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For like a long time.

Have you been watching the news lately? Especially and particularly about what’s happening in Minneapolis – it’s been a non-stop “rolling crisis,” as some experts are calling it, and it should piss off anyone with a conscience.

But seeing how regular people are standing up and doing whatever it takes to stop it? It should give anyone hope and inspiration.

These government agencies – ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and CBP (Customs and Border Protection) have ramped up their activities in Minneapolis as an act of political retribution. Since December 2025, they’ve sent thousands of agents, and they’re acting like they’re in a war zone, not a city. They call it “Metro Surge,” and Tom Homan (the barely distinguishable replacement for disgraced Nazi cosplayer Gregory Bovino) is referring to the city as a “theater”, with accostments and arrests at during traffic stops, home raids, and … Read more

We are writing to express our alarm at the repeated extrajudicial killings of unidentified civilians in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean by U.S. military forces and the escalating risk of war against Venezuela. This is particularly alarming after the Senate failed to pass a War Powers Resolution that would have required congressional approval for military action in or against Venezuela (US Constitution, Article I, Sec. 8, Clause 11). We demand that journalists report the facts truthfully and do not feed into the government’s campaign of warmongering.

Since the beginning of September, the U.S. military has carried out strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in over 70 civilian deaths. These strikes include “double-tap” strikes like the one on the 2nd of September, which violate the laws of war by targeting personnel after they are already incapacitated. The Trump administration has not provided any … Read more

The conversation started casually enough. We’d all been brought together by a protest against President Trumps illegal and insane actions in Latin America.

How do we have conversations with our friends about these issues?

As the group sat around talking about their conversations in the community, something became clear: not everyone they knew, really knew much about the place beyond those fragments they saw on the news.

What followed was a sprawling, messy, sometimes funny discussion that touched on everything from baseball players to oil cartels, from cowboy culture to the Panama Canal, from nationalization debates to the sound of a *cuatro venezolano* being strummed in a living room.

You’re reading that conversation—lightly edited for clarity, but preserving the voices, disagreements, and discoveries that emerged.

The Venezuela We Think We Know “I think the average person just hears ‘United States and Latin America,’ and they put their hands over … Read more

As a result of Trump’s accession to power and the resulting left-liberal upsurge, the far left is being forced to ask ourselves different kinds of questions. These events have driven huge numbers of people into the world of social activism and brought liberals and the left closer together. Instead of playing gadfly to a liberal administration, like it was under Biden, there are now meaningful opportunities to find common ground with liberals against fascism. The danger for the left is that the liberal establishment would like to use this closeness to subsume the most active parts of the base into the NGO industrial complex, and stultify the rest into taking no real revolutionary action. They want to shape the world of social activism along electoral, reformist lines, but they will not be able to. We also have fleeting chances to reshape this world into one that we want, but first … Read more