Andrew Stroehlein

What were the main causes behind the collapse of the United States back in the mid- to late 2020s? Here's my overview: www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/why-the-us-c...

Convincing. A must-read. However, as someone who worked for a long time trying to convince governments to do things they didn't want to do, I'm not sure humanity's leaders will address the issue before it's too late.

The latest from the Antifa Tabernacle Choir youtu.be/Vs24tGpzxWc

You can love your country and despise its political leadership - because of how the latter is wrecking the former.

While this research focuses on France, the closure of the local watering holes and the correlating rise in isolation, leading to less critical media consumption and folks finding comfort in far right rhetoric vilifying the other as cause of their abandonment, is something that resonates globally

“When there is no longer any place to talk to each other, politics becomes a face-off between the isolated individual and the grand narratives of the media – and in this face-off, discourses that offer simple answers have a structural advantage,” the study adds.  f24.my/Bixk

They’ve been following all the rules. The cruelty is the point

Probably a good thing. I'd rather see it gone than replaced by Trumpist propaganda.

Rough translation: "Too many powerful people are suspects - including my bosses - so, we're not going to investigate. To hell with the victims. To hell with justice." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Judge orders release of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and father from ICE detention

ICE and Border Patrol have come to resemble militias that answer to the president and operate with seeming impunity. That is a liability for America

On October 14, the Trump administration murdered six people when they bombed a civilian boat in the Caribbean. We’re suing on behalf of two of the victims’ families because the government must be held accountable.

Nailed it

Ousted from Hollywood because at least 6 young women credibly accused him of sexual assault and rape. But i guess okay at Mar aLago

So this administration has charged an independent Black journalist reporting in Minnesota but not two white agents who murdered two citizens

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

This is a direct assault on the First Amendment by the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

ICE’s job is immigration enforcement so why is it using facial recognition to surveil U.S. citizens? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

By the actual president, who is also an actual insurrectionist.

BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

Trump hasn't just insulted the troops of our allies. He's insulted the Black service members who fought bravely for a country that wasn't even giving them the full measure of equality. Great piece by Pulitzer winner Matt Desmond: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

We invaded France and no one will sell us a croissant. It’s very hard on the men.

The attorney general has begun sharing names and photos of Minneapolis protesters—in violation of DOJ rules. These protesters have only been arrested, not convicted. Yet somehow, the public still hasn’t been told the names of the federal agents involved in Alex Pretti's killing. trib.al/QuihD66

"Slovakia's prime minister told EU leaders … a meeting with Trump left him shocked by [Trump's] state of mind... Robert Fico, one of the few EU leaders to frequently support Trump’s stance on Europe’s weaknesses, was concerned about [Trump's] 'psychological state'" www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Indeed, Anne Frank was a teenager who was culturally Dutch, having moved here at age 4, but was not a citizen. For Americans asking what they would do for a non-citizen child facing deportation to an unsafe country they never knew, there is a lot to think about here.

"Someone in Minnesota is driving. It is not Walz or Frey. It is not Bovino or Noem or Trump, and it won't be Homan. It is the people themselves: the outraged, galvanized, multiethnic working class, who see the imperial boomerang spinning toward their heads, even if they might not use that term."

"While designed to incapacitate or control a person without causing death or permanent injury, they can cause serious or fatal injuries, especially when used improperly." (sometimes intentionally improperly)

Bravo, Maestro.

"At Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana, exhibit text that described the United States being “hungry for gold and land” and breaking promises to Native Americans was ordered changed or removed." #NationalParks 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Good morning friends! Some things to remember when you call your senators today: 1. Renee Good's killer is still at large and has not faced justice 2. Alex Pretti's murderers are still at large, unnamed and still working on our dime. 3. 35 people died in ICE custody last year. 35 shattered families

I just posted this, but I'm posting it again - because it is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this.

Neighborism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day last year, I wrote this for Human Rights Watch. Seems even more relevant today. www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.

Security guarantees from Trump can’t be relied on. He treats any decision point as an opportunity for extortion.

Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems an odd moment to be reorganising your law enforcement agencies on the US model, no?

Trump regime thugs are murdering people in the streets, kidnapping children, and sending people to be tortured. While that's all happening, it may be easy to miss this: the regime is also shredding the idea of privacy. www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.