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How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world
https://theconversation.com/how-to-get-away-with-mass-murder-4-tactics-ethiopia-used-to-hide-tigray-atrocities-from-the-world-275298

House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday
over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations.
“These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country,
whether it’s in detention,
whether it’s in the streets
or even in the courts,”
says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez,
who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department…

“De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE, CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics
House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations. “These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,” says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republi…

So there has been a school shooting in British Columbia - and I guess since I spent so much time living and working in the states, I forgot that these are horrifying and traumatizing events - which may just be down to the coverage in the media in the US versus Canada.
That's not to say that the coverage here has been good - quite the opposite in fact - but I will get to that at the moment.
I will qualify this in that I will freely admit that I have no expertise in either mass …

Frederik André Henrik Christian's ruthless dictatorship over Greenland must end today! His drug smuggling into the United States of America is illegitimate, so they must invade and abduct him as soon as possible, to destroy Greenland's illegal nuclear program for the creation of weapon's of mass destruction. ACT NOW, PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!

The suspect believed to be behind the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada made a Roblox game simulating a mall shooting; Roblox says it removed the account (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/tumbler-ridge-shooter-created-mall-shooting-simulator-in…

Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox
Roblox said it’s “committed to fully supporting law enforcement in their investigation.”

Russian mass drone attack leaves Sumy without power: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/08/russian-mass-drone-attack-leaves.html

If I’m guessing, I expect them to go hard on strategies that are much less visible: snatching people from jails instead of streets, mass detention camps that nobody can see inside, that sort of thing. They need to sustain the terror, but they can’t afford to keep looking so bad in videos while they do it.

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/

Here is yet another example of the maga-klan's goal of suppressing free speech and freedom of exercise of religion (except for speech and religion that conforms to maga-land.)
"ICE director demands Mass. church remove ‘ICE was here’ nativity scene"
https://www.

ICE director demands Mass. church remove ‘ICE was here’ nativity scene
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons is calling for the removal of a nativity scene at a Catholic church in Mass. that protests U.S. immigration policies.

This kinda thing is why I've lived overseas for 24 years but Melbourne is still my home town
From: @…
https://aus.social/@perkinsy/1155411802945…

interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

The solar revolution just got real. Perovskite-silicon tandem cells are hitting utility-scale efficiency levels and heading for mass production—potentially transforming how we generate power.
No wonder oil execs are nervous. This breakthrough tech could dramatically accelerate global decarbonization.

Perovskite-Silicon Solar Cells Are Heading For The Mass Market
New, durable tandem perovskite-silicon solar cells can surpass plain silicon on conversion efficiency, pushing down the cost of solar power.

Legacy IRC Botnet Leverages Automated SSH Exploit Pipeline to Mass-Enroll Linux Hosts
Identified through data captured by our SSH honeypots over two months, this campaign represents a sophisticated blend of eras. It merges “old-school” Internet Relay Chat (IRC) botnet tactics from the late 2000s with modern, automated mass-compromise techniques.
🖥️ htt…

Despite all the reports, Instagram denies it has experienced a breach.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/instagram-denies-breach-amid-claims-of-17-million-account-data-leak/

Instagram denies breach amid claims of 17 million account data leak
Instagram says it fixed a bug that allowed threat actors to mass-request password reset emails, amid claims that data from more than 17 million Instagram accounts was scraped and leaked online.

The first radio view of a type Ibn supernova in SN 2023fyq - Understanding the mass-loss history in the last decade before the explosion: #Supernova Type, Revealing Secrets of Stellar Death: https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-make-first-radio-detection-of-rare-supernova-type-revealing-secrets-of-stellar-death/

Even Trump's own appointees are ruling against ICE's mass detention strategy (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/donald-trump-judges-mandatory-detention-rulings-00778256
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p101#a260212p101

LAP1-B is the First Observed System Consistent with Theoretical Predictions for Population III Stars
#Astrophysics

LAP1-B is the First Observed System Consistent with Theoretical Predictions for Population III Stars
Recently, Nakajima et al. (2025) presented James Webb Space Telescope observations of the $z=6.6$ Population III (Pop III) candidate LAP1-B, which is gravitationally lensed by galaxy cluster MACS J0416. We argue that this is the first object to agree with three key theoretical predictions for Pop III stars: (1) formation in extremely low-metallicity halos with virial temperatures ranging from $T_{\rm vir}\sim 10^3-10^4~{\rm K}$, (2) a top-heavy initial mass function, and (3) formation of low-ma…

A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide #ocean

A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide
A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary Islands. Key reef-grazing species are reaching historic lows, and their ability to reproduce has nearly halted in some regions. Scientists suspect a pathogen but haven’t yet confirmed the culprit. The fate of these reefs may hinge on solving this unfolding pandemic.

