Wendy Russell

So this is where we are. Gotcha.

For real. The US has been taken over by religious zealots.

Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader It's the latest trade drawing scrutiny on the popular prediction market site for appearing to show an insider making profits on military secrets.

It's the latest trade drawing scrutiny on the popular prediction market site for appearing to show an insider making profits on military secrets. n.pr/4ciemrp

Feds shut down assessment ask for Ring of Fire mine A proposed nickel, copper and platinum mine in the Ring of Fire will not be required to undergo a federal impact assessment despite the unified calls of area First Nations.

'Wyloo's proposed underground copper, nickel and platinum mine in the #RingofFire will not be subject to a federal [or provincial] impact assessment, despite the unified calls of more than half a dozen First Nations.'
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Feds shut down assessment ask for Ring of Fire mine A proposed nickel, copper and platinum mine in the Ring of Fire will not be required to undergo a federal impact assessment despite the unified calls of area First Nations.

Jingoism is cover for settler capitalist impunity. Fast tracking a new mine means violating Treaty 9 and burdening First Nation governments with debt. And only for uncertain short lived windfalls that are also decades away. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/n...

Read this thread please. Politicizing ICE has seamlessly turned it into a partisan army in support of capital’s insurgency.

An ethos for the times. “A different way was needed to manage the valleys. Not by profiteering businessmen, nor paternalistic government, but by the locals themselves.”

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Here’s Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes by Some Rich Asshole

Every day in the NYT and WaPo (joining the chorus with WSJ):

YouTube video by APTN News Native American activists on the front lines of protests against ICE in Minneapolis | APTN News

APTN’s Savanna Craig is in Minneapolis, Minnesota this week and she’s speaking with Native American activists who are on the ground protesting and resisting Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents.

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A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

Send Canadian oil to Cuba - CCPA The United States is attempting to deliberately trigger a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. Canada must act in concert with regional allies to defy the blockade.

Send Canadian oil to Cuba www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

In a huge blow to the UK Home Office, the High Court has ruled that the ban of Palestine Action under terrorism legislation is unlawful:

Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...

Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

What Past Atrocities Teach Us about Residential School Burials | The Tyee The decision to dig in search of children's bodies should rest with the communities and families.

To fight denialism "is to insist, without qualification, that it is up to the affected communities & only the affected communities to decide whether to exhume the remains of their loved ones."

What Past Atrocities Teach Us about Residential School Burials thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... @thetyee.ca

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.

We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"

Please read this:

How to join a shadowy cabal 😊:

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Forget abolishing ICE; abolish the GOP.

'Full Circle': AIM patrols back on Minneapolis streets as tensions rise - ICT Supporters are pouring in from across Indian Country to protect the Minnesota community from ICE

Half a century ago, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded on Franklin Ave. in Minneapolis in response to police violence targeting indigenous residents.

Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.

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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

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They're literally taking hostages

Really, this is just not the time to listen to moderate think tanks. The whole extremist game here is to make all government appear useless. Stop helping them with this and answer the calls your constituents are making instead.

People absolutely forget that students are workers.