Tootfinder

A British anti-disinformation campaigner who was told by the Trump administration that he faces possible removal from the US
said he is being targeted by arrogant and “sociopathic” tech companies for trying to hold them to account.
Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH),
is among five European nationals barred from the US by the state department
after being accused of seeking to push tech firms to censor or suppress American v…

Overlooked by the Western canon: Why Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi matters now: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/overlooked-by-the-western-canon.html

"Denman Rooke has been selected as the People Before Profit candidate to contest the by-election in Galway West.
He is a long-time activist campaigning on issues of worker’s rights, trade unions, anti-racism, climate action, cost of living, and housing."
https://www.

Denman Rooke Selected As People Before Profit Candidate for Galway West By-Election
Offers radical alternative on housing and the cost of living. Will oppose militarisation and defend neutrality. By-election is opportunity for left cooperation to defeat Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil.

Marist Liufau being moved to edge rusher by Cowboys, Parker https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/marist-liufau-being-moved-to-edge-rusher-by-cowboys-parker

I'm sure algorithms designed by people with biases and an agenda, based on data from people with biases and an agenda, marketed by people with biases and an agenda and used by people with biases and an agenda will act perfectly neutrally!
Anyway here's a good read on epistemic vigilance in [commercial] LLMs (tl;dr it's not possible) https://bsky.app/profile/mjcrockett.bsky.social/post/3mfrbukoy5c2s

Revel, founded by ex-SpaceX Starship software lead Scott Morton to replace legacy systems that test complex hardware like rockets, raised $150M led by Index (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/business/dealb…

Revel, a Maker of Software for Running Hardware, Raises $150 Million
The start-up, founded by a former top SpaceX engineer, promises to help companies reduce their testing times and optimize systems.

A blog post by Anthropic pointing out that Claude Code can refactor legacy COBOL applications appears to have sent IBM’s share price down by double digits.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/a

AI can rewrite COBOL and IBM investors are panicking
A blog post by Anthropic pointing out that Claude Code can refactor legacy COBOL applications appears to have sent IBM’s share price down by double ...

There’s a long history of people thinking that they’ve made programming easier by changing the syntax, or by making it not look like programming. That history is mostly a parade of embarrassments (COBOL! 4GLs!). One big subset of the current AI hype is just that mistake again — “vibe coding is programming in English!” — but now compounded by the nondeterminism of the tool.
Hogg’s thread correctly navigates around that mistake, focusing on •abstractions• instead of •syntax• as the problem.

polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata

The state has become an existential threat to humanity in multiple ways. Not only are we *all* at risk of being killed at any time by the monsterous incompetence and malice of these systems (yeah, listen to this: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-men-who-might-310407494/), but we are also slowly being killed by systems enforced and protected by these same entities.
States won't fix climate change. Ecocide is enabled by the existence of states.
Maybe... just maybe... it's time to think of other ways to organize ourselves.

White House event with Trump, sports commissioners is delayed by snow: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7000510/2026/01/26/white-house-event-with-trump-sports-commissioners-is-delayed-by-snow-sources/<…

"Adopting low-cost ‘healthy’ diets could cut food emissions by one-third"
#Diet #Emissions #Food

Adopting low-cost ‘healthy’ diets could cut food emissions by one-third - Carbon Brief
A new study, published in Nature Food, compares prices and emissions associated with 440 local food products in 171 countries.

Stopped by ICE? Here’s what the Constitution says about your rights - Poynter
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/stopped-by-ice-heres-what-the-constitution-says-about-your-rights/

I learned freedom riding the Midlands cuts by bike. I still explore cities by bike, on foot, and by car, always chasing that same feeling of discovery just around the corner.
#midlands #blackcountry #england

If you wish to defame me at least spell my name right

Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a Rohingya refugee from Burma,
was nearly blind and spoke no English.
He was dropped off by agents in Buffalo on the other side of town from his home.
His family was not notified of his release.
Police are investigating his death
https://www.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol is dead (J. Dale Shoemaker/Investigative Post)
https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p93#a260225p93

First Resolution of a Main Sequence G-Star #Astrosphere Using Chandra: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09613 -> Young ‘Sun’ Caught Blowing Bubbles by NASA’s Chandra: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/young-sun-caught-blowing-bubbles-by-nasas-chandra/