Just heard a story on the Indiana Senate showing some spine in the face of violent threats, it occurs to me that if one had billions of dollars, one could probably buy a LOT of untraceable threats. There doesn’t need to be a mass populace making threats, just a paid staff.

"Is tyre pollution causing mass deaths in vulnerable salmon populations?"
#Cars #Vehicles

The Broken & The Relics 🧱
断壁残垣 🧱
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

One night with a Kyiv family amid Russia's mass attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/one-night-with-a-kyiv.html

People born here do not have immigration documents.
If you're an American born POC with only a Real ID to show for yourself, be prepared to be manhandled and detained by the secret police
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3m7uszhghs22j

Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Marty Baron says "I firmly believe" Jeff Bezos prioritizes his other interests over WaPo; Jim VandeHei says "I have no clue what their strategy was or is" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/05/mass-layoffs-wash…

Another app to delete
"Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan" | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-…

PSR J0952-0607 - Tightening a Record-high #NeutronStar Mass: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae28c5 -> interview with the first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFNqf19QewY

Mass Starvation Decimates South Africa’s Penguins As Food Supplies Collapse
https://scitechdaily.com/mass-starvation-decimates-south-africas-penguins-as-food-supplies-collapse/

Death toll in mass shooting at illegal Pretoria tavern rises to 12
Twelve people were killed and 13 others injured during a shooting at an illegal tavern in Atteridgeville, Pretoria.
• Twelve people were killed and 13 others injured during a mass shooting at an illegal tavern.
• Authorities are searching for three shooters.
• Police condemned the incident, and linked illegal liquor outlets to rising violent crimes.

UPDATE | Death toll in mass shooting at illegal Pretoria tavern rises to 12
Twelve people – including three children – were killed and 13 others injured during a shooting at an illegal tavern inside a hostel in Saulsville, Atteridgeville.

One of the things that is interesting doing mass encodes is verifying all of the little things that can just mess everything up. If you're pulling in stuff like 3rd-party subtitles, then you have to verify the timing of the subtitles and adjust as necessary. Even better, if those are SubStation Alpha subtitles, you have to verify if the style fonts get added as attachments to the MKV file.
And if it's across something like a TV show, you definitely need to do this for every e…

And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

Newly released evidence has shown that Gregory Bovino,
a border patrol chief who was the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts until last month,
praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an immigration crackdown last year.


Marimar Martinez, a US citizen,
was shot five times by a border patrol agent in October while in her vehicle.
She was charged with a felony after officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accus…

Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-durov-over-mass-telegram-post-on-social-media-ban-plan

New Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one.
It's government by Dunning-Kruger.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-waving-the-ban-hammer/<…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Massive Attack:
🎵 Inertia Creeps
#MassiveAttack
https://bardoq.bandcamp.com/track/massive-attack-inertia-creeps-bardoq-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3N2UhXZI4Gf64Ku3cCjz2g

Central Massive #BlackHoles Are Not Ubiquitous in Local Low-Mass Galaxies: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05252 -> NASA’s Chandra Finds Small Galaxies May Buck the Black Hole Trend: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasas-chandra-finds-small-galaxies-may-buck-the-black-hole-trend/

https://resist.bot/petitions/PUOZIA

Two Judges Just Authorized Mass Incarceration—Congress Must Stop It
Text SIGN PUOZIA to 50409 to send this to your officials.

I’m delighted to hear more people talking about data poisoning in the context of mass surveillance.
This video has YouTube Syndrome (overlong to reach 10 min, filler, spends too long teasing the actual info), but starts getting into the heart of it around 3:45.
I was hoping for more actionable advice about active poisoning toward the end, and not just “like nicer stuff on social media,” but…good start, glad people are talking.
https://chaos.social/@afelia/116048491771210434

To ChatGPT: At the time of writing, there is not a single mass media article comparing Neuralink Blindsight with The vOICe. Why? #BCI

ChatGPT - Neuralink vs The vOICe
Shared via ChatGPT

UK government wastes police time. Repeat offender
Mass arrests at UK protest in support of hunger-striking detainee | Protests | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/25/mass-ar…

Mass arrests at UK protest in support of hunger-striking detainee
Police carried out mass arrests after a peaceful protest outside a London prison in support of hunger-striking detainee.

