Category Archives: Newsletter and Updates

Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland. — Read on http://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/ice-watchers-in-maine-say-they-were-threatened-by-federal-agents/

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’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 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/mexico-shelves-planned-shipment-of-oil-to-cuba-amid-us-tensions

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, everydayContinue reading “Renee Good, Killed by ICE, Was Standing in Solidarity with Her Neighbors | Labor Notes”

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

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 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump

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 http://www.wired.com/story/ice-detention-network-minnesota-5-states/

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 http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/01/21/leqaa-kordia-ice-detention-columbia-university-protests/88149826007/

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/

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