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Minneapolis, New York, and the Failing CBS News

Digging into the good, the bad, and the ugly with JoeWrote
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Evan Stern and Joe Wrote
Jan 18, 2026
Cross-posted by Certain Thoughts
"Evan and I discuss the occupation of Minneapolis and Zohran Mamdani’s first two weeks as America’s Mayor. Then we laugh at Bari Weiss, who is ruining CBS News faster than she ruined her anti-woke university. Check it out, here."
- Joe Wrote

What fresh hell?

Recent events in Minnesota inspire darkness and dread, but meanwhile in New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is actually succeeding early in his Democratic Socialist term, so that’s something. The phenomenal thinker and writer Joe Wrote sat down with me to dismantle a recent raft of pro-ICE, corporate Democratic propaganda and celebrate Mamdani’s wins. We also shared a joyful appreciation of Bari Weiss’s total failure as head of CBS News.

Read JoeWrote on the oligarch-backed effort to restrain popular anti-ICE outrage, and on Mamdani’s “magnificent first two weeks”:

JoeWrote
Sorry Centrists. Americans Want to Abolish ICE
Americans from all walks of life have been activated by last week’s murder of Renee Good. Protestors marched in over a thousand anti-ICE demonstrations across the country. Veterans have compared ICE’s tactics to a warring army. Immigration activists have stepped up community self-defense programs. And centrists have blogged about why the fascist gang th…
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19 days ago · 68 likes · 4 comments
JoeWrote
Zohran Mamdani's Magnificent First Two Weeks
The biggest risk to the American left wasn’t that Zohran Mamdani would lose the race for mayor of New York City. The biggest risk was that he would win and fail to govern. If Mamdani had lost to Andrew Cuomo, anti-leftists in the media and political establishment would have gloated for a bit. But then they’d have moved on, and the socialist would have b…
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17 days ago · 53 likes · 3 comments · Joe Wrote

LIVE SUNDAY, JAN 18! 1 PST / 4 EST:

ICE Terror: Film It or Fight It? With Ryan Ward

ICE Terror: Film It or Fight It?

We will discuss the tension between documenting Trump’s reign of terror and more proactively resisting. Check out Ryan’s provocative essay The fascist takeover is at least well documented.

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The fascist takeover is at least well documented
There’s a new kind of post that is all over the internet at the moment. With Trump’s huge increase in funding for ICE and his Justice Department’s brazen flaunting of any semblance of the separation between federal and state powers, ICE has been wreaking havoc on urban neighborhoods. They are now routinely documented on social med…
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21 days ago · 84 likes · 45 comments · Ryan Ward

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