2026.01.26

Jan. 26th, 2026 10:41 am
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ICE

The Glean
Video evidence contradicts federal officials’ claims after fatal shooting of Alex Pretti
Plus: DOC launches website to fight misinformation; judge bars federal officials from destroying evidence related to Saturday’s shooting; and AG Bondi makes demands for ICE withdrawal.
by Peter Majerle
https://www.minnpost.com/glean/2026/01/video-evidence-contradicts-federal-officials-claims-after-fatal-shooting-of-alex-pretti/

Quick! Somebody get a shopping bag and $50.000 cash!
Donald Trump says his administration is reviewing Alex Pretti shooting
President announces he is sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minneapolis as outrage mounts over killing
George Chidi and agencies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/donald-trump-administration-reviewing-alex-pretti-shooting

Trump moved to cut funding for ICE body cameras and reduced oversight
Administration opposed efforts last year to expand use of cameras by immigration agents and cut oversight staffing
Reuters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/ice-body-cameras-immigration-trump

Trump officials continue to push lies after fatal shooting of Alex Pretti
George Chidi
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/trump-administration-alex-pretti-shooting-statements Read more... )

2026.01.25

Jan. 25th, 2026 11:07 am
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ICE

Video: Klobuchar, Frey on Minneapolis shooting during immigration action
Three shootings, two fatal, have occurred during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, and Democratic officials are asking agents to leave.
by Associated Press
https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/01/video-klobuchar-frey-on-minneapolis-shooting-during-immigration-action/

The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says
by Michael Biesecker, Tim Sullivan and Jim Mustain, AP
https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/01/alex-pretti-the-man-killed-by-a-us-border-patrol-officer-in-minneapolis-was-an-icu-nurse-family-says/

Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun
Robert Mackey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/minneapolis-shooting-ice

Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground
Robert Mackey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/alex-pretti-killing-witness-testimony Read more... )

2026.01.24

Jan. 24th, 2026 10:49 am
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ICE

LIVE UPDATES | Third shooting in Minneapolis involving federal agents
By Kilat Fitzgerald
https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-mn-third-federal-agents-shooting-minneapolis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/24/minneapolis-shooting-live?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69750ab88f089b46e3ce1655#block-69750ab88f089b46e3ce1655

White House doctoring Minnesota woman’s photo unlikely to derail case, say experts
Altered image shows Nekima Levy Armstrong sobbing after arrest during protest outside a Minneapolis church
Sam Levine in New York
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/white-house-minnesota-woman-photo-edit-trial

Rules of the road are at the center of the ICE occupation and resistance
Whenever the ICE occupation finally ends — and it’s no longer necessary to track agents with cars — we need to return to enforcing basic rules for Twin Cities motorists.
by Bill Lindeke
https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2026/01/rules-of-the-road-are-at-the-center-of-the-ice-occupation-and-resistance/

Minneapolis protesters brave subzero temps to oppose federal immigration enforcement
Minneapolis and St. Paul have seen daily protests since Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Jan. 7.
By Giovanna Dell'Orto, Sarah Raza and Jack Brook, AP
https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/01/minneapolis-gears-up-for-a-mass-anti-immigration-federal-enforcement-protest-despite-the-dangerous-cold/ Read more... )

i just wanted a distraction

Jan. 23rd, 2026 07:53 pm
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Came across this YouTuber, who does interior design but I don't think she's an actual interior designer. She did this series I liked of "no buy" remodels, where she just moved people's stuff around to give them a better look, which I really liked the concept of. 

Anyway, came across a subreddit about her...only to find that she recently made a tasteless joke about Gaza, and also bitched about how people wanted her to be "political" about certain topics...and I was like...welp. That's the end of that. 

