Libraries do so much more than books: Some have free grocery stores!

She wrote a global history of concentration camps. Now she has a warning for her own country. In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes. But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

One party two colours

💯 Justice is the institution being held accountable for its rights violating actions by abolishing ICE and freeing all the people it has kidnapped. Plus personal consequences for the agents of state violence and lawsuits compensating individual victims (insofar as compensation is even possible).

"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

There’s a temptation to settle for less than abolishing ICE. The establishment certainly wants to stop at far less than abolishing ICE. But our future depends on its abolition. In Congress and in the streets we need to push harder than ever, not accept appeasement. www.jphilll.com/p/reject-app...

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

A good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.

Justice Frank Murphy's vehement dissent, condemning the Court for upholding FDR's Exec Order 9066 in resembling "the abhorrent and despicable treatment of minority groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which this nation is now pledged to destroy" – is worth revisiting. 3/ #Korematsu Day

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“Many will ask: how did we get here? For those who believed the lies of the US cold war propaganda campaigns, this violence will appear new.“ nublues.beehiiv.com/p/mask-off-t...

Bad actors who scam hurt mutual aid for everyone else. Remember they’re in the extreme minority of people asking for help.

you gotta celebrate them leaving. they can't win their fights. they can't win their war. the fascists's only hope is wanton and inchoate violence, bloodying enough noses & performing street executions on the hope people become too scared to show up and take the next hit and it still isn't working.

Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”

Well everyone. Another long day in the books. Good night. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

Centrists love to quote the bit in 1984 that says,“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” For some reason, they think it only applies to the GOP.

These neighborhood signal chats are absolutely crazy right now. You’ve got young activists in there with the most normie folks alive who all just absolutely fucking hate ICE so much. And they are all willing to put their bodies on the line for their communities.

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Happening now: “ICE out” protests from East Coast to West Coast in solidarity 🔥

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

One thing about Minneapolis is most everyone knows where to go and what to do. I don’t generally see locals doom-posting. They’re out at vigils and protests or running mutual aid. My block leader and neighbors have already disseminated information about where to direct resources, effort, and energy.

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

When it collapses it will seem sudden, all at once. But if something doesn't change soon this regime is finished. Keep striking, keep fighting, keep pushing where you can, keep building resilience and mutual aid, keep caring for one another and building the world you want to live in.

My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?

I’m at the spot where ICE murdered Renee Nicolle Good today, along with my daughter and her bf. Still lots of people here at 11:00 pm. (Avoiding getting anyone in the picture) It’s beautiful, surreal but still mostly enraging. Abolish ICE.

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big day for redacted thoughts

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

This is an old Israeli tactic when Palestinians have been shot or otherwise wounded. And Israel trains law enforcement at all levels in the US. It is all connected.

Severe weather is worsening already dire conditions in #Gaza. Flooding and collapsing shelters are putting displaced families — many living in tents or unstable buildings — at even greater risk. What should be a seasonal storm is becoming a life-threatening crisis.

"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on ‌January 5 and ‌6 in ⁠honour of those killed and said ‌funeral arrangements would be announced." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

When you mention that Democratic leadership sucks, you don't have to argue with a single person on this site about that. You are correct and can calmly keep it moving. Those people who would argue with you know you are right too.

Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died from complications related to childbirth. She leaves a husband and newborn that need the support of her village. If you are able, please consider joing me in donating. www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...

Anyway wishing that you find solace and soft places to land if you're currently feeling overwhelmed.

Dr Assal Rad— "Look how Western media frames a clear violation of international law as a question, casting doubt on a blatantly illegal action."

Netanyahu is a wanted war criminal. Based on the events of the last 24 hours, any country can strike Israel, go in, and “capture” Netanyahu and his wife from their bed. And the media would describe it using exactly this language. Because, apparently, that’s allowed now, right? - assal rad

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Thinking about the Haitian Revolution and how a U.S. holiday called “Two birds one stone day” would have such a lovely ring to it… visions of the people arresting both war criminals dancing in my head. What a way to ring in 2026 that would be. 🥂