In a very real way the muted response to the racism stoking this state violence which made Minneapolis a target can no longer be tenable for anyone claiming to oppose this.

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

Meanwhile here’s Rubio and Schumer chopping it up today

8 blocks from where George Floyd was murdered.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.

"Grok Is Generating About ‘One Nonconsensual Sexualized Image Per Minute’. Regulators around the world are looking into Elon Musk’s xAI after its chatbot began ‘undressing’ celebrities and underage children at the request of users." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

In retaliation for a solidarity event for Palestinian political prisoners in Israel and a screening of the film “Hind Rajab.” For this they shot students.

“Doctors Without Borders, the international medical aid group, said Tuesday that Israel had ordered it to cease operations in the Gaza Strip after it failed to comply with new restrictions that include registration of all Gazan employees and limits on criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war.”

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In a frankly bizarre interview with the New York Times, Dan Goldman says he's not ready to conclude that Israel has committed any war crimes in Gaza. Not genocide, any war crimes at all.

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

BlackNest: Inside Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

Israeli forces continue killing Palestinian children in Gaza despite the ceasefire. A 14-y.o. boy, Hamad, was killed by Israeli tank shelling, according to Al Araby. The killing took place west of the “yellow line,” in an area not under Israeli control. A day earlier, Israeli airstrikes killed...

They've decided to withhold the TANF block grant funds to punish blue states.

Talked to a GOP lobbyist this AM working in the child/school policy space in a non-crazy way (yes those GOPers still exist). Apoplectic re: Trump and other GOP attacks on child care, which has bipartisan support in direction if not always in design. These attacks will backfire.

Mustafa Barghouti: According to UNICEF the Israeli army destroyed 98% of schools in Gaza Strip and killed 1000 school teachers and about 20,000 school students. 633,000 school students are deprived from schooling today and Israel is not allowing school textbooks to enter Gaza.

🔴 Gaza | Jan. 4, 2025 Heavy Israeli fire continued across Gaza on Sunday, killing at least three Palestinians near Israeli-occupied areas south of Khan Younis, according to medical sources cited by Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported sustained artillery shelling inside Israeli-...

Chicago police officers used force against members of the public 1,645 times during the first six months of 2025, an increase of nearly 10% as compared with the first half of 2024, according to Chicago Police Department data published Tuesday. @wttw.bsky.social

Activist arrested on-camera in Grand Rapids, Michigan while summarizing the reasoning behind a peaceful protest against the U.S. government’s kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro held earlier that day.

New at Can We Still Govern: @agpines.bsky.social & @lizananat.bsky.social explain how the work volatility of low income service employees will make it hard for them to satisfy new SNAP/Medicaid work requirements, even when they work lots of hours. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

This should exist in every city in the country.

Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is at the Oakland Museum of CA as part of a selection of books that complement their exhibit, Black Spaces: Reclaim & Remain, running through Mar 13. museumca.org/on-view/blac... The book is open access here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...

The “West” clearly can’t be trusted with international law and values. What a servile snivelling statement from Carney.

Resistance historians are rediscovering international law now that it's not being violated against Palestinians.

People always say democrats lack message discipline but they have been extraordinarily disciplined to maintain the image of the fascists as grand old partners in governance. Since the fascists are actually waging a racist counter-revolution, the Democrats’ disciplined insistence on this category

and well-intended. The thought-killing formulae that go with the Blue brand are the first line of defense for fascism. The (D) line is “you better come brief Congress on the laws you broke!” This operates to ratify the acts as a fait accompli, transform murder and kidnapping into a process issue.

Elizabeth Catlett & Alberto Beltrán, Untitled (Composition for a Peace Poster), c. 1950 www.artic.edu/artworks/222...

The Democrats’ non-opposition is really the foundation of the fascists’ power. It’s like a moat of demoralizing incoherence between Trump and the millions of people who would prefer not to live under his dictatorship. There’s no platform. Just a (D) brand as a foil to (R), a brand about being smart

The Palestine playbook.

Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas

Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025: —Yemen—1,000+ strikes* —Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid** —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids*** —Iran—3 B-2 strikes —Iraq—1 strike —Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Venezuela—1 known CIA strike

The One Big Beautiful Bill ratchets up work requirements for Medicaid. In the process it will force states to pay millions more to Equifax to verify that residents qualify for the program. Wild story by @sangerkatz.bsky.social @asmaaelk.bsky.social and Sarah Kliff www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

“I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.” www.reddit.com/r/confession...

THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...

In his first post-inauguration appearance, Mayor Mamdani is standing with the Pinnacle Tenants Union in their fight for the future of their buildings. 93 Pinnacle rent-stabilized buildings up for auction in bankruptcy and tenants want a say in the future of their homes

“I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being called radical,” he said to loud cheers from the gathered crowd.

"There will be Palestinian New Yorkers in Bay Ridge who will no longer have to contend with a politics of universalism and then makes them the exception" receives ovation.

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

This winter the Israeli government has not stopped committing genocide in Gaza, and the US has not stopped funding it.

There are plenty of legitimate ways to assess fraud. That was not Shirley’s purpose. He wanted to impose terror and loss on this community. So did Trump. And that is what is happening right now.

Child killed, three wounded in Gaza tent collapse amid Israeli operations - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/child-killed-three-wounded-gaza-tent-collapse-amid-israeli-operations

🔴 BREAKING: Israel says it will suspend 37 humanitarian orgs operating in Gaza starting Jan 1, claiming they failed to comply w/ new Israeli vetting rules, according to the Associated Press. The affected groups include some of the world’s best-known aid organizations, among them: ▪️ Multiple...

doctors with borders

"United Teachers of Los Angeles [..] passed a motion that the union should refrain from endorsing any candidate [..] who as a member of the U.S. Congress voted to send weapons to Israel." #California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Voting #Education #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons