Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Excellent scifi author @naomikritzer, who's also quite active in political convos, has written about sensible stuff folks outside of MN can do right now (which includes a link to her other post for folks in MN, if that's where you are).

https://naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/how-to-help-if-you-are-outside-minnesota/

#USPol #ICE #Minnesota

Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/21/two-major-studies-125000-kids-the-social-media-panic-doesnt-hold-up/ "Australia’s ban may be taking kids who would have been moderate users with good outcomes and forcing them into the “no use” category that the study associates with worse well-being. "

The Post-American Era has started. Time to get to work. Humility, this time, would be a good stating point.

> This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes. So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/mark-carney-davos-canadian-prime-minister-donald-trump-new-world-order

My partner was listening to an Instagram clip where Donald Trump said that someone called him "daddy", and I immediately stopped her and said "Ah, that's probably AI generated, that and the Iceland gaffe sounds like something that was made up, even though I do hate him"

It uh, was apparently real, and what the FUCK is going on? Just absolutely unbelievable

This is Liam Conejo Ramos.

This is the 5 year old child ICE grabbed in Minnesota today.

They used him as bait to get his father.

They’ve sent this toddler to detention instead of letting him stay with family.

A masked man grabbed a toddler off the street in broad daylight.

It’s child trafficking.

#uspol #abolishice #immigration #minnesota #fascism

Renee Nicole Good’s family have released preliminary autopsy details.

It’s bad.

She was shot three times and the first two shots were non lethal.

One to her forearm and one to her right breast which missed all major organs.

She could have survived that.

Jonathan Ross was well outside the path of the vehicle at that point and leaned into the driver’s side window to deliver the third shot.

It went through her left temple and exited the right side of her head.

It was murder. Plain and simple.

Every ICE agent who failed to render aid should be charged as an accessory, and Ross should be arrested immediately.

The government must stop covering for killers.

#abolishice #reneenicolegood #minnesota #immigration #uspol

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.

"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts."