“Leaders praise King’s dream while avoiding his demands. They quote his words while rejecting his method. They honor his memory while reproducing the conditions that made him vulnerable to state violence in the first place.”

MLK’s Struggle Against Policing and Surveillance Is Still Alive in Memphis Today. From surveillance of racial justice organizing to terror under Trump’s Memphis task force, we face ongoing repression. truthout.org/articles/mlk...

Coretta Scott King Publicly Opposed Vietnam War Before MLK — and Urged Him to Follow. Coretta Scott King’s vision shaped MLK’s politics and the broader freedom struggle, says historian Jeanne Theoharis. truthout.org/articles/cor...

What the Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Resisting Fascism Today. Persisting—not surrendering to despair—is part of the struggle. Victory over fascism may not be inevitable, but neither is defeat. www.commondreams.org/opinion/civi...

Corporate Polluters Running Rampant Under Trump as EPA Enforcement ‘Dying a Quick Death’. “Administrator Zeldin is removing all incentives for big polluters to follow the law and turning a blind eye to those who suffer from the impacts of pollution.” www.commondreams.org/news/epa-reg...

“The alert also provides guidance on what to do if any such festering wounds are encountered—namely, remove each and every maggot to prevent the patient from dying, and, under no circumstance allow any of the parasites to survive and escape.”

Flesh-eating flies are eating their way through Mexico, CDC warns. Eight animal cases in Mexico’s Tamaulipas spur CDC to warn doctors of festering wounds. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable “Personal Intelligence”. Personal Intelligence is optional and rolling out first to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. arstechnica.com/google/2026/...

US officially out of WHO, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars unpaid. US did not pay $278 million in 2024–2025 dues and millions more in promised funds. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial. Company is pulling out all the stops to protect itself in advance of New Mexico trial. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Trump FCC threatens to enforce equal-time rule on late-night talk shows. FCC disputes long-standing view that the shows are exempt from equal-time rule. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS. Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data. arstechnica.com/security/202...

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest. Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

No, the important point is that America, IN THIS DECADE, has done awful things to melanted people. Here and abroad. The framing of America’s issues as being completed for a century is merely a lie that helps “some Americans” sleep better at night.

Trump's officials took down the educational exhibits on slavery in Independence National Park in Philadelphia on Thursday, triggering immediate outrage. www.rawstory.com/trump-slaver...

Ahead of a major winter snowstorm expected to impact the United States, natural gas prices rose Tuesday and Wednesday.

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol. John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign. Pay-to-play imperialism.

Former N.J. teacher admits sexually assaulting student www.nj.com/monmouth/202...

“What he wants is social events, he wants Premier soccer games. He wants to go jet skiing, he’d like a helicopter tour. The executive was struck by how unserious Patel seemed to be about the duties of his job leading the nation's top federal investigative agency.” www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-g...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes seeks Trump commutation

Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials. Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In wake of Greenland dispute, anti-U.S. shopping apps climb Denmark’s App Store charts 9to5mac.com/2026/01/21/i...

The Subtext of Trump’s Batshit Speech in Davos. The president’s walkback of his demands for Greenland were bracketed by more belligerence and bombast. newrepublic.com/article/2055...

"Proposing this structure... is impeachable. It really is," he wrote. "… it's an assault on the international order subordinating the decisions of states to the personal jurisdiction of the Trump family." www.rawstory.com/trump-king-o...

Trump told right-wing anchor Katie Pavlich on NewsNation, “I don’t think it is [time to invoke it] yet. It might be at some point. It does make life a lot easier. You don’t go through the court system. It’s just a much easier thing to do.” www.rawstory.com/trump-insurr...

A grand jury indictment has alleged that a landlord spent months drugging and molesting two men who were renting rooms at his house in South Jersey. www.nj.com/burlington/2...

New Jersey-based nursing home mogul Joseph Schwartz was released from federal prison in November after President Donald Trump pardoned him just 90 days into a three-year sentence for Medicaid and tax fraud. www.nj.com/news/2026/01...

Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech. President’s anti-Somalia tirade and insults to European leaders were in line with aide Stephen Miller’s worldview www.theguardian.com/business/202...

the mainstream media has been covering donald trump as a political figure for 11 years now. they know he is full of shit. they push headlines like "trump rules out using military force to take greenland" even though they know the context of his rhetoric. it is a deliberate misinformation tactic.

Even as ICE receives $170B in new funding, it has stopped paying for medical care for detainees — including life-saving medications, dialysis, and chemotherapy treatments. Remember: Over 70% of detainees have no criminal convictions. Cruelty on steroids.

COLLINS: Did it stand out to you that he said Iceland multiple times when he was talking about Greenland? NEWSOM: And that every time a windmill turns it costs $1,000. A lot of stuff stands out. None of this is normal. There's a deviancy of consciousness. He's graded off the curve.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

Healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people.

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

A South Korean court has ruled that the 2024 imposition of martial law by then-President Yoon Suk Yeol constituted an act of rebellion as it sentenced his prime minister to 23 years in prison for his involvement.

“They call me Daddy.” No. Nope. Nah.

Trump said parts of Europe were “not even recognizable” - citing immigration. Which further affirms what the real agenda of ICE is. The same agenda that has them erasing history of Black resistance against people like him , non-white images, to fake an all white society full of freedom & justice.

Anyone seen this economic miracle Trump is babbling about?

Trump thinks he’s the highest ranting person on earth and can do as he pleases. The mob boss, the gangster cometh.

www.ms.now/news/border-.... A car ramming, a violent arrest and an emboldened immigration agency Far from the border, a father and son met Border Patrol tactics. They haven’t seen each other since.

www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Bill Gates charity trust’s holdings in fossil fuel firms rise despite divestment claims. Trust had $254m invested in companies such as Chevron, BP and Shell in 2024, a nine-year record, analysis shows.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... ‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Thousands of people, including suspected victims of human trafficking, are estimated to have been released or escaped from scam compounds across Cambodia over recent days.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Netanyahu to join Trump ‘board of peace’ despite previous objections. “Hitler joined the anti-genocide committee and pledges to oppose racial discrimination. He’s created a committee of SS officers to enforce both.”