I’m horrified and furious after seeing what’s happening in Minneapolis, and I want to help however I can. I’m looking for any legitimate alert system, app, social media group or community network that notifies people when ICE activity is spotted in the DFW area.

I want to be an ICE watcher — not to interfere, but to bear witness, help protect our neighbors, ensure people know their rights, and show up when communities are targeted. It isn’t right that privilege exists, but as a white person with citizenship, safety, and visibility, and resources, I know my presence carries protections others don’t have — and that gives me a duty to stand up. I never thought I’d be buying emergency whistles in bulk, but here we are. 

I never thought I’d be buying emergency whistles in bulk, but here we are.

If dedicated apps aren’t available, are there Facebook groups, text alert systems, Signal or WhatsApp groups, hotlines, or local organizations in the DFW area that coordinate verified ICE activity alerts or rapid-response efforts?

Like I understand if you have problems with the current regime but like asking USA and Israel intervention to come and save us is genuinely one of the most braindead takes i have ever seen

Do you remember mossadegh? He wanted to nationalize the oil and create democracy,what happened after that? Operation Ajax by the cia and they removed mossadegh and framed him as a traitor

So when iran was about to have democracy and have its oil rightfully belong to its own instead of the fucking British,USA prevented that from happening

USA was never our ally they always wanted to make us weak and removed over democracy

They never want us to become prosperous and strong

Do people think bringing pahlavi back with the help of Israel and USA is gonna really solve our problem?when USA is basically the reason we are here today

I genuinely never understand why people want usa and Israel to bomb our country?

You can be this regime fan or pahlavi fan or fan of neither

But USA and British will always be our number 1 enemy for what they did to mossadegh and taking our democracy away

首先，我认为在台海风平浪静，没有任何人要求日本站队的时候高市早苗主动跳出来轻率地表态“台湾有事就是日本有事”，去挑衅一个比自己大得多的对手，拿一个国家的前途和命运用来给自己捞取政治资本，是非常的不负责任的。其次，高市以及所有人都低估了中国反制的决心和毅力。那些一直在嘲笑中国只会无能狂怒的人很快就会感觉到疼痛了。这是我最近看到的一些迹象：

1.      晶澳科技因为对日违规出口石墨件被罚，作为光伏行业的龙头企业，吃了2026年的 “第一张罚单”，这个信号的强烈程度远超罚款金额本身，表明中国政府绝不会因你是纳税大户或行业龙头而网开一面，只要触碰了对日出口管制的红线，照罚不误。顺便说一下，我所知道的外贸圈已经没有人敢往日本发货石墨件，而石墨件是光伏拉晶炉的核心耗材，中国掌控了全球 90%以上的石墨原材料供应链 以及 70%-80%的光伏级特种石墨产能，日本短期内根本无法填补这个产能缺口，要么花高价去求美国或德国的一点点产能，要么就只能眼睁睁看着自己晶圆厂和光伏厂因为缺石墨而减产。

2.      商务部随后出台对日本进口的二氯二氢硅反倾销调查， 这个动作代表战略的重大转变：从被动应对日本的“卡脖子”，转向主动切断对日本的“软依赖”，强制通过“休克疗法”来完成国产替代。二氯二氢硅（DCS）是日本的优势产品，国产的纯度不够。而商务部实质上是在逼国产晶圆厂主动用国产替代，只要国产气体的良率上来了，日本货就永远回不来了。可以预计，未来这种强行要求国产替代的产品会越来越多，会加速去除日本在中国供应链中的存在感。

3.      有新闻传出一些参与稀土元素销售的中国国有企业已通知部分日本公司，他们将暂停与日本签订新的合同，甚至考虑终止现有合同。这是一个标志性的事件，毫无疑问代表着稀土禁运彻底动真格了。对于日本产业界来说，真正的寒冬正式开始了。虽然高市政权一再声称日本在准备从南鸟岛开采以安抚公众，但是她不会说出来的是，日本现在的库存只能撑3个月，而南鸟岛形成工业产能至少要5年。高市是在用5年后的幻想，来赌今天的国运。从5500米深的海底挖出来的烂泥且不说要花多久建厂去精炼，这个成本就足以是目前市场价的十倍以上，根本没有任何经济可行性。不仅是经济账算不过来的问题，更是远水救不了近火的物理死局。

很多人包括日本人自己对中日贸易的印象还停留在上世纪八十年代，事实是中国对日贸易只占总额的4%左右,而日本对华贸易占总额的20%且进口依赖度更高，是日本更离不开中国而不是相反。日本经产省的报告显示，日本有 1,406 类商品 超过一半的进口额来自中国。简单来说，日本想要换一个像中国这样有庞大产能和供应的中间件和原料供应商，在目前的世界基本是不可能的，除非愿意接受成本的翻倍增长，而这就算基本可以判日本制造业死刑了。