one of the biggest misconceptions about microchips people have is that the process is anything close to "fully automatic"
it really isn't. i mean, some operations are, but look at this video! there's a human like every other step of the process. and it's not like this is some expensive unique device. they're making mass-market LEDs by the reel

~13 years ago I knocked on thousands of doors locally to get ~40 homes to install free loft insulation before a government scheme (CERT) ended:
https://www.earth.org.uk/mass-loft-insulation.html

Mass Loft Insulation Project in Norbiton, London (2012)
Helping cut bills and carbon in the neighbourhood before CERT stopped: crowd-conserving? #legwork #loftInsulation #frugal

Russia launches mass attack on Ukraine, triggers emergency power outages: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/russia-launches-mass-attack-on.html

10 dead, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. (CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/active-shooter-alert-tumbler-ridge-secondary-school-bc-live-updates-9.7083740
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p183#a260210p183

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
MOSCOW #REFINERY: MASS REPLACEMENT BY FOREIGNERS Vlog 1252: War in #Ukraine
Official figures are classified by the

"Don't be evil" is so far in the past, it's not even a memory anymore
(Original title: Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort)
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-ef…

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

on the reality of the covid pandemic : that never ended
🔁 https://brennan.day/the-pandemic-never-ended-we-only-pretend-it-did/

The Pandemic Never Ended. We Only Pretend it Did
Six years into COVID-19, the world has moved on while the virus continues to disable millions. An examination of the ongoing pandemic, long COVID, and our collective failure to prevent a mass disabling event.

Once you head north from Hampton Beach the coastline becomes a lot less busy: here's a rocky coastline near Rye, NH
#photo #photography #landscape

Confession moment: I really like Mass Effect, but the design of the Citadel was kind of hugly.

25% of Kyiv's homes are without heating due to Russia's terror. And it's -17°C (1.4°F)
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-hit-by-mass-blackouts-after-grid-disruption/

Mass layoffs at Washington Post: Dimming democracy's light
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5729864-democracy-dies-in-darkness/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Juliet:
🎵 Avalon
#NowPlaying #Juliet
https://massdigital.bandcamp.com/track/juliet-avalon-mass-digital-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FJy9Yy3HmJpE0znPlbYh7

Artificial intelligence could become “a weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without proper controls, London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/london-mayor-ai-mass-destroyer-of-jobs

London Mayor warns AI could become ‘mass destroyer of jobs’ in the capital
Artificial intelligence could become “a weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without proper controls, London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.

Judges may have found a way to bypass 5th Circuit ruling upholding Trump's mass detention policy (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/texas-immigration-detention-rulings-00774124
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p102#a260210p102

Democrats warn that their party, when it returns to power, may attempt to block or unravel any Paramount acquisition of WBD due to national security concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2025

Democrats warn their party may try to unravel any Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal
A new letter from Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) also raised concerns about foreign investors’ involvement.

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

John Healey in Kyiv announces £200M for paratroopers and mass Octopus drone production: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/john-healey-in-kyiv-announces.html

A Maryland lawmaker proposed ✅ banning agents recruited and hired to carry out Trump's mass deportations
from ever working in state public safety jobs.

“It says something about the morals of the person
— the character of the person
— if they see what’s happening on TV,
they see what happening in the streets
and say, ‘You know what? I want to join that,’ ”
said Del. Adrian Boafo
(D-Prince George’s),
the bill’s sponsor.

“Something…

Maryland bill seeks to ban Trump’s ICE agents from joining state police
The legislation is part of a host of bills across the country seeking to counteract aggressive immigration enforcement efforts that lawmakers say has terrorized communities and incited violence.

Mass killings reported as security forces use live fire on Iran protesters | Iran International
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601103903?source=share-link

Getting serious about data breaches in Kazakhstan
January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches
https://meyka.com/blog/january-23-kazakhstan-moves-to-criminalize-mass-data-breaches-2301/

January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches | Meyka
Australia-focused take on Kazakhstan data breach law, criminal penalties and $42,500 fines, risks for banks and fintechs, and clear compliance steps for investors.

Explosions near Veliky Novgorod chemical plant as Russia reports mass drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/explosions-near-veliky-novgorod-chemical.html

Fifty years into the era of mass incarceration,
states like Arkansas, Montana, California, and Colorado
are pushing to build new prisons
and expand immigrant detention.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa talks with
Nicole Porter of
"The Sentencing Project"
about how federal and state governments are
doubling down on new prison construction and ICE contracts
to expand the prison-industrial complex,
what…

Nicole Porter: The US is ‘by far the world’s number one jailer’
“There really isn't an issue with mass incarceration in other countries,” Nicole Porter of The Sentencing Project tells us. “The United States by far is the world's number one jailer.”

