"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

Jacob Lawrence, "General Toussaint L’Ouverture, Statesman and Military Genius," from the Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture series, 1938

Fentanyl trafficking! The allegations in this Toronto police scandal are outrageous. Police are $1.43 billion of Toronto's $18.8 billion budget. Second only to transit. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Grassy Narrows protesters briefly interrupt Premier Ford speech at Mississauga Board of Trade event this morning Like and share the article below www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... #GrassyNarrows #FreeGrassy

“One young girl who kept coming up to me, a little girl who was hugging my leg, asking us to help get her out of there.” - Rep. Joaquin Castro

Snow Piles Reveal Pointless Pavement In the Wake of the Storm #sneckdown mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/02/s...

“You’re talking about an ambitious agenda, but you’re cutting the tools to implement that agenda,” said Pamela Isfeld, the president of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers. “It’s like the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.” www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

“Resilience is a concept that infuriates me; it guilds suffering with nobility, distracting from what’s causing suffering.”

That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)

Statement from the National Association of Black Journalists on the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. nabjonline.org/blog/nabjout...

BREAKING: Federal Court of Appeal affirms Canada's move to regulate plastic as a toxic pollutant. The case dragged on for years but the decision vindicates our fight for the right to protect the environment and people from US-owned petrochem! www.fca-caf.ca/en/pages/dec... #plasticpollution

This is WYOMING, people!

In December, the Canadian government gave $1 million to Ottawa's JSI Telecom to commercialize AI-driven data analytics. JSI, a wiretaps and investigation support firm, had a banner year in U.S. government sales in 2025, including a big new contract with ICE. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

A bloodbath at The Washington Post. What a terrible day for journalism.

If ICE is emboldened to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens in broad daylight, imagine what's happening to the tens of thousands of people being held in makeshift detention camps across the US without cameras, attorneys and organizers

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun https://theonion.com/police-repeatedly-shoot-tim-cook-after-mistaking-iphone-1824184361/

It was the NBA cancelling games that got everyone’s attention on COVID.

Yep. It's the correct term. That it makes people uncomfortable is more reason to use accurate language.

Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute charged with conspiracy in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan today by the AG for raising costs and destroying the climate. www.freep.com/story/money/...

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

“For weeks, Democrats have pushed to require ICE agents to obtain the necessary judicial warrants ahead of any murders they plan to commit,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said in a joint statement on the current Homeland Security funding bill

ICE has detained Native American citizens in mass immigration sweeps—holding Oglala Sioux men at Fort Snelling, a former Indigenous prison site, stopping others based on skin color, and demanding proof of citizenship. Tribal leaders call it racial profiling and a sovereignty violation. Read more:

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle. No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

Let the historical record note that the business elites at Davos repeatedly laughed during a fascist speech that declared intent to annex another country’s land, promoted election conspiracies and railed against the free press

America, the land that is catching up with developing countries.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Hwy 413 EIAR confirms Ontario government sticking to its most ecologically destructive route environmentaldefence.ca/2026/01/19/h... #Stopthe413 #ONpoli

From Palestine protests to Indigenous land defence, police are dusting off old, abandoned court orders—”zombie” injunctions—to threaten or arrest organizers @irinaceric.bsky.social explains how these legal threats are being used to chill social movements. breachmedia.ca/police-using...

An anti-colonial international law intervention means standing with Greenland, not with Denmark @cschwobelpatel.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/19/g...

Canadians can now offer feedback on a proposed nuclear waste storage facility in northern Ontario, as a years-long assessment of the project kicks off. Via Northwestern Ontario Newswatch: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nucl...

Many friends asking what it is like in Minnesota right now. This video-clip tells. Masked men w/ guns in ordinary places (gas stations, grocery stores, cruising streets) intimidating ordinary people & instilling fear. As a terrorism expert, I think about the logic of government instilling fear.

🔊 'When I showed up there was an incredible amount of tear gas and flash bangs and angry neighbors who were coming out of their homes because there was clouds of chemical irritants.' Reuters senior photographer Leah Millis on what it’s like on the ground in Minneapolis reut.rs/49GnKC6

Second www.huffpost.com/entry/minnea...

Breaking: 30 UN experts have strongly condemned US invasion of Venezuela. 'It is gravely concerning that, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, this marks 2nd time in 4yrs a Permanent Member of the Security Council has carried out an armed attack in flagrant violation of the UN Charter.'

Great reporting from @hannahgais.bsky.social that includes some of our archival data from Telegram

When a TV guest goes the predictable route of claiming they're "paid protestors," hosts must immediately ask if they have any proof. When they sputter that they're guessing, ask if *they* were paid to come on TV and lie about it. No? You're offended by that? Gosh, I'm just guessing here like you.

Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I missed this last week, y'know, in the midst of the news that dominated, which was the fascist, criminal ICE organization murdering a citizen. globalnews.ca/news/1155832...

Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school. 📸: Jerry Holt

JUST IN: Illinois sues Trump administration over use of federal forces in state reut.rs/4sCztu1

The U.S. has one of the most rigorous systems of federal law to protect clean air and water, and still very often fails. Giving up on even considering lives saved means more death guaranteed. E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

New blog post! China is starting to relinquish "developing country" status -- a move that could have seismic implications for the #plasticstreaty and other international negotiations. medium.com/@climatesail...