Next great house cleaning album, the roots rock classic, By The Light of the Moon from Los Lobos.
#music
https://music.apple.com/us/album/by-the-light-of-the-moon/30…

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm ) like daylight https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35389-6

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight - Scientific Reports
Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal mitochondrial respiration that regulates metabolism, disease and ageing. Mitochondria are light sensi…

Studies showing that "AI" isn't creating the productivity gains that "AI" boosters promised are important but I think that they sadly don't help us win as much as some believe. We're winning at the wrong game:
https://tante.cc/2026/01/25/winning-the-wrong-g…

Winning the wrong game
With studies upon studies showing that actual measurable productivity gains through “AI” (which these days basically means chatbots) are really hard to come by and that “workslop” (meaning the extra work created for the rest of the organization by one person using “AI” lowering their work quality) eats up a lot of what might have […]

Don’t Read Poetry by Stephanie Burt
The cover of Burt's Don't Read Poetry. It shows what looks like an uprooted daffodil. #poetry #poetrycommunity I have been working through books on reading, writing, and teaching poetry in preparation for writing a new poetry module. In …

BY-ELECTION SPECIAL: Revealed - Reform candidate Matt Goodwin’s academic network tied to rebranded Nazi eugenics front.
https://bylinesnetwork.substack.com/p/by-election-special-revealed-reform

BY-ELECTION SPECIAL: Revealed - Reform candidate Matt Goodwin’s academic network tied to rebranded Nazi eugenics front
Reform UK’s Gorton and Denton candidate Matt Goodwin holds a visiting professorship at a university centre allied with at least five ‘race science’-linked organisations

@… this is a different kind of shape but a related theme of what is and isn’t necessary by @…
Substrates and algae
…

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice

Osaka Stunned by Anonymous Gift of Gold Bars to Fix Aging Water Pipes https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/osaka-stunned-by-anonymous-gift-of-gold-bars-to-fix-aging-water-pipes/

Osaka Stunned by Anonymous Gift of Gold Bars to Fix Aging Water Pipes
At current rates, the 21 kilos of gold will fetch some 560 million Japanese yen, enough to replace 1.2 miles of pipes. 

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Ben E. King:
🎵 Stand by Me
#BenEKing
https://vincentbastille.bandcamp.com/track/ben-e-king-stand-by-me-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OzAkuRDmEpd52RF1g1WvU
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

so what you're telling me is that a member of hawkwind beat the dead to the pyramids by 9 months? and the deadheadiest member of #hawkwind, too, by a few accounts. have to squint, but here's nik turner flying an ice cream kid shirt in '76. https://…

from my link log —
Reduced the size of Golang binaries by up to 77%.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/agent-go-binaries/
saved 2026-02-24

How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77% | Datadog
Get an inside look at shrinking large Go binaries in the Datadog Agent through dependency and linker analysis.

Factchecking and making clear that the federal authorities in the US are lying.
"Fact check: Federal officials’ claims about fatal Minneapolis shooting
A review of statements by Greg Bovino and Kristi Noem finds several assertions unverified or contradicted by video and witness accounts."

An #earworm popping up in my brain lately. A poem I was made to memorize when I was 14. It re-emerges every couple years, for no reason I can figure. tbh, I usually only remember verbatim the first few lines or so, and have to look it up again. It’s one of those things, like advertising jingles from many years ago, that have lodged in my memory. 🎶You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush y…

California Post, a daily newspaper produced by the same company that publishes the New York Post, debuts on Monday in Southern California, led by EIC Nick Papps (Zhiyu Luo/Los Angeles Business Journal)
https://labusinessjournal.com/media/california-post-begins-this-mon…

California Post Begins This Month - Los Angeles Business Journal
California Post will premiere in Los Angeles Jan. 26 in a much-anticipated debut, ushering in what its sister publication, New York Post, calls a “new era

... we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent
observations and inferences by the thousands. The earth is billions of
years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary
descent. Scientists stand accused of promoting dogma by so stating, but
do we brand people illiberal when they proclaim that the earth is neither
flat nor at the center of the universe? Science *has* taught us some
things with confidence! Evolution…