2026.01.23

Jan. 23rd, 2026 12:21 pm
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ICE

Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations
Michael Sainato and Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/minnesota-economic-blackout-ice-protests

Vice President JD Vance held a press conference in Minneapolis on Thursday, calling for “more cooperation with state, local and federal officials as a way to ‘tone down the temperature a little bit but still enforce the nation’s immigration laws’ during the federal government’s immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities but then blamed Minnesota officials for the problems and defended the tactics of federal agents,” according to MPR News. Via MinnPost
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/22/jd-vance-heads-to-minnesota-amid-high-tensions-over-immigration-actions

When will the immigration crackdown end? The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that “federal agents have no plans to end the surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota,” citing U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino. Via MinnPost
https://www.startribune.com/no-set-end-date-for-immigration-crackdown-in-minnesota-officials-say/601568476?utm_source=gift

A knock at the door: fear of ICE is transforming daily life in America
Abdul Wahid Gulrani
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/23/ice-fear-life-america-change Read more... )

podcast friday

Jan. 23rd, 2026 07:03 am
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Between my regular rotation of Bastards/Cool People/ICHH, I've been slowly making my way through Better Offline's coverage of CES. Technically this is work-related and I should be listening on work time (obviously I'm not) but if you want like 20 hours of coverage about what's new in tech (spoiler: not very much), AI crammed into everything, and robots that still can't fold laundry, it's worth checking out.

It's really interesting from more than just Ed Zitron's usual professional hater perspective—which, to be clear, is something I appreciate as a professional hater myself. Because with something like CES, the questions of "who is this for" and "what is the use case" are actually critical and in your face. It's the Consumer Electronics Show, after all. So while robots in manufacturing are obviously a thing, the use case for household robots is a bit more questionable. The most successful household robot, the Roomba, recently went out of business, because as it turns out, they're not useful for 1) most households, which have things like furniture and sometimes stairs, or 2) the parts of your floor that you really don't want to vacuum, like tricky corners. They are good for scaring cats or if your cat is not scared of them, transportation.

The episodes are full of even more absurd technology to solve problems that aren't real, like fridges that open for you, meant to automate the parts of your life that you actually want to enjoy. We want machines to do menial tasks, leaving creative work for us. As it turns out, they're quite good at menial tasks in a factory, where you're doing the same thing repeatedly, but not in a house, where you have to do a lot of little annoying things.

But what we (normal people) want is very different from what techbros want. Remember, these are people who have not had to experience challenges in real life, so when they think about what a person might need, they come up with things like "what if I didn't want to cook and I got my fridge to open for me and dumped a bunch of ingredients in a pot and it would make food, and also a robot read a bedtime story to my child?" The fantasy, of course, is having a slave. But that is not the fantasy that normal people have, and there's an incredible disconnect between where tech is heading and actual human needs. 

Anyway, I am working through it very slowly because, as I said, 20+ hours, but it's worth a listen. Also if anyone can find pictures of Robert Evans in an exoskeleton I would like to see that for reasons.

it's winter, time to visit dreamwidth

Jan. 22nd, 2026 09:54 am
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Yesterday morning I was up very early to take R to the airport. She's headed to New Orleans for a vacation with friends and asked me about recommendations- I haven't been there in 30 years, and aside from well known landmarks, I had nothing specific. I shared some memories of magic and misadventure. I hope she has a lovely visit, finds gluten free beignets and lots of music.

I've been thinking more than usual about 30 years ago because R asked me about New Orleans back then and also because of this sad news:

Two weeks ago, I heard Kevin Kadar died. He was just about the first friend I made in Portland in 1995. I saw him in the Park Blocks opening up an antique travel inkwell and walked over to ask him about it: I found out that he was also dedicated to traveling and drawing on an extremely small and precarious budget (he did it longer, and better.) We ended up drinking coffee and chatting about art late into the evening, and he even gave me a painting, which I managed to keep safe in my backpack, eventually had framed and which I still have. Not long after that, because of that random meeting, everything changed for me. I think Kevin was a catalyst and/or mentor for many artists in Portland.

He loved to paint, he lived to paint, really. His hand, evident in his brushstrokes and his handwriting both (omg he had the most beautiful handwriting) managed to be both elegant and deliberate and raw, immediate. Very few painters can manage that now. He'd live incredibly frugally, saving up until he could travel to Europe, then stay in squats in Paris and stay as long as he could, meeting other artists and visiting his favorite painters' works in museums. I remember him once telling me about spending an entire day in the Corot rooms in the Louvre.

I hadn't seen him for a long time when word came online that people were worried about him. Nobody had been able to reach him, and I guess he'd been dealing with health problems for quite a while. And then the news that he was gone.

