Wendy Russell
@drwrussell.bsky.social
Associate Professor in the Centre for Global Studies, Huron University.
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Forget abolishing ICE; abolish the GOP.
January 25, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Forget abolishing ICE; abolish the GOP.
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Half a century ago, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded on Franklin Ave. in Minneapolis in response to police violence targeting indigenous residents.
Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.
Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.
'Full Circle': AIM patrols back on Minneapolis streets as tensions rise - ICT
Supporters are pouring in from across Indian Country to protect the Minnesota community from ICE
ictnews.org
January 19, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Half a century ago, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded on Franklin Ave. in Minneapolis in response to police violence targeting indigenous residents.
Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.
Today, as ICE invades the city, AIM patrols are back, watching over elders, youths and aunties along the same avenue.
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When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
January 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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They're literally taking hostages
"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe 'entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.'"
I don't even know what to say at this point except fuck ICE and fuck the settler colonial government of the so-called united states
apnews.com/article/ice-...
I don't even know what to say at this point except fuck ICE and fuck the settler colonial government of the so-called united states
apnews.com/article/ice-...
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...
apnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 AM
They're literally taking hostages
Really, this is just not the time to listen to moderate think tanks. The whole extremist game here is to make all government appear useless. Stop helping them with this and answer the calls your constituents are making instead.
Hakeem Jeffries: "Clearly, significant reform needs to take place as it relates to the manner in which ICE is conducting itself. ICE is using taxpayer dollars to brutalize American citizens and to unnecessarily and viciously target law-abiding immigrant families and communities."
January 15, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Really, this is just not the time to listen to moderate think tanks. The whole extremist game here is to make all government appear useless. Stop helping them with this and answer the calls your constituents are making instead.
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People absolutely forget that students are workers.
Never mind the fact that one of the "changes" that has occurred over the past 20 years is the amount of paid labour students are performing while also studying full time. Most literally don't have time to read.
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
People absolutely forget that students are workers.
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Japan’s fashion week takes place in June of this year and will feature an all-Indigenous showcase for the first time from Peguis First Nation designer, Alyssia Sutherland.
Sutherland is the owner of Ally’s Ribbons, who had over 500 auditions to model.
Sutherland is the owner of Ally’s Ribbons, who had over 500 auditions to model.
This year’s Japan fashion week features a First Nations designer | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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January 13, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Japan’s fashion week takes place in June of this year and will feature an all-Indigenous showcase for the first time from Peguis First Nation designer, Alyssia Sutherland.
Sutherland is the owner of Ally’s Ribbons, who had over 500 auditions to model.
Sutherland is the owner of Ally’s Ribbons, who had over 500 auditions to model.
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“I knew that if I stayed at Yale, there would be pressure not to bring the Trump administration’s wrath onto Yale.
I knew that Yale would try to normalize the situation, escape being in the press, urge us to see the fascists as just politically different.”
I knew that Yale would try to normalize the situation, escape being in the press, urge us to see the fascists as just politically different.”
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
“I knew that if I stayed at Yale, there would be pressure not to bring the Trump administration’s wrath onto Yale.
I knew that Yale would try to normalize the situation, escape being in the press, urge us to see the fascists as just politically different.”
I knew that Yale would try to normalize the situation, escape being in the press, urge us to see the fascists as just politically different.”
The deployment of this fascist militia is revealing the failure of conventional models of policing to protect communities, people, day to day life. Courts, laws, all powerless. Maybe the crushing economic burden of policing in general and this army in particular will gain more attention?
In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 10:53 PM
The deployment of this fascist militia is revealing the failure of conventional models of policing to protect communities, people, day to day life. Courts, laws, all powerless. Maybe the crushing economic burden of policing in general and this army in particular will gain more attention?
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🚨 In Nov., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers.
A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers.
The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025.
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me, for @forbes.com
A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers.
The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025.
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me, for @forbes.com
Trump Vineyard Seeks To Hire Foreign Workers At Lower Wages
Records show the Trump Organization has requested over 2,000 foreign workers since 2008. Its latest request seeks a $13.90 hourly wage—the lowest the winery has offered since 2021.
www.forbes.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:59 PM
🚨 In Nov., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers.
A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers.
The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025.
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me, for @forbes.com
A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers.
The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025.
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me, for @forbes.com
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A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
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ICE: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”
Woman: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
Every domestic violence survivor knows what those words means.
The misogyny on display by ICE is terrifying & escalating.
There’s no lesson we need to learn.
Filming is legal. Murder is not.
Woman: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
Every domestic violence survivor knows what those words means.
The misogyny on display by ICE is terrifying & escalating.
There’s no lesson we need to learn.
Filming is legal. Murder is not.
