@annemillbrooke
Historian with academic, corporate, non-profit, and freelance experience. Advocate for a clean and healthy environment for all life: biodiversity includes us. Interests include community, outdoor activities, and reading.
"…fraudulent ads are extremely profitable for social media platforms—and it may not be in those platforms’ best financial interests to do more to protect you. … Meta…estimated that in 2024 the company earned $16 billion…from ads for scams and banned goods." www.idx.us/knowledge-ce...?
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
How the Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive
Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court’s inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees.
If Congress doesn’t act, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will expire. It would pointlessly wipe out decades of diplomacy, and could spark another arms race that makes the world less safe. This piece is worth the read.
.@PabloReports: What do you make of Trump being mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein files?
Swalwell: That’s 38,000 more times than most people I know, and that’s 38,000 reasons why people want to know why he won’t come in and sit for an interview.
I think this skit should be deemed historically important. It captures something significant.
Imagine if the country’s university presidents had seized the platform of the country’s most popular college sports event to mobilize public opinion & <loudly & collectively> fight back against the lawless authoritarian assault on our institutions & our budgets & our faculty/students/staff 🤔🧐
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I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.
But did you look at the judge's order?
It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."
Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen
The death of Alex Pretti has been ruled a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office said. Pretti was shot Jan. 24 during a chaotic encounter with federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez were named as the two officers who fired at Pretti.
Hundreds of students across Chicago’s North Side walked out of their classrooms Monday in protest of the Trump administration’s continued mass deportation campaign.
"Unfortunately, most people do not differentiate between wildland fire and structural fire even though, ecologically speaking, wildland fires are nearly always beautifully restorative events."~Richard Hutto
www.thewildlifenews.com/2026/02/02/b...
French President Emmanuel Macron expresses his support for Greenland while speaking Greenlandic and Danish.
The university recommended terminating the programs and pausing minors in Irish and Chinese studies due to declining enrollment and to shift resources to areas of ‘higher strategic priority.’
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
(The Guardian) Yup, not a surprise at all. Trump et al has killed four more men in a small motor boat in the Caribbean. When will this stop? What will bring it to a head? The Supremes won't help. But maybe the GOP might eventually find their spines & cojones.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
MUST WATCH, please.
Rosa Parks sitting on the bus, refusing to give up her seat
On this day in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. For 381 days people boycotted the buses. They walked, carpooled and organized every single day until segregation cracked. Nothing will change today without that same resolve. Freedom isn’t granted, it's taken one step at a time. #Resist
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
A new book examines 5,000 years of civilizational collapse—and proposes a few ways to help prevent the next one, writes Linda Kinstler:
"E-bikes are heavy and fast — in some ways closer to a motorcycle than a manual two-wheeler — and they’ve proliferated in the last few years. So have the injuries associated with them, rising by a factor of 10. Policymakers haven’t caught up."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/b...
"Tips are always welcome, but they can be particularly important for journalists who cover agencies or institutions that are particularly closed off from the public."
www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...
A map view of LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York City from a flight-tracking application. The map shows dozens of small yellow airplane icons positioned around the airport’s runways, taxiways, and terminals, indicating aircraft currently on the ground. Terminals A, B, and C are labeled, with Terminal B near the center and Terminal C toward the southeast. The surrounding areas include East Elmhurst and Vaughn College to the south, with Grand Central Parkway curving around the airport. The East River and Bowery Bay border the airport to the north and west, with Rikers Island Channel visible at the top of the image. A blue airport symbol with a white airplane icon marks LaGuardia Airport’s central location.
LGA looks like a parking lot.
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