🧊 "We're going to get an ICE detention facility before we get a grocery store!"

“To reach these kinds of numbers, they’d need to go out into the communities and find people who’ve been living their lives and been here a long time,” Winger said. “They’d have to dramatically increase their presence in communities across the country.”

Day 100. Near Richmond City Hall, thousands fell into step with venerable monks walking for peace. Footsteps became prayer. Silence became resolve. Onward to Washington, DC, they carry calm like a flame against the dark. If peace had a face, it walked today.

Radley Balko: The "violent criminal illegal alien" that agents were pursuing when they killed Alex Pretti has been in the US for 20 yrs. He had one misdemeanor conviction for disorderly conduct (domestic assault) eight years ago that was expunged from his record. He did not have a deportation order.

‘A violation of our history’: Palestinian uproar over Israel’s plan to seize historic West Bank site

Right now: the federal government has to help these folks and get the power back on, and if they can’t, they should resign After that: we need a Grid New Deal and rebuild the grid for this century

🗃️ State & local jurisdictions cannot defy federal law but neither can the federal govt order them to enforce every aspect of that law. For some origins of this ongoing tension in immigration federalism, rooted in the history of American slavery, here is a 🧵 on Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) 🧵 1/10

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!

Same playbook, more technology, fed govt money… trial runs for DHS’ current crackdown against community protectors has been occurring for decades. Here’s a fairly recent eg from PA 2010-11 www.propublica.org/article/do-e...

America is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis. I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations. open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

If Americans want international solidarity in our own struggles, we have to be in international solidarity with others in their struggles. It's time for us to care about the world & stop thinking we're the only people in it that matter.

🚨BREAKING: Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Good morning from Princess Mira😽

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

A deadly winter storm, fed by fossil-fueled oceans and a disrupted polar vortex—mechanisms of climate pollution explained decades ago by NCAR scientists—has killed at least 29 Americans, even as Trump’s NSF announced the execution of NCAR, guilty of “climate alarmism.”

Here is your assigned reading for this week 🤓 Thoughts about ways to make representative democracies better at encouraging, assessing, and realizing new ideas for radical change in order to fight oligarchy.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

Alex Pretti, the man the regime’s armed thugs murdered today in Minneapolis, was an ICU nurse and worked at the VA. May light perpetual shine on him. Even as this red hot rage fills my veins, I pray for his friends and family and those responsible for his death. Lord have mercy upon ALL of us.

Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Lt Gen Richard Nugee: “This assessment…treats ecosystem collapse with the seriousness it deserves, as a threat to our national security.”

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

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Activists interrupted the service of a Southern Baptist church in St. Paul, MN, today to protest that one of the pastors is the acting director of the nearby ICE field office: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/protesters...

Martin Luther King Jr. understood better than almost anyone that racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined. Watch his powerful call to end poverty from his final Sunday Sermon.

I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.

If you don’t know this history it is an important read! The US govt response to 9/11 created the conditions for authoritarianism, ethnonationalism, crack downs on dissent — they were already there, but this gave the govt tools to implement horrors against its own citizens. Some of us warned you.

It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Episcopal Bishop Craig Loya: “We will not meet cruelty with cruelty. We will disrupt anger with love. We will agitate the forces of oppression with the power of love…there is no force in the universe that is more powerful or irresistible than the power of God’s love.”

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound up) DAY 15 JANUARY 2026 HONOR DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ON WHAT WOULD BE HIS 97TH BIRTHDAY DR. KING would be saying today "Where do we go from here Chaos or Community" "When EVIL plots good men PLAN" "WHEN EVIL SHOUTS HATRED, good men must commit to LOVE

Holy hell, what an obituary

The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.

A Letter from the Six #ELCA Bishops of #Minnesota: “We also know there are voices around us that challenge the truth of who we are and who our neighbors are. It is our fervent hope that every one of us would remain deeply rooted in our identity as God’s beloved.” spas-elca.org/wp-content/u...

I know it’s been said a million times already.. The tyrants who are in control of the U.S. govt (executive, legislative, judicial) right now are either trying to kill people or are not doing enough to stop it!! It seems the only way out is if we, all the people, find the courage to stand together. 🧶

Great detailed piece on the politicization of homelessness happening in Texas… and everywhere really. Real estate vultures and uber-capitalist donors who care absolutely nada about human lives but solely about r.o.i. and their own wealth must be stopped in Dallas and everywhere. Enough already!

“This hope believes and guides us to another way in which we are all made whole – the power of the common good shaping our lives and that of countless others on the highway to salvation.” YES 🙌

Even if you are not Christian or do not have any religion, there are lessons here… Benjamin Cremer: “Jesus’ baptism is personal, yes, but it is also profoundly communal and political. It announces a kingdom where power is revealed not through domination, but through care and community.”

Becca Good: “… the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.”

This image is making the rounds on the Internet, but I am repeating it anyway since EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE IT. (I don't know who originally made it, but hats off to them!) This BBC article includes a link to the video of Renee Good's last words: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Baaa-varia 🤣😂🐑