BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul lawyers
escalate their request for an immediate TRO
to temporarily halt Operation Metro Surge
following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti
— noting three shootings by ICE in the past three weeks,
after 11 months of no
officer-involved shootings in Mpls.
🧨 BOMBS FALLING ON BELGOROD: How Russian aviation DESTROYS ITS OWN cities: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/bombs-falling-on-belgorod-how.html
Channeling Revenant Feelings (Eagle Creek, Oregon, 2017)
(Hoping my friends in the US are doing everything in their power to help protect these sacred wilderness places from the onslaught of out of control greed...)
#FootpathFriday #ForestFriday
Interviews with 100 therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html
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Sean McVay 'pretty numb' following Rams' NFC title game loss to Seahawks: 'We had our chances' https://www.nfl.com/news/sean-mcvay-pretty-numb-following-rams-nfc-title-game-loss-to-seahawks-we-had-our-chances
Offener Brief der Deutschen Filmakademie zu dem scheinbar geplanten kulturpolitischen Eingriff in die Leitung der Berlinale
https://openletter.earth/die-deutsche-filmakademie-positioni…
While staying vigilant, we’re embracing the chance to catch our breath and to start healing. The city right now has a bit of the feeling of the days after a natural disaster: there is so much damage to repair. Thousands of people are still sheltering at home, understandably reluctant to go to work and/or school. Thousands are facing imminent eviction when March rent comes due.
There’s organizing around rent relief, talk of a rent strike. Food delivery is still in full swing. Mutual aid is not letting up.
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WDR.DOK: Drei Frauen – ein Krieg - #WDR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/wdr-dok/drei-frauen-ein-krieg/wdr/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLXNvcGhvcmEtOWYwZjNiNWQtNDUwMC00ZjQxLWI2ZDEtODE0YTk5NjA4ZTI0 (2022, 106min)
Helaas alleen in D, of via VPN
Originele titel (en taal)
Trained to See – Three Women and the War | Eye Filmmuseum
https://www.eyefilm.nl/whats-on/trained-to-see-three-women-and-the-war/813115
'Inspirerend portret van Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gellhorn en Lee Miller; drie baanbrekende (foto)journalisten die geschiedenis schrijven door als eerste vrouwelijke correspondenten verslag te doen van WOII.'
Nagesynchroniseerd, niet storend: enige spreker is verteller.
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I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them and to “send that information to Intel who will do a ‘work-up’ on them,” a federal law enforcement official directly involved tells me.
“Meaning, trying to identify them via social media, running their license plates if available, and running a criminal history check,” the official explained.
The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S…