Claire James
@claire-james.bsky.social
Looking for some nice content to break up the doomscrolling. Londoner. Climate campaigner (see @campaigncc.bsky.social)
In case you thought the news from the US wasn’t disturbing enough, ICE is purchasing massive warehouses to hold those they abduct.
Entirely unrelated: a brief history of concentration camps around the world www.lbi.org/exhibitions/...
Entirely unrelated: a brief history of concentration camps around the world www.lbi.org/exhibitions/...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:59 PM
In case you thought the news from the US wasn’t disturbing enough, ICE is purchasing massive warehouses to hold those they abduct.
Entirely unrelated: a brief history of concentration camps around the world www.lbi.org/exhibitions/...
Entirely unrelated: a brief history of concentration camps around the world www.lbi.org/exhibitions/...
January 28, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Truly horrific mass murder by Iran's regime - systematic killing of likely around 30,000 protesters.
"The injuries we observed demonstrate a brutality without limit – both in scale and in method," including bodies of people shot in the head while hospitalised.
"The injuries we observed demonstrate a brutality without limit – both in scale and in method," including bodies of people shot in the head while hospitalised.
Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?
Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Truly horrific mass murder by Iran's regime - systematic killing of likely around 30,000 protesters.
"The injuries we observed demonstrate a brutality without limit – both in scale and in method," including bodies of people shot in the head while hospitalised.
"The injuries we observed demonstrate a brutality without limit – both in scale and in method," including bodies of people shot in the head while hospitalised.
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81 years ago today, Auschwitz was liberated.
More than ever, we must remember. Remembrance is a responsibility.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the victims, honour the survivors, and reflect on what happens when good people do nothing.
#HMD26
More than ever, we must remember. Remembrance is a responsibility.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the victims, honour the survivors, and reflect on what happens when good people do nothing.
#HMD26
January 27, 2026 at 9:25 AM
81 years ago today, Auschwitz was liberated.
More than ever, we must remember. Remembrance is a responsibility.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the victims, honour the survivors, and reflect on what happens when good people do nothing.
#HMD26
More than ever, we must remember. Remembrance is a responsibility.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the victims, honour the survivors, and reflect on what happens when good people do nothing.
#HMD26
More forensic than anything else I've seen on Trump's dementia.
The President is Losing his Marbles
It's time for the 25th Amendment—even if it puts JD Vance in office.
claireberlinski.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:31 AM
More forensic than anything else I've seen on Trump's dementia.
This is amazing - a mushroom that if not cooked properly gives people a very specific hallucination: "visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture."
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
This is amazing - a mushroom that if not cooked properly gives people a very specific hallucination: "visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture."
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Affectionately known as the ‘graffiti grannies of Lisbon', Lata65 is a Portuguese org that runs workshops in street art for the over-65s. The oldest participant is 90 years old #womensart
January 24, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Affectionately known as the ‘graffiti grannies of Lisbon', Lata65 is a Portuguese org that runs workshops in street art for the over-65s. The oldest participant is 90 years old #womensart
Maximum temperature in Minneapolis today -23C
Minneapolis, Minnesota
ICE OUT general strike, what it is!
@btnewsroom.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/Nhc6a...
ICE OUT general strike, what it is!
@btnewsroom.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/Nhc6a...
NOW: Minnesota 'ICE OUT' general strike
YouTube video by BreakThrough News
youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Maximum temperature in Minneapolis today -23C
Trump administration deporting Iranians back to face death.
Trump administration plans to deport 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran
Two of the deportees are gay and are terrified of returning to a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, their lawyer says.
www.ms.now
January 23, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Trump administration deporting Iranians back to face death.
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ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 4:45 PM
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
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As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
As clergy pray, arrests begin
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One of the best articles we've seen from out-of-town press. Does a good job of covering what isn't getting covered enough and capturing what it feels like on the ground right now... (This is a gift article - lmk if the link doesn't work.)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:55 PM
One of the best articles we've seen from out-of-town press. Does a good job of covering what isn't getting covered enough and capturing what it feels like on the ground right now... (This is a gift article - lmk if the link doesn't work.)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Also, I want to take an interest in things going on elsewhere in the world, but after starting the day with Minneapolis news and Mad Trump Letter news that’s enough news for one morning thank you.