This poem by Shelley is so apposite to the world situation right now (shared by writer Paul McAuley).
A very special read. Here's the full text:
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-masque-of-anarchy/

The Masque of Anarchy
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

Anthropic Study: #AI #Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill #Mastery by 17%

Uh #mountainMonday again?! where have the past days gone??
Anyways - this photo is from a quick Hike from early January. There was a bit more snow than right now. and as you can see the weather was grey and not too inviting.
But, the good side of it was that I was almost alone! :-D
When I came back the same route, I saw a chamois crossing from left to right. Unfortunately…

Nissan: Thousands Impacted By Red Hat Breach
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/nissan-thousands-impacted-by-red/

Nissan: Thousands Impacted By Red Hat Breach
Nissan has revealed that over 20,000 customers have had personal information compromised in a third-party data breach

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Barry Can't Swim:
🎵 Cars Pass By Like Childhood Sweethearts
#NowPlaying #BarryCantSwim
https://barrycantswim.bandcamp.com/track/cars-pass-by-like-childhood-sweethearts
https://open.spotify.com/track/4JS3vWNwzVVVHIXj2UrHm9

RE: https://mastodon.social/@EuromaidanPress/116133664085678128
In a war that is called a special operation by some, recapturing lost territory is called a clean up operation by others...
😇😇

US Olympic Hockey Teams:
Women: All-expense paid Vegas wknd being celebrated & pampered by Flava Flav & every brand in America.
Men: Droning State of the Union speech by TFG, while they wear convertible cargo pants to a Presidential event.
https://simpleflying.…

“Let’s Talk”: Alaska Airlines Opts-In To Help Celebrate USA Women’s Hockey Team In Las Vegas
Alaska Airlines is stepping in to support team USA.

Health insurance tech provider TriZetto says more than 3 million impacted by 2024 breach https://therecord.media/trizetto-healthcare-tech-company-data-breach-update

#ACAB, combined with #FuckICE. https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/

Liberace Screams About Lawsuit By Preservationists: Stopping My Ballroom Now Would "Devastate" America - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/liberace-screams-about-lawsuit-by-preservationists-stopping-my-ballroom-would-devastate-america/

A popular right-wing account
that called a video depicting
Barack and Michelle Obama as apes
"a masterpiece"
appears to be run by a White House staffer,
according to records reviewed by WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/a-white-house-

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account
A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

None of the "code generation" stuff is new by the way.
The tech industry has tried to speed up coding and increase software output for the last 3 to 4 decades, by various means; e.g. Rapid Application Development, Expert Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, thousands of different frameworks all the way to trying to off-shore development and exploit third-world labor.
The problem with this is: there is no software scarcity. Pretending that "we can't make software fast enough" is a red herring to hide the fact that making (good) software is 90% painstaking research, design, planning, marketing and talking to and supporting customers.
And 10% writing the actual code—the C-suite is doing ye olde "trying to find a technical solution to a social problem".

Four statements made by DHS about Alex Pretti's shooting -- and what these videos show that contradict them (Carol Leonnig/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/four-statements-made-by-dhs-about-alex-prettis-shooting-and-what-these-videos-show-that-contradict-them
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p10#a260126p10

Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/technology/recursive-ai-ricursive.html

Silicon Valley Wants to Build A.I. That Can Improve A.I. on Its Own
Ricursive Intelligence, founded by two former Google researchers and valued at $4 billion, is among several efforts to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Seahawks vs. Rams NFC Championship preview: Who has the edge at each position?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-rams-nfc-championship-position-by-position-prev…

"‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis"
#Pesticides #Climate #ClimateChange

On Nexstar's Q4 earnings call, CEO Perry Sook says the $6.2B merger with Tegna is on track to close by June 30 and expresses appreciation for Trump's support (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/nexstar-tegna-merger-donald-trump-fcc-123673…

Nexstar CEO Salutes Donald Trump For Backing Tegna Merger, Says Mega-Deal Is On Track To Close By June
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook told Wall Street analysts that the company's executives "appreciate the support" of President Trump of the pending $6.2 billion merger with Tegna.

from my link log —
What the world can learn from Paris’s cycling revolution.
https://momentummag.com/what-the-world-can-learn-from-pariss-cycling-revolution/
saved 2026-01-25

What the world can learn from Paris’s cycling revolution
The Paris cycling change did not happen by accident. It was driven by political will, strategic use of data, and a willingness to rethink street space.

