1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

For those of you interested, there is a relatively new podcast on democratic breakdown from Cornell's Center on Global Democracy led by @beattyriedl.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/democratic-d...

Senegal, what a goal! #afcon

Israel continues to deliberately starve the Palestinian people. Our governments are facilitating this crime. But we can help Palestinians trying to feed the people of Gaza. Please give whatever support you can. chuffed.org/project/1602...

I really wish that more of the response to the whole Greenland situation was "Greenland is already colonized and cannot gain anything from its colonial rule being switched from one malevolent racist nation to another." Kalaallit, Inughuit and Tunumiit should be free, autonomous people.

leaving this @hammerandhope.bsky.social article here hammerandhope.org/article/unde...

Child mortality crisis continues in Gaza, with more than 100 killed since ceasefire

Trump launches a trade war with former European allies over Greenland.

Has someone made a starter pack for African politics accounts on Bluesky?

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Truly damning investigative reporting in @rollingstone.com on how Danish researchers long favored by RFK.Jr for their studies which cast doubt on vaccines,secured a no bid grant to fund the unethical trial in Guinea Bissau. This read is worth your time. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

I like to pull together the latest work on gender and politics from the global south a few times a year, mostly as an accountability mechanism to keep up. Here's the latest one with articles published since September 2025: open.substack.com/pub/genderpo... #GenderSky #PoliSky

Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.

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"Here’s the core finding we keep coming back to: Americans support “strict immigration enforcement” in the abstract, for a vague person who has broken the law, but oppose enforcement in practice, when enforcement means violence and your neighbors disappearing" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/support-fo...

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits. AI poses a grave threat to students' cognitive development. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

“This is another Tuskegee” is not hyperbole. good reporting from IM

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

The Trump administration has stopped processing visas for 75 countries indefinitely, most of which are in Africa.

The history of civilian mass detention on the basis of identity without due process or recourse (which is how I defined concentration camps in my history of them) shows that it invariably leads to permanent harm—and typically significant loss of life as well. The longer it goes on the worse it gets.

"But résumé studies only measure callbacks. They don’t tell us who actually gets hired." These authors of this brand new preprint wanted to know whether discrimination measured in résumé studies shows up in real hiring. So they linked a large résumé audit experiment to actual employment data.

Two days before its general elections, Uganda has turned off the internet across the country. President Yoweri Museveni will be on the ballot for the seventh time, running to extend his 40-year tenure restofworld.org/2026/uganda-...

Always hard to narrow down to five, but I’d have had these two too.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

We must stress: The only violence is coming from CBP/ICE. They are rioting in the face of sustained nonviolent protests by thousands of Americans across the country. They are today’s Alabama State Troopers at the Selma bridge. They are Bull Connor’s police with firehoses in Birmingham.

These authors wanted to know whether people with physical disabilities face discrimination in hiring: even when they are equally qualified. So they ran an experiment.

I am so very sorry to hear about the passing about my friend and colleague Professor Kimuli Kasara. She was a brilliant scholar and a bright, funny, warm person. I remember first meeting her as the only other Black woman/faculty at the Columbia political econ seminar and feeling relief/happiness

pretty harrowing first person account of a Kavanaugh stop

In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos. This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.

Civil society condemns ‘dangerous’ UK govt plans for more anti-protest powers. Police must consider the “cumulative impact” of protests in the same area Example: An anti-racist march could be blocked from Whitehall because of a previous farmers’ protest. Civil rights constantly eroded.

Question for anyone who has worked in a Congressional office - would you screen calls from an international number? I used to call my reps from Skype, which showed my US # and area code, but that's gone, so now the only option is my UK #. (And I do email but that's less impactful.)

"The plan includes the construction of “cities” made of containers (residential caravans) within the green zone, each designed to house around 25,000 people within an area not exceeding one square kilometre. These cities are to be surrounded by fences and checkpoints" That's a prison, not a city

I had no idea the material conditions in Iran had degraded so badly. As the speaker, Prof Fatemeh Shams explains later, these are explosive, borderline revolutionary conditions, much more serious than previous rounds of mass protest

From @harshawalia.bsky.social, a must read:

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

"more training will solve this" is easily debunked by the fact that the killer was a trainer at ICE. It's a barrel of bad apples that exists to produce bad apples and the solution is you woodchip the barrel and compost the apples and try something else. www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

When I was a child in Nigeria, growing up under military rule, I had to see soldiers in uniforms roaming the streets with guns, it was always a tense sight. Now I am an adult in DC/America, under democratic rule, and I still have to see soldiers in uniform roaming the streets with guns...yeah

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

Sadly, this is not at all unusual. There have been numerous incidents where cops screamed contradictory instructions at terrified citizens and then shot them for disobeying one of the edicts.

This is useful. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

The person who was shot in the face here is a local organizer who has been very active in the Movement for Black lives.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Impeachment is the beginning of accountability, not the end. It's the most basic duty that a member of Congress has. Each member swears an oath to support and defend the Constitution. If they are not calling for his impeachment, they are violating the oath they swore. Impeach, convict, remove.

This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...