Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

thewire.in/world/trump-... Trump as the dark shadow of exceptionalism is not the end of the story but a chapter in a longer reckoning. The US was never purely the shining city; it was always also the empire that built and defended it through coercion and exclusion.

Frederick Douglass born this day in 1818 - m.thewire.in/article/book... rose up and out of enslavement and made a profound contribution to human dignity freedom and political philosophy

Remove ICE and CBP funding until real changes are made. With apologies, I can’t find the artist to credit.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

All 6 Palestine Action activists in the Elbit Systems break-in have been found not guilty on all charges. This action was one of the main 'reasons' the govt. proscribed PA as a terrorist organisation. Nearly 3000 people have been arrested for showing support. There must be pardons and compensation.

thewire.in/books/furiou... - Laura Field's Furious Minds is a pathbreaking chronicle of the New Right's intellectual and political machinery, unmasking how elite networks propel Trumpism from X to White House tenure.

The Epstein case reflects systemic issues within the American elite. Despite clear evidence, the perpetrators will probably never be charged. They engage in exploitative practices without consequence.The American oligarchy has amassed its wealth through parasitism

UK diplomat Christian Turner has taken up his new role as British ambassador to the US. In 2024, he held a meeting with pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn that we discovered was focused on arms exports to Israel. www.declassifieduk.org/foreign-offi...

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.” #EpsteinFiles

Here’s @schumer.senate.gov saying his job is to fight for aid to Israel — which most Dems disagree with… and gives a nod to a “delicate ceasefire” even as people in Gaza are still killed by Israeli bombs daily.

The No Kings People VOTE! Leigh and Timmy and Matt and Tim and Beth and Mattie are scared shitless! Tarrant County is Blue! It’s the No Kings Era now! #NoKings is a political earthquake!

Terrorism is the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to induce fear, intending to coerce governments or societies to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals. It often targets civilians and critical infrastructure to disrupt safety and advance specific agendas.

The fractures signal that Trump’s “America First” policies may ultimately leave its rural and rust belt champions behind, writes @usempire.bsky.social.

thewire.in/world/a-brie... - The US was not made by lawyers and entrepreneurs alone, as conventional great man histories teach, but by millions of marchers, strikers, rioters, pacifists and conscientious objectors, petition-signers, letter writers.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Protests across US on Sunday. "Sunday... saw sizeable rallies against ICE &... Trump... in Washington, DC, New York, Boston, and on the West Coast. In Minneapolis, hundreds braved subzero temperatures, dragging dumpsters into streets & chanting ‘ICE out now!’" english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP...

🚨 5 Days to go - National March for Palestine - Hands off Gaza ⏰ Saturday 31 Jan, 12PM 📍Russell Square - Whitehall Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people has not ended. Join us for the next march for Palestine to demand our government end its complicity in Israel’s violence.

"It is only a future with mass social strikes, or general strikes, involving large-scale disruption on the immediate horizon that has the chance of stopping Trump’s forces." interc.pt/3Z1odKj

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

theconversation.com/signs-that-t... - As Trump’s second term unfolds, contradictions at heart of his “America First” agenda are increasingly apparent. What began as a populist revolt against elite globalism appears to have morphed into policies that alienate constituencies that thrice backed him

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... "Trump is getting loonier, more dangerous, and more violent, underscoring Republican paralysis and cowardice. But as he decomposes, he winds up emboldening the public backlash, which, in the end is what will stand between Trump and totalitarian control.." Read this

US air base in Suffolk, Mildenhall, has been used to transfer three new F-35 warplanes to Israel. Is this legal? www.declassifieduk.org/campaigners-...

thewire.in/world/domest... - This presidency, unbound and divisive, risks implosion but unwittingly sows seeds for a more just future.But Trumpism’s implosion will likely shake the earth. @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social

The Miners' Strike (Yorkshire), 1985, painting by Georg Eisler, 1928-1998 (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art).

thewire.in/economy/as-w... Elites convene to document dangers largely perpetuated by their actions and the systems they champion, offering polite exchanges over structural reforms - but popular revulsion is rising across the world

According to DHS, about 3,000 ICE and federal agents are operating in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. THREE THOUSAND! The entire Minneapolis Police Department only has about 580 officers. This is outrageous and unnecessary. Our tax dollars are funding this abuse, so it’s happening in our name.

There is nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is going on. Trump may not succeed. But he will only fail if patriots stand up and defend our democracy and the Constitution. We must act, as @mashagessen.bsky.social writes, while we still can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

A massive "Hands off Greenland" protest is happening right now in Copenhagen to demonstrate against Trump's threats. "The aim is to send a clear and unified message of respect for Greenland's democracy," organisers said. “Respect for Greenland, respect for Greenlanders, respect for Denmark.”

‘It’s the continued existence of the normative state that lulls a population to sleep. It makes you discount the warnings of others. “Surely,” you say to yourself, “things aren’t that bad. My life is pretty much what it was.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...

📢 March for Palestine - route announcement! Join the Palestine Coalition on the streets of London for the first national march for Palestine of 2026. 📆 Saturday 31 January ⏲️ Assemble 12 noon 📍Russell Square to Whitehall

“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.” ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.

thewire.in/world/irans-... - Decades of Western intervention, Israeli influence and domestic grievances shape Iran's fragile future.

The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2bn army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand.

READ: Arlington Community Remembers Renee Good And The Victims Of ICE Violence by John Zangas ⬇️ dcmediagroup.us/2026/01/12/a... @dcmediagroup.us

eaworldview.com/2017/07/trum... just came across this one from 2017- Trump is blowback of liberal internationalism, ideology of USFP establishment..by-product of fault lines of system that nourishes his liberal critics, system they defend but has yet has brought the world, to this low point.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Opinion | "People now look to the US as a model to be avoided. It has become the monster from which exiles once fled," writes Patrick Cockburn trib.al/Lb82IEt

Fascism is always a war on the left. It's not all it is, but it's always that.

Thanks to @eyesonice-bmore.bsky.social @freestatecoalition.bsky.social @pslweb.bsky.social Bmore & more who organized speakers/march in 24 hrs to stand up for our neighbors & us all in Bmore, Glen Burnie, DC, Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland, LA, Memphis, NOLA & everywhere @charmcityclfa.bsky.social

thewire.in/books/the-en... - Mass mobilisation has historically compelled even stubborn policies to bend. In 2026, reviving counter-hegemonic traditions across divides remains empire's most potent check, fuelled by Gramsci’s never-give-up maxim: “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

thewire.in/world/trump-... - Without any moral authority or vision, in a globalised world, Trump’s strategy for global primacy offers nothing but an even more lawless, violent American empire. @vanjackson.bsky.social @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

m.thewire.in/article/worl... - @vanjackson.bsky.social @carinavandew.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social @