now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why

"this time no one will be left to drown and all of us must be chosen. This time it's all of us or none." ~ Aurora Levins Morales, Red Sea www.auroralevinsmorales.com/red-sea.html

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

shorturl.at/jjijt "As scientists, it is our duty to be brave, to stand with our values, and to make sure that science is something that is life-making. It means standing with those and linking arms with those who are most vulnerable. To get to them, you’ll have to get through us.”

Minnesota is the best of us.

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

One of the big trends in opposition activism during Trump 2.0 has been the localism of protest. This level of organizing is pretty astonishing to watch, and anyone who insists that there haven't been any protests against Trump is simply ignoring it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

I would absolutely love to give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise that tomorrow, not today, you purchase from Bookshop.org to benefit a Twin Cities bookstore.

UPDATE: Now, 215 Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions are being held around the country. This could create serious momentum for strikes in other cities where ICE attacks. paydayreport.com/minneap/

see you at the general strike tomorrow!

I am so proud that I am in the company of so many brilliant, brave humans. We stand in our values. We stand together.

Minneapolis is showing how neighbors take care of each other and keep each other safe--let's learn from their examples and lay the groundwork where we live www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Here’s How We Pressured an Airline to End Its Contract With ICE truthout.org/articles/her...

If you’ve been trying to keep doing your work while the floor keeps moving under all of us: same. Scientists in Solidarity is back with Action Hours get grounded find your people move together Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (Also building a small leadership team—DM me if you want in.)

I did a brave thing and set up a book reading for my draft-in-progress. Tonight at Hooked in Lansing, MI! Special thanks to Beth Pickens and the Parakeet community for helping me birth this.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Nonviolent discipline is helping turn the tide on ICE wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/nonv...

Stop aiming for people who disagree with you to agree with you, aim to get those who agree with you to do something.

timely reminder of this resource

to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy

deep awe, deep love for the brilliance and bravery of us "everyday" people

When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.

New in @us.theconversation.com: Science is best communicated through identity & culture — how researchers from marginalized communities are reshaping science communication as relationship-building, belonging, and service. Plus: I made a comic to go with it 🧪💬📚 theconversation.com/science-is-b...

I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Talk to our Neighbors about ICE: Phone Bank with SURJ!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

come join me tonight!

@adambonica.bsky.social writes: "The old playbook was caution: promise little, deliver less, call it pragmatism...Political pragmatism is not about fighting only the battles you expect to win. It is the refusal to let probable failure dictate what you attempt" bit.ly/4jFyJjT

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

"The biggest lesson the four of us have learned over this past year is that what feels impossible and overwhelming when you’re sitting by yourself can begin to feel achievable and urgent when you are working with others that share your values"

“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

Honoring the many responses to Renee Nicole Good’s murder wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/hono...

If we want to have power, let's name when we exert that power -- especially since the mainstream media or our opposition won't give us that credit.

another win, another fine example of the strategy of imposing costs variety.com/2026/digital...

excellent piece on our addiction to webinars, how webinars are insufficient to build a committed base of volunteers and donors alike (and are a part of our funding gaps right now), and ways we can shift virtual gatherings to build more commitment and connection www.unasbtheclub.com/p/the-revolu...

First @unbreaking.org briefing of the year 👀 Deeply grateful for this volunteer-powered formation helping us face this moment clear-eyed and regulated. We draw on it regularly for Scientists in Solidarity. Join the mutual aid info network: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump wagingnonviolence.org/2025/05/camp...

this I know "to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm attending Working Families Party's event, “Working Families Party Mass Calls” - sign up now to join me! #willingtofight www.mobilize.us/hearamerica/...

Woah the US withdrawing from this feels like it could be a big deal, and very bad news indeed. This has been one of the primary means of coordinating the scientific community's advice giving to governments and international organisations.

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

organizing works ORGANIZING WON www.businessinsider.com/avelo-wont-o...

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

we are in an immense struggle together we are trying new things together, we are learning to practice democracy how can we make sure we have as much compassion as we do rigor as we practice democracy together?

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “#NoKingsNoColonies Stop Big Oil's War on Venezuela” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

I'm attending Healthcare Not Warfare's event, “Mass Call: Healthcare Not Warfare” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/healthcareno...

Community members in Kenner, Louisiana, activate rapid-response teams to follow Greg Bovino and his Border Patrol goons through the neighborhood. They alert residents and warn them not to open their doors unless CBP has a court-ordered warrant.