Think Local

How many major news events have happened since my last Tuesday post? Too many. 

How many major news events happened between when I wrote my last Tuesday post and when that post went live? There was a whole Venezuela thing that happened. 

So, between now (Sunday evening) and when this post goes live, what are the chances something else awful has happened? Pretty high, I would say. 

But as of this writing, it's all #ICEoutforGOOD happening. Because ICE murdered a woman for the whole world to see. And people are defending them! 

Of course, they've been murdering people all along. It's just not getting out into the wider news apparatus. And they're hiding it better in those concentration camps. If you don't realize that atrocities are happening there, you're not paying attention. 

Where to begin? What to write about? I've been bookmarking things on Bluesky. Let's see what I collected:

• The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would Unleash Violence Was Absolutely Right
• Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans: Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.
• ICE custody deaths
• A great place to find your organizing home
• Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
• At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
• You Have What Trump and Musk Want: And you have the power not to give it to them.

But the main thing I was noticing this past week was how to help. And there was a whole thread of where to help locally. The national apparatus isn't doing anything. They've all surrendered in advance. It's the local level that's putting up the fight. 

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

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— borderless (@borderless.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 2:17 PM

(Link to the NY Times article, but it's behind a paywall, so unless you subscribe, you won't be able to access it.) 

And finally, some videos: