risk management m.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...

The Cicero Institute, created by tech investor Joe Lonsdale, has been promoting aggressive policies targeting encampments for the unhoused & pushing cities to move away from Housing First, the U.S.’s primary model for responding to chronic homelessness. truthout.org/articles/a-t...

tRump is proposing to whack us w/ a $75B tax increase to put pressure on Denmark & the rest of the EU to give him Greenland. If you missed Trump’s plans to hit us w/ this tax hike it’s because of the consistently awful reporting we get from major media outlets. www.alternet.org/trump-denmark/

Lebensraum was the political philosophy that guided 20th century German expansionism. It reached its most lethal expression under Hitler. Rooted in racism, nationalism, & imperialism, it asserted a natural right to dominate land w/in its “sphere of influence.” www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/20/w...

European governments are rallying behind Denmark & Greenland, citing the need to defend Arctic regions & warning that tRump’s threats against Greenland undermine western security. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

guide to tRump’s 2nd term military strikes & actions tRump has steadily expanded his use of military force abroad. Many of his actions mirror those of previous administrations, but diverge from the president’s past opposition to foreign military commitments. www.cfr.org/articles/gui...

The Department of Defense has placed roughly 1,500 active-duty Army soldiers on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota following escalating unrest in Minneapolis tied to federal immigration enforcement operations. www.military.com/feature/2026...

parasite

02.02.20 Demos did nothing to change the vicious cycle of wealth & power that had rigged the economy for the benefit of those at the top & undermined the working class. Democrats don’t have a ‘white working-class’ problem. They have a ‘working class problem’. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

State authorities in Colorado are stepping in after a disturbing confrontation at a Durango protest that again places ICE actions under scrutiny & raises serious questions about accountability & transparency. www.knowyourrightscamp.org/post/colorad...

Under the tRump administration, the politics of diversion has hardened into a governing strategy & been normalized by a compliant mainstream media ecosystem. www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/19/t...

The claimed invitation has come as Putin shows no signs of ending his invasion of Ukraine, in which hundreds of thousands have been killed & Russian troops have carried out multiple atrocities against civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

is it dead yet?

The scheduled Jan. 22 hearing comes after Smith sat for more than 8 hours for a closed-door deposition w/ the RepubliCON-led committee in December regarding his investigations into tRump. Smith had requested a public hearing before that testimony, but CONS refused. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Roughly 1,500 active-duty soldiers are reportedly preparing for possible deployment in Minnesota following Donald Trump’s threats to invoke the Insurrection Act to crush protests against a surge of federal immigration officers in the state. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Only a small number of people showed up for Lang’s demonstration while hundreds of counterprotesters converged at the site, yelling over his attempts to speak & chasing the pro-ICE group away. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What is unfolding in Minneapolis reflects a broader national shift: federal immigration authorities are pushing the limits of their power, deploying to cities w/ little formal coordination w/ local officials, a move that is creating confusion, fear & mistrust. www.npr.org/2026/01/17/n...

Federal prosecutors say Gregory Vandenberg was traveling from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, California, when he purchased fireworks in New Mexico. Court records say he told a store clerk he intended to throw them at police officers during the protests. www.kob.com/new-mexico/f...

A jury has convicted a former Navy SEAL w/ neo-Nazi beliefs of transporting fireworks across state lines w/ plans to shoot explosives at police during last year's “No Kings” protest in San Diego, www.military.com/daily-news/2...

There is no sign of the price increases stopping anytime soon, indeed, the change from November to December, a 0.7 percent uptick in food costs, was the fastest increase in grocery store prices in over 3 years. truthout.org/articles/dec...

AfD politicians welcomed J. D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, but they understand that the pursuit of the American national interest will come at Europe’s, and thus Germany’s, expense. jacobin.com/2026/01/germ...

Mark Davis took responsibility for the ploy in a Friday X post – as polling showed most Americans believe the killing of Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent demonstrated problems w/ the way ICE has been operating. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The disclosure form revealed that Trump purchased two sets of Netflix bonds, each valued between $250,001-$500,000, w/ the first acquisition taking place on December 12 & the second one closing on December 16. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The Minnesota District Court issued a PI (preliminary injunction) expressly forbidding ICE & other Federal agents in Minnesota from attacking & retaliating against observers and bystanders. annepmitchell.substack.com/p/yes-yes-om...

After ICE Agent Shoots Man, ICE Documents Were Uncovered fb.watch/EGwR9aR4cg/

In the summer of 2018, “Abolish ICE” became a rallying cry as 1000's took to the streets to protest immigrant family separations in tRump’s 1st term. It spluttered as Demo leaders declared the slogan a divisive demand that would hurt Democrats’ electoral chances. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE has the legal authority to enforce federal immigration laws. But what they’re doing is a sort of lawless, violent behavior that goes beyond their legal function & foments the situation tRump wants to suppress. apnews.com/article/trum...

The vague & rarely used law gives the president broad power to deploy the military domestically… but it’s not a blank check. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The new directive, part of a broader effort to increase scrutiny of research done w/ foreign partners, asks workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating w/ its scientists. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The class-action suit accuses agencies like DHS, ICE & Border Patrol of “violently stopping & arresting countless Minnesotans based on nothing more than their race & perceived ethnicity irrespective of their citizenship or immigration status. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

ICE sadists target women for the worst forms of violence & humiliation, advancing the colonial tradition of reserving particularly intense hatred for those who bear & most often nurture children, and therefore, protect & promote the future of their people. www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/16/t...

Carney has sought to reset ties as part of a broader effort to reduce Canada’s reliance on the US. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The deposition pages of Mark Epstein's deposition, which are identified as pages 48 - 50 of his deposition, talk about Trump taking rides on Jeffrey's plane, and the *last* sentence on page 50 is "Q: Were there girls on the plane? annepmitchell.substack.com/p/i-have-unc...

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Bob Marley

We might want to speculate on how the markets would react in the event that trump does decide to end American democracy. We now know that most of the big money boys couldn’t care less about democracy. www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/15/t...

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a christian nation…

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I put an end to what does not please me. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too. - Ulrike Marie Meinhof

It is almost as if ICE & other deportation agents are reveling in the hypocrisy & double standards that the Trump administration’s unqualified defense of their behavior has given them license to indulge in. jacobin.com/2026/01/ice-...

There are no in-house critics in tRump’s second term (2025-2029), which may be more apocalyptic, leading to the derogation of America’s democracy & greater use of force at home & abroad. www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/14/d...

Users of the Grok forum on Reddit have been sharing tips on how to generate the most hardcore pornographic images possible using pictures of real women. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...