This is really important interview with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social youtu.be/F6DFCWcFuqA?...

Poor title but a good read

Hot potato leek soup is a tasty treat on a cold day. It comes to us due to the hard work of farm workers like these Central Coast farm workers who have spent their 8-hour day on their knees harvesting this tasty vegetable. #WeFeedYou

"As Trump reaches the end of the first year of his return to power, he and his lieutenants are demonstrating their willingness to deploy force beyond its legitimate use to achieve their aims. The warning is clear and intentional: We are violent. Beware."

I wrote to my MP. "We try to live lives full of purpose, of service and usefulness to others. What purpose are our lives if we don't help Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed stay alive? We will all have failed so badly. Please, please help stop this." Find yours here: members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

ICE agents who terrorize immigrants can receive high pay & student loan forgiveness. Nonprofit workers who offer food, legal help, or shelter: loan relief denied for being “improper.” This is how a disciplinary society works—violence is incentivized, care is criminalized.

Ever the compulsive grifter....this is called keeping in with Jared and Trump's other super rich pals.

Really good video breakdown of the shooting of Renee Good illustrating that yes, this was cold blooded murder by an ICE agent.

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Anyone who didn't see this coming is just willingly stupid. Trump was always clear he wanted to go invade places and steal their oil, and whatever else happened, who gives a crap. This wasn't about drugs, or democracy. He's fine with repressive regimes if they pay up www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...

Venezuela becoming a new protectorate of the United States for an indefinite period of time is the opposite of democracy: it does no matter if Maduro, Machado or someone else sit at the presidency.

In awe of the courage and grit of Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Fresno county farm workers are planting onion seeds for next years' harvest. They are basically bent over or on their knees on cold damp ground all day long. In this cold and weather that is hard on their body and they share their bones ache at the end of the day. #WeFeedYou

A strike of shopkeepers and merchants is unfolding in cities across Iran.

We likely are in the early period of the next societal upheaval. And it's characterized as much by bewildered small men who cannot lead, as it is the evident disruption around us samf.substack.com/p/interview-...

People in Gaza were deprived of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, but nothing hurt more than seeing al-Omari Mosque fall. #eiGazaDispatches

This felt inevitable from day after the budget tbh - and follows big lobbying campaign by pubs industry and real concern among Labour MPs, many of them subsequently barred from their local 👇 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Another one. They're crap!

‘The pressure is too much....We can’t even sleep at night’: Lesotho’s women garment workers on the frontline of Trump tariffs www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Justice for Renee Good. Read more: interc.pt/4ssjJtw ✍️ @natashalennard.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

🆕 Everything you need to know about a PhD in economics In this blog post, @AbdouNdiayeNYU provides a set of answers to many of the most common questions about economics PhDs: voxdev.org/topic/everyt...

“It is no surprise to either Marimar or myself that this happened, and unfortunately, it is going to continue to happen.” theintercept.com/2026/01/07/c...

A powerful column by @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...

British government fine with this, apparently. Might send them a letter or issue an easily-affordable fine or something.

Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul, partnering with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, will unveil a plan to expand free or affordable child care for New Yorkers across the state.

Heavily armed, masked teams of men roaming our schools, hospitals, courtrooms, and churches—men who understand that they enjoy legal immunity for any acts of violence—do not advance the interests of any "side". They will ultimately harm all Americans, on the Right and Left.

Thousands of Minnesotans gathered last night to honor Renee Nicole Good. We will never accept that a single federal agent can be judge, jury, and executioner in our streets. ICE needs to get out of Minneapolis.

Spot-on statement from @unifor.org, Canada’s largest private-sector union:

They just attacked a school. After Border Patrol clash at Roosevelt Minneapolis schools cancel classes | MPR News share.google/UrsBttNwWLiw...

Danish army rules would require their soldiers to “to shoot first and ask questions later” if Greenland was invaded.

“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.

Very unclear to me how one can justify using a platform whose owner enthusiastically affirms the claim that "white solidarity is the only way to survive."

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

"This is rather dramatic but lost in the general media turmoil over everything else - 🇺🇸 is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and rule of law." www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Intriguing theory that it wasn't Trump but US nat security that initiated attack on Venezuela, for critical minerals rather than oil renegaderesources.pro/p/the-venezu...

Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.

So, they lied. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

congratulations again to the Oslo-based Nobel Peace Prize committee

The US wants comprador capitalism in Latin America. If elites in each country bootlick the US ruling coterie they will be rewarded. If they oppose, they & their people will be punished Trump's Hemispheric defence strategy not a pretty picture. Will affect not just LatAm but every part of the world

"Unbelievable. After months of propaganda claiming Maduro is the head of the dangerous drug-smuggling cartel, the US government has admitted it was all a ruse in order to kidnap a sitting head of state." - @AlanRMacLeod

in 2025 my resolution was to kick as many google products as possible: browser, search, drive, and docs were a huge success! right now i use waterfox, DDG, local drives, and obsidian. i also managed to swap out microsoft office for office libre, and i got off spotify in favor of the radio & CDs!

Even an elementary school student knows that wars and politics matter to economics, jobs, wages etc, but economists (like those who assume that future pension earnings are certain ad can be treated as today's wealth) simply assume that war, civil strife, public revolt do not exist.

So people get praise for the exercises which make absolutely no sense under any realistic conditions or at least do not in 90% of countries and times.

Perhaps the cardinal weakness of neoclassical economics (which distinguishes it from the classics) is a historically untenable assumption that capitalist economies continue to function forever under "normal" peacetime conditions and that politics does not matter.

I’m not linking to the piece for obvious reasons. This country’s foundational institutions are so lost to reality.

Chris Murphy: "At some level he's winning tonight because clearly part of his intent here was to distract the American people -- you and I -- from what's happening here at home. You have 20 million families who are getting massive increases in their healthcare premiums. People will die."

Seems like every new Epstein files event results in the US bombing or invading someone.