Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Baltimore Punks! Come join us at The Lab for a Switch to Fediverse event. If you're seeing this, you're already on Fedi, so get your friends to come.

We will be discussing what Mastodon and the Fediverse are, why we should own our own social media, and then everyone will make an account and follow each other!

#punk #Baltimore #BMorePunk #FPM #fediverse

Right-Wing Influencers Desperate to Find an Insurrection in Minneapolis

These media-making provocateurs appear at rallies and protests to agitate participants and provoke a response in attempts to fill their narrative, get clicks, and get donations.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/right-wing-influencers-desperate-to-find-an-insurrection-in-minneapolis/

Even the cowardice is bigger in Texas, it seems.

Trump's secret police says it will invade your home without a judge-signed warrant. https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d

Any doubt that the corrupt Roberts court will rubber-stamp this?

(Never mind Congress, where the majority party utterly loathes the Bill of Rights, except the Second Amendment.)

Congress is debating a bill that would require platforms to police families’ online behavior, or face legal risk. The result will be more account lockouts, ID checks, and algorithmic mistakes—for both parents and their kids. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/congress-wants-hand-your-parenting-big-tech

The UK gov has today published the Joint Intelligence Committee report, presented at COBRA, called “Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security”.

Findings include “every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (confidence rating HIGH)”

The report is worth a read as it basically lays out how the next decade or two are going to play out.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

duckduckgo has a yes or no ai poll going now and lmao

https://duckduckgo.com/vote/

Donald Trump's stupid ass drove the United States within spitting distance of war with NATO allies, and now he just wants to put that toothpaste back in the tube.

Y'all, my neck is doing rather poorly from all this whiplash.

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveler from 1909™️ and his urgent mission to save the timeline from an evil dictator!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/01/21/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-urgent-mission-of-percival-dunwoody-idiot-time-traveler-from-1909.html

A House committee issued journalist Seth Harp a subpoena for his reporting.

He’s been falsely accused of “leaking classified intel.” And now, a GOP lawmaker wants him prosecuted under the Espionage Act.

This is a chilling attack on press freedom. Watch FPF's Trevor Timm explain.

Do Europeans really want to make a difference in our shit show of a country? Then sanction any and everyone with an R next to their political affilation. Also, the blue dogs too, just to be safe.

I have tremendously underestimated the value of giving my kids access to collaboration tools in Nextcloud. We can collaborate on an upcoming trip with full plans and details, all done privately on a cheap computer on our home network.

This is pretty fuckin' sweet.

Brey, we're already setting up the precise conditions in our concentration camps, that lead to the Holocaust. They didn't snap murder Jewish people right away, they did this - put them in cages and then created the conditions that would kill them. It was only when they realized that would take too long, that they resorted to Zyklon B.

https://popular.info/p/ice-has-stopped-paying-for-detainee

You're scared? Not nearly as much as you should be. And it's not a reason to say "I can't."

Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

Here's mine.

#OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI

📲 When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gave her Nobel "Peace" Prize to warmonger Donald Trump to thank him for bombing her country, it showed how the prize is a tool of war that serves Western #foreignpolicy interests

The winner is very often a #US -funded regime-change activist who tries to overthrow independent governments deemed "authoritarian" by #NATO

#geopolitics #nobelprize #nobelpeaceprize #research

Video analysis by Ben Norton 👇🏽

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ow1WRl0Axw

“[Amazon is] doubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn said at #CES2026, as reported in Men's Journal. https://www.mensjournal.com/news/amazon-ring-ai-doorbell-humiliated-award-no-one-wants-worst-in-show

So it begins.

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer.

Europe holds $8 trillion in USA bonds and equities. This is just the beginning.

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/danish-pension-fund-akademikerpension-to-exit-us-treasuries-93CH-4455284

#USA #Dump

#Oxfam regularly publishes #inequality reports highlighting how global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small group of billionaires and how oligarchy is re-emerging. These are important and useful reports. What I find hard to reconcile, however, are the hefty salaries and perks Oxfam pays its own staff and executive directors worldwide. Some of them are based in the Global South, yet their incomes place them squarely within the global south's 1%.

And this often touches a raw nerve. The usual refrain is that their CEOs and Executive Directors earn far less than corporate CEOs. Of course they do. But why compare yourselves with the top 1 per cent? Why should the Executive Director of a non-profit earn several hundred times more than a daily-wage worker in that same country? What moral standing do you have to speak about #inequality at all?