Make Common
@makecommon.bsky.social
This account does not belong to a poet, education worker, or scholar. Who'd want to read Fugue & Strike (Black Ocean, 2023) & People Finder, Buffalo (Cloak, 2024) and etc? Garbage, labor obsessed.
Democratic leadership still doesn't think any of these things matter enough for them to act: genocide, gender pogroms, military and military style raids of minority communities, ICE concentration camps, shooting poets in the face.
www.commondreams.org/news/governm...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Democratic leadership still doesn't think any of these things matter enough for them to act: genocide, gender pogroms, military and military style raids of minority communities, ICE concentration camps, shooting poets in the face.
www.commondreams.org/news/governm...
www.commondreams.org/news/governm...
"Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent. "
An Elegy for Renee Nicole Good by Danez Smith
"The role of us poets is to witness the world, to see with our eyes and souls the delicate threads of truth, past, and possibility around us."
Read here:
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
"The role of us poets is to witness the world, to see with our eyes and souls the delicate threads of truth, past, and possibility around us."
Read here:
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good
Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness
www.harpersbazaar.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
"Neighbor, you should have made it home to your child, to the bright warmth of his laughter, but our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent. "
transcription: "get the fuck out of here" whistle whistle whistle "get the fuck out" car horn x50
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Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.
January 13, 2026 at 3:26 AM
transcription: "get the fuck out of here" whistle whistle whistle "get the fuck out" car horn x50
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![Immiserate
after Joe Hall
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to make
things
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Instead of backseat fantasizing about liberal imperial regime change operations, let's abolish the fuck out of ICE.
“Hardly anything could be more damaging to Iran’s pro-democracy movements than making this unpopular, deposed monarch with ties to Israel and U.S. neocons the face of opposition.”
@alexshams.bsky.social on Reza Pahlavi:
@alexshams.bsky.social on Reza Pahlavi:
Our Man for Tehran
The U.S.- and Israel-backed campaign positioning Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah, for regime change in Iran.
www.bostonreview.net
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Instead of backseat fantasizing about liberal imperial regime change operations, let's abolish the fuck out of ICE.
not looking forward to my therapy appointment today where my therapist tries to depoliticize my thought-feeling. any militant psychiatrists out there?
January 12, 2026 at 7:09 PM
not looking forward to my therapy appointment today where my therapist tries to depoliticize my thought-feeling. any militant psychiatrists out there?
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Friends Minneapolis is under attack. My sweet nephews can’t go outside safely, schools on lockdown, ICE going door to door & arresting folks at Target w/no warrant. @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov need to be on air talking& withholding votes. @housedemocrats.bsky.social ACT! Impeach Noem!
January 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Friends Minneapolis is under attack. My sweet nephews can’t go outside safely, schools on lockdown, ICE going door to door & arresting folks at Target w/no warrant. @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov need to be on air talking& withholding votes. @housedemocrats.bsky.social ACT! Impeach Noem!
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We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
Either ICE Is Abolished or It Will Kill Many More Renee Goods
Minnesota is just the beginning of ICE's transformation into a right-wing death squad. But it can be the end
www.forever-wars.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:46 PM
We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
It sounds like they are saying we need to exact the cost of lives upon businesses in order to save lives.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 6:53 PM
It sounds like they are saying we need to exact the cost of lives upon businesses in order to save lives.
If us poets become half as brave off the page as Renee Good--
January 12, 2026 at 1:23 AM
If us poets become half as brave off the page as Renee Good--
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This is the same area in St. Paul where ice just rammed a driver and pulled them out of their vehicle on the street. Video of that is starting to make it into the public
I really cannot stress, even if someone who has done this academically for years now how fast this is accelerating
I really cannot stress, even if someone who has done this academically for years now how fast this is accelerating
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This is the same area in St. Paul where ice just rammed a driver and pulled them out of their vehicle on the street. Video of that is starting to make it into the public
I really cannot stress, even if someone who has done this academically for years now how fast this is accelerating
I really cannot stress, even if someone who has done this academically for years now how fast this is accelerating
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Bovino is on the ground doing door to door raids in St. Paul Minnesota at this hour.
These house raids are being done by a mix of ice and customs and boarder patrol including bortac teams.
THEY ARE GOING HOUSE TO HOUSE
These house raids are being done by a mix of ice and customs and boarder patrol including bortac teams.
THEY ARE GOING HOUSE TO HOUSE
January 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Bovino is on the ground doing door to door raids in St. Paul Minnesota at this hour.
