Oregonians beware: ICE agents are impersonating NW Natural utility workers to get access to homes:
#oregon #pnw

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/01/ice-officers-impersonating-utility-workers-oregon-lawmaker-says.html

BREAKING: House votes 230-196 for a three year extension of ACA subsidies; many Republicans join Democrats—US senate to get the legislation next. (AP)

Call your senators—202-225-3121 or 202-224-3121

Wired has removed the paywall from this article about digital safety in protesting. That is awesome. Please do read it.

I would like to give a real life perspective though. You can do all or none of the things they recommend. Why? Because there are millions of us marching and they can't lock us all up. We've been laughing at them for months in the protest movement. 8% of USians (all comers, not Democrats) said they attended a No Kings rally.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/

#protests #50501movement

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This is incredible. An MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade along with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps.

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One of the longstanding weaknesses of left-wing analyses of the right has been a propensity to see them purely as reactionary. This implies that the left are the true agents of history, who propose and push for changes, which the right then attempts to slow down or stop.

Now, at points this is what many on the right will do. But right-wing doctrines are not defined purely by reactionary instincts. They are defined by definite assertions and beliefs of their own—most importantly, the conviction that people (and peoples) are fundamentally unequal, and the best society is one that reflects natural or ordained inequalities. To obey a real superior is a great social virtue, to paraphrase the conservative James Fitzjames Stephen.

Good piece from Matt McManus in Current Affairs. I found this point worth emphasizing. It helps explain why fascists are immune to hypocrisy shaming. When you believe that some people are superior and some inferior, then unequal treatment and double standards are evidence of things working properly.