Naomi Klein

I ended the night as the guest of queer, observant Jews who have been organizing nonstop against ICE.

Observant Muslims fed us and everyone else at protests.

An indigenous organizer spoke to us of the creator.

Every church we saw had messages of inclusion and antifascism on their marquees.

Trump's "board of peace" seems mainly like a post-presidency grift for the trump family - yes a way to usurp the UN but also to keep monetizing the presidency out of office.

Not unlike the Clinton Global Initiative, I'm afraid. But with more private $$ to the family and less do-gooder veneer.

in fact "they" not only built but bought a giant pipeline to the Pacific

One of the most important parts of independent media is that you can ask politicians the kind of questions that fake news corporate slop won't!

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy.

Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

that is so kind, thank you!

maybe a misunderstanding - i was saying you can watch the debates but not vote if you aren't a member, even if you donated. I had donated but found out I wasn't a member, so if I hadn't joined last week I wouldn't have been able to vote. If that makes sense...'

Tell Congress: Oppose All Funding for ICE Without Systemic Reforms ICE has operated for years with extraordinary power and almost no accountability. The result has been predictable and d

Congress released a DHS funding bill that doesn’t rein in ICE nor significantly reduce its funding.

Contact your reps to demand they vote no on any funding bill allowing ICE to continue its abuses:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/oppose-funding-for-ice/?source=group-ShortText

He had lines down the block in Vancouver Sunday, hundreds out in Edmonton (!) yesterday, Calgary tomorrow.

It's within reach - but you gotta reach!

Obviously I'm biased but Avi's campaign is on fire.

Folks are realizing that we can have a national party that represents our values, weaves our movements together and - for starters - pushes Carney to do way better on climate, housing, healthcare, Palestine.

act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-nd...

🧵Canadian friends: if you want to vote for the next leader of the NDP, you have *just one week left* to buy a (cheap) party membership.

After that, there will be a big English debate and lots of media coverage, but it will be too late to have a say.

Only members can vote for leader.

link below:

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

Absolutely essential from @polgreen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

"It was a bunch of empty promises from a bunch of Wall Street types who abandoned their pledges when it was no longer convenient,” said a former BlackRock executive who requested anonymity to speak freely about their former employer.

“We marched up the hill, and we marched back down it.”

How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change

I published This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate in 2014. Lots of serious people explained that we didn't have time to tackle capitalism, climate was too important. Let the market fix it for us.

The track record is 12 wasted years and a world on fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...

Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.

Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

Judge slams government for conspiring to chill free speech of pro-Palestine students U.S. District Judge William Young said he’d force the Trump administration to “jump through hoops” if it wants to deport more pro-Palestine protesters.

New: “This is the modern Fugitive Slave Act,” said a judge when describing ICE behavior nationwide.

Are we?

such an excellent piece, thank you for writing it

It's all about this. Rampant impunity everywhere. Men who think rules are for other people. Because they are rich. Because they have nukes. Because they own the tech. Sometimes all three.

Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

His whole remarks are pretty remarkable. Liberation theology lives. www.nhepiscopal.org/blog

Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school.

📸: Jerry Holt

Address from Xiomara Castro, former president of Honduras, to Donald Trump:

x.com/XiomaraCastr...

Fascism is always a war on the left. It's not all it is, but it's always that.

An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness

"An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good" - by Danez Smith

"Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent."

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations. Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.” “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said. Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."

Bovino was there.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

good time to read this.