For decades, the Border Patrol has operated with extraconstitutional powers along the U.S.-Mexico divide. Now it’s leading the charge in U.S. cities across the country.
— Read on www.theborderchronicle.com/border-patrol-nation/
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
— Read on www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/ice-watchers-in-maine-say-they-were-threatened-by-federal-agents/
These SF Bay Area companies have ICE and CBP contracts
A handful of small Bay Area firms are profiting handsomely by assisting ICE
— Read on sf.gazetteer.co/these-sf-bay-area-companies-have-ice-and-cbp-contracts
Mexico Shelves Planned Shipment of Oil to Cuba Amid US Tensions – Bloomberg
Mexico’s state oil company backtracked on plans to send a much-needed shipment of crude oil to Cuba, a long-time ally of ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/mexico-shelves-planned-shipment-of-oil-to-cuba-amid-us-tensions
Renee Good, Killed by ICE, Was Standing in Solidarity with Her Neighbors | Labor Notes
The whistle blows in short bursts: PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! Code: ICE is nearby. Then comes the long blast: PHWEEEEEEEEEEE! Code: ICE has taken someone. These are the codes rapid responders are using to alert their neighbors and co-workers to ICE sightings and kidnappings. Federal agents are armed with military-style weapons. Up against them, everyday people have
— Read on labornotes.org/2026/01/renee-good-killed-ice-was-standing-solidarity-her-neighbors
Lies You Will Be Told • Ill Will
Phil A. Neel examines the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.
— Read on illwill.com/lies
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/
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