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As many as 1500 detainees at the Dilley ICE camp have erupted in protest.

Lawyers were kicked out amid chants of: "Let us out! libertad!!"

Detainees say ~80% are rebelling, motivated by the news from Minneapolis, the general strike, and the imprisonment of little Liam.

There’s absolutely nothing to debate.

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

The police also kill with impunity on a weekly basis. ICE is benefiting from what’s already an established state violence norm in the USA.

Someone just got murdered and they’re still in the streets. None of that “not our fight” nonsense. These are people who get it and aren’t backing down in the name of selfish cowardice.

“Untrained” offers legitimacy. It’s saying they’d be fine if they were better equipped, professionalized killers with same agenda.

Live: Man shot by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says
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Whether people mean to or not, at this point it’s bordering on collusion because you can’t be calling for a force like this to get more validation. Unfortunately, policing in the USA has made doing as much the norm.

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Wow!

With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:

Ingobernable: Una entrevista con Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (2020) - William C. Anderson

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I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

Billionaires. Trillionaire. Multimillionaires. And people crowdfunding for blankets so their infants don’t freeze to death, for meds to stay alive, for food and shelter.

Unlivable.

Trump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.

After Congress allocated an additional $170 billion for immigration enforcement in July, ICE became the largest law enforcement agency in the country, with a bigger budget than the Bureau of Prisons, FBI, and most militaries in the world.

Patty O'Keefe, who was violently arrested while monitoring ICE activity, says one agent told her, "You guys got to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead," referring to Renee Good.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

These policies have also reconfigured the state itself. Rather than shrinking, the Iranian state has mutated into an apparatus of authoritarian austerity: fiscally disciplined, physically coercive, and interventionist in the monetary and financial sphere, while retreating from universal welfare and redistribution.3 Social justice is thus reduced to a technical matter of administrative inclusion and exclusion, and society itself appears not as a political subject but as a risk to be managed through “transparency,” persuasion, and policing. The structural reforms pursued by Ali Madani-Zadeh—the current minister of economy, a University of Chicago economics graduate and the latest heir to Chicago-style neoliberalism—are a class project aimed at reproducing the state and its dominant class fractions under crisis, even as they further undermine social reproduction in wartime conditions.

A brilliant analysis of how sanctions have transformed the Iranian government into a Chicago School regime of austerity that benefits those attached to the regime, creates precarious labour, and rolls back all the redistributive and social measures of the past:

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Iran’s Three-Body Problem | Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh The ongoing uprising is rooted in the political economy of structural adjustment, which forms the unstable medium through which revolt becomes contagious.

“To those of you living in imperial centers...We understand that your analysis of Iran is mediated by geopolitics. But do not try to derive a political program for populations inside Iran that, in practice, translates into support for the Iranian state.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is growing at an astounding speed

More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states

We tried to explain that criminalization is the fuel of fascism.

These photos are terrifying (as opposed to stunning). Black women have been killed in these kind of scenarios long before Trump.

this kid only narrowly missed being killed by this 'less lethal munition' as shards of debris were found 7mm away from a carotid artery.

The stuttering towards the end of that forced rant was telling...

Trump Admin Went Easy On A Red State After Punishing Blue States For The Same Exact Thing Mississippi caught a break on an embezzlement scandal that funneled money to Brett Favre and others.

The Trump admin, which says it was investigating fraud in Democratic-led states, quietly shelved a massive welfare fraud investigation in Mississippi involving public funds funneled to Brett Favre and others

What Will Be the Cure?: A Conversation with Sylvia Wynter Last month, I had a chance to interview Sylvia Wynter about the pandemic, Black studies, and radicalism in our current moment. What began as a series of catch-ups over the course of the pandemic, turn...

Five years ago this month, we were honored to publish the now classic interview “What Will Be the Cure?: A Conversation with Sylvia Wynter.” Read Bedour Alagraa‘s fascinating exchange with the Caribbean icon. offshootjournal.org/what-will-be...

This Supreme Court Ruling Could Cause Chaos In The Midterms The decision is a boon for President Donald Trump's longtime campaign against mail-in voting.

The Supreme Court issued a decision that advances Trump's longtime campaign against mail-in voting

No Escaping the State: The Story of Lovett Fort-Whiteman To be free, to walk in dignity—for these precious privileges some men will go anywhere, sacrifice anything. — Homer Smith Black America is not guaranteed much, if anything, under the category of citiz...

On this day (Jan 13) in 1939, Lovett Fort-Whiteman was killed in a Kolyma Gulag labor camp. He was one of the first Black communists in the US and his haunting story is buried beneath disregard. Read about his life and some of its warnings. offshootjournal.org/no-escaping-...

Thanks for reading Tiana 🙏🏾

Another way out: You can't just wait for tyranny to go away The Epstein scandal exposes not just individual monsters but a political order built for them to thrive

“Bahro pointed out the same disillusionment with elections, unchecked corporate expansion, and political malfeasance that Ervin encourages us to use to organize the ideological defeat of capitalism, fascism, and empire.” From @williamcson.bsky.social’s latest: prismreports.org/2026/01/07/a...