Eric Dirnbach

Melania's film is so bad, they've released the Epstein files as a distraction.

Oh that's good.

CONGRATS DIANA!

Amazing that the two great worries of the far right over the past 10 years have been the existence of an elite pedophile conspiracy and growing state tyranny, and we now have both of these with Trump.

How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

General strikes are workers’ most powerful weapon. But it takes more than hashtags to make them real.

Here’s how we can build a real general strike to stop ICE in the US

www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-to-org...

Minnesota organizations have been organizing for years to get to the place where they could pull off a general strike. We don’t have years, but we can learn from them and scale up quickly. We have no choice!

A Ceasefire in Name Only The language of ceasefire has been repurposed in Gaza: It no longer describes a pause in violence but rather a mechanism for managing it.

"The language of ceasefire has been repurposed in Gaza: It no longer describes a pause in violence but rather a mechanism for managing it."
www.thenation.com/article/worl...

"Largely unconcerned and frequently unconstrained by law, Trump has found in his Department of Homeland Security what Jones warned was coming a decade ago: a paramilitary force to terrorize political opponents and demographic undesirables."

Congrats QAnon, you were kinda right!

"An unaccountable private army of the executive is not necessary to carry out any kind of humane immigration policy, and it is incompatible with democracy and freedom."

She Was a Key Voice of the 1990s Labor Movement in Nike’s Indonesia Factories. Today She Relies on Donations From Abroad. In 1992, Cicih Sukaesih led fellow Indonesian factory workers in a strike, part of a movement that led Nike to create its first code of conduct. She reflects on her achievements and what’s happened si...

I think I remember hearing about her in the 90s when I was involved with the student anti-sweatshop movement, an absolute hero.
www.propublica.org/article/nike...

Pro tip: Before you invite a seminar speaker, hire a big name at your institution, or cash a big check from a donor, throw their name in the search bar of the Epstein files.

Love maga social media comments like, "WAKE UP brainwashed SHEEP who blindly OBEY your masters, and BELIEVE PROPAGANDA and are too STUPID to know what's going on," which is perfect coming from maga.

The ACLU Wants to Shrink Workers’ Speech Protections The ACLU is trying to convince Trump’s labor board to overturn precedent that expansively protects workers’ speech rights. The nonprofit wants the NLRB to instead adopt narrower rules that make it muc...

The ACLU should look into this case of...the ACLU.
"...it is more than willing to torch the speech rights of tens of millions of Americans if doing so allows it to avoid reinstating a single worker that both an arbitrator & an NLRB ALJ have concluded they fired illegally"
jacobin.com/2026/01/aclu...

My fave stat of the day wow.
"Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."

The Melania movie is an American obscenity The vapid, corruption-soaked film, which celebrates the myth of the "good immigrant," is more revelatory than it seems.

An interminable slog of airbrushed nothingness. A pernicious celebration of the "good immigrant" myth. A ghastly parade of fun-house mirror herstory,

The Melania movie is an American obscenity.

ONA Nurses Against ICE

ONA member and big nurse puppet

AFSCME Local 1790

JWJ staff with research workers

Amazing to come together as a labor movement standing up to ICE.

The stakes are high. Recently, this administration's personal militia murdered a union member in broad daylight. Today, it gassed thousands of us members in Portland, preventing us from exercising our first amendment rights. UNLAWFUL!

leftists were exactly correct about everything and establishment dems did everything possible to ignore and ostracise them for decades. anyway, I blame leftists for what is happening

Haha the Citations Needed pod has a whole episode rant about them.

President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I will continue my lifelong boycott of this "film."

Same press conference where he refers to the Twin Cities as a “theater.”

Also, ”rhetoric led to ICE/CBP killing two Minnesotans” is quite a thing to admit

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

NYC's Speedy Snow Removal Under Mamdani Evokes Memories of 'Sewer Socialism' | Common Dreams The mayor’s response to the snowstorm has been described as an early test for his version of “common good” governance.

Mayor Snowran Mamdani.
www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Why Labor Unions Can’t Ignore ICE From agriculture to meatpacking to service work, immigration enforcement functions as labor discipline. Minnesota’s mass strike against ICE points toward a reckoning with the agency that the labor mov...

"ICE is not simply a border agency that occasionally intrudes into the economy. It is a labor-market institution: an apparatus that disciplines workers, structures whole industries, and makes organizing riskier."
jacobin.com/2026/01/minn...

People seem to have forgotten that the establishment of Homeland Security was highly controversial as it was seen as a danger to democracy. It was feared that it would one day be used AGAINST the American people. And here we are.

Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own

Stephen Miller going down at the power of the labor movement would be one of the proudest moments I'd witness in my nearly 20 years in organized labor.

Let's get it done.

When you think about it, pretty pathological that media firms basically just have horserace campaign politics journalists covering Trump when they have democracy and rule of law experts covering Orbán, Putin, etc

"Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports"