Third Act Maryland
@thirdactmd.bsky.social
A group of folks who used to not "trust anyone over 30" fighting for climate justice and democracy and a livable planet for future generations. https://thirdact.org/maryland/
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The Senate will vote on the DHS funding bill next week and it can’t pass without Democratic votes.
That means Democrats have real leverage to rein in ICE, but they won’t use it unless we force them to.
Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
That means Democrats have real leverage to rein in ICE, but they won’t use it unless we force them to.
Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
January 24, 2026 at 12:24 AM
The Senate will vote on the DHS funding bill next week and it can’t pass without Democratic votes.
That means Democrats have real leverage to rein in ICE, but they won’t use it unless we force them to.
Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
That means Democrats have real leverage to rein in ICE, but they won’t use it unless we force them to.
Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
"What Trump is doing to Minneapolis is the template for what Trump wants to bring to your hometown next. How Minneapolis is responding should be our template too."
Minnesota’s General Strike, and America’s
It may be a precursor
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:33 AM
"What Trump is doing to Minneapolis is the template for what Trump wants to bring to your hometown next. How Minneapolis is responding should be our template too."
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TODAY: Minnesota activists are joining together for a historic day of action with no work, no school, and no shopping.
They’re also asking allies across the nation to hold solidarity actions to keep the focus on ICE’s ongoing brutality and the urgency to get ICE Out For Good.
They’re also asking allies across the nation to hold solidarity actions to keep the focus on ICE’s ongoing brutality and the urgency to get ICE Out For Good.
ICE Out for Good
On January 23, people across the country are taking action in solidarity with Minnesota to demand ICE out of our communities. Join the day of action.
iceoutforgood.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM
TODAY: Minnesota activists are joining together for a historic day of action with no work, no school, and no shopping.
They’re also asking allies across the nation to hold solidarity actions to keep the focus on ICE’s ongoing brutality and the urgency to get ICE Out For Good.
They’re also asking allies across the nation to hold solidarity actions to keep the focus on ICE’s ongoing brutality and the urgency to get ICE Out For Good.
Remember to support the freedom fighters of Minneapolis.
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Remember to support the freedom fighters of Minneapolis.
"The administration’s actions in Ms. Good’s case are a declaration that there will be no accountability and that it would prefer to instill fear rather than trust. ... This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism."
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:21 PM
"The administration’s actions in Ms. Good’s case are a declaration that there will be no accountability and that it would prefer to instill fear rather than trust. ... This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism."
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Please share this update from @youthvgov.bsky.social and follow them. Support these kids who have given up their childhoods to fight for livable future #climate
A bipartisan coalition of experts & scholars has added its voice in support of the youth. Together, they underscore widespread concern for the health, safety, and constitutional rights of these young Americans and highlight broad support for allowing the plaintiffs’ claims to proceed.
January 22, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Please share this update from @youthvgov.bsky.social and follow them. Support these kids who have given up their childhoods to fight for livable future #climate
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"No Kings" in bright lights above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
January 20, 2026 at 9:58 PM
"No Kings" in bright lights above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
"America had better shape up before losing out to an electric age ushered in by Beijing. Otherwise, it will be stuck with outmoded products at home while China conquers markets through better technology."
Opinion | Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:20 AM
"America had better shape up before losing out to an electric age ushered in by Beijing. Otherwise, it will be stuck with outmoded products at home while China conquers markets through better technology."
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Grassroots wheat paste group in Arlington stings ICE with mural of its 36 victims. The mural shows in real life that ICE is waging a lethal war on its own country—
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Grassroots Wheat Paste Group Stings ICE With Murder Mural Depicting Its Victims - DCMediaGroup
Arlington, VA—Mix wheat and water and boil and you get a powerful concoction that can be used to wage an information war against the country’s most dangerous gang—Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...
dcmediagroup.us
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Grassroots wheat paste group in Arlington stings ICE with mural of its 36 victims. The mural shows in real life that ICE is waging a lethal war on its own country—
dcmediagroup.us/2026/01/20/g...
dcmediagroup.us/2026/01/20/g...
"Developments will now progress outside the U.S.—especially in China, which will be able to establish itself as the sole global market leader. It is a shame that a high-tech nation like the U.S. is turning its back on a high-tech development.”
Talking About Energy Dominance? Solar Would Like to Have a Word. - Inside Climate News
We are in the solar-powered century, although some are taking their time to figure this out.
insideclimatenews.org
January 20, 2026 at 10:35 PM
"Developments will now progress outside the U.S.—especially in China, which will be able to establish itself as the sole global market leader. It is a shame that a high-tech nation like the U.S. is turning its back on a high-tech development.”
