Timothy Vollmer
@tvol.bsky.social
Library worker: @ucbscholcomm.bsky.social
Union member: @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social
When lightning strikes I’ll be on my bike.
Union member: @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social
When lightning strikes I’ll be on my bike.
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UC-AFT’s statewide Council voted unanimously on a resolution in solidarity with Minnesota workers striking on January 23, 2026. ucaft.org/news/resolut... @mplsunions.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 AM
UC-AFT’s statewide Council voted unanimously on a resolution in solidarity with Minnesota workers striking on January 23, 2026. ucaft.org/news/resolut... @mplsunions.bsky.social
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Minnesota's Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth made a Facebook post critical of an anti-ICE protest at a church, and got ratioed by her own daughter in the comments www.facebook.com/LisaforMN/po...
January 21, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Minnesota's Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth made a Facebook post critical of an anti-ICE protest at a church, and got ratioed by her own daughter in the comments www.facebook.com/LisaforMN/po...
“We are not going to shop. We are not going to work. We are not going to school on Friday, January 23 … for many of us, this is our right to refusal until something changes.” @ucaft.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social
General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States.
But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.
But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.
A Mass Strike in Minneapolis Against ICE?
General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States. But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.
jacobin.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:44 AM
“We are not going to shop. We are not going to work. We are not going to school on Friday, January 23 … for many of us, this is our right to refusal until something changes.” @ucaft.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social
“Congressional spending panels are poised to reject President Donald Trump’s proposed 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget for this fiscal year, instead embracing a $415 million boost to the agency’s base budget to $47.2 billion.” www.science.org/content/arti...
Final funding bill for NIH pushes back against Trump cuts
Measure gives agency slight boost and blocks multiyear awards and cuts to indirect costs
www.science.org
January 21, 2026 at 12:35 AM
“Congressional spending panels are poised to reject President Donald Trump’s proposed 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget for this fiscal year, instead embracing a $415 million boost to the agency’s base budget to $47.2 billion.” www.science.org/content/arti...
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Billionaire wealth reached a record high of $18.3 trillion in 2025.
January 20, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Billionaire wealth reached a record high of $18.3 trillion in 2025.
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Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
January 20, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
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This is literally what every right-winger has spent my whole life telling me they want.
A community member armed with a firearm stands guard in his neighborhood after ICE was spotted nearby during an abduction operation in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18, 2026.
January 20, 2026 at 3:05 AM
This is literally what every right-winger has spent my whole life telling me they want.
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Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
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I mean there also are entirely too many feckless careerist revolving door shitheads primarily interested in coddling corporate power to protect future careers at shitty think tanks at lobbying firms, but generally, structurally, yes
For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I mean there also are entirely too many feckless careerist revolving door shitheads primarily interested in coddling corporate power to protect future careers at shitty think tanks at lobbying firms, but generally, structurally, yes
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In 2025, Trump announced massive cuts to federal science funding. UAW members spent 2025 fighting to kill those cuts. Last week, Congress REJECTED nearly all of Trump's cuts to NASA, NSF, and DOE. It also rejected his cuts to vital indirect cost rates. t.co/NlvKNsyRsi
https://aas.org/posts/news/2026/01/congress-passes-fiscal-year-2026-spending-bills-nsf-nasa-and-doe
t.co
January 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
In 2025, Trump announced massive cuts to federal science funding. UAW members spent 2025 fighting to kill those cuts. Last week, Congress REJECTED nearly all of Trump's cuts to NASA, NSF, and DOE. It also rejected his cuts to vital indirect cost rates. t.co/NlvKNsyRsi
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Massively shameful www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/event...
The 2025-26 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture
Bari Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News
www.international.ucla.edu
January 17, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Massively shameful www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/event...
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It's been a big year for library policy and advocacy!
Alan Inouye, former leader of ALA's Public Policy & Advocacy Office, shared some of 2025's advocacy highlights with Library Journal.
