Beautiful piece from @ella-writes.bsky.social on how projects like @pmpress.bsky.social are building organized power and resistance culture.

Good coverage of how even small towns are coming out in huge numbers to fight data centers. This time in DeForest, Wisconsin. @derekseidman.bsky.social reports (and provides an explainer of private equity's role in the whole mess, too).

AI offers very little and is sure ruining literally everything before it implodes huh

Incredible story that is worth your time to read. It exposes the ways in which the Trump admin is turning the legal immigration system into yet another arm of the mass deportation machine, transforming a benefits agency into a trap for those seeking legal status.

In this country, even being in prison doesn't guarantee someone a bed to sleep in or a meal. In gang-controlled areas of this prison in TN, it’s common practice to demand “rent” from any unaffiliated people. This violence is encouraged by guards. truthout.org/articles/thi...

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On January 1, the Israeli occupation revoked the licenses of 37 humanitarian organizations including MSF, the Norwegian Refugee Council and ActionAid, from operating in Gaza, and it has now warned they must “must complete the cessation of their activities by March 1, 2026.”

“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. “I was right there, and they — all of them — made the decision to deny me access to give him the best possible chance of survival.”

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Especially bad news for Atlantans, but also bad news for all of us and democracy. As more and more cities become increasingly unreported, ordinary corruption has an ever more open field into which to cohere into local authoritarianisms, rippling out and up.

It really is amazing how bad an opinion section can get in a year.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

Lessons from other eroded democracies show there’re multiple ways to destroy the free press.Yes, you can arrest/intimidate journalists like last week.You can also buy news organizations, destroy their credibility and gut their newsrooms. You can sue frivolously until newsrooms can’t afford to fight.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Note that @wydenpress.bsky.social sent this shortly after the Gang of 8 were briefed on the alleged misconduct of Tulsi which implicated another agency.

I am frustrated by the body cams nonsense but I think the way to engage people is to ask them if they want federal authorities to invade localities and round up anyone who looks like maybe they might be an immigrant. If the answer is no, better solutions are obvious.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Can't stop thinking about this story, or this stat in it: "Both Google and Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months."

Rent is due in the Twin Cities, and many families won’t be able to pay. “Operation Metro Surge” has left thousands sheltering in place from ICE agents roaming the streets. With many afraid to go to work and bills piling up, calls grow for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to declare an eviction moratorium.

It's really important for people to internalize that, in the eyes of Washington DC's foreign policy establishment, the biggest sin of the Obama presidency was concluding a deal with Iran that objectively satisfied the demands that Washington DC pretends to believe in.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

no better summation of America's unrepentant rape culture than that one of the biggest stories of the last decade is about the abuse of women and girls and every single stakeholder working on it couldn't give less of a shit about the actual victims of the story

Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Why didn’t Biden’s DOJ do anything about the combo of coup attempt and pedos? Files were unsealed in early 2024 so plenty of time. It’s beyond Bill Clinton being implicated. I think it’s because it takes down elites of all stripes. What an indictment (pun intended) of so many in the ruling class.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today

Confirmation that Biden broke US law to aid Israel’s genocide.

This post is blowing up, so for all the big name journos sharing it, some context: This was a rally in Chicago explicitly calling for ICE to be abolished, and for a mass general strike to counter the Trump admin's continous attacks on our communities and civil liberties.

There is no comparing atrocities but watching your country tear itself apart, with some of your countrymen believing outside aggression will bring liberation, is incredibly hard to endure. May Iran free itself. زندباد ایران

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support

I really don’t think people are prepared for how horrific the consequences of this will be if it happens as outlined here.

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW: Rep. Salman Bhojani said lawmakers were denied entry to Prairieland Detention Center, where Leqaa Kordia has been running “a high fever for several days” due to what he called inhumane conditions. In May, her cousin said she had already lost 50 lbs. thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/30/t...

Not just Larry Ellison—pro-Trump billionaire Jeff Yass is set to profit from the new U.S. TikTok on two sides. Also in the new ownership consortium: Emirati state-owned firm MGX, and Jared Kushner's circle. By @derekseidman.bsky.social:

ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

Calls are growing for European countries to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup later this year in opposition to President Donald Trump, as many of the games are set to take place in the United States.

This is where people snatched up in Trump's occupation of Minneapolis and Saint Paul are being sent. After the first death at the notorious "tent city" at Fort Bliss, advocates warned ICE that detainees reported extreme physical and sexual abuse at the facility. Within weeks, two men were dead.

Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.

Read the highlighted sentence a few times, jfc From @lukeferrell.bsky.social's "THE MEANS-TESTING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX" lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

Incredible contrast

Gallego supported the Laken-Riley Act and supported renditioning people to a slave camp in El Salvador. He should not be trusted, but the fact that he is talking like this shows he knows which way the wind blows.