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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

ICE may be tracking you via your cell phone. A Minnesota law can help. • Minnesota Reformer — Read on minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/20/ice-may-be-tracking-you-via-your-cell-phone-a-minnesota-law-can-help/

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 yourContinue reading “ICE vs. Everyone | Online Only | n+1 | Erin West”

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/

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 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/us-warns-airlines-about-military-activity-in-parts-of-latin-america

Hi, my name is Nour and I’m fundraising on the behalf of a family in northern Gaza that has been suffering since the beginning of the war in 2023. — Read on http://www.gofundme.com/f/family-in-gaza-facing-starvation-and-homelessness