Donald Trump, the Nietzschean https://f.mtr.cool/kbsliqbijs Flush with the joy of victory on Monday, January 5th, Trump threatened to take over Greenland, part of the kingdom of Denmark, an American friend. Al Martinich and Tom Palaima #trump #trump

Why the Cleveland Browns Need a Black Head Coach—and the Courage to Actually Trust Him https://f.mtr.cool/tgnjzuesqm In the NFL, Black players are trusted to take the hits but rarely trusted to hold real power.  @desicortez1 #browns

My Fist Fight with Donald Trump  https://f.mtr.cool/mywhaqooba He punched me in the jaw, though with little impact. I remember thinking, “Did I just get punched?” and “He has a small hand.”

#TakeBackTikTok From Ellison - Let Palestine Live https://f.mtr.cool/grdlgfsmgr How Billionaire Power, Platform Censorship, and a Pro-Palestine Youth Revolt Are Colliding on America’s Most Influential App #tiktok

Crisis, Repression, and Collective Defiance https://f.mtr.cool/wwcjesqrja A nationwide, leaderless movement signals a deepening legitimacy crisis as Iranians demand dignity, and democratic rule @amaniuyyr

Greenland? Really? https://f.mtr.cool/bdnlmqenrz Instead of Trump’s megalomania and desire for domination, Greenland’s future should be up to its own people. Bruce Altschuler:  #greenland

Gaza’s Christian Community: Indigenous Presence, Targeted Silence https://f.mtr.cool/spqjdrhidv  Palestine Christians also stake their claim as the indigenous people of the land. Palestinian Christians and Muslims, together. @JonUrmeneta #gaza

Project 2025 Made Trump's Immigration Plan Crystal Clear https://f.mtr.cool/iewtmjjvke The president denied involvement in the far right game plan, but he has followed it like a script. Here’s what might be next. Kate Morrissey #trump

Trump in a Long Line of Imperial Presidents https://f.mtr.cool/nsmfkecgmq U.S. imperialist policies have repeatedly been carried out to control natural resources—minerals, land, and often oil, as in the current invasion of Venezuela.  David Tobis #trump

Venezuela: the Fantasy of Control Repeats Itself https://f.mtr.cool/xtnrmhzxnb External actors have approached Venezuela as if force, markets, or managerial confidence could sub for understanding. George Cassidy Payne #venezuela

Renee Good and the Spirit of Resistance https://f.mtr.cool/bvncpltopk A challenge—and an opportunity—facing the resistance movement is to explicitly target patriarchy—not as a slogan, but as strategy. @rob_okun #reneegood

Trump’s Foreign Policy? Peace-Seeking or Imperialistic—or Both? https://f.mtr.cool/rpgmsjuhkm If recognition is desired more than the fruits of peace, then such a faulty desire can undercut peacekeeping. Walter Moss #trump

Haven't We Become the Overbearing Gringo Again? https://f.mtr.cool/xmehhbkwtl America’s full-bore Thucydidean foreign policy goes back to the 1890s, when Uncle Sam joined the old European powers in embracing global imperialism. Berry Craig #gringo

Keeping People With Their Pets Will Help L.A.’s Housing Crisis — and Mental Health  https://f.mtr.cool/xpuxrtggrm Jackie Parra intervenes at L.A.’s busiest animal shelter to help people keep their pets and housing. Elizabeth Aquilera #housing

Is Vance Next? https://f.mtr.cool/orzskthmuv  It’s a maxim of today’s politics that all relationships with Trump end badly. Will Vance abandon Trump as he deteriorates yet more? Clarence Lusanne

Demand Justice in the Name of #KeithPorter…#BeGood  https://f.mtr.cool/aflqosuwus Not a single red-carpet celebrity or liberal politician ever heard of Keith Porter. His Gofundme has raised less than $40,000.   @DocMellyMel #KeithPorter #BeGood

Undermining the Post Office Threatens Democracy and Black Jobs https://f.mtr.cool/itkwfnslhc This is what voter suppression looks like in the 21st century: clean, quiet, and legally defensible - until you look at who it affects. @drjlastword

Democrats and the Path to Defeat Trumpism Begins with ICE https://f.mtr.cool/ghajuqzojq If Democrats want to leverage this moment to defeat Trumpism in 2028 and beyond they must be visible in their rejection of ICE. Sam Rosenthal #ice

A Call for Accountability in ICE Cold Minneapolis Killing https://f.mtr.cool/qlqqdjtscn One speaker referred to those present as “patriots” in standing up for the needed changes to save our democracy, “before it is too late.” @ppasquini #ice #minneapolis

Who’s Really Running Venezuela? https://f.mtr.cool/mgpokadmll Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies: Will Delcy Rodriguez govern the country as a compliant and coerced US puppet, or as the leader of an undefeated and independent Venezuela?

Protecting the Night for People and Planet: The Hidden Costs of Light Pollution https://f.mtr.cool/qwilnrwbde Communities can balance safety, cultural life, and ecological health by designing nighttime lighting that protects both people and the natural world.