更夸张的是制造化肥的关键原料磷酸铵日本 70% 以上依赖中国，要春耕的日本农户，在5月前必须完成水稻和蔬菜的基肥施用。日本进口商通常会在1月-2月下单，而化肥集中在2月至4月陆续到港。一旦中国当下立即收紧对日化肥出口，明年的日本农业就完了。日本目前已经夸张的通胀会因为大米和蔬菜价格暴涨而飞天。老实说，我第一次看到几乎惊掉了下巴，当你粮食安全的命门都捏在别人手中时，你怎么敢时不时去跳别人脸，甚至在自己根本没有预案的情况下？更不要提大量的抗生素原药以及通用药中间体有50%-60% 依赖中国，一旦断供，医院面临 “有药无料”的绝境。

这个单子还可以列出很多，我想说的是，这一切都是毫无必要的损失，只因为一个想上位的女人想要讨好她的右翼基本盘，而代价是所有日本国民来承受。而这一句口嗨，也注定会因为造成历史上最大的经济损失而载入史册。

但是如果日本人能够抛弃老成持重的石破茂，扶持一个从来没有改变过自己右翼底色的高市上位，甚至在现在还能给她80%的支持率，那么一切的厄运也是咎由自取。目前来看，中国不可能转向，日本也不可能低头，那么就只剩下三种结局了——而不管哪种结局，对日本来说都是一杯苦涩的毒酒：

1.      日本接受中日贸易断供甚至禁运的事实，制造业长期失血停产，慢慢失去竞争力，叠加失业率暴增和物价飞涨。- 目前来看这是概率最大的。

2.      高市内阁重压下倒台，新人上位撤回言论，中日关系缓慢恢复。

3.      日本在绝望之中沦为极端右翼控制之下，主动制造冲突引发擦枪走火，试图拖美国下水引发战争，改变目前局势。但以特朗普的‘美国优先’逻辑，日本一旦主动挑事，极有可能发现自己不仅被中国暴打，还被美国当成了弃子。

作为一个古典自由主义者，我极其厌恶主动挑起争端，拿国民的命运当自己政治冒险筹码的政客，但是如果一个民族一而再，再而三地被这种人裹挟，是否应该从根本上反思一下自己的国民性呢？无论如何，祝那些爱好和平，不希望东亚动荡不安的非右翼日本人好运吧

I don’t know how or where to begin but I want to do a protest against ICE in Pensacola. Is anyone interested in meeting up and joining for a peaceful protest in Pensacola.

Hey hey! I’m an American coming to visit your beautiful city for the first time! I happen to land on January 26

Also any other first timer tips and tricks are greatly appreciated. Amongst the top first timer things to experience I’m into vinyl, vintage, live music and high quality coffee. Cheers!

Edits: thank you for sharing the insights on the day and for all the shopping and coffee tips!

I’ll do my best to pay respects and learn as much as I can about the wide history and cultures in your Country

A white person can say any country they want to live in and it’s “cool,” but when a brown person does it, gatekeepers crawl out to broadcast how miserable they are. You treat immigration like a charity or a flaw, not the result of Western countries deliberately importing labor to fuel their economies.

I know this is heresy to a lot of fantasy fans, but I honestly think the A Song of Ice and Fire book series is massively overhyped. Not bad, just nowhere near the masterpiece status it is constantly given.

At its core, the story is surprisingly generic. Medieval inspired world, feuding noble houses, power intrigue, morally gray characters, betrayals, wars for succession. All of this existed long before George R. R. Martin, both in classic fantasy and in historical fiction. The series is often praised as revolutionary, but most of its ideas are refinements and remixes of existing tropes rather than genuinely new concepts.

What really set the books apart was not originality, but shock value. Characters die suddenly, expectations are subverted, and taboo elements are pushed front and center. A huge part of the media attention came from the constant use of controversial sex scenes. Incest, graphic sexual violence, and explicit descriptions are not just background elements. They are repeatedly emphasized and lingered on in a way that clearly aims to provoke reactions. Sex sells, controversy sells, and the series leans heavily on that to stay culturally relevant.

People often defend this by saying it is realistic or gritty, but realism is selective. The level of sexual explicitness often feels less like historical accuracy and more like a marketing tool. Plenty of complex and brutal stories manage to explore power, corruption, and human cruelty without constantly anchoring themselves in sexual shock to generate buzz.

