The Demon Rises Once More

Navigating gender dysphoria? Be heard and be counted in the science.

[pt: DO NOT TAKE THIS SURVEY]

Absolute banger policy. The SNP want to introduce a sort of ‘baby box’ equivalent for children starting school.

The school bag would be filled with essential school items - stationary, books, a water bottle and information for parents to help with literacy and numeracy skills at home.

Fucking send it, love this idea.

Responding to claims that “from the river to the sea” calls for the genocide of Jews, the panel that heard the MIT case wrote: “Plaintiffs must again rely on a theory that they can dictate the interpretation of the protestors’ speech in order to suppress it.” The MIT order is the only appeals court ruling on the issue since October 2023, which is significant in that it creates binding precedent.

Some of the claims were unlikely to ever succeed, legal experts said, but were mainly intended to chill protests. The Brandeis Center, a pro-Israel law firm that is leading some lawsuits, said its cases “showcase the litany of antisemitic conduct Jewish students and faculty are facing, and where we need courts, federal authorities and universities themselves to uphold laws protecting civil rights”.

Pro-Israel advocates bringing these lawsuits have argued that Jewish identity is so entwined with Israel and Zionism that certain forms of criticism can amount to a civil rights or Title VI violation. The surge of lawsuits is broadly asking the courts to codify that theory.

“For the most part, courts have said that that doesn’t fly when we’re talking about expressly political speech that isn’t targeted at a specific person or group because of their ethnicity or national origin,” the ACLU’s Hauss said. “Impassioned views about Israel and Palestine, even if offensive to some, are broadly protected under the First Amendment.”

In Landau v Corporation of Haverford College, Jewish students brought a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania college alleging it allowed an environment hostile to Jews to flourish on campus. The plaintiffs suggested in their complaint that people who wear keffiyehs support violent resistance against Israel, but judges dismissed the suggestion, calling keffiyehs a “classic example of first amendment expression”.

Judges in the MIT case opined on claims made by pro-Israel groups that common phrases, including that “the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavor” or “comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis”, violate Jewish students’ civil rights. The judges found these are protected speech.

Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority. His personal eugenicist beliefs have been previously reported on: A 2019 New York Times investigation, for instance, found that he “hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his vast New Mexico ranch.” He was talking about those plans with scientists in the early 2000s, which, to public knowledge, fortunately did not happen.   But the new emails reveal a previously unappreciated range of public intellectuals and scientists implicitly tolerating those ideas—treating race science and eugenics as acceptable conversation even if, as Chomsky does in that discourse, contesting them. Epstein’s passion for injecting eugenics into conversation after conversation in his emails should shape the way we think about his role in funding scientific research and development—and steering richer men’s money in that world.  Epstein’s fascination with eugenics also puts his funding of health research in a disturbing light. 

10 February 2026

He wasn't just Epstein's friend and client. He was his partner in crime.

They use the second amendment as a reason to openly brandish guns for no reason other than "because I can". Think of all those times when people carried assault rifles on their routine shopping trips.

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Here's how things are shaping up ahead of the 2026 midterms:

In the 119th Congress, the current party alignments as of August 4, 2025, are as follows: (Congress.gov)

House of Representatives: 219 Republicans (plus 3 Delegates) 212 Democrats (plus 2 Delegates and the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico) 4 vacant seats

Senate: 53 Republicans 45 Democrats 2 Independents (both caucus with the Democrats)

Elections to the U.S. Congress will take place on November 3, 2026. All 435 districts in the U.S. House of Representatives and 33 seats in the U.S. Senate are up for election. Five of the Senate's six non-voting members are also up for election.

Looking ahead to the 2026 general elections, Democrats need to gain a net of four seats to win a majority in the Senate. Meanwhile, Republicans can lose no more than two seats to retain a majority in the chamber. (Ballotpedia)

In the November 2025 elections, voters flipped the governorships of several states blue, as well as electing dozens of Democratic delegates and mayors in key local elections, dislodging many GOP incumbents. There was a record turnout of young voters and younger candidates for political office.