I think it would be quite nice for me to be able to wake up in the morning and think about my plans for the day, and more broadly about my own little life, instead of immediately having to ponder the overnight actions of The Guy Over There
January 19, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Also, I want to take an interest in things going on elsewhere in the world, but after starting the day with Minneapolis news and Mad Trump Letter news that’s enough news for one morning thank you.
Took me a moment to realise this is obviously in Fahrenheit. So Friday in Minneapolis will be -27C to -17C. 🥶
Good day for a general strike.
Good day for a general strike.
They’re going to invoke the Insurrection Act to stand around in this.
January 18, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Took me a moment to realise this is obviously in Fahrenheit. So Friday in Minneapolis will be -27C to -17C. 🥶
Good day for a general strike.
Good day for a general strike.
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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
Well this sounds like a perfectly sensible way to govern a country.
This is why there's a whole chapter in my book about the damage the grid has done to policy making.
January 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Well this sounds like a perfectly sensible way to govern a country.
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I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
In politics and the media it's like only macho jobs count towards the economy - manufacturing, fishing, over-hyped AI...
Higher education contributes an estimated £265 billion but hey, who needs it?
Sad story here about closure of Uni of Essex Southend campus:
www.yoursouthend.co.uk/a-dreadful-b...
Higher education contributes an estimated £265 billion but hey, who needs it?
Sad story here about closure of Uni of Essex Southend campus:
www.yoursouthend.co.uk/a-dreadful-b...
This ought to be a huge national news story. But the quiet dismantling of a key sector barely registers outside HE. Maybe someone will care when the local economies that Unis sustain start to go bust too. Important story from @patrickjack.bsky.social & @timeshighered.bsky.social
Ninety UK universities to have posted accounts so far cut 13,300 jobs last year, spending £303 million on severance pay - sector-wide total clearly going to be well in excess of predicted 10,000. Great reporting by @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
January 15, 2026 at 10:18 AM
In politics and the media it's like only macho jobs count towards the economy - manufacturing, fishing, over-hyped AI...
Higher education contributes an estimated £265 billion but hey, who needs it?
Sad story here about closure of Uni of Essex Southend campus:
www.yoursouthend.co.uk/a-dreadful-b...
Higher education contributes an estimated £265 billion but hey, who needs it?
Sad story here about closure of Uni of Essex Southend campus:
www.yoursouthend.co.uk/a-dreadful-b...
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I have annexed
The country
Whose resources
I wanted
And which you
Were probably
Hoping
I could identify a giraffe
It was the best clock
Anybody drew
I like McDonald's
Hey look, a bird
The country
Whose resources
I wanted
And which you
Were probably
Hoping
I could identify a giraffe
It was the best clock
Anybody drew
I like McDonald's
Hey look, a bird
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I have annexed
The country
Whose resources
I wanted
And which you
Were probably
Hoping
I could identify a giraffe
It was the best clock
Anybody drew
I like McDonald's
Hey look, a bird
The country
Whose resources
I wanted
And which you
Were probably
Hoping
I could identify a giraffe
It was the best clock
Anybody drew
I like McDonald's
Hey look, a bird
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File under, we never quite know what's coming next.
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
January 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
File under, we never quite know what's coming next.
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
@michaelburchert.bsky.social Is there a good basic introduction to plant-based insulation and building materials online? For people who are thinking about wider strategies to tackle climate change rather than technical specialists - and including issues of scaling up would be great! Thank you
December 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
@michaelburchert.bsky.social Is there a good basic introduction to plant-based insulation and building materials online? For people who are thinking about wider strategies to tackle climate change rather than technical specialists - and including issues of scaling up would be great! Thank you
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"Meditate through the meltdown..." oilwell.app
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"Meditate through the meltdown..." oilwell.app
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A true profile in courage to follow one’s conscience, especially in that system. Also amazing that the footage has surfaced. 🎁🔗
The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A true profile in courage to follow one’s conscience, especially in that system. Also amazing that the footage has surfaced. 🎁🔗
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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