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excellent backgrounder on the Iranian economic crisis that proved the spur for the protests.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/09/i...
foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/09/i...
Iran’s Currency Crisis Could Be the Regime’s Downfall
Economic disaster has put vast crowds in Tehran’s streets.
foreignpolicy.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:21 AM
excellent backgrounder on the Iranian economic crisis that proved the spur for the protests.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/09/i...
foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/09/i...
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The kremlinology here is getting pretty interesting
January 10, 2026 at 6:44 AM
The kremlinology here is getting pretty interesting
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A murder by secret police in Minneapolis, the hub of the upper middle western province of Minnesota, has led to protests and increasingly heavy handed repression by state security services. Outside experts say this may be the spark that ignites a powder keg of simmering unrest against the regime
I think it’s fair to say that there is a low-intensity civil conflict in Minnesota right now.
January 10, 2026 at 6:31 AM
A murder by secret police in Minneapolis, the hub of the upper middle western province of Minnesota, has led to protests and increasingly heavy handed repression by state security services. Outside experts say this may be the spark that ignites a powder keg of simmering unrest against the regime
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#tdih 1966 Vernon Dahmer killed when home (family inside) was firebombed by KKK. 💔
Day before, he'd offered to pay poll tax for anyone who couldn't afford to register to vote. #Terrorism
This was year after '65 VRA, still poll tax in local Miss. elections.🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...
Day before, he'd offered to pay poll tax for anyone who couldn't afford to register to vote. #Terrorism
This was year after '65 VRA, still poll tax in local Miss. elections.🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...
Jan. 10, 1966: Voting Rights Activist Vernon Dahmer Murdered
Vernon Dahmer was killed when the Ku Klux Klan fired bombed his home. This was one day after Dahmer offered to pay the election poll tax for anyone who could not afford it.
www.zinnedproject.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
#tdih 1966 Vernon Dahmer killed when home (family inside) was firebombed by KKK. 💔
Day before, he'd offered to pay poll tax for anyone who couldn't afford to register to vote. #Terrorism
This was year after '65 VRA, still poll tax in local Miss. elections.🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...
Day before, he'd offered to pay poll tax for anyone who couldn't afford to register to vote. #Terrorism
This was year after '65 VRA, still poll tax in local Miss. elections.🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...
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"I would love to go shopping tomorrow with my DOGE dividends. I'm going shopping with my tariff dividend... I love this new health care plan, which costs nothing."
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
January 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
"I would love to go shopping tomorrow with my DOGE dividends. I'm going shopping with my tariff dividend... I love this new health care plan, which costs nothing."
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
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Good summary of the Goldwater Institute/Martin Center plan to further reduce professional autonomy from educators in order to politicize campus.
They also want to take over journals. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
They also want to take over journals. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
January 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Good summary of the Goldwater Institute/Martin Center plan to further reduce professional autonomy from educators in order to politicize campus.
They also want to take over journals. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
They also want to take over journals. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
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Trump treating the Nobel Prize like an STD
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Trump treating the Nobel Prize like an STD
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Every day I’m glad I deleted my X account still encounter screenshots from there.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
January 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Every day I’m glad I deleted my X account still encounter screenshots from there.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
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The murder of Renee Good —& the way the Administration is smearing her —is reminiscent of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit mother killed by the KKK while driving marchers home after the Selma to Montgomery march. The FBI had an informant in the Klan car.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ds...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ds...
Home of the Brave (Bullfrog Films clip)
YouTube video by Bullfrog Films
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:05 AM
The murder of Renee Good —& the way the Administration is smearing her —is reminiscent of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit mother killed by the KKK while driving marchers home after the Selma to Montgomery march. The FBI had an informant in the Klan car.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ds...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ds...
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...pose here. If we can't know the names of law officers who shoot civilians, then how the fuck do we know if they've shot one of us, or two, or ten? And how can we know if those incidents were justifiable or questionable or, in the case of these two shootings, disastrous as police work?
January 10, 2026 at 12:23 AM
...pose here. If we can't know the names of law officers who shoot civilians, then how the fuck do we know if they've shot one of us, or two, or ten? And how can we know if those incidents were justifiable or questionable or, in the case of these two shootings, disastrous as police work?
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Two different "wine moms" I work with have dropped their emergency contact info to the company slack in the last couple days because, to quote one of them, "I'm going to the protest tonight and if i get shot, I want you to know why I missed work."
January 10, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Two different "wine moms" I work with have dropped their emergency contact info to the company slack in the last couple days because, to quote one of them, "I'm going to the protest tonight and if i get shot, I want you to know why I missed work."
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Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.
www.mprnews.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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Protesters gather in Albany, NY yesterday.
The murder of Renee Nicole Good by DH"SS" agent Johnathan Ross is horrific proof that we need to take ice off our streets.
The murder of Renee Nicole Good by DH"SS" agent Johnathan Ross is horrific proof that we need to take ice off our streets.
January 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Protesters gather in Albany, NY yesterday.
The murder of Renee Nicole Good by DH"SS" agent Johnathan Ross is horrific proof that we need to take ice off our streets.
The murder of Renee Nicole Good by DH"SS" agent Johnathan Ross is horrific proof that we need to take ice off our streets.
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Another image that sums up the protest.
January 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Another image that sums up the protest.
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Seriously, we're not ready for the cultural output capacity of a free Iran in terms of music, film, writing etc.
January 8, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Seriously, we're not ready for the cultural output capacity of a free Iran in terms of music, film, writing etc.
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She is just so fucking dumb. Amazing she remembers to breathe
January 8, 2026 at 11:54 PM
She is just so fucking dumb. Amazing she remembers to breathe
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This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
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Yesterday, ICE murdered an American citizen.
The only way to prevent future horrors is to prosecute and ensure full accountability up the entire chain of command.
The only way to prevent future horrors is to prosecute and ensure full accountability up the entire chain of command.
January 8, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Yesterday, ICE murdered an American citizen.
The only way to prevent future horrors is to prosecute and ensure full accountability up the entire chain of command.
The only way to prevent future horrors is to prosecute and ensure full accountability up the entire chain of command.
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Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
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Look at this aging poodle humping the bigot‘s leg
January 8, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Look at this aging poodle humping the bigot‘s leg
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The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.
Scum.
Scum.
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 AM
The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.
Scum.
Scum.