I have two of my old sketchbooks open to drawings I made of him that summer. They're still out on my desk, I haven't wanted to put them away.

Oregon Arts Watch memorial post about Kevin

2022.01.22

Jan. 22nd, 2026 10:52 am
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ICE

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protesters in Minnesota
In victory for Trump administration, appeals court has temporarily lifted injunction as JD Vance set to visit state
Maya Yang
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrest-pepper-spray-protesters-minnesota

Minneapolis leaders call the ICE surge a ‘siege’. My reporting from there concurs
Maanvi Singh in Minneapolis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/minneapolis-ice-surge-siege

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, memo says
Immigrant advocates say the memo is in direct conflict with Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press
https://www.minnpost.com/public-safety/2026/01/immigration-officers-assert-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says/

“Friday is ‘ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom,’ a general strike supported by Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders, Democratic lawmakers and community activists,” the Minnesota Reformer reports. “The ‘ICE Out’ day proponents are encouraging all Minnesotans to stay home from work, school and refrain from shopping — suspensions of normal orders of business to protest the presence of federal immigration agents in Minnesota.”
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/fridays-ice-out-of-minnesota-day-is-a-general-strike-heres-what-that-means/ Read more... )

just so you all know - updated

Jan. 21st, 2026 08:49 pm
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Rep Eric Swalwell is my representative, and he is also running to be governor of CA. Since he has announced his candidacy, he hasn't cast any votes in the House and has been absent from Congress. I did call last week, and his staffer said that while he can't comment on any votes he's taking, he can confirm that he's in DC, working. 

Meanwhile, The American Prospect reports that while Hakeem Jeffries is personally voting against the funding bill for DHS, he's not bothering to whip any votes, and there are reported Democrats who will be voting for it. 

Tell me, how we are supposed to get any thing Trump did undone when Democrats won't even muster the energy to oppose a government agency that murders and kidnaps civilians? 


update: he’s a confirmed “no” vote on the DHS/ICE funding bill

Signal-boosting

Jan. 21st, 2026 04:39 pm
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I remain awed by, proud of, and scared shitless for my incredible friends in Minnesota, who are fighting on the front line against literal jackbooted thugs. Even if you don't have a personal connection, I'm sure you're also gripped by the news.

Here is how you can help:

A post by [personal profile] naomikritzer

How to help if you are outside Minnesota.

This also has advice on how to start preparing for if and when this shit comes to your home state.

If you are in Minnesota.

I am also stealing some graphics that [personal profile] lydamorehouse posted that you can spread around, as long as you credit the artist. Credit where it is known:

735514
By Rin Mix.

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By Cas Fern.

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Artist unknown but if you find out, let me know and I'll edit it.

Let Minnesota be the graveyard of fascism!

2026.01.21

Jan. 21st, 2026 11:50 am
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Ice

US justice department subpoenas Minnesota Democrats accused of impeding ICE efforts
Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey among officials who received subpoenas
Sam Levine in New York
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/minnesota-democrats-subpoenas-justice-department

“Three local law enforcement leaders expressed concern over federal immigration agents’ behavior over the last few weeks, including stopping off-duty officers of color,” reports Sahan Journal. … The law enforcement leaders also said federal agents don’t seem to be coordinating their work across the metro, and that a small group of federal agents are causing problems by stopping community members in traffic and in the street with no cause, and demanding that they produce paperwork proving they’re in the country legally.” 
https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/minnesota-police-concerns-federal-immigration-agents/

“Last week, Minnesota-based faith leaders, unions, and other community groups called for a strike and economic blackout on Jan. 23 in response to the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge,” Bring Me The News reports. The news site has a list of businesses closing on Friday, Jan. 23. 
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/growing-number-of-minnesota-businesses-announce-plans-to-close-for-jan-23-strike

https://naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/how-to-help-if-you-are-outside-minnesota/

Other News Read more... )

Reading Wednesday

Jan. 21st, 2026 07:12 am
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Just finished: Mavericks: Life Stories and Lessons of History's Most Extraordinary Misfits by Jenny Draper. I don't have a lot to add since last week. If you read my blog you will like this. It is my jam. It's a rather inspiring read for—look, I haven't written about politics in a public post in awhile but you know. You know

Currently reading: Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror, edited by Dianna Gunn. This one I picked up because a lot of the authors in it are my kind of people, and it's a cool concept. There must be a particular subgenre of leftist, author-led anthologies, and like. I want to fix that subgenre. I want it to exist, but I want to push it like, a notch further or two.