These house raids are being done by a mix of ice and customs and boarder patrol including bortac teams.
THEY ARE GOING HOUSE TO HOUSE
These house raids are being done by a mix of ice and customs and boarder patrol including bortac teams.
THEY ARE GOING HOUSE TO HOUSE
there you have it--one of the points: to further immiserate the Cuban people by cutting off Venezuelan oil
January 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
there you have it--one of the points: to further immiserate the Cuban people by cutting off Venezuelan oil
Liberal imperialism is opposing unilateral war making powers but not touching the sanctions regimes that collectively punish entire peoples, leave them struggling to feed themselves day in day out. We'll see if they even question legitimacy of putting M on trial in U.S.
January 11, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Liberal imperialism is opposing unilateral war making powers but not touching the sanctions regimes that collectively punish entire peoples, leave them struggling to feed themselves day in day out. We'll see if they even question legitimacy of putting M on trial in U.S.
Then they stole her body. Anything resembling justice and accountability will have to transcend the formal structures.
That cop shot that lady then called her a “fucking bitch” as her truck went on to crash. In the midst of all the other shit there is to be angry about, that last comment from him is really just… there are no words.
January 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Then they stole her body. Anything resembling justice and accountability will have to transcend the formal structures.
From PYM statement, "From Minneapolis to Palestine": "ICE not only shot Good: they blocked the area off, refused entry to a physician on scene. and prevented ambulances from reaching her." 1/2
January 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
From PYM statement, "From Minneapolis to Palestine": "ICE not only shot Good: they blocked the area off, refused entry to a physician on scene. and prevented ambulances from reaching her." 1/2
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They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
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I've seen refugee aid efforts defeat multi-year occupations by regional / national police forces who deployed 30x the amount of resources. Hell I've been part of that.
It is *very* possible.
ICE's budget has a limit.
Make them use it.
ICE's morale has a limit.
Make them lose it.
It is *very* possible.
ICE's budget has a limit.
Make them use it.
ICE's morale has a limit.
Make them lose it.
January 8, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I've seen refugee aid efforts defeat multi-year occupations by regional / national police forces who deployed 30x the amount of resources. Hell I've been part of that.
It is *very* possible.
ICE's budget has a limit.
Make them use it.
ICE's morale has a limit.
Make them lose it.
It is *very* possible.
ICE's budget has a limit.
Make them use it.
ICE's morale has a limit.
Make them lose it.
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🆕🇵🇸 NEW | Occupied West Bank: A UN report says Israel’s policies amount to apartheid, marking the first time a UN human rights chief has explicitly used the term to describe Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
January 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
🆕🇵🇸 NEW | Occupied West Bank: A UN report says Israel’s policies amount to apartheid, marking the first time a UN human rights chief has explicitly used the term to describe Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
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his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
This is under-reported: "Venezuela’s new acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, is the country’s oil minister. She’s long been the go-to contact for senior oil executives, with strong ties to Republicans in the oil industry who actively pushed for her to lead post-Maduro Venezuela."
I’m don’t like conspiracy theories.
But the longer I report on climate change and Big Oil, the clearer it becomes that what we’re dealing with an *actual conspiracy,* and we need to label it as such.
Trump’s latest actions in Venezuela make this all the more clear.
But the longer I report on climate change and Big Oil, the clearer it becomes that what we’re dealing with an *actual conspiracy,* and we need to label it as such.
Trump’s latest actions in Venezuela make this all the more clear.
It's time to embrace climate conspiracy
Trump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has documented for decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud.
heated.world
January 8, 2026 at 2:29 AM
This is under-reported: "Venezuela’s new acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, is the country’s oil minister. She’s long been the go-to contact for senior oil executives, with strong ties to Republicans in the oil industry who actively pushed for her to lead post-Maduro Venezuela."
this dude's imagination is dead. i dunno: rebuilding the communities they are destroying. digging footers, laying bricks, retrofitting HVAC for schools, community centers, & housing. or re-education camps. they can pick. unless they shot, killed, or raped someone. which is a meaningful # of them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM
this dude's imagination is dead. i dunno: rebuilding the communities they are destroying. digging footers, laying bricks, retrofitting HVAC for schools, community centers, & housing. or re-education camps. they can pick. unless they shot, killed, or raped someone. which is a meaningful # of them.
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Renee Nicole Good, the woman murdered by ICE today. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Renee Nicole Good, the woman murdered by ICE today. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
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I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.
January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.