Fuckin' crickets from the western left. Fuckin' cric-kets. Estimated nearly 40k dead already...

"Accompanying photos said to depict the individuals have been widely circulated by #activists, though the exact circumstances of their deaths remain a subject of intense debate. It is unclear if the family was actively #protesting or if they were caught in the indiscriminate "no-mercy" live-fire sweeps that have characterized the regime's response since January 9.

The deaths coincide with a leaked directive from Supreme Leader #AliKhamenei. On Friday, January 9, #Khamenei reportedly ordered security forces to "show no mercy" and to end the protests "by any means necessary."

Since that order, the death toll across #Iran has skyrocketed."

https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/iran-jewish-victims-tehran-protests

United for #Democracy won’t be silent while a corrupt and purchased Supreme Court turns its back on our #Constitution. We’re coordinating the fight for accountability across the country—from experts to #activists to everyday #people. https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.iIBo0N5fSFzEFL40Tn-vtbMETCUYClkOrOh9-SNJfqsQNarR6PCR1lUtXpWTyhe6SMHAfsDlLwpb8wrzXvCTvk4sI5joFLiK-kQCUTdISLtM0pEfOTHNCoH5VUTUblNcUAgomL-K3NWtFQCi9w8kUZEhE2IcBzaEDl3bznbPr-wB94erUf8-xCHsPcdy_RvEggnNw7pDBj5WLfRugpU_bvKgV4sGoKvpedPMaZaq1o0Cv2I1EVimZ_1SGC2ehm9m4NcCL5OQiNntxK71x8IJy6PSGtHx9-nWbiJoMSQAGvYD8SIzVH80ueiLE3NmW-ZozME4S4WIfvaVtMsdtJTAqapVf4zULCiETCUvvAguEBxmVGi_CH8JO0mGQj8epEkG8hLB_kLzP6yXdbZCq3lDQIsMbwNkN4UF6wz0TcxoPHo/4nj/i4_98jJlTi61JRvkejAKWA/h0/h001.CwYs6nKbZUHehU2dIdCVNBjdl7nVYZ217eJzEy_DK9s

#DOJ vows to press charges after #activists disrupt church where #Minnesota ICE official is a pastor

by Jack Brook, Updated 1:20 AM EST, January 19, 2026

Excerpt: " 'When you think about the federal government unleashing barbaric #ICE agents upon our community and all the harm that they have caused, to have someone serving as a pastor who oversees these ICE agents, is almost unfathomable to me,' said Armstrong, who added she is an ordained reverend. 'If people are more concerned about someone coming to a church on a Sunday and disrupting business as usual than they are about the atrocities that we are experiencing in our community, then they need to check their theology and the need to check their hearts.' "

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-ice-doj-church-protest-st-paul-46dac5c5595ec78e3360ec927eef92d2

#ICEOut #ICEOutForGood #USPol #JesusWasARefugee #FakeChristians #ChristFascism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForRenee #JusticeForReneeGood

📢 The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Tuesday that two solidarity #activists were injured when Israeli colonists attacked them during a raid on the Al-Auja waterfall area, north of #jericho

🔹 PRCS: Under protection of the Israeli army, they stormed the area and assaulted the activists present

#westbank #cisjordanie #palestine #news #emergencyresponse

Source PRCS

📰 Report WAFA JAN-20 14:00 local-t

https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/166450

Watch | Two nights ago in Mikhmas, northern occupied #WestBank, #Israeli #settler gangs attacked #Palestinians homes and set fire to cars. #Palestinian residents and #activists were assaulted with clubs.

https://t.me/QudsNen/206156

BBC: Writer’s poems helped boost the abolition campaign. “Letters written by a prominent abolitionist are being digitised, filling in a ‘massive bit of the jigsaw’ in the abolition campaign history, experts say. Novelist Hannah More, born in Bristol in 1745, also helped open some of the UK’s first schools for working class people.”

#Thailand and #Cambodia heading for #war, fueled by #online #propaganda; but there are #activists for #peace on both sides

https://globalvoices.org/2026/01/13/thais-and-cambodians-speak-out-against-the-looming-war/

NiemanLab: Highlighting the funniest moments, this startup aims to bring public meetings into the TikTok era. “‘This is, I think, the sixth time [I’ve] come here,’ the woman’s public comment to the Corpus Christi City Council begins. She is wearing a full-body cockroach costume, antennae and all. ‘Last time, I brought you a bag of dead roaches. Some of you were offended, so this time, I’m […]

“Peaceful observers & protesters turned out again today, they will turn out again tomorrow, & they will continue turning out every day until Operation Metro Surge is over,” the #activists who sought the restraining order wrote to the judge last week. “These Minnesotans who are peacefully exercising their core constitutional rights to speak & gather continue to be met with #unconstitutional & terrifying #violence … And things appear to be getting worse, not better.”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758.53.0.pdf

#law

Federal officers in the #Minneapolis area participating in its largest recent #US #immigration “enforcement” operation can’t #detain or #TearGas peaceful protesters, a US judge in #Minnesota ruled Friday.