ICE agents in Minnesota are violating state law by switching license plates | MPR News
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/24/ice-agents-in-minnesota-are-violating-state-law-by-switching-license-plates

The Starmer control freaks shoot selves in the foot. Again!
Andy Burnham's bid to return as MP blocked by Labour ruling body - BBC News
#UKPol

Andy Burnham's bid to return as MP blocked by Labour ruling body
Allies of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer feared he could mount a leadership challenge.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
SBTRKT feat. Toro y Moi:
🎵 Days Go By (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #SBTRKT #ToroyMoi
https://sbtrkt.bandcamp.com/track/days-go-by-feat-toro-y-moi
https://open.spotify.com/track/0IngWDycujRx7MPYCqImO0

This photo of the post office in Antarctica, with a pride flag surrounded by penguins, makes me quite unreasonably happy <wide smile>

Nigeria averts unilateral US action by cooperating on airstrikes (Ben Ezeamalu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-averts-unilateral-us-action-by-cooperating-airstrikes-2025-12-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p16#a251226p16

London-based enterprise coding startup SolveAI raised a $45M Series A led by GV in November 2025 and a $5M pre-seed led by Accel in August 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/25/exclusive-solveai-eight-months-raises-…

Exclusive: SolveAI, at eight months old, raises $50 million to take on the AI coding tool race
Steve Basher’s startup wants his AI to generate software that mimics what an enterprise’s own engineers would have written.

Sean Casten, Rep IL-06
The mass protests in MN yesterday,
the collapsing poll numbers,
the decency of the protesters
-- It all scares them.
They are shooting their way out
and don't care who they hit.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:2

paris_transportation: Paris Transportation (2016)
A multiplex transportation network of Ile-de-France, jointly representing the road network, train network, and subway network. Nodes are intersections, rail stations or metro stations. Different modes of transportation are given by different layers. Within-layer edges represent direct transference by a particular mode of transportation, and between-layer edges represent the conjunction of those layers at that node.
This network ha…

Broncos vs. Patriots AFC Championship preview: Who has the edge at each position?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriots-broncos-afc-championship-position-by-posi…

"You can give old batteries a new life by safely recycling them"
#Batteries #Recycling
https://

You can give old batteries a new life by safely recycling them
When household batteries die, it's hard to know what to do with them. So they get shoved into a junk drawer or sheepishly thrown into the trash.

4 people on Florida boat killed by Cuban forces after entering its waters: officials (Emily Goodin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/25/us-news/4-people-on-florida-boat-killed-by-cuban-forces-after-entering-its-waters-officials/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p91#a260226p91

Internal documents show Instagram's aggressive campaign to win back teens, including by boosting teen-friendly influencers, adjusting its algorithm, and more (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/26/meta-instagram…

Inside Instagram’s all-out battle to win the nation’s teens
Instagram has pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back to the app after its critics said the platform wasn’t safe for them, documents obtained by The Post show.

It’s sometimes said that presidents pivot toward foreign policy in their second terms.
Unburdened by the prospect of having to face voters again, and sometimes opposed by a hostile Congress, presidents often go overseas in search of a legacy. 
If the past week or so is anything to go by, Donald Trump is doing the same.
My colleagues Shelby Holliday and Lara Seligman reported exclusively Tuesday that a large number of U.S. troops and special-operations aircraft have deployed…

Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, "a general-purpose digital worker" that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/perplexity-may-have-built-a…

Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw
Claude Code and OpenClaw have taken 2026 by storm by offering the first glimpses of personal AI agents. Perplexity just unveiled an agent that could p...

