Community members in Minneapolis have built a vast rapid response network; patrols; witness and response to ICE presence; large-scale food deliveries; and care webs for those who are left behind by ICE. Many of these systems sprung to life along the paths laid down by the George Floyd uprisings.

The number of privileged people (lookin’ at ya, white Buddhists) that have expressed their sadness, helplessness, rage, despondence & *favored adjective to me & each time, when I’ve said to them, get on the streets, link up with like-minded folks, go into the community, their discomfort is palpable.

How can we better understand the psyche of individuals making such decisions, to better judge their actions? The psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe highlights a prevailing mindset of 'neoliberal exceptionalism' that allows us to ignore reality, reject limits & act with a "culture of uncare"

The REVEREND Nekima Levy Armstrong.

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

BIIIIIIG STRETCH if you got em! 🪶

This is the week that the US withdrawal from the WHO is supposed to be finalized I spoke with @npr.org about how damaging the withdrawal will be, especially since RFK Jr has greatly weakened US national capacity to tackle health emergencies www.npr.org/2026/01/20/g...

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.

The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...

We saw it early in the pandemic, in every climate shock & now in Minneapolis. The impulse of most people in a crisis is to share, connect & protect, often at risk to the self. Capitalism and existing power structures have trouble comprehending it and then often try to undermine it

Psychology of Deep Resilience 2026 is now LIVE! Registration remains open for both the free option and paid certificate option. Meet one of our new contemplative practice leaders, Yuria Celidwen! To engage with her practice, and access many more, register at the QR code or link in the graphics.

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Chicago cops steal not just phones from people. They steal money too. They do this REGULARLY. It has been documented over and over again.

Honest to Gods, the only real answer is in the Doing. That’s it. Get practical, figure out how to give and get support, organize, and then… DO IT. If you’re online with all of your outrage and none of the doing is happening, I don’t want to hear it. I literally don’t have the time for that. .

"An agent then “came, got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, ‘Are you afraid now?’” Callaghan recalled."

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

Corporate collaborators with ICE. You know what to do. Here’s some listed in the article: Dell. UPS. FedEx. Motorola Solutions. Comcast. AT&T. LexisNexis. Home Depot and Lowe’s. Always Amazon doing evil shit. And, Palantir, absolutely vile. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

I do kinda hope there’s a bunch of like university presidents and CEOs and such seeing Powell’s video and having at least a moment of like “oh, shit, yeah, I guess”

it’s really hard to talk about climate change and what we can do about it, but the payoff is huge people would rather hear it from you than the news (a dynamic I found endlessly frustrating as a climate reporter, hahaha)

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN ASIA Record heat from Middle East to Japan In CHINA records are already falling: 23,1C Changyang, January hottest day ever Next days several thousands of records will fall allover Asia,in the most record breaking event in Asian history.

One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.

Make it viral.

You gotta wonder if they looked at the Taliban and were like, yep, THAT, that’s just what we want for us…

There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.

As everyone talks about Greenland, don't forget its actual global significance--a two mile thick sheet of ice that if melted would raise the sea level 23 feet (and long before that choke off the currents of the Atlantic) open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

An "opposition" that refuses to clearly, insistently communicate what is happening—a party of Nazi pedophiles murdering Americans and traumatizing their children—should disband immediately

You want some good news? We @lokainitiative.bsky.social just launched our PREP (Preparing Religious Environmental Plans) course this week! 40 faith leaders from 15 countries are gathering for the next ten weeks to train together and develop their own faith-led environmental & climate projects!

PSA

This global neoliberal empire is in collapse, and it will create unimaginable devastation as it falls. As has always happened in human history. But we determine what emerges out of the ashes. We decide what is kept safe. We protect what must survive. We nourish what will thrive. We hold the future.

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Meditating on Luke 4:18 for Christmas Eve. "The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free.”

Read this important piece by lawyer Monica Roa on Fascism and Isolation vs. Democracy and Interconnection: The Narrative Antidote to Authoritarianism” horizonsproject.us/fascism-and-...

The Bad River Band is suing to protect its wild rice from an oil pipeline

I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

Everyone should take a couple of minutes and watch this, because it's a perfect illustration of how ICE disappears people by making it almost impossible to communicate with family, friends, and lawyers.

The karmic joy of being together on this day, the 10th year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, with the conductor maestro and climate policy matrairch herself, Christiana Figueres, surrounded by a sacred circle of new and old friends! Much gratitude to the Fetzer Institute for making this possible!

People are already doing what you say they *should be* doing. You could join them.

still thinking of the Smart Bros nodding sagely and saying how it's a terrible tactical mistake for dems to raise the salience of immigration

These satellite images demonstrate the extent of the devastation caused by Asia floods. 💔 "As climate change exacerbates natural disasters across Asia, more than 1,800 people have been killed by flooding and landslides in affected countries." www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.

Everything about this is utter nonsense: no cooling, radiation constantly destroying chips, lag, expensive startup and upgrade costs, etc. These are not serious people.

In Evanston tonight, outside Chicago— In the bitter cold, neighbors are gathered outside Lake Street Church for a vigil for ICE victims. This is where @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social preaches—the pastor arrested on camera by ISP at Broadview. Baby Jesus in zip ties. Mother Mary in a respirator.

Manjot Kaur’s While She Gave Birth to an Ecosystem.

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America is going to become one of the most openly repressive police states in history before this is over and people with power will continue to downplay it as conspiracy theory or doomerism to point it out. Because the people downplay what is happening are now part of the process of it happening.

"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals." An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.