"Conscience is not loud. It does not march in formation. But it has a long memory. And occasionally, it speaks through unexpected mouths, reminding us that the most subversive act in an age of endless war is not protest, not analysis, not even outrage—but refusal."
An Archbishop Breaks Ranks: When Even the Chaplain Says No to Empire
Archbishop Broglio says US troops could refuse Greenland orders
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM
"Conscience is not loud. It does not march in formation. But it has a long memory. And occasionally, it speaks through unexpected mouths, reminding us that the most subversive act in an age of endless war is not protest, not analysis, not even outrage—but refusal."
China's Cultural Revolution is another parallel, with "capitalist roaders" being the "enemy within" and Red Guards being ICE/Brown Shirts.
Trump’s ICE and Hitler’s Brown Shirts
Lessons From Two Eras
robertreich.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:14 PM
China's Cultural Revolution is another parallel, with "capitalist roaders" being the "enemy within" and Red Guards being ICE/Brown Shirts.
Why #TeslaTakedown matters.
How #TeslaTakedown Combined Centralization and Decentralization to Fight Authoritarianism - The Forge
The TeslaTakedown campaign exemplifies how we can build meaningful structures that allow for strategic spontaneity and mass participation. Historians are going to have hundreds of stories of how peo...
forgeorganizing.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Why #TeslaTakedown matters.
social media support definitely keeps spirits up but “in addition to appreciation, we want emulation. We need that out there in the streets in every city”
A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets
Dan Troccoli, a public middle school teacher, says everyone should start “emulating” Minneapolis’s resistance to ICE and the Trump regime.
www.thenation.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:03 PM
social media support definitely keeps spirits up but “in addition to appreciation, we want emulation. We need that out there in the streets in every city”
Tuesday, Jan. 20
Trump inauguration anniversary walkouts: here’s what to know
Amid escalating ICE raids and attacks on gender-affirming care, organizers ask people to join ‘Free America Walkout’
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Tuesday, Jan. 20
"The failure of Iran’s water supplies is only the most dramatic example we have to date of how the climate crisis is threatening our most essential systems – and with them, political stability. It is unlikely to be the last."
How ‘day zero’ water shortages in Iran are fuelling protests
Supply failures are dramatic example of way climate crisis threatens basic human needs – and with it political stability
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:50 AM
"The failure of Iran’s water supplies is only the most dramatic example we have to date of how the climate crisis is threatening our most essential systems – and with them, political stability. It is unlikely to be the last."
"If you know how to put a plug in a socket, you can be part of this revolution."
"On a dark dark day like today, solar is one form of liberation."
"On a dark dark day like today, solar is one form of liberation."
Solar as Solidarity
It's not just for saving planets any more
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:11 PM
"If you know how to put a plug in a socket, you can be part of this revolution."
"On a dark dark day like today, solar is one form of liberation."
"On a dark dark day like today, solar is one form of liberation."
One Year Later: A March of Reckoning
January 20 at 11:30 a.m.
Meet at Farragut Sq. near 17th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/2s49f5ce
Join us for a march to honor and acknowledge the freedoms, principles, and essential natl values the Trump regime began attacking last year on Jan 20.
January 20 at 11:30 a.m.
Meet at Farragut Sq. near 17th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/2s49f5ce
Join us for a march to honor and acknowledge the freedoms, principles, and essential natl values the Trump regime began attacking last year on Jan 20.
January 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
One Year Later: A March of Reckoning
January 20 at 11:30 a.m.
Meet at Farragut Sq. near 17th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/2s49f5ce
Join us for a march to honor and acknowledge the freedoms, principles, and essential natl values the Trump regime began attacking last year on Jan 20.
January 20 at 11:30 a.m.
Meet at Farragut Sq. near 17th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/2s49f5ce
Join us for a march to honor and acknowledge the freedoms, principles, and essential natl values the Trump regime began attacking last year on Jan 20.
Seems appropriate in these times.
Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome (BBC Television Theatre, London - June 5, 1965)
YouTube video by John1948SevenB
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Seems appropriate in these times.
"but maybe, just maybe, our democracy isn’t being destroyed — it’s being forged anew in the hands of the American people."
The Minneapolis Crucible
Will we forge democracy anew?
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"but maybe, just maybe, our democracy isn’t being destroyed — it’s being forged anew in the hands of the American people."
Meanwhile, back to the climate crisis ...
2025 was Earth's 3rd-warmest year on record » Yale Climate Connections
Human-caused global warming pushed global temperatures to near-record levels despite the cooling influence of the La Niña phenomenon, which typically suppresses global temperatures.
yaleclimateconnections.org
January 14, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Meanwhile, back to the climate crisis ...
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