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Replicas of historical markers erected across the country to memorialize victims of racial violence stand at the National Memorial in honor of the important work local communities around the country are doing to commemorate lynching victims.
January 22, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Shift your perception. Move from being overwhelmed by the chaos to noticing the patterns within it. Stop looking for heroes and start looking for the everyday practices of solidarity and refusal that are already happening all around you.
January 21, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Refuse despair. The fact that domination has to work this hard, has to be this loud, this brutal, this chaotic is not a sign of strength. It’s a sign of its instability. It’s a sign that its legitimacy is eroding. And in that erosion, in that rupture, space opens up for something new to be built.
January 21, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Refuse the fiction of innocence. The “rules-based order” was never truly just; it always served powerful interests. #ICE has always involved violence and racialized logic. Recognizing this prevents nostalgia for a past that never existed and focuses our attention on the patterns that persist.
January 21, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Our task is not to repair the irreparable. It’s to organize life and resistance in full view of it. It’s to build new forms of relationship that are not dependent on the validation of the states or corporations that inflict this harm.
January 20, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Renée Good’s life can’t be returned. The colonial history that makes #Trump believe he can “purchase” #Greenland can’t be erased. The carbon emitted to power #AI data centers can’t be removed. We can’t “fix” these things. Pretending only stabilizes domination with the false promise of resolution.
January 20, 2026 at 7:33 PM
MN unions understand that if their labor and consumption are required to make the economy run, then the withdrawal of that cooperation is a source of immense power. The planned economic blackout is an act of saying, “Enforcement depends on our acquiescence. We do not acquiesce.”
#Mamdani
January 20, 2026 at 7:25 PM
"Now is the time of monsters": In this chaotic transition, bizarre and frightening "morbid symptoms" appear as the struggle for the new world unfolds, often manifesting as extreme political movements like fascism.

amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
‘Offensive to the First Amendment’: Free speech group blasts Miami Beach PD
The organization FIRE accused the department of “an egregious abuse of power” that “chills the exercise of First Amendment rights.”
amp.miamiherald.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:11 AM
All should visit.
The Legacy Museum, which is “perhaps the closest thing America has to a national slavery museum,” is free from government control and displays the “history that the Trump administration aims to de-emphasize—if not outright erase,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social argues.
The Power of Private Museums
The Equal Justice Initiative’s historical sites in Montgomery, Alabama, show what’s possible when history isn’t subject to federal funding cuts or executive orders.
bit.ly
January 19, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The Greenland crisis is explicitly linked to #Trump’s desire for a legacy and his grievance over the Nobel Prize. This collapses the distinction between the personal and the political.
apnews.com/article/gree...
Norwegian leader says he received Trump message that reportedly ties Greenland to Nobel Peace Prize
Norway’s prime minister says that he has received a message from U.S. President Donald Trump about rising tensions over Greenland.
apnews.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Domination thrives on the visibility trap. It uses spectacular violence to command our attention, drawing it away from the slower, deeper, and often more pervasive violence of institutions.
open.substack.com/pub/tfpcolle...
The Pattern That Connects
A Different Way of Seeing the News
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Same shit, different politician. "Representation" doesn't matter. Direct action does. An institution that is no longer ACCOUNTABLE to the populations they serve should be abolished.
apnews.com/article/demo...
Democrats see a path to win the Senate. It's narrow and has little room for error
Senate Democrats are expressing optimism they'll be able to flip the chamber this year after it looked all but impossible last year.
apnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Liberalism and reform don't work. We know that domination adapts so why are we pretending.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump threatens Insurrection Act if Minnesota doesn’t stop ‘attacking ICE agents’
Insurrection Act is a rarely-used federal law allowing the president to deploy military in U.S. cities
www.independent.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Trump’s tariffs were meant to cripple Chinese trade. Instead, China’s trade surplus hit a record $1.2 trillion as businesses simply pivoted to new markets. The policy failed to achieve its stated goal, forcing the narrative of economic nationalism to confront an inconvenient reality.
January 14, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.”

@anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.
www.noemamag.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM