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SunnJax ❄️🏳️‍🌈 :Fire_Pride:

#IceOutForGood #resist #uspol #Colorado

Protesters along busy street holding up signs, one which says, “ICE murdered Renee Good!” With bare trees, snow-covered mountains, and sunny blues skies in the background.

Protesters along a busy street with traffic lights overhead, holding up signs adorned with US and rainbow pride flags: “I stand with immigrants,” “No kings, no oligarchs, justice for all,” and “Health care, not warfare!”

A person holding up a sign at a local protest: “You can’t spell cowardice without ICE. Unmask now!” with a drawing of a masked ICE agent.

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Ike

@ike@pkm.social · 7 hours ago

This article by Elizabeth Lopatto is 🔥🔥

Gets better the longer you read.

> "They sold their principles for power, and now they don’t even control their own companies. Welcome to gangster tech regulation!"

https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards

#Alphabet #Google #Apple #Twitter #USPol

The Verge

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

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nachtet

@nachtet@norden.social · 2 hours ago

Dear people in #minneapolis, our public broadcasting news in Germany just reported from today's protests, interviewed locals and concluded with the reporter saying "the overwhelming vibe of people on the streets resisting #ICE, despite fear, is 'now more than ever' ".

You are seen. ✊

#usPol
#iceOutForGood
#indivisible

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Julie Hughes

@juliehuz@mastodon.world · 3 hours ago

Current mood.
#uspol #uspolitic #democracy #NewYorkerCartoons

Cartoon, by Teresa Burns Parkhurst for the @NewYoerkerMagazine that shows a woman sitting in her living room talking on the phone, above text that reads:
“O.K., I'll put that on
my calendar and we'll just
keep an eye on the weather
and the fall of democracy.” — Cartoon, by Teresa Burns Parkhurst for the @NewYoerkerMagazine that shows a woman sitting in her living room talking on the phone, above text that reads: “O.K., I'll put that on my calendar and we'll just keep an eye on the weather and the fall of democracy.”

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DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 9 hours ago

This fascist project is coming to fruition now after 50 years in the planning - 1971 to be more accurate, with the Powell Memorandum & subsequently, Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission.

All because the 1960s gave the rich nightmares involving guillotines.

See Nancy MacLean Democracy in chains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_CnzsSeJyU

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165

#USPol #Europol #TrilateralCommission #PowellMemo #Fascism #Rockefeller #Racism #press #democracy .

Independent Australia

An 'excess of democracy': How corporations killed the campus

In 1971, a small band of "forgotten" businessmen fought off the enemy – radical academics et al – and won the day… and the future.

The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left
in the 1960s: Huntington's so-called “excess of democracy”.
They planned counter-institutions to delegitimize &
marginalize critics of capitalism & imperialism.

They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political
parties. They imposed obedience to neoliberalism within
academia, government agencies & the press.

They neutered the liberal class & crushed popular
movements. They set the FBI on anti-war protestors, civil
rights, Black Panthers, American Indian Movement, Young
Lords & other groups that empowered the disempowered.
They broke labor unions, leaving 90% of the workforce
without union protections. Critics of capitalism &
imperialism, eg, Chomsky & Ralph Nader, were blacklisted.
The campaign, laid out by Lewis Powell Jr in his

1971 memorandum titled “Attack on American Free
Enterprise System,” set into motion the creeping corporate
coup d'etat, which five decades later, is complete.

The differences between the two ruling parties on
substantive issues — such as war, tax cuts, trade deals &
austerity — has become indistinguishable.

