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I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

It’s not like there’s anything happening in the Middle East that affects US national politics or involves Trump and members of his family and administration, right?

Former race and ethnicity reporter for WaPo: “This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one.” He also says “hundreds of people” were laid off today, and I’ve seen it reported elsewhere that layoffs affected one third of the staff.

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can’t not hear and see:

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Thousands of union members staged a nonviolent march today. iCE gassed the crowd of nurses and teaches. The neighborhood is in a cloud. Flash bangs are being fired.

Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Confirming our story: 👉 bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/d... "Agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

Honestly, stuff like this is why we need a serious union that is on the ball. If we don't fully engage in shaping the future of the HE sector, employers and managers will happily get on with doing it without us #UCU

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops

"Minnesota doctors say immigration crackdown is forcing patients to hide, endangering lives." "Jaundiced babies missing appointments. Appendicitis festering untreated for days. Expectant mothers laboring in hiding." #Minnesota #USA #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

I came to Congress to do the job: to work for people and protect them. Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong. Read more:

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

How about immersing yourself in this truly remarkable, clever & visually stunning piece of work by @sagebrice.bsky.social? She has crafted a superb call for the liberatory promise of queer/trans ecological sensibilities for critical social science, using comics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please share this! I sent a version of these stories (before this was published today) to a non-Minnesota work network, w donation links, & asked people to share what’s happening Just got an email from someone who sent it to her mom, who sent it to her church, where it‘s inspiring resistance plans

Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

Something I ❤️d from @prisonculture.bsky.social's latest newsletter was learning about the "Community Alert Patrols" that followed police cars through LA's Black neighborhoods in the 60s&documented police activities/violence. Resistance today is connected to and strengthened by earlier movements.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

We are posted up outside LC High School here in Spokane, where hundreds of students have walked out of their class in protest of ICE. LC is one of six schools across the Spokane participating in the walkout, which was organized at a lunch table last Thursday.

This killing was the impetus for the 1964 Harlem Riot: picturingblackhistory.org/the-gilligan...

So ICE murdered a woman in cold blood in Minneapolis, I see. At the time of her death she wasn’t trying to promote racist ideology or murder Congress to overthrow democracy, so American conservatives are not going to consider her a hero or a martyr.

I will be speaking at this tonight.

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Trump being cartoonishly overt about his ambitions to “run” Venezuela and get its oil doesn’t make him any less dangerous.

@anniemcdonough.bsky.social: "Yellow cab driver Richard Chow was on hunger strike for medallion debt relief with Zohran Mamdani a little over four years ago. Today, he drove now Mayor Zohran Mamdani to City Hall for his inauguration in his taxi." Chow's brother killed himself over his debt.

The US was the first country in the world to offer the chickenpox vaccine universally in 1995, an example of the forward thinking decision making of the CDC. Since then, many countries (in blue) also began universal vaccination. It's a huge shame that it's taken us so long to follow.

My blogpost on the success of universal chickenpox vaccination in the US, and why the UK should have made the move sooner: www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/13-the-suc... Chickenpox vaccines are really effective!

“It’s no accident… that Mamdani has made the food of immigrant restaurants the centerpiece of his vision. He understands that [immigrants bring] greater variety, making for not one universal excellence but many excellences—democratic excellence.”

Abolitionists have long fielded questions about whether our imaginaries of a world sans borders, ICE, prisons, policing, capitalism are "feasible." Today it is clear that it is these institutions of violence that could never be sustained. To 2026 & liberation from Palestine to Turtle Island.

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

This is exactly how my cousin justified her use of it and accepting a death of a thousand cuts even when those cuts are slow and spread out drives me crazy “Well its just for this little thing” soon blossoms into “well its just for—“ for everything

Disaster recovery should not be a luxury product! Profiteering private companies are scumbags.

“Federal agents arrested thousands during an unprecedented immigration mission in Chicago. They also killed a man, shot a woman five times, tear-gassed a 1-year-old, separated families and brutalized people across the city.”

Essential @chicagotribune.com investigation of ICE's Chicago operation: 4,500+ arrests over 64 days, only 1.5% had violent felony convictions. Tear gas, families separated, nightmares. This is what enforcement looked like in year 1 of the 2nd Trump admin. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

Good. fuck all the saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, is profoundly antihuman, isn't needed and isn't wanted.

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Palestinian Christians in Gaza are celebrating another year of surviving genocide, while Palestinians in the birthplace of Jesus are under brutal Israeli military occupation. Israel has bombed, demolished, crushed and killed hundereds of thousands of Palestinians in the Holy Land.

Algeria passes law declaring French colonisation a state crime, demands apology and reparations.

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry