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/

Detention and Torture – CounterPunch.org

This reason is simple and can be traced to the elements of administrative detention itself: the absence of human rights safeguards and normal legal guarantees such as due process, habeas corpus, fair trial, confidential legal counsel, and judicial review; vague and confusing definitions, standards, and procedures; inadequate adversarial procedural oversight; excessive Executive Branch power stemming from prolonged emergencies; and the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency, or other secret, thus unaccountable, Executive Branch agencies.
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2010/12/30/detention-and-torture/

ICE vs. Everyone | Online Only | n+1 | Erin West

What we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced umbrellas as shields from mace and a collection spot for barricade materials. And this is what it’s like: Sometimes you’re chasing ICE off your street, maybe you’re buying groceries for a family, but a lot of the time you’re on your phone.
— Read on www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ice-vs-everyone/

Hundreds of students at Roosevelt High walk out to protest ICE

Hundreds of Roosevelt High School students walked out of school Monday, days after Border Patrol agents detained a special education assistant at the Minneapolis school and deployed chemical irritants on a crowd that included dozens of students.
— Read on sahanjournal.com/education/minneapolis-roosevelt-high-student-walk-out-ice-protest/

US Warns Airlines to Use Caution Over Parts of Latin America – Bloomberg

The Federal Aviation Administration is urging US airlines to “exercise caution” when flying over Mexico, and parts of Central and South America, citing “military activities” and potential interference to navigation systems in the region.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/us-warns-airlines-about-military-activity-in-parts-of-latin-america