@lfelizleon.bsky.social
Journalist. Staff writer at Labor Notes. Solidarity! Contact: lfelizleon@gmail.com. Substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/lowerfrequencies
https://open.substack.com/pub/lowerfrequencies
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The stories of how regular people are resisting and organizing against ICE aren't just valuable for sentimental reasons. They show that a culture of fascism has not overtaken this country. That significant numbers of people are mobilizing seems like an important part of assessing material conditions
January 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
The stories of how regular people are resisting and organizing against ICE aren't just valuable for sentimental reasons. They show that a culture of fascism has not overtaken this country. That significant numbers of people are mobilizing seems like an important part of assessing material conditions
ICE killed Renee Good for the crime of loving her neighbors. May we find the moral nerve to do what’s right. “He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.” labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
January 10, 2026 at 6:39 AM
ICE killed Renee Good for the crime of loving her neighbors. May we find the moral nerve to do what’s right. “He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.” labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
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Everyday people joining ICE-response trainings across the country are part of an organizing legacy that abolished slavery, established big unions, and won the democratic revolution in civil rights. Renee Nicole Good was a champion in that freedom struggle. labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
Renee Good, Killed by ICE, Was Standing in Solidarity with Her Neighbors
The whistle blows in short bursts: PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! Code: ICE is nearby. Then comes the long blast: PHWEEEEEEEEEEE! Code: ICE has taken someone. These are the codes immigrant rapid resp...
labornotes.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Everyday people joining ICE-response trainings across the country are part of an organizing legacy that abolished slavery, established big unions, and won the democratic revolution in civil rights. Renee Nicole Good was a champion in that freedom struggle. labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
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Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
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"The 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was a champion in that freedom struggle. Like legions of other Americans from all walks of life, she was acting as the eyes and ears of her Latino and Somali neighbors..." - @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @labornotes.bsky.social
labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
Renee Good, Killed by ICE, Was Standing in Solidarity with Her Neighbors
The whistle blows in short bursts: PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! Code: ICE is nearby. Then comes the long blast: PHWEEEEEEEEEEE! Code: ICE has taken someone. These are the codes immigrant rapid resp...
labornotes.org
January 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
"The 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was a champion in that freedom struggle. Like legions of other Americans from all walks of life, she was acting as the eyes and ears of her Latino and Somali neighbors..." - @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @labornotes.bsky.social
labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
labornotes.org/2026/01/rene...
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The bosses fear our collective power, so they try to pit us against each other. But where they stoke divisions, we can draw on shared values to unite us. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
January 8, 2026 at 11:57 PM
The bosses fear our collective power, so they try to pit us against each other. But where they stoke divisions, we can draw on shared values to unite us. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
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Yesterday, federal agents abducted an educator trying to protect safe dismissal at Roosevelt High School. (That person has since been released.) Here is what a coalition of unions and community groups, including Minneapolis Federation of Educators, is demanding. workdaymagazine.org/teachers-and...
January 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Yesterday, federal agents abducted an educator trying to protect safe dismissal at Roosevelt High School. (That person has since been released.) Here is what a coalition of unions and community groups, including Minneapolis Federation of Educators, is demanding. workdaymagazine.org/teachers-and...
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Little Village, Chicago
January 8, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Little Village, Chicago
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“One of the ICE agents tried to rip her door open, and another one got in front of the vehicle and then shouted, ‘Stop!’ before firing three times within a second of saying, ‘Stop.’”
—Witness to the homicide of a Minneapolis woman
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
—Witness to the homicide of a Minneapolis woman
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Minnesota Officials Dispute Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:22 AM
“One of the ICE agents tried to rip her door open, and another one got in front of the vehicle and then shouted, ‘Stop!’ before firing three times within a second of saying, ‘Stop.’”
—Witness to the homicide of a Minneapolis woman
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
—Witness to the homicide of a Minneapolis woman
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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ICE OUT OF OUR COMMUNITIES! we’ve all seen the video—there’s no justifying it.
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
ICE OUT OF OUR COMMUNITIES! we’ve all seen the video—there’s no justifying it.
Hundreds rally in NYC condemning ICE’s state-sanctioned murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and demanding ICE out of New York.
January 8, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Hundreds rally in NYC condemning ICE’s state-sanctioned murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and demanding ICE out of New York.
Reposting w/o picture: Renee Nicole Good is her name. She was a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN.” She leaves behind a six-year-old boy. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Reposting w/o picture: Renee Nicole Good is her name. She was a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN.” She leaves behind a six-year-old boy. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
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"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honour of those killed and said funeral arrangements would be announced."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
Cuba says 32 Cubans killed during US raids on Venezuela
Havana declares two days of mourning for the Cubans killed in US's raid to capture Nicolas Maduro.
www.aljazeera.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honour of those killed and said funeral arrangements would be announced."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
Opposing these attacks is not an endorsement of Maduro’s corrupt and authoritarian rule; it is a matter of democratic states upholding the right to national sovereignty and respect for international law. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
January 4, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Opposing these attacks is not an endorsement of Maduro’s corrupt and authoritarian rule; it is a matter of democratic states upholding the right to national sovereignty and respect for international law. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
Donald Trump has illegally invaded the sovereign country of Venezuela and kidnapped its president. What’s behind the imperial designs behind the U.S. intervention? Here are some tentative thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
Only the Venezuelan People Shall Rule. No Blood for Oil!
