“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE

Twin Cities Workers Strike Against ICE. Two Hundred Cities Follow.

The first General Strike in 80 years

Cold City, Hot Heart

Other Featured News

Common Dreams: ‘Groundbreaking’: Michigan Sues Big Oil ‘Cartel’ for Conspiracy to Block Renewable Energy

Ken Klippenstein: ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them

NBC News: ICE has been entering homes without judicial warrants since last summer, sources say

The Gazette: (Yves Engler) found guilty of harassing Montreal police officer

The Globe And Mail: Quebec puts the brakes on emissions targets, citing threats to jobs and economy

The Rover: Gaza: What Does the Second Phase of the Ceasefire Really Mean?

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• After dramatic week taking on Trump, Carney skips out on answering questions

• Almost 10,000 federal workers were told this week they may be laid off: unions

• Bessent says an independent Alberta would be ‘natural partner’ for U.S.

• Canadian Armed Forces applications jump nearly 13%

• Donald Trump revokes invitation for Canada to join his ‘Board of Peace’

• Fréchette to become first official candidate in CAQ leadership race

• Ryan Wedding arrested: Olympian-turned-alleged drug lord captured

• Searching for Ontario’s missing Black boys

• Worker killed in ‘tragic accident’ at B.C. gold mine

USA news:

• Federal arrests over ICE protest in a Minneapolis church ignite fierce resistance from Black community

• Federal judge allows Va. inmates rights’ lawsuits to move forward

• ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital

• Jury selection for Luigi Mangione's federal trial to begin in September

• Maryland judge: Trump's DOJ can’t have trans youth hospital records

• Missouri Supreme Court strikes down law on ballot title cases, special appeal power for AG

• Philadelphia sues after slavery exhibits were taken down from President's House site

• TikTok forms U.S. joint venture, names Adam Presser CEO

• US officially withdraws from the World Health Organization

• White House Orders Federal Funding Probe Focused Almost Entirely on Dem States

World News

• Bolivian government removes TeleSur from national television programming

• Haiti officials announce plan to oust prime minister, deepening US standoff

• Indian farmers end march after administration agrees to major demands

• Japan PM Takaichi dissolves lower house for Feb. 8 election to seek mandate

• New Zealand warns landslide rescue effort could take days; six missing

• Syrian Government Says It Controls Prison in Raqqa with ISIS-linked Detainees

• Trump to block foreign aid for transgender care, Vance tells anti-abortion rally

• Two dead, four missing after Singapore-flagged vessel capsizes near Scarborough Shoal

• UK Home Secretary’s Shocking Admission About the Emerging AI Surveillance State

• United Arab Emirates plans to bankroll first ‘planned community’ in south Gaza

• US military says it struck vessel in eastern Pacific, killing two people

What I’m Reading

• AI-Induced Cultural Stagnation Is No Longer Speculation − It’s Already Happening

• On Trump's Greenland gambit

• Pierre Poilievre just can't meet the moment

• Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off

• The CERB clawback is undermining the social contract

• What Trump really wants with AI

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