My latest in @texasobserver.org The ‘Antifa Scare’ Goes on Trial in North Texas: As nine of the "Prairieland 19" face their days in court, the broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance. www.texasobserver.org/antifa-scare...

Chatham County teacher killed in crash by suspect fleeing ICE, reports The Current GA.

REVEALED: ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months Leaked documents show the U.S. agency is storing large amounts of data on Microsoft's cloud while making use of its AI tools to analyze videos and images. By Yuval Abraham. @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/ice-microsof...

🚨 ICE is hiring people to work on a "watchlisting team," contracting records show: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-expand...

For years, Epstein took respite at a sprawling ranch in the desert scrub outside Santa Fe, NM. Epstein’s nearly 10,000-acre property – known as Zorro ranch – was dotted with cholla cactus and Angus cattle, and came to include a 26,700 sq ft mansion, as well as a private runway and hangar.

🌟 Our latest "5 Questions with..." features Jerome Morrison, Katy Gross, and Warren Langford of @505omatic.bsky.social. An independent collective of journalists, 505omatic creates accessible social media content that has garnered a strong community following. www.tinynewsco.org/5-questions-...

🚨SCOOP🚨After two years of tracking Israel’s journalist killings, the Committee to Protect Journalists claims 85-88% of journalists killed in Gaza as “dangerous assignment” deaths—NOT targeted killings, including over 60 killed in their homes w/ their families.🧵1/8 nofrontiersnews.com/p/scoop-comm...

#Avian flu behind mass skua die-off in Antarctica, scientists say While H5N1 has been circulating in Antarctica since 2023, this is the first confirmation showing that it killed birds on that continent. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...#Avian Photo: Ignacio Ferre Perez / Flickr cc

‘This bill spits on basic human decency’: Kansas Legislature passes bathroom ban without hearing | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg

Kansas has passed a bill that would revoke trans people's drivers licenses, forcing them to surrender them for replacements. It also creates trans bounty hunters that can sue trans people for money. It goes to the gov, who will veto, but R's can override. Subscribe to support our journalism.

🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader. One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...

Pete Hegseth is overseeing a process of diverting monies appropriated for the US Navy to build massive concentration camps for ICE. Congress is indifferent.

This was an actual, real US labor strike in solidarity with the Gaza protest encampments, and in opposition to the US-Israeli slaughter of Palestinians. 19,780 members of this union voted to authorize the work action. I asked workers how & why they struck for Gaza. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

There is no "immigration problem" There is no migrant problem There is no problem with illegals There is no border crisis Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.

Reuters journalists reveal that Biden officials spent early 2024 covering up USAID warnings about atrocities in Gaza, apparently because they "lacked balance" or "diverged from Israel's version of events" www.reuters.com/world/early-...

Today’s must-read, from @sourcenm.com’s @patricklohmann.bsky.social: FEMA official overseeing NM fire victims fund received six-figure payout, records show

Please follow my dear friend Khaled, who has had many trials and tribulations on this platform, and share/donate to his campaign if you can. @khaledalsibakhi.bsky.social gofund.me/f9ee9524b

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Strong winter storm still expected across NM Fri-Sun morning. Heavy snow and dangerous travel likely along & east of the central mountains, especially Sat-Sat night. Updates: - Slower arctic air has lowered snow totals - Snow is later in ABQ, now Sat night #NMwx

Department of Homeland Security is worried about people with "class-based or economic grievances," per its annual threat assessment (leaked to me): www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-doc...

Good’s killer was a 10-year ICE veteran, himself a trainer, and recorded the killing. What good would more training and more cameras have done? By @ahjohnson.bsky.social

From me: “ICE agents detain Navajo man in Peoria, ignoring US, tribal IDs”

The four Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other three are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people including the Dakota 38 during the Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Leaked documents about ICE deployment to Minneapolis suggests they're more worried about the backlash to Renee Good's death than they're letting on: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigratio...

The immediate demand today is neither new nor excessive. This demand, with which we must take to the streets, organize our workplaces, and orient our daily practices, is only a small but necessary part of anti-fascist struggle. Abolish ICE. latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...

I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.

In his in-depth investigation into the BBC, for which he spoke to dozens of journalists at the corporation, Daniel Trilling addresses the broader stakes of the historic failure of Western institutions over Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos." It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk #NukeSKY 1/n

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

You can read this to understand you, yes you, are affected by the pandemic and its aftermath. Pretending it doesn't exist only makes this worse—"Jeimy thinks that people who are unwilling to consider the possibility of immune damage are perhaps driven by a fear of what those answers might mean."

NEW ARTICLE: In which I look back at the women that sold their souls (and, in many cases, their bodies) to Biden's efforts to minimize Covid. And I propose a fifth wave of feminism in which we all stop doing this for men. justinebarron.substack.com/p/bidens-han...

🚨SCOOP: Google gave lawmakers gifts up to $2,000 to attend a secret perk-filled summit touting AI & data centers as lawmakers consider AI dereg & data center subsidies, according to documents reviewed by @levernews.com. Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.

Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans. New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

Reminder: you should absolutely start wearing the best mask you can find in public spaces, even if you stopped before. We have no public health at the top level & repeat infections have ravaged immune systems. If someone gives you a hassle, say "even if it's just a cold, I DON'T WANT THAT EITHER!"

Truly excellent work from Gustavo Martinez Contreras here on the gentrification of Santa Fe, cop watching and Our Lady of Guadalupe: sfreporter.com/coverstories...

There's a media blackout on the FBI's new enemies list and cash fund for snitching on people harboring things like "anti-Americanism." What little coverage its gotten has been laughably bad: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-ene...

Sharing Khaled’s fundraiser as his account has been deleted on Bluesky. His family are in desperate need of funds. Please do share, and donate if you can. Thank you 🙏🏽 gofund.me/5fb338365

🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...

When tens of thousands of Kansas City residents take to the roads and skies this holiday season, they will unknowingly spread germs as they go. That’s where the Kansas City mutual aid group 816 COVID Crew comes in — by helping provide free, high-quality masks to the public.

youtu.be/R57pujATIs8 Are you actually revolutionary or just performative? YouTube video by revolutionaryth0t

The U.S. poverty line for a family of four is $32,150. However, investor Michael W. Green argues it should be more than four times higher, a threshold that would classify most American households as living “in poverty” by his measure.