“When massive crowds march around holding signs, it doesn’t change much. When a few…people break windows, it doesn’t change much. But when the massive crowds refuse to let the radical actors be picked off and isolated, suddenly you have…real power.” margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/theyre-goi...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

Canadians mad about ICE: Know that we are complicit and we are vulnerable. Canada is one of Palantir’s biggest funders, our pensions are tied to Palantir’s business. Which includes supporting ICE, profiting off genocide in Gaza, and human rights violations. ricochet.media/labour/billi...

600+ people still showed up for Legal Observers training in Minneapolis tonight. In addition to those currently on patrol. This minute. While the vigil is happening in South Mpls.

Hell yes, shut it all down. Call your representatives and tell them to actually do the only thing they can to halt this madness.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Here is the fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son, from a very trusted source.

The order I failed to comply was to move my car. I had one trooper at my driver side window yelling at me to move back, another one behind my car screaming for me to move forward. Which order do I comply with? Saying the Mpls woman should’ve complied is meaningless in a manufactured crisis.

In Canada, call or email Evan Solomon and demand he do his job as “Minister of AI and Digital innovation” to stop the CSAM and non-consensual porn. X should be banned in this country. 📞 416-972-2030 📧 [email protected]

Oof, Tailwind revenue cratering despite massive growth due to LLM usage not funnelling conversions github.com/tailwindlabs...

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...

First @showuptoronto.ca newsletter of the year is in your inbox! Lots of events to show up to, a rally this weekend, and some thoughts on social media paralysis. buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto

your mileage may vary but my experience on here improved pretty noticeably when I stopped offering explanations to people whose questions sought conflict rather than answers

MLPS - If you know anyone who wants whistles, send them our way. We are happy to send as many as we can (minimum 100), free of charge.

Amazon invented a problem: "we're gonna leave millions of valuable packages just laying on the side of the street every day" and then was like "oh no look at all these disgusting criminals taking advantage of you, here, buy this surveillance camera" and like 90% of Americans said "cool"

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Do I know anyone who knows anyone at Hazlitt? Their RSS feed has not updated since 2019, lol.

It’s a new year and things are still bad! If you want to join folks in Toronto who are doing organizing, activism, and mutual aid work to make things less bad, I run a calendar/newsletter that tracks it all. Newsletter returns tomorrow, or use the iCal/RSS feeds! Tell your friends! showuptoronto.ca

📱🧵: An Ontario court has sided with the IPC's decision last year and Global News' freedom of information request from 2022. A panel of three judges agreed that Premier Doug Ford makes work calls on his personal phone, and those should be released. Here's a recap. #OnPoli

Tell me some songs you like that are spiritual but not religious (or at the least, not Christian). Feel free to boost, I'm trying to gather resources.

A major use-case for AI is reality destabilization.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

A dear friend is Sbux union leader through Workers United and she clued me into 3 things. Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years. Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US. Shareholders are demanding they settle. Keep boycotting.

praxis

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

Not every Chotiner interview is him making some blowhard look foolish. Sometimes he has experts explaining complex situations in clear terms. Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...

I'm glad I spent most of the day talking to people outside the social media space, because I can see that many folks on here aren't processing fear, anger, or uncertainty very well — and reactivity has a way of compounding. A few things...

Venezuela Solidarity Coalition is bcling for a Toronto protest against illegal US actions of war in Venezuela at 3PM TODAY in front of the US Consulate at 360 University Avenue www.instagram.com/p/DTDYM9JkbnK/

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

This reality check should be driving all Canadian coverage of Venezuela today. And, the last time a US president mused with invading Canada, he switched to Venezuela right after.

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

Jesus fucking christ

Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

"If you want to go back to the old wobbly maxim--an injury to one is injury to all--you got to mean it," @kimkelly.bsky.social tells @jordantcamp.bsky.social in the new episode of Conjuncture. They discuss labor, solidarity, and her book, Fight Like Hell: trinitysocialjustice.com/kim-kelly-on...

uh holy SHIT?

Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."

if you haven't read jezebel's 2018 coverage of the listserv where 400+ "left-of-center" transphobic "journalists" methodically orchestrated the current moment, it's a good companion to the TNN interview: www.jezebel.com/private-mess...

I've published a new article: The Fog Around the City of Toronto Operating Budgets — And What To Do About It It's mostly about the need to change Toronto's budget accounting method, but covers a lot of other issues too. medium.com/@henrikbechm...

time for everyone to watch the best rendition of Bread and Roses from the best movie youtu.be/D6hIMsd6BlQ?...

Bread and Roses being sung at the inauguration of the largest city in the United States

CAN I HAVE NO PEACE

with 7 minutes to go I’m calling it, I read 61 books in 2025. not bad considering how my year has gone otherwise app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025...

I know the normal answer is that *well, people feel unsafe* Okay, fine. But if cities are getting safer but residents think the opposite, why? Is this the fault of tabloid media and tub-thumping politicians? The by-product of an aging and possibly more fearful population? Something else?

they should invent a year that's better than the one before it