Timothy Vollmer

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...

Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal si…

High-volume publishing leading to high-volume retractions.

Testimonial graphic with decorative abstract circles in orange, blue, and tan on a soft yellow and blue gradient background. The heading reads 'What are your hopes for the new contract?' in dark blue text. Below is a white text box containing a quote from Erika S. UCD that reads: 'As a writing teacher, every week I'm seeing between 50-75 students in my classes. I know all of their names and speak with them often during office hours and in appointments. I give feedback on drafts, I meet with current and former students to give them feedback on graduate school applications, I write recommendation letters. I speak with students about the challenges they're facing and help them connect with resources. I hear about their dreams for the future, their fears and insecurities, and the ideas and causes they are passionate about. My hopes for the new contract are that we can get benefits for more people working at lower appointment percentages. People who benefit the university should have benefits!' At the bottom of the image is the UC-AFT Local 1474 logo showing an outline of California with a torch symbol, alongside the website www.weteachuc.org.

We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?”

Here’s the response of Erika S. from the UCD Writing Center.

Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance

Trump runs into billionaire at Davos who serves as a go-between for Harvard. He said he would lower his price.

This is how the future of higher education, research, and learning in the US is being negotiated. It’s like a bad movie.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

VIl. CONCLUSION There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that. By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705. Ana C. Reyes Date: February 2, 2026 ANA C. REYES United States District Judge

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

California state employees alarmed by demand to prove their citizenship or work eligibility Thousands of health department employees were told they must use the E-Verify system to keep funding. They are pushing back.

SEIU Local 1000 President Anica Walls told CalMatters in an email that forcing all employees to use E-Verify “raised serious concerns for our members about privacy, data security, and the unnecessary re-verification of workers who are already legally employed.” calmatters.org/economy/tech...

FBI official doesn't know where Wisconsin is, per Epstein release.

"I just googled because I really didnt know lol. Looks northwest of Chicago"

From: Larry Summers < To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:54:40 +0000 Jamaica very good Kids great though tired of some of their admiration for Bernie sanders. How ru? Sent from my iPad

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

It's Not a General Strike, but it's a Start January 30th has been set as a nationwide day of action against the campaign of state terror carried out by ICE and other DHS agencies. Some have referred to the 30th as a ‘general strike’. In this ar...

NEW: It's Not a General Strike, but It's a Start 🪧🚩🏴

Will January 30th see a true general strike? Almost certainly not.

But that doesn't mean we should write it off, argues BRRN member and rank-and-file unionist Cameron Pádraig.

www.blackrosefed.org/not-a-genera...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards

large group of cyclists gather together outside at a city location with trees and buildings in the background

cyclist with speakers and protest signs attached to rear of bicycle

selfie of cyclist in helmet and sunglasses with other bikers behind

dog smiles peering out of a bike trailer with other cyclists behind

East bay solidarity ride in remembrance of Alex Pretti. Abolish ICE! @bikeeastbay.bsky.social

Licensing Is Speedrunning the Destruction of the Historical Record (Again) Or, please stop setting the open web on fire and then invoicing libraries for the smoke damage.

“When publishers choke off access because they fear AI scraping, they're not just deterring some hypothetical bot…also making it harder for journalists, researchers, advocates, lawyers to establish what was publicly said, when, and how it changed.”
copyrightfightclub.substack.com/p/licensing-...

Union protesters removed after interrupting forum with UC president The event, titled “Introducing U.C. President James B. Milliken,” was hosted by the Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California, an organization that regularly hosts high-profile public forums.

AFSCME workers deserve a fair contract. Milliken could do something about it, but seems too busy taking credit for the grassroots advocacy and successful legal defense mounted by faculty and union workers against Trump’s financial and ideological shakedown of UC. www.dailycal.org/news/uc/unio...

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Wait til you hear what they’re doing to school and public librarians. This guy wouldn’t last a day at the desk.

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

UC Berkeley students rally against ICE About 300 UC Berkeley students and community members rallied yesterday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on the steps of Sproul Hall.

Solidarity with UCB students standing against ICE terror in Minneapolis and everywhere. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

"WE RIDE IN UNITY SAT 1/31 2026 10:00 AM MEET 10:30 AM ROLL EAST BAY RIDE: ROCKRIDGE BART PLAZA RIDE TOGETHER STAND TOGETHER"

"Alex was one of us, could’ve been any of us, so as we mourn, all of us can come together in unity to remember Alex for what he was."

Join us for a memorial ride, 10am Saturday at Rockridge BART.

There will be donations requested for local Bay Area ICE defense networks & for Minneapolis orgs.

BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes.

This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

What happens when we build a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape?

On this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, @SamuelMoore.org & @HJoseph.bsky.social discuss PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & reimagining open access.

🎧 Tune in ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pub...

At the most fundamental level, the Trump admin is still treating peaceful protesters as the aggressors and the heavily armed government militias as the victims, even though Homan, Miller, Noem, Trump have spent months torquing them into a frenzy of hate and telling them they can act with impunity.

It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened

Don’t worry, guys. I just opened LinkedIn, and everything seems to be fine.

This has the same stink as the endless "Biden very mad at Netanyahu" articles in 2024. Managed PR masquerading as policy change, and a pliant media willing to do the leg work for them for free. Really gross stuff.

Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE - The American Prospect Executives who lobbied for Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which enabled the immigration terror in their state, now want everyone to believe they are on the people’s side.

The weak "deesclation of tensions" letter from large Minnesota businesses elides how instrumental they were in the creation of Operation Metro Surge, through public support & active lobbying for the Big Beautiful Bill that allocated $170 billion for mass deportation.

Meta:

✅ Sexual chat bots for children

❌ Website unmasking ICE gestapo agents who kidnap children

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”