I'll forever resent the people who absolutely knew better but over the objections of movement organizers pushed body cameras. I won't ever get over it. Ever.

me, 2019 theappeal.org/body-cameras...

I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends! gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...

ICYMI: This week I rode along with a Unitarian Universalist minister as she patrolled the same neighborhood where Renee Good was killed, looking for ICE. “We’re gonna keep taking care of people who are impacted,” she told me. “We’re gonna keep getting braver.” religionnews.com/2026/01/14/i...

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

It's 2026 and we don't listen to losers who don't do anything. We block and keep it moving.

If you can't write a grad school application on your own, you absolutely should not go to grad school. That's actually a good sign that it's not for you. There are other things you can do with your life.

An opposition party that can’t recognize the genocide we are supporting abroad ain’t gonna do shit about fascism at home

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

new by @hebagowayed.bsky.social and @victorerikray.bsky.social in @theguardian.com: "Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..." workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/su...

Becoming a member of a union has been one of the more radicalizing experiences of my adult life because what do you mean the majority of Americans raw dog capitalist employment? Support union efforts to protect there members here:

Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.

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’m a little confused about how “abolish ICE” requires too much explaining to be good politics, but a set of opaque incremental reforms does not.

next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

ICE/CBP is following school busses now. My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.

UPDATE: “A US regulator ruled Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power huge datacenters in MEMPHIS.” As the people told @mayorpaulyoung @MemphisChamber — who allowed it to happen. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

you’ve got to put your cellulose rich plant tissue upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus

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On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge. He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus. newsguild.org/guild-member...

related: bsky.app/profile/oluf...

big things happening

Great piece overall— would add as an addendum that it's very informative who the US does *not^ encourage to rebel against oppression— the Palestinians, Lebanese, Egyptians, etc.

"A massive gap has emerged in Sudan’s gold sector as record production levels fail to reach the state treasury. While the country produced over 70 tons of gold in 2025 despite the ongoing conflict, official records show that less than 20 tons were exported through formal channels. " Sudan Tribune

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

This seems like it’s been brewing, and is probably for the best. Tiffani McCoy is an excellent choice as interim leader.

On my morning walk today I saw this one, which is one of my favs, on a power box. See many poster designs here: defend612.com/art/

The limitations of his office notwithstanding it is in fact important to have a mayor, and behind him a series of affiliated parliamentarians and councilors, who will say this and say it repeatedly.

Hey @ucwarizona.bsky.social hey @aaup.org! There are Graduate Hotels (a Hilton property) on or adjacent to 34 campuses: ASU, U of Oregon, IU Bloomington, UNCCH, Northwestern, U Mich, etcetera. Let’s get organized.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

Local Fox News reporting on the tear-gassing of a baby. www.fox9.com/news/childre...

"Antifa are the real fascists" they repeat, as they send masked paramilitary forces door to door to terrorize and ethnically cleanse the nation.

The purpose of any messaging is to move people toward what we need them to believe & do. We need people to see ICE accurately - as the gestapo, a criminal enterprise destroying us from within. That's why any reference to "reform" or "train" goes against our material & narrative goal.

In the most desolate, American techno-fascist story one can imagine: ICE descends on a data center construction site in Louisiana to abduct workers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!

That's a perfect example of how "performative" has become MEANINGLESS. POLITICS IS SUPPOSED TO INCLUDE A PERFORMANCE. PERFORMATIVE POLITICS IS NECESSARY. I truly despise these fucking so called 'moderates.'

‼️ GENERAL STRIKE ‼️ Minneapolis Labor, Community Leaders Join Call for Jan. 23 General Strike to Demand ICE Out “We are asking every single person, every family member, every teacher, every bus driver, every childcare worker, to come together, to be in community, to stand with one another.”

This woman died of heart failure because she couldn't receive treatment while pregnant, and couldn't access an abortion.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

Unlike other businesses in Minneapolis, Starbucks is allowing ICE agents into stores against the concerns of baristas and our community. That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.

starbucks workers yet again proving to be a force for good, despite starbucks corporate's best effort

The four Oglala Lakota men detained by ICE in South Minneapolis have been partially identified, according to a Tuesday night statement from Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained