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Hakeem Jeffries Says No to Funding ICE. Democrats Still Aren’t United.

Meet the Minneapolis Neighbors Standing Up to ICE by the Thousands
A new, activist twist on neighborhood watch is taking shape in Minneapolis and other cities under occupation by federal immigration agents: ICE Watch. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel drive around these cities, they’re often tailed by people in the neighborhoods. The idea is to make sure witnesses are present for any immigration arrest, to […]

Clergy Are Raising Holy Hell About ICE

Grok’s Leering Pictures Are the Newest Version of an Old Problem

Trump Abruptly Drops His Threat of Economic Warfare Over Greenland
After previewing his plans to acquire Greenland through economic warfare, President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he would not impose tariffs he had scheduled to take effect next month, citing work on a future deal regarding Greenland with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte.  That move came despite the unmistakable warning embedded in Trump’s rambling, complaint-heavy […]

Iran: At Least 345 Executions in Persian Month of Dey, including 5 Women

Port of Savannah – nation’s busiest for cotton shipments

Max Bouschon, candidat indépendant

The Canadian PM’s Davos Speech Is Unmissable in a Time of “Rupture”
President Donald Trump famously doesn’t like to read. And if his increasingly frequent public naps are any indication, his attention span is only getting shorter. But he did claim to watch what one historian praised as a “riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest” speech by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada yesterday in Davos, Switzerland. And […]

Trump’s Abortion Strategy? Do Nothing. But His Base Has Other Plans.
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump made a suggestion that landed on a key part of his far-right coalition like a sucker punch. Referring to negotiations over the Affordable Care Act, he urged House Republicans to be “a little bit flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, which for 50 years has banned the use of federal […]

RFK Jr.’s Proteinaceous Food Pyramid Is a Land Hog and a Climate Disaster
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines urging Americans to eat far more meat and dairy products will, if followed, come at a major cost to the planet via huge swathes of habitat razed for farmland and millions of tons of extra planet-heating emissions. A new […]