Sovereignty for Me but Not for Thee https://f.mtr.cool/kccqllseps Trump will define international law as he sees fit, and he will find nothing in it it that obliges him to respect the sovereignty of other states. Chuck Yates #trump

Does God Love Losers, Too? https://f.mtr.cool/oshadvifqx If athletes and their coaches are going to make a public display of their religious beliefs, I wish they wouldn’t do it only when they win. @WDEhrhart

Could This Be a Wonderful World? https://f.mtr.cool/ugchibohoh Although it’s tragic that powerful forces seem intent on building an unjust, lawless, and violent planet, let’s not forget that another world remains possible.  @LawrenceWittner #homelessness

Has Trump Left Me with Nothin’? https://f.mtr.cool/bdznxthdjm Today, we take our ability to kill at a great distance for granted, as the Trump administration’s actions have demonstrated. @AmerNuremberg #trump

Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does https://f.mtr.cool/ucsknqcpto Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections. @SharonKyle00 #voting

Trump Finds Money for War in Venezuela  https://f.mtr.cool/yzqyqtsmam White House and Congress open the spigot for another oil-soaked foreign intervention. Lindsay Koshigan #veneauela

Should Minnesota Charge ICE Agent With Murder? https://f.mtr.cool/qibujpoxto It would seem wise for the state to take charge of the prosecution and to resist efforts by federal authorities to take over the case. @marjoriecohn #ICE

With AB 715, 1st Amendment Challenges Continue https://f.mtr.cool/zifjagznct It remains to be seen whether California educational officials are capable of combating the hatred of Jews without violating the First Amendment rights  @StephenRohde3 #antisemitism

A Brief History of Oil and U.S. Empire in Iran https://f.mtr.cool/btpwitzilv Rolling back the regime through U.S. intervention, rather than thru the actions of the Iranian people themselves, cannot plausibly be described as support for democracy. Eric Ross #iran

Esquire’s Charles P. Pierce Is One of My Favorite Blogger-Pundit https://f.mtr.cool/hmaoasaguo Next July 4th will be our nation's 250th birthday. How we will observe our semiquincentennial is uncertain.

Remembering the M/V Marizell  https://f.mtr.cool/ikqxdrrool What might my life have come to be if I’d have chosen to remain in Ireland, remained aboard the Marizell in 1969, a deckhand with a different future. William Erhardt #ireland

US Attack on Venezuela: Marriage of Colonialism and Gangster Capitalism   https://f.mtr.cool/kcgpqfbjzp What we are witnessing is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated by media silence. @HenryGiroux #venezuela

Privateering Our Public Goods  https://f.mtr.cool/elfeqglxwc Degrading Rural Fire Departments, Nursing Homes  @GenBeatOnline #publicgoods

United Left Platform Calls for Mass Resistance to U.S. Imperialist Attack on Venezuela https://f.mtr.cool/bclwsckdfn The United Left Platform has issued this statement in opposition to the Trump Administration’s illegal and unwarranted invasion of Venezuela.

February 6, 2026: The Day the Nuclear Arms Race Officially Returned  https://f.mtr.cool/vzcjpmgpzv Plunging Into the Abyss - Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

Communities Push Back Against AI Data Center Expansion https://f.mtr.cool/ururwcodnu As the number and scale of data centers across the country expands, so too does pushback against them. Alefiya Presswala #datacenter

c https://f.mtr.cool/qmxmsncrhi As industrial agriculture drives climate breakdown, deforestation, and water scarcity, experts say it’s time to apply the same rule to our food systems—and make corporations bear the cost of the damage. @Alex_Crisp2121 #bigfood

Seizing Venezuela: The March of Folly Goes On https://f.mtr.cool/habxbltopx Moving to give it back to Exxon, Trump will unify the whole country against him. Virtually every Venezuelan wants to keep the oil on public hands. John Peeler #venezuela

The Powers Behind Trump's Throne https://f.mtr.cool/pucmavzssb Since it appears that the Donald will try to die in harness without a succession plan, there is no clear path forward for any of his wannabe successors. Tom Hall #stephenmiller

USMMA Now Fully Conquered MAGA Territory https://f.mtr.cool/vkpclvbcku  Fascism has come to America, and as Sinclair Lewis is famously said to have predicted, it is most definitely wrapped in the flag. @ChrisRodda1 @mrff

From Smedley Butler to Trump: How U.S. Military Power Serves Big Oil in Venezuela https://f.mtr.cool/mdbjrufklc Trump’s post-coup oil grab iis the latest chapter in a century-long pattern of U.S. imperial muscle Berry Craig #smedleybutler

Weathering America: How Structural Racism Impacts Black Bodies https://f.mtr.cool/ihyykhnkbl A book review of, "Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society" by Arline Geronimus. Pat Hynes #racism

Bringing Gaza Home to Middle America’s Flyover Country  https://f.mtr.cool/todmgzmvox Our hope at trial is that our fellow citizens and neighbors will be as abhorred by what Gazans have suffered and decide it’s time to stand and be counted.  @VFPNational #gaza

Pro-Cop Los Angeles DA Hochman Refuses to Protect Black Life https://f.mtr.cool/sdvpquydoz District Attorneys are supposed to represent the people, not the police who kill them. @DocMellyMel Sheila Bates  Tabatha Jones Jolivet #nathanhochman

Goebbels’s Ghost and Miller’s Dream of a “Unified Reich” https://f.mtr.cool/vmxjarhvga Miller is a grotesque figure granted power, a carnival barker of repression whose racism operates as projection. @HenryGiroux #stephenmiller

Tulsi Gabbard’s Venezuela Reversal https://f.mtr.cool/fsqobvtlwg Once a vocal critic of U.S. intervention abroad, Tulsi Gabbard now sits at the center of a Trump administration accused of doing exactly what she warned against. @AnnWright46 #tulsi

When Big Law Walks Away from Democracy https://f.mtr.cool/wwjibcmtoo Cynthia McDermott: As corporate law firms retreat from voting-rights litigation, nonprofits and ordinary citizens are left holding the line.

The New Banana Wars https://f.mtr.cool/ksvtyrvzhn Chuck Yates: Trump’s attack on Venezuela is in a long tradition of American war against Central and South America, and against people from those areas.

Wars Don't Reduce Drugs Deaths, Public Health Does https://f.mtr.cool/tpyckliifr Invading Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs, but slashing the safety net does. Jordan Liz #addiction