Read more from Alan to get the latest on library policy: www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-most...
Alan Inouye, former leader of ALA's Public Policy & Advocacy Office, shared some of 2025's advocacy highlights with Library Journal.
Read more from Alan to get the latest on library policy: www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-most...
A Most Unlikely Year: Library Policy in 2025
A look at federal library policy in 2025, and work to be done in the coming year.
www.libraryjournal.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
It's been a big year for library policy and advocacy!
Alan Inouye, former leader of ALA's Public Policy & Advocacy Office, shared some of 2025's advocacy highlights with Library Journal.
Read more from Alan to get the latest on library policy: www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-most...
Alan Inouye, former leader of ALA's Public Policy & Advocacy Office, shared some of 2025's advocacy highlights with Library Journal.
Read more from Alan to get the latest on library policy: www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-most...
Some recent film photos, shot on Kodak Porta 400
January 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Some recent film photos, shot on Kodak Porta 400
“The Trump administration seems to be implying that any opposition to the government’s activities is criminal, and any activist is therefore a willing volunteer for legitimate state execution.”
It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.
ICE Has Become a Rogue Internal Paramilitary
It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.
jacobin.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM
“The Trump administration seems to be implying that any opposition to the government’s activities is criminal, and any activist is therefore a willing volunteer for legitimate state execution.”
“Working people in Minnesota figured out something many still fail to see: the most powerful weapon is withholding our labor.”
Union members across the U.S. must push for a resolution by their locals to join Minnesota’s general strike on January 23.
Workers Across the U.S. Must Join Minnesota's January 23 General Strike - Left Voice
Union members across the U.S. must push for a resolution by their locals to join Minnesota's general strike on January 23.
www.leftvoice.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:57 PM
“Working people in Minnesota figured out something many still fail to see: the most powerful weapon is withholding our labor.”
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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.
January 14, 2026 at 4:41 AM
A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.
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You do not hate Congress enough
"I asked a number of Senate Democrats if increasing ICE funding is a red line for them in the upcoming budget negotiations. Most of the lawmakers I spoke with refrained from describing it in that way"
www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-dem...
www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-dem...
Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE
Top Senate Democrats are focused on other priorities in the government funding fight.
www.thebulwark.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
You do not hate Congress enough
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"As library workers, our words, programs, and actions have weight; and not everything deserves equal promotion and support."
Latest piece from Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier, and I
informationmatters.org/2025/12/libr...
Latest piece from Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier, and I
informationmatters.org/2025/12/libr...
Library Workers in Times of Hype: AI Edition - Information Matters
Library workers can be AI literacy leaders without using, or encouraging the use of, generative AI tools.
informationmatters.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
"As library workers, our words, programs, and actions have weight; and not everything deserves equal promotion and support."
Latest piece from Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier, and I
informationmatters.org/2025/12/libr...
Latest piece from Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier, and I
informationmatters.org/2025/12/libr...
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Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
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chinga la migra
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 9:04 PM
chinga la migra
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"It's bad for people to not give us money," spokesperson for receiving money said.
A spokesperson for T&F said “Researchers should be free to communicate their work in the journal that best suits their research, and proposing to cap [open access] funding threatens that freedom to publish."
Bold move to set prices high and then complain about freedom when people can't pay.
Bold move to set prices high and then complain about freedom when people can't pay.
Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers
Open access publishing has led to researchers paying thousands of dollars to publish their work, limiting funds for research and leaving scientists with hard choices.
www.the-scientist.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:04 PM
"It's bad for people to not give us money," spokesperson for receiving money said.
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look how little it takes federal officers with massive amounts of federal immunity and the full force of a white nationalist administration behind them to abandon their xenophobic efforts.
We can still win this.
We can still win this.
Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.
January 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM
look how little it takes federal officers with massive amounts of federal immunity and the full force of a white nationalist administration behind them to abandon their xenophobic efforts.
We can still win this.
We can still win this.