC News
Personhood is a concept where entities in nature β be it mountains, animals, forests or rivers β are afforded rights akin to human beings.
βIt's really our commitment to revitalize our relationship with the river and assertion of Indigenous laws, self-determination and rights" - Darren Taylor, HΓ€hkΓ¨ (chief) of Tr'ondΓ«k HwΓ«ch'in
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
30.01.2026 23:11 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Five women stand together with their arms around each other. They are wearing a football uniform and smiling proudly. A wedge-tailed eagle chases an Australian Rules football. Banner text says: c'mon AFL Victoria let the Kyneton women's football club play! Visit www.kwfc.com.au to show your support
Support the Kyneton women's football club! They deserve to be able to play in a safe and welcoming league of their choice.
www.kwfc.com.au (sign the petition here)
30.01.2026 06:07 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
"Landmark moment:" Prices plunge as renewables supply half of grid, batteries surge and coal hits new low
Record renewables and storage, falling prices and emissions, lowest coal and plunging gas delivers much needed boost for federal government's energy transition.
For the first time, clean energy has supplied the majority of electricity in our main grid for a full three months. And, because renewables are dominating new supply and easily the cheapest source of new energy, our bills were cheaper as a result. Win, win! reneweconomy.com.au/landmark-mom...
29.01.2026 00:30 β π 91 π 29 π¬ 3 π 1
The muted response to the Perth bombing exposes a pattern of national indifference
A failed bomb attack in Perth on Invasion Day drew little attention from the media and public. It shows Australia has long been selective in its sense of danger.
The coverage and response from the commentariat and our political leadership to the pipe bomb attack at the Invasion Day rally was so muted, that even I didnβt find out about until the next day. But I know about it now and what it says about us a country, so Iβve written about it here for Crikey.
29.01.2026 01:10 β π 100 π 42 π¬ 2 π 3
'We deserve the same Australia other Australians receive when they face threats'
On 26 January, my mum, sister, daughter, four of my daughter's friends, and many thousands (mob and allies alike) stood in peaceful solidarity on Whadjuk Boodja in recognition of the anniversary of In...
"Australia has demonstrated - repeatedly and recently that it knows how to respond to terror against certain communities.
Australia simply chooses not to do so when the targets are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and those standing in solidarity with them."
nit.com.au/28-01-2026/2...
29.01.2026 09:20 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Layoffs over the last year:
UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
EstΓ©e Lauder: 7000
Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts donβt create jobs, they create profits.
29.01.2026 02:21 β π 1717 π 723 π¬ 36 π 47
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
29.01.2026 04:34 β π 8053 π 3478 π¬ 46 π 36
The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.
Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back β an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.
βThat day, he thought he was going to die,β said the source.
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
27.01.2026 18:48 β π 6145 π 2243 π¬ 94 π 131
CHARLES RAFFERTY
The Problem with Early Warnings
People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres.
How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives.
Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following
the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.
This hit so fucking hard today.
26.01.2026 20:52 β π 7278 π 2743 π¬ 34 π 49
Four million salmon died prematurely at Tasmanian fish farms in 2025, government data reveals
Death toll sparks calls for companies to be fined under animal welfare legislation over mass fish deaths
Almost all salmon in Australia is from Tasmania, and the industry there is essentially unregulated - and dangerously unhealthy.
Do not eat it.
26.01.2026 06:30 β π 529 π 286 π¬ 30 π 18
PhDing (Criminal Justice, Criminology, Legal Studies)
Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF writer. Rhysling finalist, Pushcart nominee.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (05/07)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
Bram Stoker Award-winning author | IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND '26 | SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME '26 | LOTERΓA | CHICAGO SAGA | VANISHING DAUGHTERS | MFA, PhD English(c) | Rep-Lane Heymont
Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
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Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC β¨ he/him https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
MuΓ±eca, my queer gothic historical fiction novel, is out June 2026 from Penguin. 2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA."The Nightmare Box and Other Stories" out now from cursedmorselspress.com. Rep @LaurenBajek.
cynthiasaysboo.wordpress.com
Your friendly neighborhood horromance evangelist. Out now: THE HACIENDA & VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE & THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DΓAZ. Up next: THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton Fall β26). | Bram Stoker Award Nominee | UChicago PhD
https://www.isabelcanas.com/
Writer, editor (Worlds of Possibility), narrator, podcaster. Queer, Latinx (half-Mexican), pronouns: They/Them
East Los writer living in El Tuce aka Tucson.
Author of the short story collection Chola Salvation and the novel Huizache Women. Both published by Arte PΓΊblico Press.
www.eastloswriter.com
(she/her) Tejana writer, teaching artist, editor and mentor. Author of Offerings to a Tumbled Temple with @purpleinkpress.bsky.social & The Remedy is the Disease, forthcoming in 2026 @undertakerbooks.bsky.social
Find my work at: http://linktr.ee/lurieta16
Writer. Translator. Nahuatlahtoh. Chicano. He/Γ©l/yehhua. Pan [πππ]. Representation: Full Circle Literary. President of the Texas Institute of Letters. Associate Professor at UTRGV.
award-winning novelist. transgender mixed-race rabble rouser. astrology student. into: working class solidarity. folklore and myth. sobriety. dungeon mastering, etc. (he/they)
Spsfc volunteer judge Team Space Girls, Mexican-American dark fantasy author. Posteo fotos de tacos y garnachas. π€
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Queer, disabled Latina spec-fic poet/author/editor. Work in LeVar Burton Reads, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Uncanny, & F&SF. Poetry Editor for Strange Horizons. www.lisambradley.com
author of NYT bestsellers βCemetery Boysβ, βLost in the Never Woodsβ, βThe Sunbearer Trialsβ and βCelestial Monstersβ.
currently writing: βCemetery Boys 2: EspΓrituβ
just Some Guy.
https://linktr.ee/aidenschmaiden
ππArtist and writer of unusual things. Author of The Other Lives of Altagracia Sanchez. California transplant, still a New Mexican at heart. She/her. feliciamartinez.com
social media skeleton @thedeadlands.com @psychopomp.com @fantasymagazine.bsky.socialβ¬
Debut novel TRUST ME from Arte PΓΊblico Press; ed. A NIGHT OF SCREAMS LATINO HORROR STORIES; Freelance Editor (reach out!)
Lots of essays, reviews, etc in Texas Monthly and others. Recovering politico. Seeking representation, for 2nd and 3rd novels.
I write books for adults with monsters, mythos, and all things supernatural. Let me take you on a ride through the dark. π€π€π€
https://authormillieprice.com
The Father of Chicano Science Fiction