Chris Hedges Nov 04, 2025
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic — The oligarchs were terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s: Huntington's so-called “excess of democracy”. They planned counter-institutions to delegitimize & marginalize critics of capitalism & imperialism. They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties. They imposed obedience to neoliberalism within academia, government agencies & the press. They neutered the liberal class & crushed popular movements. They set the FBI on anti-war protestors, civil rights, Black Panthers, American Indian Movement, Young Lords & other groups that empowered the disempowered. They broke labor unions, leaving 90% of the workforce without union protections. Critics of capitalism & imperialism, eg, Chomsky & Ralph Nader, were blacklisted. The campaign, laid out by Lewis Powell Jr in his 1971 memorandum titled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” set into motion the creeping corporate coup d'etat, which five decades later, is complete. The differences between the two ruling parties on substantive issues — such as war, tax cuts, trade deals & austerity — has become indistinguishable. Chris Hedges Nov 04, 2025 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic

Mr. Funk E. Dude

@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social · 20 minutes ago

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Lorraine C. 🇨🇦

@dancingdogs@forall.social · 29 minutes ago

The U.S. is placing extraordinary pressure on the interim administration in #Venezuela to cut ties with Cuba and it is not clear yet what will happen to other aspects of the two countries’ relationship, and whether the #Cuban doctors, nurses, and teachers who are serving on humanitarian missions in Venezuela will be forced to return home. #usa #uspol #news

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/on-the-streets-of-havana-hope-that

On the Streets of Havana, Hope That a Lack of Oil to Steal Staves Off a U.S. Attack

Destroying the relationship between Cuba and Venezuela has long been a goal of South Florida hardliners like Secretary of State Marco Rubio

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petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · 2 hours ago

"220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.html

Eye-opening, stomach-turning table of the staff cuts to 500+ federal agencies, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025. Plus a search engine to find the cuts for a given agency. Some examples:

#NASA, down 6%
#NIH, down 18%
#HHS, down 18%
#NOAA, down 20%
#CDC, down 22%
#OSTP, down 26%
#NSF, down 29%
#NEA, down 34%
#IMLS, down 59%
#NEH, down 73%

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency

New data offers the first clear view of the impact of the buyouts and firings.

Lorraine C. 🇨🇦

@dancingdogs@forall.social · 29 minutes ago

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/on-the-streets-of-havana-hope-that

On the Streets of Havana, Hope That a Lack of Oil to Steal Staves Off a U.S. Attack

Destroying the relationship between Cuba and Venezuela has long been a goal of South Florida hardliners like Secretary of State Marco Rubio

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Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:

@kimlockhartga@beige.party · 8 hours ago

Is anyone else glad that people are finally outraged at ICE, but also uncomfortable that it takes the murder of a blonde white woman to get some folks on board?

#USPol #ICE #Minnesota

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DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 20 hours ago

Minnesota state says the FBI is blocking it from investigating the killing of Renee Good.

& while Vance said Good had aimed her car at the officer, "the NYT published a slow-motion analysis showing how her vehicle was turning away from the officer" when he shot her.

Mayor Jacob Frey said “Kristi Noem watched the videos & doesn’t want an impartial investigation, because she knows her narrative about domestic terrorism is bullshit.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/9/headlines/the_killing_of_renee_good_minnesota_officials_fear_cover_up_after_fbi_halts_cooperation_with_state_investigators

#ICE #USPol #Europol #ReneeGood .

Democracy Now!

The Killing of Renee Good: Minnesota Officials Fear Cover-Up After FBI Halts Cooperation with State Investigators

Protests continue across the country over the killing of Renee Good, the mother of three shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Good was shot inside her car after she dropped her 6-year-old son off at school. Video of the shooting shows masked ICE agents approaching her vehicle, screaming for her to “Get out of the f—ing car” — using profanity — and attempting to force open her driver-side door. As Good attempted to drive past the officers, a masked agent pulled his firearm and fired three rounds at Good. On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance claimed Good had aimed her car at the officer, but The New York Times published a slow-motion analysis showing how her vehicle was turning away from the officer when he opened fire. Vance also claimed the ICE officer, who has been identified as Jonathan Ross, is “protected by absolute immunity.” Local officials in Minnesota have denounced the FBI for preventing state authorities from being part of the investigation into Renee Good’s death. On Thursday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said the FBI had blocked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from accessing case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey wrote online, “Let’s call a spade a spade: Kristi Noem watched the videos and doesn’t want an impartial investigation because she knows her narrative about domestic terrorism is bullshit.”