US District Judge Kate Menendez ruled in a case filed in December on behalf of 6 MN #activists.

Thousands of people have been observing the activities of #ICE & #CBP officers enforcing the #Trump admin’s immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis - #StPaul area since early December.

#law

Pro-#Israel Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that the ADL was working with the #FBI and actively monitoring people online. He listed out what online activity they were monitoring, as well as what he referred to as the "extremists" they were monitoring, including pro-#Palestine and anti-#genocide #activists.

https://qudsnen.co/share/67077

https://t.me/QudsNen/205712

Associated Press: David Webb, prominent Hong Kong shareholder activist, dies at 60. “His free-to-access database, Webb-site.com, for years provided a trove of company statistics and data for journalists, shareholders, financial analysts and lawyers. Founded in 1998, the nonprofit platform helped protect the rights of many minority shareholders and pushed stakeholders in moving toward greater […]

The judge has been tangling with #Trump & the admin in a series of high profile lawsuits that have landed in his Boston courthouse since last year. He has similarly accused the admin of discriminatory policies against #minorities & #LGBTQ Americans. Still, Young said that the case of targeted #deportations against #activists is by far the most important in his lengthy career.

#law #immigration #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #RightToProtest #Authoritarianism

Young added, “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the #Constitution.”

Young’s comments came as he prepares to issue what he described as a steep #sanction against the #Trump admin for seeking to “chill” the #FreeSpeech of pro-#Palestinian #activists targeted for arrest & removal weeks after Trump took office—including #Columbia University’s #MahmoudKhalil & #MohsenMadhawi, as well as #Tufts PhD student #RumeysaOzturk & #Georgetown academic #BadarKhanSuri.

#law

A federal judge handling a lawsuit over the #deportation of pro-#Palestinian #activists excoriated top admin officials, including #Trump, for trampling on the #FirstAmendment & for what the judge described as a fearful approach to #freedom.

“There was no policy here,” said US District Judge William Young, an 85-year-old Reagan appointee who has been on the federal bench in Boston for 40 yrs. “What happened here is an #unconstitutional #conspiracy to pick off certain people.”

#law #immigration

🗨️ We need an army of solidarity #activists in the #westbank!
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📢 Israeli colonists escalated their attacks on Friday in the southern areas of the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of #ramallah, opening fire and storming grazing lands under the protection of Israeli forces, which also detained a number of international solidarity activists

#cisjordanie #palestine #news
#internationallaw #law #UNfail

📰 Report WAFA JAN-16 11:00 local-t

https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/166280

50 years is a nice round number. #Birthdays are normally expressed as an individual celebration but the community is what got me here in (mostly) one piece. Thank you to all the #goths, #gamers, #metalheads, #activists and #queer folx. Luv u all to the moon. You're my found family 🌙 🖤 ✊️

Reminder to all the #activists on here that you are on some level preaching to the choir: people on here are almost certain to be informed enough about #US #politics and the daily overreaches of #fascism and unregulated #capitalism, that we don't necessarily need more information.

Effective #activism through the #fediverse may be better off talking about how to inform and shift the perspectives of the people that aren't engaged, who aren't on platforms like this. Pretty much every "opinion" poll we see shows a split between voters who are informed or engaged in some way, and voters who aren't. Do you have any insight on who is giving these responses? Do you know someone you can talk to? Have you found something that would shift perspectives if it was more widely stated?

#Democracy requires discourse and outreach: we won't get anywhere by just talking amongst ourselves about things we all agree on.

#USPol

For those who prefer Medium, my take on why the leftist #media and #activists are afraid to turn and look at the revolution in #Iran behind them:

https://robert-b-marks.medium.com/look-behind-you-iran-the-progressive-left-and-the-right-side-of-history-b792d894202b

#news #politics #Marxism #activism

The #media coverage of #Iran remains eyebrow-raising, as does the silence of #activists. Lots of theories about why, but what if the answer isn't complicated at all, but something far more fundamental? What if the reason the leftist media and activists don't want to look at Iran is because...they're afraid?

My thoughts on why the leftists don't want to look at the revolution behind them: https://open.substack.com/pub/robertbmarks/p/look-behind-you-iran-the-progressive?r=4njhpi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#news #Marxism #politics #activism