Doug Burgum, the Regime Toady of Our Time - The American Prospect Dashing the hopes of establishment Democrats, Trump’s interior secretary and ‘energy czar’ has adopted his boss’s excesses as his own.

In the year since his confirmation, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has given the members of Congress who voted to confirm him ample reason to regret it: He’s been an obedient sycophant and the worst secretary of the interior in U.S. history.

Minimum Standards for Taking AI Seriously Disaster planning for our economic future.

A lot of the debate about AI seems (to me) to be overly personality-driven. We can see the dangers: massive job losses, concentration of wealth, and total lack of safety regulations. Turns out left wing policies are a pretty good prescription for our AI future!

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/minimum-st...

Ring is going all in on AI with their new Search Party tool which they introduced in a cute lil commercial about locating a dog.

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social on how they've sold fear to the American people and got consumers to build a surveillance dragnet.

Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JK-...

No ICE In Minnesota Bundle Lets You Play Games, Fight Fascism Get over 1,400 computer and tabletop games while funding those helping immigrants and refugees

No ICE In Minnesota Bundle Lets You Play Games, Fight Fascism https://kotaku.com/no-ice-in-minnesota-itch-bundle-games-tabletop-2000667229

Democratic Socialists of America — We are at 100,000 members!
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Can Fascists Still Be Shamed? A conversation with Chris Mathias, author of "To Catch a Fascist"

“There’s a battle over shame in the country, and what should be considered shameful.” A conversation with @letsgomathias.bsky.social, author of “To Catch a Fascist.”

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/can-fascis...

Poll Shows Massive Participation in Minnesota Shutdown Against ICE One in four Minnesota voters took part in January 23 day of action, or had a loved one who did.

1 in 4 Minnesotans participated in the Jan. 23 shutdown against ICE, or had a loved one who did.

Polling shows massive participation & support.

@sarahlazare.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social & @thomasbirm.bsky.social report with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social

inthesetimes.com/article/labo...

The Press Is the Government's Enemy and That Is Good It's hard to be objective in jail.

In America in 2026, journalists are the government's enemy. Let's just get comfortable with that and stop being weird.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-press-...

How we beat ICE👇

“The Nation” Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”

As longtime observers of struggles to establish peace and justice in the US and around the world, The Nation is honored to nominate the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

GIFT ARTICLE (no paywall). Masterpiece reporting here from Adam. He deserves awards for this.

“This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”

Night 1 of Punks Against Ice tonight at The Aquarium!

Please join us in Grand Forks tonight to give yourself a time and place to process these events and to learn about resources for staying engaged in your community.
7-8PM @ Arts for Vets. Candles provided. Flowers welcome

Federal Officers Shoot and Kill Man, 37, in Minneapolis, Officials Say One person, a 37-year-old man, is dead following a shooting in Minneapolis involving officers with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Saturday, Jan. 24.

CBP has murdered another person in Minneapolis, in broad daylight, on video. This was not an accident or an isolated incident. There is no finger-pointing or spin Trump and Republicans can put on this to convince anyone otherwise. This is murder — just like we saw with Renee Nicole Good.

Always proud to be a Minnesotan ❤️✊🏽

50,000+ people.
-10 degree weather.

No one does it like Minnesota.

Cold City, Hot Heart Minneapolis is ready.

Minneapolis is about to do something big.

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Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now At first glance it sounds impossible — but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think.

"We need to plan now to connect and coordinate these fights in our cities and states. Not a top-down national plan or centralized day of action, but to make a plan in every state."

@alexhan.bsky.social lays out the possibilities for a General Strike.

Minnesota labor unions voiced their support for a statewide economic strike on Jan. 23. Organizers are asking all Minnesotans to not attend school or work and not to shop on Friday to protest the ICE surge in the state.

Video: Eleanor Hildebrandt/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story:

How did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist? A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all

Many sympathetic “radical King” accounts still cling to a American fairy tale—the Great Man who had it in him. But MLK Jr came up inside a web of socialist organizers who treated racial & economic justice as inseparable & treated organizing as a teachable craft

www.laborpolitics.com/p/who-taught...

Minneapolis man says ICE agents took 'trophy' photos, locked him in overcrowded cell Garrison Gibson, a Minneapolis man from Liberia, shared details of his experience with federal immigration enforcement this week at a press conference Saturday.

Inside the detention center, Gibson said officers put him in a bare, metal holding cell about the size of a small conference room with around 40 other detainees. Their legs were shackled. Gibson said one person in the cell appeared to have scabies.

The Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in Minnesota—It Might Be the Model We All Need A strategic alignment of major networks of unions and community groups in Minnesota have worked together for more than a decade to leverage their collective power.

Minnesota’s proposed January 23 statewide shutdown didn’t materialize overnight.

In 2024, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reported on how unions and community groups spent years building the coordination and trust that now make a total shutdown possible—and powerful.

This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time.

Some thoughts on this here:

newrepublic.com/article/2052...

Podcast: The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods We talk all about Webloc, ICE's tool for monitoring phone locations; the continuing Grok abuse wave; and how police unwittingly revealed millions of Flock surveillance targets.

This week, 404 Media obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

Watch now:

Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...

Activists allege ICE tracked and intimidated Minnesotans observing their operations using private data like license-plate and car-registration info — data that, advocates say should only be accessed during active criminal investigations. The ACLU of Minnesota calls for answers and accountability.

ICE Is the Domestic Terror Threat The federal agent who killed Renee Nicole Good shot her because he knew he could—because the Trump administration has purposely empowered law enforcement to act with impunity.

"The Trump administration is trying desperately to politicize the murder of Renee Good to further attack its political enemies. Agents kill an innocent woman and then the Trump administration uses her death to villainize the people protesting her killer."

Full statement available here: https://www.dsausa.org/statements/twin-cities-dsa-on-ice-agents-murder-of-renee-good/