This is encouraging but I don't trust such small samples.
The DKs are still to be fought for.
Everything we know about the new by-election poll that puts Greens in the lead - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

Everything we know about the new by-election poll that puts Greens in the lead
Data suggests most people still haven't made up their minds

Columbia student detained by DHS agents who made "misrepresentations" to enter building, university president says (Jesse Zanger/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/columbia-university-student-detained-by-federal-agents/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p52#a260226p52

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

A remarkable clash is playing out between state and federal authorities on Sunday
over the investigation into the fatal shooting by immigration agents in Minneapolis.
A judge issued a late-night order barring federal officials from destroying evidence,
as Trump administration officials continued to lodge baseless accusations against the victim.
The ruling late Saturday came hours after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, 37, a nurse at the city’s Veterans Aff…

Minneapolis Live Updates: State Seeks Access to Evidence as Federal Officials Blame Shooting Victim
A judge ordered federal authorities not to destroy evidence from a fatal shooting by immigration agents. Videos directly contradict descriptions of the encounter by Trump administration officials.

Zocks, which offers an AI assistant for financial advisers, raised a $45M Series B co-led by Lightspeed and QED Investors, taking its total funding to $65M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/zocks-raises-seriesb-ai…

Exclusive: Zocks Raises $45M Series B From Lightspeed, QED For AI Assistant To Financial Advisers
Zocks, a builder of an AI assistant for financial advisers, has raised $45 million in a Series B funding co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors, the startup told Crunchbase News exclusively.

Trump's manufacturing recovery is a work of fiction: analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/offset-by-job-loss-trump-s-manufacturing-jobs-boom-does-not-exist-report/

A guide to Andy Burnham
1) Broadly principled and well meaning.
2) Seduced by growthist thinking despite encouraging some green initiatives. Result, those initiatives are highly compromised and too small scale to count. Examples, i) Building on green space, ii) failure to enact effective measures to restrict private motoring - all carrots no sticks.
3) A tendency to associate with 'celebrities'.
/Contd
Andy Burnham seeks permission to stand in by-election

Burnham seeks permission to stand in by-election
Burnham seeks permission to stand in by-election

Near-blind refugee found dead in Buffalo after release by US Border Patrol (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/near-blind-refugee-found-dead-buffalo-after-release-by-us-border-patrol-2026-02-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p47#a260226p47

Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/25/rowspace-sequ…

Exclusive: AI financial platform Rowspace raises $50 million round led by Sequoia to help investment firms take on messy data
Rowspace was founded by former Notion CTO Michael Manapat and former Uber corporate development director Yibo Ling.

Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe1e488?st=z9CK4X&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p58#a260125p58

Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell tweeted: "Message to Keir: Do not underestimate the depth of anger people will feel about this disgusting decision. If you think it strengthens you I tell you it will simply hasten your demise. You could have shown magnanimous leadership but instead it’s cowardice."
By-election machinations weaken Keir Starmer and could ultimately push Andy Burnham closer to No 10 - Manchester Evening News

By-election machinations weaken Keir Starmer and could ultimately push Andy Burnham closer to No 10
Some backbenchers have reacted in fury after Labour blocked the mayor's bid to return to Parliament

Minnesota's brief asserts that federal agents left the scene several hrs after the shooting,
“allowing the perimeter to collapse and potentially spoiling evidence,”
a “sharp departure from normal best practices” that may’ve “directly led to the destruction of evidence.”
https://

Rep. Ilhan Omar invites constituents 'traumatized' by Minnesota ICE raids to State of the Union 2026 (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/24/us-news/rep-ilhan-omar-invites-constituents-traumatized-by-minnesota-ice-raids-to-state-of-the-union-2026-address/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p144#a260224p144

Week of action in honor of Alex Pretti, RN and all others killed by ice (National Nurses United)
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-action-in-honor-of-alex-pretti-rn-and-all-others-killed-by-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p122#a260126p122

"Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law."
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3md7h7tlw7v2f

Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org)
"Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law." https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/22/yanis_varoufakis

Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/politics/sec-crypto-winklevoss.html

S.E.C. Drops Case Against Cryptocurrency Firm Founded by Winklevoss Twins
The agency says that victims of an investment offering involving Gemini Trust got their money back, though after a regulatory action brought by the New York attorney general.

