Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”

A Baltimore City Council hearing examining the city’s crisis response revealed a fragmented, leaderless system that almost always sends police officers to deal with mental health emergencies,…

ICE agents killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday morning, then quickly surrounded the body while state and federal investigators rushed to the scene.Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-ME), w...

What happens to our understanding of capitalism when we assume that it might not come to an end?

“America at 250” celebrations rely on a national mythology about the American Revolution that only really includes Patriot and Loyalist elites. Through the eyes of enslaved people, the story of the bi...

The horror of sports lessons put three in 10 of British 50 to 65-year-olds off exercise for life. I wish I’d known sooner that movement can feel so good, writes Emma Beddington

The crackdown on anti-ICE activists in Texas reflects a pattern of intensifying repression all around the country.

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Appealing to imagined reforms, center-left media tastemakers assure their audiences DHS violence exists outside the otherwise progressive status quo.

God, the 8th Cir is insufferable. "to the extent the injunction’s breadth and vagueness cause federal agents to hesitate in performing their lawful duties, it threatens to irreparably harm the government and undermine the public interest" Just say you don't watch the news.

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/ice-watchers-in-maine-say-they-were-threatened-by-federal-agents/

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"For less than $2, I could lose myself in my Android tablet at night — then, when I slept, my dreams about the game replaced my usual nightmares." https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/03/31/popular-video-game-banned-federal-prisons/?utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky

After protests, the university said it "wrapped up" working with ICE. Less than two weeks later, it was working with CBP.

This is a good time to learn about what sort of clothing you might want to wear to a demonstration, how to protect yourself and others from chemical weapons, proper digital security and security culture, direct action tactics, etc. Resources about all that and more: http://crimethinc.com/ActionResources

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy has called on his allies to stop demonizing Marine Le Pen. It’s part of a broader shift in establishment conservatism toward open collaboration with her far-right party. https://jacobin.com/2025/12/sarkozy-le-pen-praise?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_cjlbbggtps

A free country must have an absolute wall of protection for those who record government actions.

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