In just four days.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

We need to electrify society to reduce emissions, but how we undertake that transition really matters. This week @triofrancos.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss all the mining needed to go “green” and how that’s playing out across the world. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/315_...

Many things are bad but you still need time to rest and recover. You can doomscroll more tomorrow.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

Pro-Israel groups spent millions to unseat @coribush.bsky.social in 2024. Now, she is running for Congress again. “They didn't want someone speaking out for the people of Palestine, human rights and civil rights. They didn't want that loud voice, but that's what they're about to get.”

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

My message: Mayor Mamdani, Please keep your promise and allocate 0.5% of the city budget to public libraries. Libraries are an engine of community and democracy. They provide important services all over the city to everyone. Plus they're just great places to hang out. Fund libraries!

Two people I know recently went through extended hospitalizations and procedures in Ontario, and it has been jarring to remember neither of them or their families will receive large bills in the mail or be charged for follow-up appointments and procedures

In this News Brief, "ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism," we detail the fundamental problems with Senate Democrats' cosmetic reforms, the strategy of letting outrage blow over and the conspicuous absence of any proposal that touches ICE's obscene budget.

I wrote about loving a country, especially mine following the #Uganda election open.substack.com/pub/kemigish...?

Each new day gives us another opportunity to try again. That's really all of it.

No other profession needs as much propaganda as cops. 24/7

admitting to outsourcing critical thinking is pretty sad

In Ep 233, "How US Media Naturalizes Capital Strikes and Helps the Rich Undermine Democracy," we examine how billionaires and corporations threatening capital strikes and capital flight to discipline populist politicians and movements is treated as normal, obvious, and healthy by US media.

Does a “reform” further empower your enemies or take power and resources away from them? Some of you need to sit with this question.

I understand that all of us have to live our lives and therefore simply cannot think deeply about the fact that the current fascist President of the United States is deeply unwell. I do think, however, that it is the JOB of CONGRESS and the CABINET to protect the country FROM HIM. NOW.

NEXT WEEK cuba pt. 1: before the revolution w/ manolo de los santos

the absolute disgrace of this...

Tech Won’t Save Us is back from a holiday break — and that means it’s time to set the stage for the year ahead! This week @parismarx.com lays out his big focuses for this year: digital sovereignty and rethinking the tech we personally depend on. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/311_...

January 23rd, 2026 " ICE Out for Good" Sixth Ave, NYC Ten thousand New Yorker's marched in solidarity with Minneapolis, protesting companies like Amazon and Palantir for enabling ICE's operations.

It can get lower!

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 225 of The Continent Superpowers don’t only control African minerals with loans, bribes and threats. Sometimes it’s through financial sleight of hand, as is the case of a Malawian mining licence granted in 2017. bit.ly/225_TC

In Minnesota, hundreds of businesses are expected to close today as part of a one-day economic blackout to protest the ongoing ICE immigration crackdown. Organizers of today’s strike include faith leaders and unions. They are calling for people to not work, go to school or shop.

had an interesting convo earlier about how the music biz is tantamount to fleeting reality TV stardom now, b/c there's no real 💰 left in the current industry structure the "vehicles” aren't the moneymakers anymore. leveraging that starpower into other ventures [beyond touring] is how you get paid.

It is amazing how far Google is going to make their products worse. They had total market domination and now I am actively looking for ways to stop using it.

Pleased to see that the Working Families Party in New York asks candidates seeking endorsement if they would support two cornerstone pieces of legislation designed to restrict and curtail military assistance to Israel, and whether or not they'd support Tlaib's reso to recognize the Gaza genocide.

I am more worried about war in Minnesota than in Greenland or Canada. The US is hours or days away from civil war. This might sound extreme, but if Walz has the Minn National Guard blocking ICE ops, the usual response of the fed govt to governors using NG against feds is to call out the army. 1/

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

In this News Brief, we discuss corporate media uncritically framing a potential military attack on Iran by Trump as being motivated by concern for human rights—a premise that, while laughable on its face, has quickly morphed into elite media consensus.

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

Dr. King suffered many bouts of severe depression. His autopsy found that he had a heart consistent with a 60 year old. He was murdered at 39. Stress, threats and exhaustion will do that to a person. #TheUnSanitizedKing

On #MLKDay, we remember @prisonculture.bsky.social 's call that "hope is a discipline." Our new zine explores how creators sustain political hope through expression and community. It asks: What gives you political hope right now? Read it here: www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

I will also not be attending Davos due to my tension with the United States

(I'm certain it's on purpose, because it's how all this continues. White people continue to "forget" what they know is true so that this whole trash-ass society continues to kill us all. . . as long as it's us more than them.)

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

I am begging: Do not learn how to do activism or organizing from social media influencers. Do not join massive unvetted Signal groups promoted by “revolutionary” influencers. If you want to be an activist, you need to be embedded in local community with people you know and trust. I am BEGGING here

Unfortunately opting out of the Ugandan election has not taken away my angst about it.

Excellent work as always from @upstreampodcast.bsky.social 💜 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

lmao machado is so desperate to get trump to install her as venezuelan president she’s offering to give him her nobel peace prize now. nothing says peace like invading a country, kidnapping its leader, and installing a new one to do your bidding!

Wait, there’s a new season of Industry out? A reason to live!

Sending love to the imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK, whose well-being and survival I am deeply worried about. In Let This Radicalize You, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote about the escalating repression in the UK. For those who aren't aware, the situation has worsened.

AI is finishing off a foundational part of the social contract. You cannot trust that anyone or anything is what it appears to be. The only remedy is to bypass digital media by forging in real life networks of trust. Digital media is cooked.