BREAKING: A U.S. citizen born in Georgia has been arrested for entering Georgia as an “unauthorized alien.” During a hearing in Leon County, his mother presented his birth certificate and Social Security card, but the judge said she had no authority to release him.

Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Yep

This administration is incompetent and endangering our troops. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in an encrypted chat—including a journalist—two hours before strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the White House confirmed.

Misc troodontid ideas #sciart

NEWS | President Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Mexico today and has accused Mexico of failing to curb drug trafficking, stating that Mexican drug cartels operate with impunity and contribute significantly to the U.S. opioid crisis.

🚨BREAKING | At least six babies have died from the cold in Gaza as Israel continues to block critical aid, including the 60,000 mobile homes and 200,000 tents promised under the ceasefire deal.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has terminated over 1,400 employees.

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

It drives me mad when financially stable people scoff at the idea of community work and volunteering. "Not unless I get paid" because they coded themselves to think that every interaction they have with the world, has to be monetised.

Not everything has to turn profit.

Wall Street Is Jacking Up The Cost Of Your Doctor Visits A groundbreaking study finds doctors affiliated with hospitals and private equity firms are charging billions more annually than independent general practitioners.

4 in 5 doctors are employees of hospital systems, private equity firms, insurance giants, or other corporations.

That's a healthcare system that prioritizes profits over people, which isn't a healthcare system at all.

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I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

To be clear, everybody brown is being questioned. If you have ANY melanin in your skin, you’re a target.

POTUS is shutting the US government down, except for immigration enforcement and military activities.

That’s the story. He’s shutting the whole government down. He’s closing up every aspect of the United States operation, except the parts with guns.

A small, rain-drenched dinosaur looks out across a lake.

Wet here this evening. 🌧️

Two red Tanystropheus, with text saying "Happy New Year of the Snake" Tanystropheus

蛇年快乐! Happy New Year of the snake, with Tanystropheus, a long-necked Triassic reptile

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

The top 10 billionaire donors spent $1,180,177,276 on this past election, with over $1 Billion going to elect Republicans.

They're not going to lower grocery prices because nothing that ever benefited the working class started with a billionaire cutting a check to a politician.

Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.

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A digital of Nyctosaurus- an extinct flying reptile with a bizarre Y-shaped crest.

Totally normal animal.
Digital portrait of Nyctosaurus.

Whenever people talk about state censorship by communist China I just want to point out that the Department of Defense said they didn't like SHIELD in the Marvel movies, so they made an entire movie getting rid of it to appease the US government so they didn't lose out on federal funding.

There are so many things I would ban before TikTok, including SUVs and assault weapons…

A sequence of two bright 'stars' going from top left to bottom right with a foreground of trees. The top bright 'star' is the planet Venus and the fainter bottom one is Saturn. The image is a composite, made up of individual shots taken 5 minutes apart as the planets set in the southwest on 18 January 2025.

Composite image of #Venus and #Saturn setting together last night. Each shot was taken 5 minutes apart as the pair set in the southwest. #Astronomy #Astrophotography