January 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
ICE: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”
Woman: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
Every domestic violence survivor knows what those words means.
The misogyny on display by ICE is terrifying & escalating.
There’s no lesson we need to learn.
Filming is legal. Murder is not.
Woman: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
Every domestic violence survivor knows what those words means.
The misogyny on display by ICE is terrifying & escalating.
There’s no lesson we need to learn.
Filming is legal. Murder is not.
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Everyone should read this one paragraph.
1/ Peter Thiel-who backs the "network state" movement & the construction of charter cities—wrote a preface for "The Sovereign Individual," a book that states in part as follows:
January 10, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Everyone should read this one paragraph.
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As the Israeli bombs fell, my family committed an act of rebellion: we planted a garden in Gaza | Taqwa Ahmed al-Wai
As the Israeli bombs fell, my family committed an act of rebellion: we planted a garden in Gaza | Taqwa Ahmed al-Wai
Amid constant danger, each planted seed was a tiny act of resistance. As they grew, they offered us food – and a sense of achievement amid the devastation, says Taqwa Ahmed al-Wai, a writer, poet and editor based in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
As the Israeli bombs fell, my family committed an act of rebellion: we planted a garden in Gaza | Taqwa Ahmed al-Wai
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~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump.
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
January 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump.
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
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NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
BlackNest: Inside Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites
One Canary Mission-affiliated website, BlackNest, reveals the group's internal operations, plans to expand, and how they celebrate deportations and firings
www.dropsitenews.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
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Thank you to #WindspeakerNews for the interview with Adrian Sutherland about his recently released book THE WORK OF OUR HANDS! #TheWorkOfOurHands #AdrianSutherland #PenguinRandomCA #WindspeakerMedia READ STORY: windspeaker.com/news/windspe...
January 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Thank you to #WindspeakerNews for the interview with Adrian Sutherland about his recently released book THE WORK OF OUR HANDS! #TheWorkOfOurHands #AdrianSutherland #PenguinRandomCA #WindspeakerMedia READ STORY: windspeaker.com/news/windspe...
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This is the boast of a Risk-addicted poli sci major, talking shit in the dorm common room over a bottle of liquor someone else bought, the night before he bombs the foreign service written exam
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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A very big deal: 11,000 year old settlement in Saskatchewan. Excellent project that is making history. artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...
11,000-year-old Indigenous village uncovered near Sturgeon Lake
Archaeologists including Dr. Glenn Stuart (PhD) of the USask Department of Anthropology worked with the community to study one of the oldest known Indigenous sites on the continent
artsandscience.usask.ca
January 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
A very big deal: 11,000 year old settlement in Saskatchewan. Excellent project that is making history. artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...
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I was today years old when I learned that the “Cultural Marxism” talking point we hear from Republicans like Ted Cruz is a literal Nazi conspiracy theory.
It has its roots in Kulturbolschewismus, or Cultural Bolshevism, which the Nazis threw around to discredit their opposition.
It has its roots in Kulturbolschewismus, or Cultural Bolshevism, which the Nazis threw around to discredit their opposition.
January 4, 2026 at 11:19 PM
I was today years old when I learned that the “Cultural Marxism” talking point we hear from Republicans like Ted Cruz is a literal Nazi conspiracy theory.
It has its roots in Kulturbolschewismus, or Cultural Bolshevism, which the Nazis threw around to discredit their opposition.
It has its roots in Kulturbolschewismus, or Cultural Bolshevism, which the Nazis threw around to discredit their opposition.
Plugging this book (see below please) after reading a pay walled article by the author in the Globe and Mail this weekend. (If you have the paper, it’s called Feels Like Home O4, you should read it). My copy of this book is on the way. Thank you Adrian for your work on “the prepolitcal “.
Adrian’s debut book THE WORK OF OUR HANDS: A CREE MEDITATION ON THE REAL WORLD reveals a side of his life in #Attawapiskat that headlines can’t capture, and outsiders rarely see. #TheWorkOfOurHands will be released by #PenguinRandomCA on Dec 30. PRE-ORDER: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/671056...
January 5, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Plugging this book (see below please) after reading a pay walled article by the author in the Globe and Mail this weekend. (If you have the paper, it’s called Feels Like Home O4, you should read it). My copy of this book is on the way. Thank you Adrian for your work on “the prepolitcal “.
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In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018—said, “we’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela…assuming this transfer of power does go thru … And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity…” 1/
The team trying to end poverty by founding well-governed 'charter' cities
"China looked & said, 'Wait, Hong Kong's rich. Taiwan's rich. We're all Chinese. Why are they doing well and we're starving?'"
80000hours.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018—said, “we’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela…assuming this transfer of power does go thru … And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity…” 1/