Incredible reporting. Here’s the email that launched an intrusive and frightening investigation:

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

You Americans sure do elect a lot of racist goobers.

Who was MLB's first Black player? Not Jackie Robinson in 1947, not Moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother Weldy in 1884 … but William Edward White, in 1879. He passed for white for much of his life but, uniquely among MLB players, he was born a slave. ourgame.mlblogs.com/pioneers-wil...

Since Jesse Owens won a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The Globe and Mail of Toronto, Canada's national newspaper, ran an editorial listing all 158 Canadian Armed Forces members killed in Afghanistan. Trump's statement about NATO allies disgraced the United States. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-in-service-to-canada-and-our-allies/

"I have read different things." Chotiner puts out the trap, watches the subject fall in the pit, throws dirt on top and delivers a eulogy even as the subject continues talking, unaware they are already dead.

In the midst of the pandemic, Harbour Publishing kindly offered to bring out a new and expanded edition of my 1978 book on BC's Black Pioneers: harbourpublishing.com/products/978...

Imagine being the No. 1 economic power and the No. 1 military power and thinking it a good thing to reorder the world order.

Coming soon to @georgiastraight.bsky.social... my early Valentine's Day toon.

Honoured to be part of this piece by @carlynyandle. Wish I could write like this. Art work on ICE open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...

And a reminder that law enforcement using pepper spray against lawful protestors are $%#@! sadists.

This was on a call with several lawyers. Imagine what he says in private.

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.

ICE pistol whips a 16 yr old with his hands up

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Terrific appreciation of Catherine O'Hara by Johanna Schneller for the @theglobeandmail.com (gift link): www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/af67fce...

"By Harrison Smith" is a byline I never skip. @harrisondsmith.bsky.social

Story Studio and Canadian Authors and Illustrators Against Book Bans are teaming up to launch a national youth writing contest on the theme of freedom to read! Please share! @caiabb.bsky.social y.social #FreedomToRead #ftrw2026 #writingcontest #bookbans #caiabb #bced #abed #onted

Americans are too incurious and self-centred to recognize Canadian-ness when they see it, so they seek to define it through their own limited viewpoint.

I love this interview with Catherine O'Hara from when she was 24 because it proves that she was always hilarious. www.youtube.com/shorts/thKbA...

USA and Europe. One is an economically dysfunctional place of violence and no-go streets, restricted freedoms and censored media, immigration crises and a non-growing population whose choices threaten the ruin of a great civilization. And then there’s Europe. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

While we are reading the news about journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort being arrested, a reminder that a Canadian journalist was arrested while covering a protest action in Northern B.C. in 2021. thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

My song of resistance for the people of Minneapolis - St Paul is now available to stream on these platforms bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes

My American colleagues and friends dislike it when I liken the course their country is on to what happened in Russia in the early 2000s. It’s a comparison that’s getting harder and harder to avoid…

The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, plus the New York Times story about using facial recognition to take away PreCheck and Global Entry from observers, reveals how closely linked these two missions are. There is no separating ICE’s twin missions of ethnic cleansing and ideological terror.

Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.

Terrific book. And kudos to @jackermann.bsky.social for his heartfelt enthusiasm.

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

ICE wears masks for the same reason as the Beagle Boys and every other criminal gang.

Little known fact: Mike Schmidt hit 548 career home runs, all of them against the Montreal Expos.* *Or so it felt at the time.

"I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME" is my go-to when I'm posting.

Was the concrete post wearing a reflective vest? No. Concrete post's fault.

Metaphor alert.

Uh, how young is the Jackson School of Global Affairs?

If the Russians or Chinese had done this, we’d be expelling their ambassador…

The only people who have died have been people exercising their constitutional rights while masked, armed federal paramilitaries have violently invaded an entire state to do a wholesale ethnic cleansing campaign.

"There's nothing that we recognize in our neighbours right now, with the leadership that they have." - NB Premier Susan Holt on the ICE presence at the New Brunswick-Maine border. globalnews.ca/news/1164163...

Fintan O’Toole @fotoole.bsky.social on the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti https://go.nybooks.com/4bmNB4F

"Clockwork Orange" but with a modest payday.

Far from retreating, the Trump administration's dangerous crackdown on migrants is likely to get worse — more intense, more violent — not better. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

It's all so "she made me do it" blaming the victim, and this iteration closely echoes a previous admin. one. Rhetoric justifies bloodshed in this frame, and his rhetoric uses the passive tense/vagueness to avoid saying 'we will shed blood.'

I am so grateful as well to the extraordinary # of readers who are shouting out the book, to the beautiful and generous reviews, and the to many people who came to the launch party w/such love. I am humbled & honored more than words can convey. ♥️

FEAR and FURY PUB DAY! I am so deeply grateful to Pantheon who stood behind this book, so steadfastly behind my determination to get the stories & truths that have so long been obscured in the Bernie Goetz shootings told—esp to recover the lives of the four teenagers that he shot. (More below)

I’m not sure how much notice this has received but the Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DT-_SacDEH...

Quislings in cowboy hats.