Be Safe Out There
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
The Nation
Nationwide anti-ICE protests call for accountability after Renee Good’s death
“Renee Nicole Good was a wife, a mother of three, and a member of her community. She, and the dozens of other sons, daughters, friends, siblings, parents, and community members who have been killed by ICE, should be alive today,” Greenberg said in a statement on Friday. “ICE’s violence is not a statistic, it has names, families, and futures attached to it, and we refuse to look away or stay silent.”
NPR
Airline Cuts Ties With ICE Over Deportation Flights
Avelo Airlines found out the hard way that its partnership with ICE was bad for business.
The New Republic
Kristi Noem Goes on TV and Lies Through Her Teeth (Again) About ICE Killing of Renee Nicole Good
“It should be terrifying to every American how Noem lies,” said one critic. “She doesn’t sweat or move uncomfortably. She just doesn’t care. This is what Trump has created. An environment where you only get in trouble if you don’t lie.”
Common Dreams
Day after Minneapolis shooting, Noem ordered new restriction on congressional oversight
The Trump administration revealed the new policy late Saturday after three lawmakers were blocked from entering an ICE facility in Minnesota.
Politico
The country I love doesn’t look like Trump’s America
The new CBS News says it “unapologetically” loves America. But “my country, right or wrong” is a dangerous binary.
MS Now
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
Jackson Fire Department rules arson at Beth Israel Congregation, the city’s only Jewish house of worship.
Mississippi Today
Family seeks answers after ICE deported man to Costa Rica in vegetative state
“How is it possible that a man that left healthy, tall, chubby, robust, came back dirty, looked abandoned, with ulcers on his entire body, in a vegetative state?” she said.
The Guardian
The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration
Government data show the Trump administration’s immigration policies reducing the number of foreign-born workers did not help U.S.-born workers in 2025. The latest data indicate a substantial drop in foreign-born workers did not translate into better labor market outcomes for U.S.-born workers or encourage more workers to enter the labor force. The U.S.-born unemployment rate increased over the past 12 months. Trump officials, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, predicted fewer immigrant workers would produce significant benefits for U.S.-born workers.
Forbes
Baptizing the lie about ICE and the killing of Renee Nicole Good
“The nuns were not just nuns. The nuns were also political activists.”
These infamous words were spoken in 1980 by Jeane Kirkpatrick, one of the top foreign policy advisors to incoming President Ronald Reagan, after the brutal murder of four American women, three of them nuns, by government forces in El Salvador. The four—Maryknoll sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missionary Jean Donovan—had been raped, killed and dumped in a shallow grave on Dec. 2, 1980, by soldiers of the Salvadoran National Guard on orders from higher up.
Ms. Kirkpatrick sensed, correctly, that such a savage crime might turn public opinion against the massive military and economic aid the United States was providing to the brutal junta ruling El Salvador. So why not put the responsibility on the unarmed, defenseless nuns instead? After all, they were already dead.
America Magazine
Citizens are finally getting it: No one’s safe from Trump’s deportation ambitions
A YouGov poll conducted on the day of Good’s killing found 52% of Americans surveyed don’t like how ICE is operating, while the agency’s approval rating has gone from plus-16% to negative 14% in a year. While the poll unsurprisingly splits on partisan lines — Democrats overwhelmingly oppose ICE, Republicans still think they’re Trump’s Hardy Boys — the independents who delivered the 2024 election to Trump oppose ICE’s actions by a healthy majority.
Los Angeles Times
What’s behind the highly unusual move to block Minnesota officials from investigating ICE shooting
Minnesota officials have lambasted ICE as “reckless,” calling comments defending the officers who fired the shot as “bullsh*t,” and calling the deployment of ICE in Minnesota a threat to the “endurance of our republic.”Comments like these, the sources said, have fueled the distrust.
CNN
Somalis Fled Civil War and Built a Community. Now They Are a Target.
“Maybe they got tired of attacking Muslims,” Imam Yusuf Abdulle, director of the Islamic Association of North America, which oversees more than three dozen Islamic centers and groups across the country. “Now, they have another name, another reason,” he said, citing Vice President JD Vance’s use of the words “the Somali problem.”
The New York Times
When the State Terrorizes the People
The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.
Democracy Americana
A Disturbing Pattern Has Emerged In Trump’s Second Term — And It’s Playing Out With Renee Good
“How else do you justify shooting a stay-at-home mom with stuffed animals in her car?” the attorney for one woman who survived a federal agent’s gunfire told HuffPost.
Huffpost
Seriously, guys, we’re trying
Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?
Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.
The Atlantic
Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms
A face-off between the two most prominent Americans on the world stage was inevitable, if only for the contrast between President Trump’s blustery inconstancy and Leo’s soft-spoken yet firm dignity. The pope is “neither quiet nor shy — if he has something to say, he will say it,” in the words of his eldest brother, Louis Prevost, a Trump devotee whom the president has hosted in the Oval Office and at Mar-a-Lago.
The New York Times
Inside North Korea’s Obsession With Dominating Girls Soccer
The sport has become something of an athletic arbitrage for the country, which figures other nations won’t subject preteens to such arduous training.
The Wall Street Journal
Jewish American academic denied entry to Israel for being a ‘left-wing anarchist’
Incident is latest in series of deportations of foreign nationals, including Jews, for pro-Palestinian activities in West Bank, coordinated by Population Authority and police
The Times of Israel
The pope in a major foreign policy address blasts how countries are using force to assert dominion
Leo didn’t name individual countries that have resorted to force in his lengthy speech, the bulk of which he delivered in English in a break from the Vatican’s traditional diplomatic protocol of Italian and French.
Religion News Service
Iraq Was Bad. This Is Absurd.
Trump is doing improv in Venezuela.
The Atlantic
Death toll in crackdown on protests in Iran spikes to at least 538, activists say
A crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed at least 538 people and even more are feared dead, activists said Sunday, while Tehran warned that the U.S. military and Israel would be “legitimate targets” if America uses force to protect demonstrators.
PBS
Israel Tells Doctors Without Borders to End Its Work in Gaza
The move against the medical aid group enforces policies limiting criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war and requiring personal details about Gazan employees.
The New York Times
Venezuela’s exiles in Chile caught between hope and uncertainty
But, like many, Montesinos is keen to urge caution. “They’ve captured Maduro, but the regime hasn’t fallen,” she said. “They’ve been building it for 25 years, it’ll take a long time to disassemble.”
NPR
‘We have a light now’: Maduro capture brings relief, uncertainty for Venezuelans in Vegas
Democrats representing Nevada in Congress told The Nevada Independent that they are in the dark about what’s next for Venezuela.
The Nevada Independent
Is the Chinese presence in Congo Brazzaville a threat to ‘first occupants’ or a relief to them?
The decline of the forest, following extractive work, deforestation, agricultural expansion, illegal logging, and other activities in the forest areas of Congo, is shrinking the habitat of Indigenous peoples.
Global Voices
Netanyahu tries to calm tensions after Israeli bus runs over and kills ultra-Orthodox teen
The violence reflected growing tensions between the Israeli authorities and the ultra-Orthodox, known as Haredim, as the government mulls plans to draft them into the military.
Religion News Service
Venezuela’s ‘Dirtiest’ Oil and the Environment: Three Things to Know
Most of the reserves in the country are extra-heavy oil that’s tough to extract and generates more greenhouse gases.
The New York Times
