Meanwhile in Ottawa news...

Absolute centrist lib headassary. This was in response to a post on an anti ICE demo outside a hotel. Imagine thinking "fascism is when protest is noisy. Plz send more cops."

This has probably been self-evident for a long time, but the US is not being run by a rational actor and people need to stop rationalizing this behaviour as if there is any strategy or logic behind it

Not to get political, but universal basic income, healthcare, housing, public transport, and childcare.

Since we’re talking about this again, it is worth noting that Nobel Peace Prize re-gifter Maria Corina Machado addressed a summit last year bringing together European far-right leaders like Viktor Orbán, Marine LePen, Geert Wilders et al, as well as Argentina’s Javier Milei

#OtD 12 Jan 1913 the Confederación General de Trabajadores (CGT) was formed in Costa Rica. It was an anarcho-syndicalist union for all workers based on the principle of direct democracy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8395...

Rest In Power, Claudette Colvin, and a really useful thread debunking popular myths about her from @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social, whom we used as a source to write our entries about Colvin: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/11435/cl...

If Dilbert man was so smart how come he died?

#OtD 13 Jan 1948 miners in Cyprus walked out on strike against inhuman conditions. Despite violent repression from the British colonial government Greek and Turkish workers fought together and eventually won more pay, shorter hours, and better safety stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7743...

#OtD 13 Jan 1943 19-year-old Ukrainian anti-Nazi resistance fighter Ulyana Matveevna Gromova was executed by German forces. She endured days of brutal torture but refused to disclose the names of any of her comrades stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8476...

New Behind the Bastards Happy New Year, Robert and Sophie sit down and answer listener questions. @iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

#resist #anarchism Excellent video! 40 minutes, fun, jam-packed with useful info on technology and historical context, and deeply relevant to events of the past week. And if you want to read a six page paper titled "rational anarchism", I'll link below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4...

Monday wisdom of the week Ⓐ #AntiAuthority #anarchism #antifascism #antifa #activism#Antifascism#WisdomOfTheWeek #monday

At a moment when liberals are finally recognizing that they will live in a dictatorship unless they undertake real resistance, attempting to smear anarchists by association with the Trump regime is perhaps the most pointless and irresponsible thing a centrist like @ezraklein.bsky.social could do.

Today Ezra Klein, in the @nytimes.com, suggests that the problem with the Trump administration is that they act like anarchists—as if all their kidnapping and murder would be fine if only they followed the rules. On the contrary, we need *more* anarchism. crimethinc.com/becomeananar...

Bro-Y is a member of 44, a mutual-aid group based in Yangon, and has been active as an underground hip-hop cultural artist and activist. He is among the first wave of anarchism and decolonization movements in Myanmar and currently works as an independent researcher and cultural curator #anarchism

#OtD 12 Jan 1989 punks were identified as the main problem in a "youth analysis" by the East German govt. Punks were surveilled, arrested and beaten, had their mohawks cut off, movements restricted and badjacketed if they refused to be informants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8402...

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Everything you wanted to know about our dogs and our show and our thoughts about the future. @margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

This.

These ICE guys have got to be among the most undisciplined, unprofessional and poorly trained law enforcement officers in the entire world

Abuse these nazi fucks as much as possible. They deserve it.

Politicians will not solve this problem.

Very excited for this book! 🏴

Journalists speak on the repression of & resistance of the Mazateca community to a power grab in Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón in Oaxaca, Mexico beginning in December 2014, plus the related case of #MiguelPeralta and the recent death of #YorchEsquivel. thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/01...

stuff like this is one of the reasons why it’s incredibly important to constantly film everything ICE is doing while terrorizing communities bc it humiliates them

You know it's ironic how for all the discourse in the later parts of the Trudeau era of foriegn interference from China and India, we now are seeing the blatant interference from the US via our own fucking papers being bought out by right wing assholes.

Carney’s “Buy Canadian” Policy Doesn’t Require Companies to Be Canadian. Ottawa’s new purchasing rules let US giants qualify as domestic with little more than a mailing address thewalrus.ca/carneys-buy-... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

FACT-CHECK: A new ‘quality of life study’ celebrated by Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is actually sourced from a dubious eastern European website While Sutcliffe claims the new 'study' proves Ottawa is the ‘most liveable’ city in North America, experts say the Serbian website’s data is unreliable

(NEW) Born of Struggle, Living in Hope: The Anarcho-Punk Lives of the Centro Iberico, 1971–83 leftwingbooks.net/products/born-of-struggle-living-in-hope A vivid, deeply researched account of the UK’s only enduring anarchist center of the 80s—a space where ideology, art & defiance collided.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

#OtD 12 Jan 1876 socialist novelist and journalist, Jack London, was born. Remembered for his remarkable novels 'The Call of the Wild' and 'White Fang', he inspired the likes of Orwell with the novel 'The Iron Heel' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8391...

Beautiful stuff

#OtD 28 Jan 2011 in response to the protests which began the Egyptian Revolution a few days earlier, the Egyptian government shut down internet and cell phone networks across the country, further fueling anger. The day became known as the Day of Rage stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1251...

#OtD 13 Jan 2010 Pedro Cuadrado's funeral was held. As a teenager he fought against Franco and was a POW in WWII. After the war he was interned in a camp in the UK. Later, he opened the much loved Pedro's Taverna in Bolton, England stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1250...

#OtD 13 Jan 1949 workers at Calvary Cemetery in NYC went on strike in the first recorded strike by Catholic laity against Catholic clergy. The cardinal—who wouldn't give workers Saturdays off—notably brought in seminary students as strikebreakers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8478...

#BoycottFIFA2026 It's time. The USA is a rogue nation and it's not safe any anyone to travel to. The footballing world needs to take a principled stand and not send their teams to play.

Minneapolis.

As people mobilize around the country, beware of claims that a sanitized version of "nonviolence" — passive, compliant and non-disruptive — is the only option. As @thefreeradical.org detailed in-depth, these myths are based on bad history and social science. They're meant to serve the status quo.

Love this street art, a mural of a hurler in action on a gable wall at the junction of South Terrace and Anglesea Street, Cork city. It is by Dublin artist ACHES. #StreetArt 🎨

I'd say this is depressing but most of my Bellingcat investigations were about things that happened in the U.S.

Every ICE officer should be tried for crimes against humanity.

Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

New Hood Politics w/ @prophiphop.bsky.social It's 2026, and while we tried our best to unplug during the holidays, the degeneration kept going strong. Let's talk about it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

#OtD 8 Jan 1932 Korean independence activist Lee Bong-chang threw a bomb at the car of the Japanese emperor as he returned from a military review. There were no fatalities, and Lee was promptly arrested and later sentenced to death stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1079...

Social movements are strong when the rowdy and the peaceful elements work in solidarity with one another. The myth of the provocateur is spread specifically because it undermines that solidarity.

The police don't need an excuse to use violence against a crowd. They are not playing 4D chess. They are there to control, contain, and/or disperse the crowd and will use whatever violence is necessary to accomplish those goals.