Trump posts that he’s “Acting President of Venezuela”

Incredible @statuscoupnews.bsky.social interview with Skye, who says she’s a Marine Corps vet and appears to have just been released from Whipple. She says she was trapped by ICE, yanked out of her car and stomped on. 1/2

Time Machine: When Putin Warned Bush About Dangers of Regime Change www.spytalk.co/p/time-machi...

A displaced Palestinian girl was filmed gathering bread from the ground in a Gaza displacement camp after Israeli forces bombed the tents.

Time for the EU to actively support disentanglement from the US ensure we are not reliant on them for critical defense or economic infrastructure including financial and IT infrastructure

Trump and co.’s grotesque fabrications about Renée Good are part of a long-standing tactic by the right of smearing victims to divert public attention from the perpetrators. 1/

Indicting Netanyahu was like touching the third rail. Respect for ICC, which is reinventing its admin in the wake of US sanctions - and for the judges, who have no intention of backing down. International justice will survive Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/w...

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed. everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

El ICE ya no deporta: dispara. Minneapolis muestra hasta dónde ha llegado la violencia institucional del trumpismo. Cuando el terror lo ejerce el Estado, el problema no es el “exceso”, es el sistema. Escribe Sebastiaan Faber

“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine.”

On Jan. 22, @rcfp.org's Jen Nelson will lead a virtual training on covering immigration enforcement — helping journalists plan ahead, make real-time decisions, and stay protected in unpredictable environments. Presented by @journalists.org and IWMF, with support from @fordfoundation.org. RSVP 👇

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12 ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12 ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14 Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

I feel it. You feel it. We all feel it: the dread, the grief, the disbelief. Thanks for putting it into words, @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Was walking back from an interview in DC yesterday and passed the DOJ building where I spent a summer investigating a massacre in Central America in which the state security forces slaughtered an entire village and threw them down a well. Been thinking of that for some reason.

My NYT obit on Aldrich Ames, CIA turncoat for the Russians. I interviewed him in the county lockup after his arrest in 1994, then by telephone for eight hours. Deluded, deeply alcoholic, he thought he could lift up the hood of history and tinker with the engine. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

The United States is a rogue actor throwing the world into disarray. It hosts war criminal Netanyahu, sanctions ICC and European officials, launches strikes around the world, and now kidnaps foreign leaders. Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.

Watch Trump pardon Maduro after Maduro is convicted in a US court. abcnews.go.com/US/former-ho...

Watch Trump give himself the $50 million reward

De todos los géneros periodísticos, el q más me gusta es la entrevista. En 2025, las compas de @ctxt.es me han dejado hablar con más de una docena de personas fascinantes, sabias, complejas...Un lujo, vamos. Van 12 entrevistas. 1. Peter Stansky, biógrafo de Orwell. 1/12 ctxt.es/es/20250101/...

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

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Documentos o muerte!! Feliz cumpleaños al Archivo de Seguridad Nacional, que celebra su 40o aniversario 🥳🥳🥳🥳

ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

ICE's sociopathic tactics makes it easier for criminals to pose as ICE agents - obviously. Great article that's not paywalled because of @wired.com's commitment to making FOIA-based reporting free (and great work by @propertyofthepeople.org).

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

"¿Qué pasó con ese enorme archivo lleno de documentos sobre atrocidades contra los derechos humanos que descubrieron en Guatemala?" Respuestas, de @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

Trump ignored a judge, sending hundreds of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador. Last month, they were released in exchange for 10 US prisoners, including a murderer, who is now free. I spoke with @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social, who says the constitutional crisis isn't over, for @slate.com.

"Whatever happened to that huge archive full of documents about human rights atrocities that they discovered in Guatemala?" Answers, from @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

When you sign up to support your local @pbs.org be sure to stream the Hannah Arendt episode of American Masters.

I promised to send updates from the field. Here’s what we learned in Honduras, from those who work with deported migrants, about what they experience in ICE custody. Family separations. Maternal and infant health. Abuse of trans people. Valuables and cash seized. Read: www.wola.org/analysis/dis...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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@documentedny.bsky.social Senior Labor Reporter @amirkhafagy.bsky.social says he's heard dozens of cases of employers threatening immigrant workers with deportation if they report labor law violations. It's a local & national issue, but commercial media is failing to cover this story: bit.ly/3UtMh67

Portraits of courage. Deep admiration and respect for the women, who never gave up. Thank you Victor Blue for the powerful images and Annie Correal for giving this story voice. Astonishing work. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Read the English version of this shattering statement from AFP reporters in Gaza in the thread below. @newseye.bsky.social concludes, “Every foreign correspondent should be demanding that their editorial board publish a front page statement in solidarity with AFP… “History is taking notes.”

Trump 2.0 tríes to distract attention from complicity w/Epstein scandal issues by speeding up release of MLK files; crucial question continues to be longstanding cover-up of US govt’s campaigns to persecute King & black liberation movements & plots to kill him www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Who wants to take a 400-page book about the CIA to the beach? You do! THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century is on Foreign Policy's summer reading list, and I hope it's on yours too.

The history that haunts… From @nsarchive.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/Ps8gE...

Time and time again the administration has shown that it will blow through any protections to conduct mass surveillance on migrants. Data privacy protections are there for a reason: the gov’t isn’t supposed to be able to use our info for unintended purposes. Yet, here we are.

"I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It": Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza

Among my absolute favorite summer poems. From Raymond Carver's book, All of Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780375703805 #poetry #books #writing

New from @nlihc.org: Nearly HALF of all U.S. workers now earn less than the hourly wage needed to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment. When I say the term "working homeless" is no longer a contradiction in America, this is exactly why.

I’m so sad to read this news. Cristosal @cristosal.bsky.social has been doing the human rights work most needed in Bukele’s cruel El Salvador. Now forced to leave the country they love to continue in exile. And they will continue! #heroes www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com