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Syrskyi outlines difficult situation near Pokrovsk and Ocheretyne as Russia pulls in reserves: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/syrskyi-outlines-difficult-situation-near.html

Senate offices are closed today,
but you can email your senators and demand that they use their vote later this week to rein in ICE and CBP death squads:
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out-for-good-senate/?source=mastodon

Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, and abuse carried out by federal immigration enforcement agencies against members of our communities. And yet, the DHS appropriations bill that just passed the House would hand MORE funding to ICE and Border Patrol, and do little to rein in their abuses. So …

Italy adds ‘femicide’ to the criminal code to curb violence against women | Women News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/26/italy-adds-femicide-to-the-criminal-code-to-curb-violence-against-women?traffic_source=rss

Rare court victory against Israeli West Bank settlement offers Palestinians some hope | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/12/24/victory-against-israeli…

Victory against Israeli West Bank settlement offers Palestinians some hope
Christian activist Kisiya regains access to family land after an Israeli court ruled against settlers in the West Bank.

When asking an LLM about an open source codebase it may be doing that based on previous stuff it learnt, not so much the code you just gave it; I'd asked Qwen3 to summarize some of #LibreOffice's code and it was surprisingly good - but then I noticed it could it on a fresh start without having given it the source. On one side, this means it's misleading about how well they can …

“‘We had to destroy the village to save it’ is not a new American rationalization, and the imperial boomerang can and will, if we don’t stop it, bring it to bear on the American populace.”
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforceme…

Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

Source: Giants fire DC Bowen after late collapses https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47084249/source-giants-fire-defensive-coordinator-shane-bowen

A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin of
justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison.
Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist party, was arrested last year.
According to Russian independent news site Mediazona, the charges against him stem from an article Udaltsov posted online in support of another group of Russian activists accused of …

Source: Chiefs RB Pacheco targeting Thu. return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47091647/source-chiefs-rb-isiah-pacheco-targeting-return-vs-cowboys

More Republican lawmakers join calls for full investigation into Alex Pretti’s killing
Some elected officials condemn Trump’s federal surge in Minnesota and say DHS agents should leave state
Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Calls mount on Trump administration to fully investigate killing
Minnesota workers pressure employers to take action against ICE operations
Vermont’s governor Phil Scott earlier issued a statement calling…