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🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was a leader in movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment.

This happened in Indio, California. Witnesses say that a person came out saying, "I support ICE. Get all illegals out of this country." Meanwhile, ICE goons crashed their car into this family, where you can see children are left behind crying and the ICE goon pulling the child away.

Newly released footage of ICE goons in LA cornering, shooting and abducting journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias as he is clearly unarmed. Carlitos is still in ICE custody. (published 12/28/25)

A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was an American labor unionist, civil rights activist, and socialist politician. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first mainly Black labor union.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Rose Schneiderman (1882 – 1972) was a Polish-born American socialist and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders. She is credited with coining the phrase "Bread and Roses," to indicate a worker's right to something higher than subsistence living.

The El Paso ICE Detention Protest, a powerful demonstration of solidarity and resistance. ✊

ICE goons tackle man in violent street kidnapping. Tucson, Arizona

And we say it's not. Tough Shit.

Hall of Heroes: All rise for he Honorable Judge P. Casey Pitts.

"I spent 50 years in the #nuclear industry, advancing to senior vice president and managing projects at 70 nuclear power plants. I once believed the dream. The nuclear industry’s latest pitch is an expensive distraction from real #climate solutions." www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-...

Shout this from the rooftops

Move over and let the Socialist show you how to run a responsive working government.....

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

"Swaths of the Permian appear to be on the verge of geological malfunction." Wherein fracking finally begins to eat its own: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

At what point dos this qualify as obstruction?

I published this story about Gene Sharp after his death in 2018. Of the four articles I wrote about him, this is my favorite, but few people ever read it “If the dictators of the world were celebrating, their joy was premature.” znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-lonely-struggle-a-tribute-to-gene-sharp/

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

A question a lot of us are asking after an exhausting year... "This is also key since protests rarely incite policy or cultural changes overnight. Often, their rates of impact are much more gradual. 'Protests often have a subtle cascade effect.' These are long-term fights.” Hang in there.

Community is everything. Tonight, I’m shouting out the organizers and kind souls making our world more inclusive, one day at a time. Grateful to be in this fight with you.

Probably the same way we put men on the moon with 1960s technology. Or how we built the most dominating military in world history. Or how we created a postal system that can deliver a package to any address, anywhere in the country, no matter how remote, for just a few bucks.

California Records One of Its Single Largest Drops in Climate Pollution on Record cleantechnica.com/2025/12/23/c...

Keep it up.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 on, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.

MAGA mama calls ICE on Native American man-for being "brown." "This guy's making me really uncomfortable," she tells agents. "He's big and brown, and I don't think he belongs here!"

#Batteries 🔋used for storing energy from big solar farms have gotten so cheap that now we can save excess sunshine in them and use it on demand. #Solar 🌞 can give #electricity not just in the daytime but anytime 24/7, without costing more than other options ⚡🌙.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports #renewables now 10 times more efficient than new #nuclear at CO2 mitigation; 92.5% all new power capacity added worldwide 2024 from renewables, new nuclear virtually nowhere; new nuclear vastly over-cost and over-time.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

A Century Of Living History: Harriet Tubman’s Descendant Passes Away At 98 flip.it/ZCCEGQ

In a brutal abduction incident on December 18, 2025, ICE In Pittsburgh subjected a man to a horrific ordeal, involving beatings, pepper spraying, and choking.

Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US Internal report shared with Guardian shows FBI has launched cases in 23 regions, some linked to Trump memo on thwarting ‘terroristic activities’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There's a UP switch yard that runs the length of the Joppa community in D7. There's a threat of hazardous materials accidents, and the locomotives UP uses there are among the oldest and most polluting. Despite this, the CC Member hasn't remarked on these dangers or advocated moving the switch yard.

Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ... ... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.

ICE goons caught changing plates in Chicago

The conceptual revolution that hit the internet & telephony -- from centralized to distributed -- is coming for electricity. Tomorrow, I'm talking with Swedish broadband pioneer Jonas Birgersson, who is trying to refashion the energy system by modeling & building an "energynet." Got questions?

DFW-based AECOM has become a default Dallas city hall. They're in charge of everything, including the convention center rebuild. They just blew off overview of their work for Trump's East Wing demolition because it's a private contract (?) on the People's House. Dallas should cut ties with them.

Seconds to Chaos in Chicago: Car door ripped open and phone smashed to the ground as Citizen Records ICE in public. When "rights" aren't respected on the street, your safety is the priority. Watch your back, friends.

This is the billionaire the City of Dallas is letting tear down its city hall (& perhaps its adjacent downtown library) & replace it with a Vegas clone casino that occasionally hosts basketball games. All without the least bit of public debate, public hearings, or transparent public process.

The Joe Ely tribute Big Bucks Burnett would have wanted: Joe playing a few songs -- including "Dallas" -- at Edstock, Big Bucks' first & last Mister Ed "national convention," held at the Bronco Bowl. Said Bucks years later, "I lost $25,000 in 1980s money." Worth it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqPy...

Nebraska

MLK Jr. called her "The Mother of the Movement." Septima Poinsette Clark, educator & civil rights activist, died #OTD in 1987 at age 89. The Woman Who Schooled the #CivilRights Movement: ti.me/2HOZQ9s#OTD#CivilRights#history #blackhistory

This, for the love of all that is holy Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic

And people say renewables not reliable enough? ERCOT’s Market is Transitioning Toward Storage and Solar Capacity additions to the Texas grid continue to be led by renewables. insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...

Shout out to whoever did this at WFAA. We just don't see good headline writing much anymore

Significant and somewhat unexpected Congressional pushback here to respond to Trump's gutting of union rights

The awkward 9-second pause near the end of this clip from Tuesday's Dallas Police Oversight Board meeting is really something. A board member asked DPD how residents should respond to lawless federal immigration enforcement. After the pause, DPD gave the correct answer. Everyone needs to hear it.

Not just electeds, but reporters have to begin doing this every single time - prepping for their baldface denials with the evidence that proves they're lying. Not hard to find.

The White House surely wants to see one of these ICE crackdowns lead to violent pushback. They've got untrained unqualified goons acting with impunity. It seems deliberately designed to provoke an incident. But do the goons get this? Do they know the big plan is to get a couple of them killed?