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A new preprint reports that in nearly one third of studies on social media appearing in major interdisciplinary journals, the authors have ties to industry that should be disclosed but aren’t. https://scim.ag/49s7tlw
Nearly one-third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims
Industry-linked studies were also more likely to focus on particular topics, suggesting these ties may be skewing the field
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January 22, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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But the poor widdle hospitals say they can’t afford a fair union contact. @nynurses.bsky.social
NYC Hospitals Pay Up to $9,000 a Week to Nurses Willing to Cross Picket Line
New York City hospitals are paying as much as $9,000 a week to nurses willing to cross picket lines, creating an expense for medical centers that further strains their struggling budgets.
www.bloomberg.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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this is pretty incredible:

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Cities Under Siege: Inside a Violent Immigration Chase and a Shattered Family
YouTube video by MS NOW
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January 22, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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TNR reports that ICE isn't paying its bills to health care providers and is DENYING CARE to detainees.
Tracks with what we hear from visitors to Delaney Hall in Newark who often emerge saying people w/ diabetes, heart conditions etc are NOT getting needed treatment. newrepublic.com/post/205458/...
ICE Has Cut Its Detainees Off From Medical Care
The organization hasn’t paid third-party medical providers in months.
newrepublic.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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When future historians ask what Putin wanted from Trump, the answer may be painfully simple: “Everything America once stood for.”

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Will No One Hold Trump Accountable for Handing Putin Everything He Wanted?
When future historians ask what Putin wanted from Trump, the answer may be painfully simple: “Everything America once stood for.”
hartmannreport.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Every ill advised social media post in the middle of the night, every off the cuff tirade by IQ47 should illicit this kind of response. Danish pension fund to sell $100 million in U.S. Treasurys share.google/aAowr0v7OXkf...
Danish pension fund to sell $100 million in Treasurys, citing 'poor' U.S. government finances
AkademikerPension's move comes amid increasing tensions between Denmark and the U.S. over Greenland.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Amnesty has issued a report about rising #authoritarianism & #humanRights violations in #USA, incl enforced disappearances, restrictions on #freeSpeech incl the media, increased #corruption, militarisation of law enforcement, mass surveillance, weakening of rule of law www.jurist.org/news/2026/01...
Amnesty International warns of rising US authoritarianism and human rights violations
Amnesty International published a report on Tuesday, warning about rising authoritarian practices in the US and detailing numerous ways how the rule of law and human rights are being threatened. The r...
www.jurist.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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Dr. King warned that injustice thrives when power is used to protect itself instead people. He spoke about political systems corrupted by fear, greed & the denial of representation. In TX today, we see that same abuse of power, w/politicians rigging maps to silence communities & entrench themselves.
January 19, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Thank you for your resilience, your persistent brilliance...it transformed how the world navigates & understands our planet. Your work touches nearly every modern device & journey and more people should know your name.

Goodnight and godspeed, Gladys West.🕯️

thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d... #WomenInSTEM
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 20, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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ICE is presuming Diaz died from suicide. Notice the familiar response? It's never ICE's fault when someone dies in detainment or in their presence. Reminds me of the🤥 🍊 💩. 👺
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Second man dies at Texas ICE detention facility in two weeks
Victor Manuel Diaz was found unresponsive at Camp East Montana in what ICE officials call ‘presumed suicide’
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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US researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

go.nature.com/4sPKR61
‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
go.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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"A Change Is Gonna Come" (1964) - Sam Cooke 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak

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A Change Is Gonna Come
YouTube video by Sam Cooke - Topic
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January 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Rachel Maddow: The people, by and large, stand in opposition to Trump — his approval ratings have fallen through the floor & then down into the basement & then through the basement floor into the bedrock — He is just despised as a political leader in this country in almost unprecedented terms
January 19, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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From education to pandemic preparedness and public-health cuts, the past year has seen huge stress put on US science.

go.nature.com/4sQ2P8y
‘Every aspect of my work life has changed’ — scientists reflect on a year of Trump
From education to pandemic preparedness and public-health cuts, the past year has seen huge stress put on US science.
go.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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This isn’t alarmism: it’s the historical pattern, repeated across dozens of countries and thousands of years. I’ve seen it, repeatedly, with my own eyes…

hartmannreport.com/p/is-having-...
Is Having a “Fearful View of Freedom” the Key to The Trump Revolution?
This isn’t alarmism: it’s the historical pattern, repeated across dozens of countries and thousands of years. I’ve seen it, repeatedly, with my own eyes…
hartmannreport.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Every goddamn word of this ⬇️

"Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them."

www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
In Davos, the rich talk about ‘global threats’. Here’s why they’re silent about the biggest of them all | Ingrid Robeyns
Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them, says economist and historian Ingrid Robeyns
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Epstein survivors tell federal judge to force Trump DOJ to release Epstein files youtu.be/DdCfgxm3w9I?...
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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January 20, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”

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January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Call to Action. Billboard buy in progress. Help if you can. Picture, details, location in details of link below. Check it out. Thanks from Indivisible TX-24 Project on a local level — Donate via ActBlue share.google/aXofNzEFrfdH...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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"6 years old... walking by herself on the street, crying, crying out for her dad, asking, 'Where's Papi? Where's Papi?'..."
January 19, 2026 at 11:05 PM