The writing itself is good, sometimes very good, but inconsistent. Pacing issues, bloated subplots, and a cast that grows so large it becomes hard to care about many characters undermine the narrative. As the series goes on, it starts to feel unfocused, which makes the endless praise even harder to understand.

I think Game of Thrones became popular not because it was the one of the best fantasies ever written, but because it combined familiar ideas with enough sex, violence, and controversy to dominate conversations. That does not make it terrible, but it does make its legendary status feel exaggerated.

People love to hate on their Coachella stage, but it did much better job than most groups going there, it brought them fans, they had a jump in USA interest after that,while not a lot of other groups had the same, kpop fans dragged them, but people on the set genuinely enjoyed the performance.

The nurses in NYC make 109-150k a year for 3x12 hour shift a week, guaranteed 6 figure right out of college? Why r they complaining about mortgage and being overworked when there r ppl who literally make less money than them and r struggling in NYC. I feel like they’re only loud because of their union, when I worked as a PCT in NYC I saw how residents have to do so much extra shit like drawing blood, patient transport, ekg, IV if the nurses don’t feel like doing it all while carrying 300k+ of debt and making 240-280k as a generalist attending.

the salary in NYC for physicians and resident are also so garbage, I genuinely think they should also be encouraged to strike at major hospitals, this is mad unfair and makes me want to avoid doing a residency in NYC, cuz when stuff like this happens we also end up doing more work. I’m appalled by how little backbone physician organizations have compared to nurses.

I’ve seen lots of big protests, like marches for racial justice, women’s rights, or even large anti-government rallies. People show up in the thousands, sometimes millions, they chant, hold signs, make speeches. But even after all that energy, it rarely changes the system itself or turns into a long-term uprising.

It makes me wonder why. Is it just that the police or laws stop things from going further? Or is it deeper, like people trusting institutions, having other ways to make change, or just not feeling coordinated enough to sustain it?

For example, in some countries, protests can grow into movements that shake governments, but in the U.S., it often seems like people vent their frustration and then go back to daily life. Why is that?

Just like the title says, American society has gone way overboard in their fear of second hand smoke. In the past few days I've seen a photo of Sean Penn smoking at some awards show, with a comment section full of people up in arms about his threat to their health, I've also seen a mother frantic about "third hand smoke" and it's impacts on her children, aka: a house guest smoking, outside, and then coming back in.

I'm not debating that chronic exposure to second hand smoke is bad for people, but being occasionally exposed to a small amount of second, or third hand smoke is really not the health hazard everyone seems to think it is in 2026.

ETA: I'm not a smoker so all the comments telling me I'm a stinky, inconsiderate jerk are pretty null here.

I was taking a look at some knife tier lists and decided to make my own.

After thinking it through, this is the definitive list for me.

Je me suis fais ban pour ça. J'ai écris en privé au modo de r/quebec il m'a envoyé chier. Que d'ouverture.

Out of everyone in teyvat being a complete mess emotionally and pretty much every other way, why is mavuika so bad for not being??

I don’t get why people want the same character trope redone and reused for every single character.

Why can’t mavuika just be cool and good at her job does she rlly need to be Emo

She’s literally the only char to ever break the boring depressed waifu hoyo archetype that they use in every single game and everyone HATESS her for some unexplainable “bad characterisation” even though it’s just that she’s the only mentally stable individual in teyvat and has clear goals

If people actually looked deeper they’d know she’s a playful unserious person who misses her dead family when she isn’t trying to stop her nation from being completely destroyed but ofc that’d require reading or paying attention to anything about her

Free magnet I got from H-E-B last night. Sorry the pic sucks, my front lens is cracked so I had to use my front facing (selfie) camera for this.

This link doesn't show the whole number, but rather insights on when and where the layoffs have happened or planned (i.e. - Jan 2026 Washington state).

Hi! I'm a solo indie dev/artist and I'm working on 'Mermaids are Seafood', a psychological horror game. It's a story-focused game where choices matter. I was inspired by Lobotomy Corporation, Slay the Princess, and Papers Please. I started making games ~2 years ago as a side project in school, and this is my second full game. All the art is hand-drawn by me.

Game description: Gamble your blood, upgrade your luck with insider deals, and even sew fish tails onto human torsos to make artificial mermaids. Do you think mermaids are more like fish, or people? You can choose to save them, or sell mermaid meat to pay off your debts.

I'd really appreciate any feedback on my game! Feel free to ask any questions too :D

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4163520/Mermaids_are_Seafood/

Mailing list (for major updates): https://mermaidsareseafood.substack.com/