After deadly shooting by immigration agents,
Texas Democrats
-- Rep. James #Talarico,
and Rep. Jasmine #Crockett,
-- running for Senate say:
✅‘clean house’ at ICE and ✅‘take that money back’

After deadly shooting by immigration agents, Texas Democrats running for Senate say ‘clean house’ at ICE and ‘take that money back’
Democrats Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico differed more on style than substance in their first debate for U.S. Senate in heavily Republican Texas.

The price of silver smashed through the $90 mark Wednesday morning
for the first time in weeks
as the metal recoups gains it lost after a late January crash,
though the precious metal remains far from the record highs it previously hit above $120.
KEY FACTS
The price of silver is $90.68 as of 9:25 a.m. EST, up nearly 4% but down slightly from a high of $91.18 reached earlier in the morning.

Silver Breaks $90 Mark Again—Fueled By Tariff Uncertainty, Iran Tensions
Silver has recouped some of the losses that it suffered following a price crash in late January.

Climate disasters of 2025:
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been impacted by extreme weather and climate disasters in 2025
From Hurricane Melissa to Los Angeles wildfires
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/clim

Climate disasters of 2025: From Hurricane Melissa to Los Angeles wildfires
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been impacted by extreme weather and climate disasters in 2025

Mass delays and cancellations, seemingly endless small repairs disrupting traffic in key commuting areas, and overcrowding are just some of the issues facing passengers who rely on Deutsche Bahn in their daily lives.
Since coming into power in early 2025, the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz has repeatedly promised to fund major rail projects that had already been planned.
Of the €500 billion ($585 billion) in controversial new debt taken on by his administration
👉 €15…

Germany’s rail service dealt major blow by government
The government is reportedly walking back promises to fund major projects for national train operator Deutsche Bahn. DB is beset by chronic punctuality problems, decrepit infrastructure, and a lack of investment.

A new study suggests that #dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain.
Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive,
disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue.
When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned.
This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in …

Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia
A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive, disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue. When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned. This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in dementia.

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 …

“Alex was a kindhearted soul
who cared deeply for his family and friends
and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.”
“Alex wanted to make a difference in this world.
Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.”
“I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly.
However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
🔥The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehe…

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.

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
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.

Rep #Maxwell #Alejandro #Frost, Democrat of Florida,
was hit in the face by a man who told the lawmaker that he would be deported
at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, over the weekend.
The attacker “told …

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Is Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival
Mr. Frost, Democrat of Florida, said he was punched by a man who said the lawmaker would be deported. The man was arrested on charges of aggravated burglary and assault.

Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday
behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where
a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week
after being detained in Minnesota.
Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press
showed children and parents at the
"South Texas Family Residential Center"
clad in jackets and sweaters,
some of them holding signs that included
“Libertad para los niños,”
or “Libe…

Immigrant families protest Texas detention of Minnesota boy and father
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota. Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press on Saturday showed some of the detainees coordinating to form “SOS." They were standing outside the residence areas of the South Texas Family Residential Center in the rural town of Dilley. One detainee told AP families inside sought to send a message that t…

The Indian Removal Act:
Andrew Jackson’s controversial policy divided America during the pre-civil-war era
Unchecked expansionism and disregard for the rule of law
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/20

Scott Bottoms is a far-right Christian nationalist member of the Colorado General Assembly
-- who is now running for governor in order to wage ⚡️spiritual warfare on behalf of his state.
Appearing on a program hosted by fellow far-rightChristian nationalist Heidi St. John,
Bottoms said that he is running for higher office in order to
"tear down the high places,"
which is spiritual warfare language generally used by

Scott Bottoms Is Running For Governor Of Colorado To 'Tear Down The High Places'
Christian nationalist state Rep. Scott Bottoms is running for governor of Colorado in order to wage spiritual warfare: "I believe that one of my primary responsibilities as governor is to tear down the high places."

The idea for the program started back in 2021,
as severe drought conditions enveloped agricultural powerhouse states across the country.
The $400 million, according to Montaño Greene, was set to be distributed through the Commodity Credit Corporation,
a financial institution used to implement specific agricultural programs established by the federal government.
By the close of 2024,
she said the Biden administration had entered final agreements with selected r…

Did the USDA just forget about $400M in drought aid for farmers?
More than a year later, not a dollar has been spent — and no one knows what happened to the money.