Stumbling forward

Just a reminder that Trump loved former president Duterte’s brutal policies in the Philippines.

[*blinks repeatedly* in mass homelessness]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Live: Arrests at Whipple after tense protest, somber scene at Good memorial The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said a deputy was struck in the head and a vehicle damaged. A memorial for Renee Good was held this afternoon at Powderhorn Park.

As Le Monde writes: The truth of democratic reawakening is to be seen everyday in Minneapolis. "We got pepper sprayed in the face, and we're still here," Tayler Mitchell, 31, said. "No matter what happens, we'll be here." bit.ly/4kxyNmb

genocide

Can’t verify this but frankly it explains a lot.

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

Varcoe: Pathways Alliance executive chair exits as deadline nears for massive carbon capture project Massive carbon capture project worth $16.5-billion proposed by group which includes Suncor Energy, Cenovus Energy, and Imperial Oil.

Riddle me the degrees of separation between imperial oil and the last person quoted in this article calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

I want to thank everyone who helped meet this goal. In this rough time, we need all the wins we can get, and welcoming Stevie home with the support he needs is a beautiful win.

Democratic Party leadership really just calling for “reform” of this shit

When the Headlines Change but the Violence Doesn’t “This is not a cruel novelty project. It’s infrastructure, designed for permanence and expansion.”

My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere.

(Plus resources and my must-reads list!)

gotta agree with this. at some point we all have to contend with what good faith is actually for and extend it accordingly

"Nota Bene? More like Nota Bastarda!"

bring back shame

It was 17 Celsius in Calgary yesterday.

Alberta justice minister uses powers from recently-passed law to veto $780K law foundation grant The grant makes up 99 percent of the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre’s 2026 funding

“In this case, the government of Alberta has done what appears to be a politicization of the whole process and basically hijacked the organization and the millions and millions of dollars that it administers, which it has administered for decades to fund..

www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

What It Means to Be ‘Touch-Starved’

What It Means to Be ‘Touch-Starved’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w...

Racism has a material impact on people's lives. I don't know what else to say. It leads to premature death on a daily basis.

“in order to protect our core democratic values we need to continuously steal the land. British Columbia IS colonialism and genocide. its right there in the name.”

Alberta started this exact policy under Jason Kenney. Bad policy but really shows how the right policy machine works across borders. If only progressive forces were as well organized.

in the elite circles of the US, racism is treated less as a matter of social stratification with direct implications for political stakes and more as a matter of moral etiquette. it is even more notable, then, that this administration can't constrain themselves to the meager associated standards

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)

Reform’s treasurer appears to have Epstein links.
Farage’s public links to Bannon should be alarming everyone, certainly more than they appear to be.

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.

I, for one, question whether this guy's tech should be integrated into every government system.

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"They bought or inherited aging apartment buildings, hoping to bring home a little extra cash"

... bought, or inherited, whole ass apartment buildings

The problem with the so-called "nonviolence" of the Civil Rights Era is that it is misnarrated. The retelling in the "American myth of progress" version of the Civil Rights movement was that it was completely nonviolent.

That is not true. Plus let's call it its full name "nonviolent direct action"

Your ancestors weren't built to take abuse. Matter of fact, they had to literally train to accept it!

They were fighters. That was outside of their nature.

But they did it for you....today.

Stop saying "We are not our ancestors."

bring back shame