Why does this shit make it into mass media as if it is anything to take seriously?
This is on exactly on the same level as Mayan-calendar apocalypse stuff.
Not only is it complete bullshit, it also takes away time and space from the actual issues with "AI", like widespread theft ripping off authors and artists, the largest investment bubble in history threatening the economy, even more aggregation of wealth in the hands of a few tech billionaires, the deskilling of people and the utter bankruptcy of education; just to name a few.

https://ground.news/article/new-animal-species-that-survived-mass-extinction-event-half-a-billion-years-ago-found-in-a-quarry-in-china_a5e5fb

Range, which uses AI to offer flat-fee financial planning services to mass affluent households, raised a $60M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/11/25/range-flat-fee-invest…

Exclusive: Flat-fee advisor Range raises $60M for AI financial planning
The company offers flat-fee financial planning to mass affluents.

Where applicable, mass production is trivial for noninvasive software-based BCIs running on existing mass market devices #BCI

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
Neuralink will start high-volume production of brain-computer interface devices and move to a streamlined, almost entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026. Device threads will go through the dura, without the need to remove it. This is a big deal.

…if we’re watching for a mass turn in popular sentiment against a would-be authoritarian, then it’s the vibes that matter. The guts lead and the facts follow later, if at all.
It’s significant that a mainstream (if salacious) news outlet is running this story at all. It’s significant that it’s making the rounds in my fairly fact-focused TL. I’m interested in who’s repeating this, who’s joking about it, whether it becomes an acceptable SNL gag, whether centrist pundits feel the need to start refuting it.
Vibes.
6/

More Immigrants Than Ever Are Challenging Detention
An analysis of habeas cases since 2009 shows that
immigrants have filed more challenges to their detention in the first 13 months of Trump’s second term
than in the last three administrations combined
— and the number keeps rising.
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court
from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal,
mor…

Immigrants Who Say Their Detention Is Illegal Have Filed More Than 18,000 Cases. It’s a Historic High.
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Trump’s first term.

The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).

Even if you're gearing up for a monster winter storm, take the time to check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Acting CISA head got grilled on mass firings at the agency,
--EU's CIRCL launches GCVE system,
--DeFi project EVM was exploited for $6m,
--Attackers exploit patch bypass for FortiGate flaw,
--Cisco fixes Unified Communications and Webex Calling RCE flaw,
--Mass spam wave …

Acting CISA head got grilled on mass firings at the agency
EU's CIRCL launches GCVE system, DeFi project EVM was exploited for $6m, Attackers exploit patch bypass for FortiGate flaw, Cisco fixes Unified Communications and Webex Calling RCE flaw, Mass spam wave emanates from unsecured Zendesk support systems, much more

Under Bari Weiss and anchor Tony Dokoupil, CBS Evening News has become state propaganda, costing CBS News respect as mass media's audience shrinks (Jeff Jarvis/Katie Couric Media)
https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/tony-dokoupil-first-week-cbs-eve…

An Expert's Analysis of Tony Dokoupil's First Week Anchoring "CBS Evening News"
It's the last nail in the coffin of CBS News as respected journalism.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
KIRBY & Tennessee Mass Choir:
🎵 Reparations
#KIRBY #TennesseeMassChoir
https://open.spotify.com/track/6b6shi9IivivRtMdvEb5ks

A federal court in Maryland has ordered the release of
Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE custody on Thursday,
and he will be advised on his release conditions in his separate Tennessee criminal case.
The case of Ábrego, a Salvadorian national who was a construction worker in Maryland,
has become a proxy for the partisan struggle over Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda.
Trump administration officials have waged a relentless public …

Russia can't capture Donbas! Pokrovsk becomes a mass grave for occupiers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/russia-cant-capture-donbas-pokrovsk.html

On a related note, a reminder of the timeline of 2020:
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent immediately after the police murdered George Floyd.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the video became public.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the protests started.
Things turned chaotic and violent when they brought charges against Chauvin, and the police flipped out and went on a rage-fueled bender of mass tear-gassing the peaceful protests.

Ukraine hit by mass blackouts after grid disruption: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/ukraine-hit-by-mass-blackouts.html

Mass shooting at Salt Lake City church meetinghouse kills at least 2, police say (Kim Bojórquez/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/08/salt-lake-city-shooting-utah-lds-church
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p1#a260108p1

Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions
https://www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circuit-immigration-detention-ruling

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled all of its detainees out of the Cumberland County Jail,
many of them were moved to a field office in Burlington, Massachusetts,
about 100 miles from Portland, Maine.
The facility is designed for administrative processing,
but immigration attorneys say it has been holding some people for more than 10 days
-- raising concerns about due process and access to legal counsel.
Lisa Parisio,
policy director at…

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Fully Relativistic Treatment of Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals in Collisionless Environments: #GravitationalWaves: https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2025/12/decoding-dark-matters-imprint-on-black-hole-gravitational-waves.html

Donald Trump orders mass US pullout from international organisations (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3f785a72-f5e7-4418-86e4-a02997b861f9
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p52#a260108p52

In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai,
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden,
Ben Ray Lujan, and Edward Markey
have requested that Apple and Google
👉remove X Corp's X and Grok apps from their app stores
over recent incidents of
"mass generation of nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children"

U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation
In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan, and Edward Markey have requested that Apple...

Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/massachusetts-church-ice-nativity-scene.html

1 killed, 4 injured as Russia targets Kyiv, Lviv in mass attack across Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/killed-injured-as-russia-targets.html

Mass Russian drone strike on Odesa kills 1, injures 27, more may be under rubble: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/mass-russian-drone-strike-on.html

South Africa declares violence against women a national disaster after mass protests - The New Feminist
https://thenewfeminist.co.uk/2025/11/south-africa-declares-violence-against-women-a-national-disaster-after-mass-protests/

U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on 'Mass Migration,' Document Says (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/politics/trump-rubio-mass-migration.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251126/p117#a251126p117

Russia's mass missile attack targets Kyiv ahead of upcoming Trump-Zelensky meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/27/russias-mass-missile-attack-targets.html

By combining retinal imaging, genetics, and big data,
physician-researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
have found that they can estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future.
⭐️They found significant associations between the thinning of different retinal layers and increased risk of developing ocular, cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and neuropsy…

U.S. layoffs totaled 71,321 in November and 1.17 million this year.
It’s the most since 2020 and a 44% increase from 2024.
Recent Layoffs:
UPS: 48,000 employees
Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees
Intel: 24,000 employees
Microsoft: 15,000 employees
2026 will be the year of mass unemployment.
https…

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com (@thefinancenewsletter.com)
U.S. layoffs totaled 71,321 in November and 1.17 million this year. It’s the most since 2020 and a 44% increase from 2024. Recent Layoffs: UPS: 48,000 employees Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees Intel: 24,000 employees Microsoft: 15,000 employees 2026 will be the year of mass unemployment.

Mass attack that plunged Kyiv into darkness cost Russia over $130 million, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/mass-attack-that-plunged-kyiv.html

Nice Time: Hero Of Australian Mass Shooting Thanked With Great Big $1.65 Million Check
https://www.wonkette.com/p/nice-time-hero-of-australian-mass

It’s been 36 years since a mass femicide occurred at École Polytechnique in Montréal.
A man shot and killed 14 women because of their sex.
Described as “violent misogyny” by the federal government,
the killings have nonetheless never officially been called femicide in Canada
despite its global recognition as one of the most vivid examples of femicide in the western world.
Women and girls continue to be killed every two days somewhere in Canada, mostly by men. …

Too True Crime
True Crime Podcast · Since 2020, there have been at least 580 women and girls killed by men in acts of gender-related violence across the country. This is called femicide. Too True Crime is a podcast series designed to sh…

Russia’s growing missile stockpile can sustain weekly mass strikes, expert says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/russias-growing-missile-stockpile-can.html

As Donald Trump deteriorates
and his grasp on power fades,
he has been lashing out furiously
at female journalists and ethnic groups, most recently Somali Americans.
His insults land because of their animosity and his power,
not their accuracy.
Likewise, his administration’s attacks on immigrants are sloppy and driven by lies.
It’s strikingly clear that the target is not individuals with criminal records.
It’s anyone and everyone guilty of …

Beautiful Kilauea volcano in #eruption again,
with an unusual very high mass flux, near-lateral lava fountain,
next to a vertical fountain in episode 38, now, 6 Dec 2025,
as seen live on the K2 usgs webcam.
See video clip of usgs livestream
http…

In the wake of immigration agents’ killings of three US citizens within a matter of weeks,
the Department of Homeland Security is quietly moving forward with a plan to
expand its capacity for mass detention by using a military contract to create
what Pablo Manríquez, the author of the immigration news site Migrant Insider calls 
“a nationwide ‘ghost network’ of concentration camps.”
On Sunday, Manríquez reported that “a massive Navy contract vehicle,
once v…

US military helping Trump to build massive network of ‘concentration camps,’ Navy contract reveals
The Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.