We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein | The Guardian

Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump

ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States | WIRED

Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest.
— Read on www.wired.com/story/ice-detention-network-minnesota-5-states/

I’m the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Release me | Opinion

Inside the ICE facility where I’m being held, conditions are filthy, overcrowded and inhumane. None of us deserve to be treated this way.
— Read on www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/01/21/leqaa-kordia-ice-detention-columbia-university-protests/88149826007/

Exposing Britain’s Depravity in Iraq: A.T. Williams’ A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa — Liberated Texts

In September 2003, British soldiers in Anzio Company, in the First Battalion Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, beat an Iraqi civilian to death; his name was Baha Mousa, and he was a 26-year-old father-of-two, who worked as a hotel receptionist in Basra. In addition to killing Mousa – an act which the International Criminal Court concluded constituted
— Read on liberatedtexts.com/reviews/exposing-britains-depravity-in-iraq-a-t-williams-a-very-british-killing-the-death-of-baha-mousa/

The Tag Team Fails in Iran – Antiwar.com

Reprinted from John’s Substack: The mainstream media in the West is committed to portraying the protests in Iran as strictly an internal affair. The people of Iran, so the argument goes, spontaneously rose up against their government because they were in desperate straits due to their leaders’ corruption and mismanagement…
— Read on original.antiwar.com/john-mearsheimer/2026/01/20/the-tag-team-fails-in-iran/

Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade?

In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce.
— Read on theconversation.com/are-sanctuary-policing-policies-no-more-than-a-public-relations-facade-269245

Nearly a third of kids can’t use books when starting school – and try to swipe them like phones | UK News | Sky News

Staff also report around 28% of children started school unable to eat and drink independently, and 25% had difficulty with basic life skills.
— Read on news.sky.com/story/nearly-a-third-of-kids-cant-use-books-when-starting-school-and-try-to-swipe-them-like-phones-13497398

Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror – Boston Review

I’m not sure if it’s amnesia or just wishful thinking, but it seems like the well-documented terror tactics of municipal, county, and state police have just disappeared from people’s memory. Chicago and Los Angeles, where resistance to ICE has been extraordinary and well-organized, have histories of police violence that rival anything ICE agents are doing. Indeed, it is precisely the long experience of organizing against this violence that prepared activists in these cities to resist ICE.
— Read on www.bostonreview.net/articles/renee-goods-murder-and-other-acts-of-terror/

ORAL HISTORY: Jalil Muntaqim “They changed the environment, but the war continued.”

From the notes from the black underground collection: From launching Arm the Spirit, the first revolutionary prison newspaper, to co-founding the Jericho Movement, Black Panther Party & Black Liberation Army veteran, Jalil Muntaqim details stories of resisting empire and organizing for a new world.
— Read on www.grassrootsthinking.com/oral-history-jalil-muntaqim-they-changed-the-environment-but-the-war-continued/