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Texas’ power grid crumples under the cold ars technica
Blackouts Hit 13 States Beyond Texas in Deepening Power Crisis Bloomberg
The FBI warned about far-right attacks. Agents arrested a leftist ex-soldier. Washington Post
Shortly after sunrise on Jan. 15, FBI agents descended with guns drawn on a squat, red-brick apartment complex here, broke open the door of one of the units and threw in a stun grenade, prompting the frightened property manager to call 911.
Inside the apartment, furnished with little besides books and a sign declaring “THE REVOLUTION IS NOT A PARTY,” the agents found their target: a 33-year-old U.S. Army veteran and self-described “hardcore leftist” who had posted a flier on social media threatening to attack “armed racist mobs WITH EVERY CALIBER AVAILABLE.”
People of color accounted for majority of NYC jobs lost in 2020, new study finds NY Daily News
Productivity and Wages Decolonial Atlas
There’s a growing gap between the value of our labor and what we’re actually paid. This is not some fluke of capitalism that can be reformed. It’s foundational to the entire system.
Biden faces questions about commitment to minimum wage hike AP
Biden’s effort to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour is facing an unexpected roadblock: Biden himself
Should Waupun Prison Be Closed? Urban Milwaukee
#COVID19
Florida Is a COVID Nightmare—Even for Vaccinated People Daily Beast
Trump coup
57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection HuffPost
New radio and video footage from Capitol riot shows a coordinated attack and officers’ restraint CNN
Haiti
“Stop Interfering in Our Lives”: Haitians Protesters Condemn US Support for Dictator MPN
Haitians continue to mobilize against Jovenel Moïse’s dictatorship Peoples Dispatch
Haiti’s Second Social Revolution Kim Ives
Venezuela
UN Special Rapporteur Blasts ‘Devastating’ and ‘Illegal’ US and EU Sanctions against Venezuela Venezuelanalysis
China
“Shame on You, New York Times!” Scientists Speak Out Over Media Disinformation on China MPN
Coronavirus Peru: Developing countries use Sinopharm, Sinovac vaccines Washington Post
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Receives First Donation of Vaccines From China teleSUR
Indigenous Peoples
‘We Are Marching Until the Violence Against Women Ends’ The Tyee
First annual Kjipuktuk March for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relations
Lockdown to Keep it in the Ground: Line 3 Resistance Unicorn Riot
Indigenous Water Protector Jailed in North Dakota for Refusing to Cooperate With Secret Grand Jury
Ecuador
Elections in Ecuador: Anticorreismo Agree to a Massive Recount Marco Teruggi
Cuba
An Inside Look at Cuba’s Constant Struggle for Clean Water NYTimes
U.S. Troops Blew Off COVID-19 Restrictions In Ireland, Apologized Later: Report HuffPost
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Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 