Part of my problem here is absolutely personal, which is that I'm intensely phobic of pregnancy and childbirth, and so in order to ping as horror in my brain, a story has to somehow be worse than my own fairly intense reactions to the subject. A few of the pieces are but they're mostly "wow it would be awful to be pregnant in a dystopian regime that viewed women as chattel" well, here we are. I have the same critique of my own writing btw. You simply cannot write bad things fast enough to get your book out before those bad things are just an accepted part of reality. Plus a lot of the stories are earnest, which is one thing that horror can't be. There's one story about an anti-abortion protestor that goes straight for black comedy and it is excellent; so far it's my favourite.

2026.03.20

Jan. 20th, 2026 10:04 am
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ICE

Local Hugo Award winning author, Naomi Kritzer has compiled a list for locals who want to help on her blog. (She's going to compile a list for nonlocals.)
https://naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/how-to-help-twin-cities-residents/

Christian leaders urge protection of worshippers’ rights after protesters interrupt service
The Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention called the intrusion in a St. Paul church ‘an unacceptable trauma.’
by Giovanna Dell’Orto, AP
https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/01/christian-leaders-urge-protection-of-worshippers-rights-after-protesters-interrupt-service/

‘2020 never ended’: Minneapolis organizes amid Trump’s ICE crackdown
From community watch to mutual aid, grassroots networks in the Twin Cities build on efforts spurred during the 2020 George Floyd protests
Alyssa Oursler in Minneapolis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/minneapolis-organizes-trump-ice-crackdown

Noem backtracks on ICE pepper spray denial amid tension in Minneapolis
US justice department announced it is investigating protesters in Minnesota who disrupted church services
Edward Helmore
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/kristi-noem-pepper-spray-minneapolis-ice

‘Gestapo tactics’: Bruce Springsteen condemns Trump team’s ICE crackdown
New Jersey musician said during concert in home state that US core values ‘have never been as endangered’ as now
Eric Berger
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/bruce-springsteen-trump-ice-concert

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2026.01.19

Jan. 19th, 2026 11:51 am
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ICE

A Minnesota-based ICE agent is also a pastor at a church in St. Paul, where protesters interrupted service on Sunday, the Pioneer Press reports. The U.S. Department of Justice says it’s investigating. Via MinnPost
https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/protesters-interrupt-st-paul-church-service-citing-pastors-ice-ties/

Retired police officer: The Renee Good shooting was a failure of tactics and law
It’s likely that ICE’s behavior in Minnesota is due to a mix of incompetence and impunity granted to the agency by the current administration.
by Matt Koncar
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2026/01/retired-police-officer-the-renee-good-shooting-was-a-failure-of-tactics-and-law/

Who is on the frontline of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown?
These are the federal agencies detaining people across the US – mostly, but not all, under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security
Roque Planas and Andrew Witherspoon
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/donald-trump-immigration-crackdown

Other News

Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter
US president says he no longer feels the need to think ‘purely of peace’ in letter to Norwegian prime minister
Jon Henley Europe correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/donald-trump-greenland-threats-nobel-prize-snub-letter Read more... )

(no subject)

Jan. 18th, 2026 04:34 pm
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The state of pediatric brain cancer research in the US: not good. I honestly every knew most of what's covered here, but this part caught my eye:

Mike is director of advocacy for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, a non-profit that offers family support, raises research funding, and pushes for government action.

His new vocation is to spare other families the disaster that befell his own.

Mike Henry used to work in public policy. That old life now gives him pause. In 2013-14 he was employed by Heritage Action, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation that would, a decade later, go on to draft Project 2025.

A decade is a long time in conservative politics. Henry was at Heritage a year before Trump descended the golden staircase, and well before he had remodeled the Republican party in his image. Heritage was not as extreme then as it is today.

Still, Henry looks back on how he used to lobby for fiscal responsibility and smaller government, and ponders. Since Blair became sick, the way he perceives the role of government and the importance of caring for one another has changed drastically.

