Because of the WNBA players union min salaries are now higher than the old highest salaries. And that's just one facet. A massive victory for women's sports. But also a win for labor. In an elongated, dark period for the labor movement, this is not the first time sports unions have charted a path.

After Venezuela beat the fucking US in baseball for the tiniest shred of poetic justice, the President posted that it should become a US state. This is quite literally the most unhinged and depraved instance of sore-loserhood in the history of sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

There are some 3,000 patients on dialysis machines in Cuba who are at risk of dying from a prolonged blackout.

After year of ICE detention— Leqaa is finally. She was detained for protesting a genocide. She had multiple seizures inside. She wrote to her cousin how she thought she’d be free here. I don’t know what justice looks like, but it starts with abolishing ICE and freeing Palestine

Leqaa Kordia, who spent a year in ICE detention because she protested for Palestine, is free today.

Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game. No ICE No War No Kings No Fear.

The Iranian soccer team, whose stadium has been destroyed, says that they still plan on coming for the World Cup and Trump has no legal standing to say otherwise. But watch for FIFA to find a legal standing because FIFA chief Johnny Infantino is Trump's spittoon. apnews.com/article/worl...

🚨 The Pentagon is now sending a Marine expeditionary unit — meaning thousands of marines — to the Middle East. If you work at the Pentagon or in the armed forces, please text me on Signal: premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected.

We remember our friend and colleague Logan Hullinger baltimorebeat.com/in-memory-of...

Webinar: Reproductive Violence in Gaza Watch here: bit.ly/4rmCqgq

I’ve been watching the World War and the World Baseball Classic and asked @nkalamb.bsky.social to think about World Championships and the World War on #WBAI #Cuba #Baseball #USA #Canada #Venezuela #Iran #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WBC podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Iraq is begging FIFA to postpone its World Cup qualifier because its air space is closed due to the US-Israeli illegal war on Iran. It boggles the mind. The outcome of this tournament literally shaped by genocidal conflict and the perpetrators are rewarded with fewer competitors.

It was immediately obvious to anyone who was not living under a rock for the last 25 years that bombing Iran was a mistake. How many times are we going to get a headline that reads "Suozzi: 'I failed'" before he finally stops collaborating with the Trump regime?

All of this is just profoundly evil.

I can explain it right now tbh, they don't consider the rest of us human much less American. It's not national suicide, it is a family annihilation perpetuated by people who lied and grifted and stole they way into power and are using it to consolidate resources ahead of the climate catastrophe

Epic article on Palestine by @rafeefz.bsky.social just published by @devandchg.bsky.social based on her keynote at the recent AHE conference. "Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’" A must read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 An Israeli drone strike in central Khan Younis has critically injured a young girl and killed her father. Julia Al-Qedra was preparing to leave for kindergarten when the strike hit. Her father, Ahmad Al-Qedra, who was accompanying her, was killed. Doctors are now fighting to save Julia’s life.

While bombs fall I in Tehran, We discuss healthcare in Havana during an escalating war of attrition, on the Trauma Code on #WBAI 99.5 FM NYC. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

For anyone interested, I spoke for almost an hour with a pediatrician returning from his second trip to Gaza last week what pediatric care there is like. A lot of premature babies are dying because surfactant is not allowed in by Israeli authorities . podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

I know it's a lot going on, but I interviewed Justin Hatchimonji of the University of Chicago on how school closures can impact neighborhood violence in Chicago. This research was presented at scientific assembly of the Eastern Association for Surgery of Trauma podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I know it's a lot going on, but I interviewed Justin Hatchimonji of the University of Chicago on how school closures can impact neighborhood violence in Chicago. This research was presented at scientific assembly of the Eastern Association for Surgery of Trauma podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

If you work at DHS and know the identities of the CBP officers that murdered Alex Pretti, my Signal contact info is in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous.

Put the exhibit up somewhere else in the city. You can read the entire exhibit in this zine created by @literaturegeek.bsky.social - zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen... The city of Philly should make tons of copies & distribute everywhere esp local schools, libraries etc...

I called @whstancil.bsky.social and Jamey Sharp for updates from Minneapolis on Trauma Code #radio WBAI 99.5 FM NYC podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.

I called @whstancil.bsky.social and Jamey Sharp for updates from Minneapolis on Trauma Code #radio WBAI 99.5 FM NYC podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Statement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @gregolear.bsky.social)

Minneapolis is winning. The tide is shifting. Can you feel it? It’s their Gettysburg. The first Minnesota is charging down the hill, bayonets drawn. This is their furthest advance and they will go no further. WE ARE GOING TO WIN

One thing many observers have been reporting (myself among them) is constantly hearing phantom whistles and horns. I have to roll down my window every few minutes when I’m driving because I’m CERTAIN I heard a bunch of honking

printing tricia mclaughlin’s justification for murder is spreading propaganda. do not listen to a word these people say.

Authoritarianism doesn’t announce itself. It arrives wrapped in “security,” “order,” and “law enforcement.” Minneapolis is being used as a proving ground. If we don’t stop this now, we may not get another chance.

History is happening now. If you are in law enforcement, the government, or are a resident or legal observer with any information or tips or incidents you want to share, please text me on Signal @ premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected.

Abolish ICE. But we need a truth & reconciliation in the aftermath because the level of fucked up this country is to get here is something that needs a reckoning.

A man was wrestled to the ground and shot multiple times by federal agents in Minneapolis

The Senate will vote on the DHS funding bill next week and it can’t pass without Democratic votes. That means Democrats have real leverage to rein in ICE, but they won’t use it unless we force them to. Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

But also, this makes me wonder if this is the sort of shit they've learned from their Israeli trainers. Because Israel also has a documented history of doing similar things. www.ndtv.com/world-news/i...

We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.

I have probably an hour of insane video but it's awful. they're destroying our city, trashing residential neighborhoods, menacing schools. completely out of control. ICE must be ended forever

guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.

We could use some more reporting on ICE use of Medicaid data to target people. What kinds of databases, in which states, can ICE access? stateline.org/2026/01/20/i...

We talked to nurse Emma Kading of New York State Nurses from Mount Sinai out on strike. Check it out. And try not to cross a picket line if you don't have to. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Statistics of an ongoing genocide. And new genocide euphemism "child mortality crisis"

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