A tonic for your weary doom day:

"I don't want to see anybody die, but your words will make us kill you." For the millionth time, this is the logic of domestic abusers!

Ludwig Heinrich Heyne (1878-1914) , 'Auch eine Krone (Also a Crown / The Coveted Crown)' , Illustration from the German weekly magazine 'Jugend', vol. 16, 1898

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

We are so excited that Jane is talking about the pillars of support for a regime that organizing can topple, and singing the praises of Freedom Trainers.....

This is a good analysis of Trump's mobster carve up of Gaza. You pay the "vig" to be a player. Putin gets a seat but not the Palestinians. Canada spend decades building an international rule of law. PM Carney cannot go along with this travesty. craigmartinscott.substack.com/p/the-surrea...

BREAKING: The Senate Law & Justice Committee just advanced SB 5855, Senator Valdez's bill to prohibit law enforcement from wearing masks and to require identifying information. ICE is out of control. Let’s get that bill to my desk immediately so I can sign it into law.

If journalists would just stop conducting interviews with the sycophants of trump and his administration bootlickers and only report the facts of what they are doing, we would be in a lot better place right now.

Wake up. youtu.be/0JrlKcoD1Qw?...

How it's done: youtu.be/6A8TiUpKDVg?...

“Wikipedia isn’t this Wild West of information, where anyone can just put anything. There are people holding what is there accountable,” a science librarian told Scientific American to mark the 25th birthday of the website.

i refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In a thousand years, if there’s History America’ll be remembered as a nasty little Country… all autos rusted away, trees everywhere. —Allen Ginsberg “ECOLOGUE” from THE FALL OF AMERICA poems of these states 1965-1971 City Lights Publishers, 1972 National Book Award for Poetry, 1973

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

🚨BREAKING: Nearly three weeks after the Department of Justice (DOJ) violated a new federal law by not releasing all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, two lawmakers now want the judiciary to step in. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pete Buttigieg is absolutely correct. We must hold Noem accountable for what happens in her department.

The murderer's name is Jonathan Ross. It's not "doxxing" to name him. We don't have "secret" law enforcement in the United States. Katie Phang sounds off in a must-watch new report:

@kamalaharris.com told us exactly what would happen.

NEWS: Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis as Jonathan Ross www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

"Ohio" (1971) - written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...

Edward Abbey:

Do not trust people who ignored child rape trafficking and blackmail until it was politically convenient. The Epstein case was in the public domain if you bothered to look. I wrote a book on it in 2019 asking why the case -- so critical in so many ways -- wasn't covered. How could anyone ignore it?!

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few. Democrats must remember this — and act on it.

Notes for radical living by Tilda Swinton

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

#democracy #socialism #socialdemocracy #community #conviviality

An explanation of how the U.S. got this way.

It’s getting worse, much worse under Trump

US to sever ties with civilization.