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Sunday thought: Enough Time for a truly massive general strike Robert Reich Jan 25 Friends, Enough. I believe the shots that killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good are the shots heard ‘round the world that will topple the Trump regime. From Minneapolis to Davos , people are joining together against Trump’s tyranny. In Minnesota, they are joining across ethnicity, race, and class against Trump’s gestapo tactics, repression, and murders. Solidarity is spreading to other cities. In Europe, they are joining across national boundaries against Trump’s threats to their sovereignty, the European Community, and NATO. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney , in a speech that drew a standing ovation from world leaders at Davos , called on “middle powers” like Canada and Europe to form a new alliance against economic coercion from the world’s great powers (by which he clearly meant Trump’s United States and Putin’s Russia). Across America and across the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to app...

  Hi there, It’s Friday. With a  major winter storm  hitting a huge portion of the U.S. this weekend, I hope you stay safe if you live in an area that’ll be impacted! Jack Smith publicly testified before Congress warning that Americans are taking the rule of law for granted, Trump is suing JPMorgan and CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion over alleged debanking, and a new report shows how food prices rose during the first year of Trump’s second presidency. In addition, new reports show just how willing ICE is to break the law with a memo leaking declaring agents are able to enter homes without a warrant. And the agency’s enforcement continues to grow more bold and reckless, with a community member in Minneapolis saying, “It’s like they’re hunting.” Yet much of the American mainstream press still treats these events as routine enforcement stories, buried in crime desks or framed as partisan controversy. This obscures the human toll: people of color being stopped and detained wit...

    Watch now   MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 1/23/26 [AD-FREE] Watch the latest episode ad-free on the Meidas+ Substack Brett Meiselas, Ben Meiselas, Jordy Meiselas, and MeidasTouch Network Jan 23 ∙ The latest episode of  The MeidasTouch Podcast  is now available ad-free exclusively for Meidas+ Substack paid subscribers. To support ad-free episodes like this, please consider joining as a paid subscriber today! You can also listen to the episode free on podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are found: MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 1/23/26 The MeidasTouch Podcast 1:32:18 MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 1/23/26 MeidasTouch Network Episode On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down Special Counsel Jack Smith’s unprecedented public testimony before Congress detailing Donald Trump’s crimes, as new warning signs about Trump’s health emerge with continued and spreading bruising. We also cover Trump’s laughable “fa...

  UNFTR Weekly Roundup Join us  on Discord  and  Bluesky , and  check out  Max’s contributor videos  on the MeidasTouch Network! Watch the video version of this newsletter .   Max Notes GreeningLand To set the tone for MaxNotes, the first words go to author Michael Klaire from his 2019 book  All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change .   “The region is also thought to harbor vast deposits of vital minerals, including iron, copper, uranium, and rare earths; Greenland is believed to contain especially significant deposits of such minerals, and prominent foreign mining firms—including some from China—have begun operations there. Many valuable fish species reside in or migrate through the region, representing an increasingly valuable source of animal protein. As the ice cap shrivels, moreover, the Arctic could provide a cost-effective shortcut for maritime trade between the Atlantic and Pacific. As these interests ...