New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

I imagine there are bacterial infections more popular than Republicans in Minnesota right now.

What stage of power consolidation is it when the priests are telling the common people to write condemnations of you on the walls of the town squares at night

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

NYT video analysis confirms victim’s gun was removed before he was shot. So he was unarmed. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-federal-agents-video.html

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

The Gunner's Dream is both an all-time banger and a crazy pre-match choice.

Considering Ontario's disastrous past of privatizing public utilities, publishing this column heading into a weekend where temperatures are reaching -30 C is certainly a choice (derogatory).

— Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor — AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation — CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas" Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:

I've been thinking about this video pretty much non-stop since I watched it two days ago. A must see for anyone even slightly interested in Andor.

Hell is not enough for these people

Tony Blair Should Be on Trial for War Crimes, Not Running Gaza Donald Trump confirms he is appointing the former UK prime minister as one of the founding executive members of his new board to oversee a post-war Gaza. Here’s why that’s a terrible idea: zeteo.com/p/tony-blair...

Holy hell, what an obituary

Marxist Rosa Luxemburg was murdered on this day in 1919. Her life remains a model of intellectual rigor and unshakable revolutionary faith.

in fairness, I think a lot of this is related to a) dithering around Ukraine and b) Israel and Gaza

NOW THATS UNION

Rumeya Ozturk has resumed her studies and Betar, the witch hunt org who pursued Palestinian protesters, has dissolved. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, I regret to inform you that we are going to win.

lmao eat shit losers

People really wanted to call Man Podcasters hardcore right wingers when the reality is they’re just really stupid

"Despite having played a direct role in key policy achievements, such as dental care and pharmacare legislation, [NDP] messaging [...] undercut its ability to claim credit effectively." On the problems of 'Narrativizing Confidence and Supply': perspectivesjournal.ca/confidence-supply-communications

#OnThisDay in 1919, the Spartacist uprising in Berlin was crushed by Freikorps forces. Today, tens of thousands will march through Berlin in commemoration of that grim anniversary, resolving to fight for a socialist future.

When working people organize for power, we can move mountains.

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents. @zeteo.com

Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York has inspired the Left far beyond the city. But in Canada, as elsewhere, trying to replicate his style without rebuilding the institutions and political cadre that made it possible is a dead end.

the people trying to say she deserved it are not recognizable as human beings

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

fellow Grand Rapids antiwar organizer Emerson Wolfe says Jessica Plichta's misdemeanor charges are part of a tendency from local police to tie organizers up in legal charges and keep them from protesting. Wolfe was arrested last April at a protest after speaking at a March 2025 protest