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The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

YouTube video by RosenzweigBenjamin Monty Python Philosophy Football

Reminds me of the philosopher football match

Southernizing MLK is a comfortable story. Examining his participation in northern struggles against racism—rent strikes, school strikes— complicates this history.

Basically this:

Reminds me of this classic:

Nikita Khrushchev: The difference between the Soviet Union and China is that I rose to power from the peasant class, whereas you came from the privileged Mandarin class.

Zhou Enlai: True. But there is this similarity. Each of us is a traitor to his class.

The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.

Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...

I was on a 5 in the Joralemon Tunnel when this happened, and they actually reversed our train back to Borough Hall. Never seen that happen before. We wound up on the Brooklyn-bound platform of Borough Hall Station.

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Streets of Minneapolis

I think it's good for right-wing boomers to be reminded that their idols despise them.

🇻🇪 Leaked audio from Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez revealed that in the minutes following the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, U.S. officials explicitly threatened her life and that of other ranking Chavista figures if they did not cooperate. "The threats began from the very first minute they kidnapped the president. They gave Diosdado Cabello [the interior minister], Jorge [Rodríguez, head of the National Assembly] and me 15 minutes to respond, or they would kill us.” The leaked audio, first obtained by La Hora de Venezuela, from the acting president, delivered during a meeting with government officials and independent communicators on January 10th, shows the level of pressure Rodríguez continues to endure in the face of an extraordinary situation in Venezuela. The interim president called for “unity” amid rumors suggesting treasonous actions. Rodríguez is balancing demands from the White House with the Bolivarian grassroots, who continue to march daily to express their rejection of the U.S. attack on Venezuela and demand the return of Maduro and Cilia Flores.

🇻🇪 Leaked audio from Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez revealed that in the minutes following the kidnapping of Maduro, U.S. officials explicitly threatened her life and that of other ranking Chavista figures if they did not cooperate.

"The threats began from the very first minute they...

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

ICE just murdered another person in Minneapolis.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Been thinking about this again with the further escalations of ICE/DHS thuggery, along with the perpetual discourse that frames this dialectical contradiction as mutually exclusive stances.

Why is the search function on @bsky.app so atrociously bad?

🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:

Reportedly, HRPT has declined to renew the contract expiring in June.

World's longest metro networks at the beginning of 2026, by region.

World's longest metro networks at the end of 1990, by region

In 1990, of the 20 largest metro networks globally, 4 were in US & 8 in Europe.

Today, 13 are in China, 1 in US & 1 in Europe.

New York City's metro network (Subway/PATH) fell in the ranking from #3 to #15. Delhi's system will be longer than NYC's soon!

www.thetransportpolitic.com/2026/01/20/t...

Making a pot of tea to prepare for my ritual reading of Letter from Birmingham Jail

(Reposting with better link)

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The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

What even is the Fourteenth Amendment anyway?

A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:

46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE

This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Last I heard, not a single Democratic senator has taken up this position. The fact that the base can run up these huge margins on policies like abolishing ICE or Medicare for All, with little to no support from the Party should tell you all you need to know about who they actually represent.

An appeal to “color blindness” was always a cover for a retrenchment of white supremacy in the same way that an appeal to “legal immigration” was always a cover for the rejection of all immigrants.

No greater crime in America than being right too early.

A core conservative belief is that the cops can gun down anyone they want to on the street, based on vibes.

Meanwhile, they call socialists "authoritarian".

Venezuela Isn’t a Set of Talking Points — It’s a Country With a History Longtime scholar of Venezuelan politics Geo Maher offers crucial context that is often missing from mainstream coverage.

Longtime scholar of Venezuelan politics Geo Maher offers crucial context that is often missing from mainstream coverage.

Great observation here. Vehicles are legitimate weapons of self defense if you’re a right wing protester but if you’re a liberal trying to drive away from trouble they’re deadly weapons you’ve used in an act of terrorism.