If we can do this again in 2026, we stand a SIGNIFICANT chance of not only mitigating the damage done by the current administration, but perhaps even steering things back toward recovery. It will still take a long time. A lot can happen by next November, nothing is immediate or guaranteed, and NO ONE running for office is perfect. But it's clear to see that letting things continue to slide toward the right is not an acceptable path forward if we want to retain our rights and secure a better future for those who will come after us.

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He was a registered nurse who worked for the VA. They executed him in the streets for trying to defend a woman they were pushing to the ground. They took his licensed gun before shooting him over 11 times and then claimed he approached them brandishing his gun when video evidence shows he was only recording them when they approached him.

A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:

2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.

2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.

November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.

December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)

Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.

1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)

Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.

The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.

ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.

It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.

Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.

And from today.

They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.

And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.

So that's a brief history.

Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.

It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.

I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.

St Paul has gone to partial virtual learning for anyone who doesn't feel safe sending their kids to school.

Every school I know now has safety patrols.

The school districts are not mincing words about the clear and present threat. Everyone in the area is completely clear that we are under violent occupation.

Most of the white people ICE grab, are released within days, because ICE can't even keep track of who was grabbed by who over what. However, they are still subjected to beatings, gassing, having their home and car windows smashes, etc.

Local police are advising compliance with the blatant human rights violations and total lack of due process, because they are cowards.

Even conservative Minnesotans are balking at the total lack of due process and open violence against unresisting people for doing things like taking videos. I know a guy who was in his house recording ICE, and they smashed his home window, dragged him out over the broken glass, beat him while screaming slurs, smashed his phone, and detained for three days.

We need your help to spread the truth about what is going on. Find the videos and share them on any platform you have. Make noise about what's happening. Get your "don't tread on me" relatives whipped up about it if you can.

We need republicans to be afraid, otherwise ICE plans to be here for half a year attacking us.

sudan:

"Sudanese fundraisers that have yet to reach their goals" by robotpussy and typecoercion

Articles relating sudan and fundraisers by queer-scots-geordie-dyke* *(important note: i have been informed that queer-scots-geordie-dyke is a zionist, i will keep the link up as they might be useful, but i would recommend blocking her after taking a look at the links)

"Aid organisations and community kitchens operating in Sudan" by autisticsquidward

some mutual aid initiatives by finnstansonly

palestine:

"List of Aid groups working in Gaza that israel is suspending" by hagiomoto

A collection of gaza related fundraisers by aire1111

a collection of gaza fundraisers without much attention by me

Both:

"Mutual aid initiatives to donate to" by el-shab-hussein

"The postmark rule changed quietly, and it affects voting and healthcare. Let me explain what just happened at USPS, because this is not minor, and it's not theoretical.

So as of this week, the United States Postal Service clarified that a postmark date is no longer tied to when you drop your mail off; it's tied to when that mail is first processed by an automated facility. So, as an example, you could put something in the mailbox by Monday, but if it doesn't hit a sorting center until Wednesday, Wednesday becomes the postmark. That matters when deadlines are based on postmarks.

Think ballots. Many states say a mail-in ballot counts if it's postmarked by election day. Under this rule, you can mail your ballot before election day and still have it postmarked after. So that's not voter fraud, that's logistics quietly overruling intent.

So now let's talk healthcare, because this is where people really get hurt. Healthcare runs on mail deadlines, appeals, prior authorizations, Medicare notices, prescription paperwork. If an appeal has to be postmarked by a certain date, and USPS processes it days later, it looks late, so late appeals get denied. Denied appeals delay care. So in nursing and healthcare advocacy, timing is everything, and this rule shifts the risk from the institution back to the patient. The system didn't get faster, the rules just got tighter.

So if you're mailing anything time-sensitive now, ballots or healthcare documents, dropping it in a box is not enough. So this is what people need to do now:

Mail earlier than you think you should. Go inside the post office for deadline mail. Ask for a manual postmark or receipt. Use certified mail for appeals and legal documents, and do not rely on blue mailboxes for last week deadlines.

So this isn't panic, it's adjustment."