Donald Trump has illegally invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president and his wife.
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Donald Trump has illegally invaded the sovereign country of Venezuela and kidnapped its president. What’s behind the imperial designs behind the U.S. intervention? Here are some tentative thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
The rogue government of the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership has illegally invaded the sovereign country of Venezuela and kidnapped its president. In addition to Panama & Grenada, I’d add the Dominican Republic as another historical example. prospect.org/2021/01/15/c...
Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Far Right Storms U.S. Capitol - The American Prospect
The Capitol Riot recalls right-wing counterinsurgencies the U.S. has sponsored in the Dominican Republic and around the world.
prospect.org
January 3, 2026 at 6:44 PM
The rogue government of the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership has illegally invaded the sovereign country of Venezuela and kidnapped its president. In addition to Panama & Grenada, I’d add the Dominican Republic as another historical example. prospect.org/2021/01/15/c...
U.S. imperialism speaks without pieties to democracy or any liberal pretense whatsoever. It’s a raw billionaire power grab as part of a global imperial rivalry dynamic in the face of economic stagnation. This isn’t the old liberal imperialism of the Bush/Obama years.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
U.S. imperialism speaks without pieties to democracy or any liberal pretense whatsoever. It’s a raw billionaire power grab as part of a global imperial rivalry dynamic in the face of economic stagnation. This isn’t the old liberal imperialism of the Bush/Obama years.
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Please, CBS, don’t quote any experts on Venezuela, or the War Powers Resolution, or the history of regime change.
We want a conversation — with Real Americans! No fancy-pants professors who’ve spent 2/3 of their lives studying this stuff.
We want a conversation — with Real Americans! No fancy-pants professors who’ve spent 2/3 of their lives studying this stuff.
January 3, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Please, CBS, don’t quote any experts on Venezuela, or the War Powers Resolution, or the history of regime change.
We want a conversation — with Real Americans! No fancy-pants professors who’ve spent 2/3 of their lives studying this stuff.
We want a conversation — with Real Americans! No fancy-pants professors who’ve spent 2/3 of their lives studying this stuff.
On the AI freakout, here’s a long article about what’s what. Punchline: My biggest worry is the expansion of militarism via tech monopoly.
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
Intelligent War Machinery
Here's a digressive essay reviewing three recent books about the tech sector's oligarchs.
open.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
On the AI freakout, here’s a long article about what’s what. Punchline: My biggest worry is the expansion of militarism via tech monopoly.
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
Zohran Mamdani has liberated me from the language prison of middle-class civility.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,” said Mamdani in his inaugural address.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,” said Mamdani in his inaugural address.
Read Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
January 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Zohran Mamdani has liberated me from the language prison of middle-class civility.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,” said Mamdani in his inaugural address.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,” said Mamdani in his inaugural address.
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The consultants were always wrong, and 2025 proved it: no district is too big to canvass. Canvassing wins championships.
In 2026, the prize is childcare for all by taxing the rich. Friends, this year let's hit the ground running. ourtime.nyc/act/events
In 2026, the prize is childcare for all by taxing the rich. Friends, this year let's hit the ground running. ourtime.nyc/act/events
👥 [who] You, me, and hundreds more
🚪 [what] Tax the rich field op
👶🏽 [why] For universal childcare
🗓️ [when] Sat, Jan 10 @ 12-3pm
✍🏽 [how] ourtime.nyc/act/events
Organized by @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social + @socialists.nyc
🚪 [what] Tax the rich field op
👶🏽 [why] For universal childcare
🗓️ [when] Sat, Jan 10 @ 12-3pm
✍🏽 [how] ourtime.nyc/act/events
Organized by @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social + @socialists.nyc
![Screenshot of the "Events" page from Our Time's website (ourtime [dot] nyc).
On the left is a column of text in a color scheme resembling that used by the Zohran for NYC campaign; this column of text lists, by neighborhood, the specific canvassing events planned for Sunday, January 10, 2026.
On the right is a map of New York City in light gray, with balloon-shaped icons in blue denoting the locations of the canvassing events; there are 15 such icons visible, with the greatest number clustered in Brooklyn but at least one in each borough.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjwdvmjdkvtjffx6ju2j4fy5/bafkreiezfbzxm7xnqafhnr3actc7yugbl5ccca2w6hdjzx2pnkxqngviwu@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The consultants were always wrong, and 2025 proved it: no district is too big to canvass. Canvassing wins championships.
In 2026, the prize is childcare for all by taxing the rich. Friends, this year let's hit the ground running. ourtime.nyc/act/events
In 2026, the prize is childcare for all by taxing the rich. Friends, this year let's hit the ground running. ourtime.nyc/act/events
Read Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...
January 1, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Read Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. open.substack.com/pub/lowerfre...