@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 15 WPR: WI activists packed state Capitol hearing room for hours as lawmakers took testimony on 3 bills what would implement sports and affirming bans for K-12 schools & state colleges & universities.

Lots of things suck ass on both sides of the Great Lakes right now, but here’s one of the Lino cut prints I did this month.

Remember when I reported Ben Mulroney and Steve Paikin received a briefing from the Israeli government? Well, it turns out the Israeli consulate paid nearly $10,000 for some of their fellow attendees to be there. Were Mulroney and Paikin covered too? Story here: www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Jesus Arturto Jimenez: if you're going to do advance scouting in plain clothes hours before Border Patrol raids in the San Fernando Valley, best not to leave your PIV card where it can be photographed. #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE #LosAngeles

Good lord, no

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.

Someone inside DHS leaked the names of 4,500 ICE and CBP officers to a nonprofit that tracks ICE. About 80 percent of those name are active. www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...

This Stranger Things ending is offensively dumb.

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

Nothing about this man is surprising. He looks like a dead-eyed sociopath who would love to run a death camp, and then you find out he’s basically got his dream job.

Who are your top characters in literature? Mine: 1) Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings) 2) Jean Valjean (Les Miserables) 3) Dorothea Brooke (Middlemarch) 4) Pierre Bezukhov (War & Peace) 5) Majnoun the poodle (Fifteen Dogs) Hon. mentions: Eilis Lacey (Brooklyn); Joe Kavalier (Kavalier & Clay)

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next. All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation." www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

Congrats to Brazil

NEW: These are ICE agents removing evidence from the shooter's home. They are not DOJ, they are Jonathan Ross's friends and coworkers, not DOJ. This agent removing Ross's personal computer was reported yesterday Jan 9 for boxing in a volunteer and telling them "I'll dedicate my next arrest to you"

Apropos of absolutely nothing to do with the masked men with no visible agency insignia carrying crates of who knows what out of the shooter's house, but HBO just released an amazing documentary into DHS "shadow units" whose job was to destroy evidence of Border Patrol's crimes

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Renee Good in Minnesota. Shootings by ICE in California, Maryland, Illinois, elsewhere. It really seems like Stephen Miller gave new orders and they have begun a full-on campaign of terror. They are no longer sticking to kidnapping.

A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.

The Cover-up of the Fatal ICE Shooting Is Already Underway talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

You are what you fund. defector.com/ice-is-model...

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

A sharpie? Or a nice lightweight hammer? When you lose a tail light, maybe you find a better parking spot next time.

Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum. We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.

Minneapolis.

What if there was life on other planets but they hadn’t developed croissants? What losers!

Yeah, trust this peon of capital, people will definitely keep buying the dirtiest and most expensive oil on the planet. I’m sure workers in Venezuela will be better under the far right. I don’t know what they just have been thinking voting in Chavez and then Maduro so many times!

So glad we have master of diplomacy Mark Carney here, supporting the US coup in Venezuela while he gives billions to Ukraine. www.thestar.com/news/world/e...

I don’t think “Chain of Command” is particularly good, because I don’t think the B-plot develops the motifs of the A-plot. In fact, with a 2-parter, there was room for more threads. I also think it’s an awkward pivot to the Cardassians as main antagonist.

Of course she is 🙄. Well, as long as she fucking resigns, what do I care if she goes to London or Kiev? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Have these experts seen the appalling response from Carney?

Utah commissioned it's department of health to do a systematic review of gender affirming care for trans youth. In a 1000 page plus report found it was beneficial and the evidence was substantial. The lawmakers rejected it anyways. www.deseret.com/politics/202...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Minnesota has about 6 million residents, but sure, 12 or so of them were prosecuted for taking too much money from a federal program several years ago. Sounds like a big deal.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Starmer once again says there will be no return to free movement of people Please repost if you demand the restoration of the Freedom of Movement that was robbed from us by foreign interference and the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

What a load of bollox by Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae on short-term lets & with record homeless figures too He must really hate rural Ireland & all it represents if he wants it to be full of empty homes He's a harsh reminder of our colonial landlords #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning

Who the fuck does Starmer work for? Trump or the British people? He is a fascists’s stooge.

Canadian media dutifully normalizing US aggression. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

More good reads for Gen Z or anyone who was living under a rock when the Bush administration did the same shit.

Toronto: US Consulate (360 University Ave) at 3 pm

Early this morning if you posted anything predicting a shitty response from the elbowless lackey of capital, Carney, LPC cultists would come after you and say, “It just happened. Wait and see how he responds,” then something about how “PP” would capitulate to the US immediately. Where’d they go?

Seems like a good day to revisit this.

Not under Carney we're not. But we absolutely should be.

so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

Happy 2026 everybody. 365 days to struggle against capitalism and fascism.