They created this weird mass hysteria about a natural disaster being created to attack republicans and… republicans left them out in the cold.

(Obligatory ‘no one deserves this based on who they voted for & also the margin was pretty thin.) These rural communities are overwhelmingly republican, with urban NC being where most of those dem votes are… and still the republicans can’t even pretend to care about their core constituents. Unfortunately, we’ve seen time and time again that no matter how hard rural America gets fucked by republicans, they see it as ‘the government’, while anything that benefits anyone but them is a crime by ‘the liberals’… and even the things they do benefit from are a crime by ‘the liberals’.

Not the "(((they))) are controlling the weather to wipe out Christian Republicans" and all of the other conspiracy shit, no. What I've been waiting for is the storm that would wipe out coastal homes in North Carolina, and I've been waiting since 2012.

Why 2012?

Because in 2012, the North Carolina General Assembly passed Replacement House Bill 819, which, being blunt and sarcastic, tried to outlaw sea level rise.

More technically, in order to keep the high valuation of beachside developments and properties from crashing due to the accurate fact-based assessment that they'd be worthless in a few decades due to climate change, as "beachfront property" is worth a lot, but "underwater property" is not...

Well, to keep those properties and investments from having to face that reality of their future residents being shellfish and tidal pools, the General Assembly made it illegal to use science-based models to predict how high sea level change would go over the next century. Instead, they mandated that a simple linear increase based on historical data would be used--saying that the sea level would change by only 8 inches (20 cm) by 2100... instead of the 3 feet (1 meter) that climate science was predicting. That way, all of those pricy developments on the Outer Banks and beachfronts would maintain their high assessed worth... at least until the sea and storms showed up and said to the General Assembly, "What, are you going to arrest the ocean?"

Which has now happened.

And, just as predicted back in 2012, the insurance companies are taking one look at this and going, "Nuh uh".

As that article I linked up above notes at the close...

In short, HB819 proposes a number of potentially far-reaching changes that may result in unintended consequences for coastal property owners, local governments, insurers, emergency managers and other organizations and agencies.

Except they don't do it anymore. And it is in large part because of Helene. The rhetoric around it was so violent, and the rumors that FEMA was going to steal people's houses were so pervasive, the door-knockers were threatened over and over, even had guns pulled on them. How true this is doesn't particularly matter, it may have just been more rumors, but either way it resulted in door-knocking being stopped for Helene and eventually stopped entirely. It is not a thing FEMA does anymore.

Now, to get individual post-disaster assistance if you don't have a way to access the internet or a working phone, you will have to go to dedicated facilities. Can't get there due to disability or injury? Don't have a way to access news about where those facilities even are and how they work? All the roads washed out or impassible due to debris? Too bad, you're on your own now.

So not only is the aid being delayed if not fully withheld for the Helene survivors, many of them may not have even had help in the initial application process the way they should have, and now in every disaster going forward, other people are going to face the exact same thing.

Sokoto state, a majority Muslim state in north-west Nigeria was bombed on Christmas day. It is still unclear how many bombs were dropped and where. Confirmed is a bomb dropped on a Mosque in Jabo, killing 5 people.

Trump has claimed that this is in retaliation of the "Christian genocide" happening in Nigeria, committed by "radical Islamists" of the ISIL (ISIS), and the specific choosing of Christmas day was to reify that this is a religious based retaliation.

This Christmas, I am in Nigeria. My family is majority Christian. We are without fear of being persecuted on the basis of our religion. So, what is going on?

There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Nigeria is a complex country that faces a lot of violence, exploitation and subsequent neglect from our government. But it is not Christians being targeted in our country. This insidious piece of misinformation has been dutifully organised by US officials for months and gained steam on platforms like X and Truth Social.

I do not believe though, that this action was done to fight Islamic terrorists or protect Nigerian Christians. The reason being:

Sokoto state is not a state with ISIL activity.

This is another display of US throwing its weight around, conveniently, onto the most oil-rich country in Africa.

Do not believe everything the US tells you about its foreign affairs. The US will gladly spill blood on the flimsiest of justifications just to continue gorging its empire.