He knows now what he did not know then: that, in an instant, any one of us can be toppled from our lives and plummet to the depths.

“We had a great family, stable jobs, two wonderful children. We lost all of our savings in the first two weeks after the diagnosis. We were thrust on Medicaid, unemployment, then we lost Blair.”

Their freefall has made Henry a more empathetic person, he thinks. He understands that in America you can do all the right things, be an upstanding citizen, and still get chewed up and spat out.

“I see now that I was naive to the experience of others,” Henry said, “until I went through it myself.”


I honestly what it is, about people, in general (and I actually don't think that this only applies to conservatives), that they literally cannot put themselves in the place of others less fortunate than themselves, until it actually happens to them. 

2026.01.18

Jan. 18th, 2026 10:16 am
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Revolutionary imaging of black hole aims to prove they are not ‘evil vacuum cleaners’
Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/18/astronomers-revolutionary-moving-image-black-hole-cambridge-science

Dublin Bay’s oyster graveyard rises from dead in effort to restore rich ecosystem
Pioneering scheme hopes species that thrived for thousands of years in Irish waters can do so again
Rory Carroll in Dublin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/18/dublin-bay-oyster-reefs-restoration Read more... )

2026.01.17

Jan. 17th, 2026 10:41 am
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ICE Read more... )

Judge to protect noncitizen academics involved in case from ‘authoritarian’ Trump
Reagan appointee moves to protect those challenging arrest and deportation of pro-Palestinian activists
Alice Speri and agency
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/16/authoritarian-trump-court-protection-order

Trump set to pardon ex-Puerto Rico governor after ‘political prosecution’
Wanda Vázquez Garced, who accepted plea deal over campaign finance violation, endorsed Trump in 2020
Maya Yang and agencies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/16/trump-puerto-rico-governor-pardon Read more... )

stuff

Jan. 16th, 2026 08:02 pm
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  1. Canceled my Hilton Honors account. (If you want to mess around some more, here's a suggestion from Sunrise Movement. I'm not doing it because I will NOT remember to cancel. They definitely asked for a reason, and it took me 3 phone calls and being transferred to 3 different people before I could confirm that it was gone. 
  2. ADC set up a legislative tracker that is very useful for tracking anti-speech and legislation related to Palestine and Israel. It is disappointing to see so many anti-boycott laws on the books. 
  3. Beyond Israelism's latest podcast episode is with B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak. Currently the video is behind a paywall, but on the audio podcast you can listen to the whole episode. (They'll probably put the whole interview on YouTube in a few weeks.) It is a very good discussion of how apartheid and genocide is a system, and her own journey from reckoning with how she grew up and the cost of her telling the truth in a society that she thinks has become "completely genocidal". 
Some more relaxing, comforting things:

The latest episode of Good Hang with Amy Poehler where she talks to Ryan Coogler:



Been greatly entertained recently by Kaz Rowe and watching her backlog of recounting the lives of "chaotic bisexuals" like Lord Byron:


A true comfort watch, Inga Lam's videos are really fun and actually has me considering a bread subscription? But it's pretty expensive.




2026.01.16

Jan. 16th, 2026 10:49 am
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ICE Read more... )

Giving Trump the Nobel peace prize medal is ‘absurd’, say Norwegian politicians
US president criticised for accepting medal awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/16/maria-corina-machado-giving-trump-nobel-peace-prize-medal-absurd-say-norwegian-politicians

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich
George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/super-rich-inequality-politicians-extreme-wealth Read more... )

started re-reading Paradise Lost

Jan. 16th, 2026 07:56 am
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Because someone on Substack is doing a slow read for 2026. I don't know that I was ever a huge Milton fan, but on my bookshelf I had a collected anthology of his work, which included a version of Paradise Lost with all the footnotes. (Required reading for an English literature major who actually didn't care much for English literature.) Thank god, too, because I honestly found it difficult to parse - like, who is talking here, and what are they talking about? Nevertheless, I am still getting a lot out of it, but I swear half the footnotes are like, so Milton totally cribbed this from Dante's The Inferno. 

Some absolutely great lines, though:

The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.


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