1. A brief video posted by singer and actress Selena Gomez in defense of immigrants goes viral: while drawing the ire of the fascistic far-right, the mass interest in Gomez’s comments reflects some of the anger and genuine disgust that millions of people feel watching Trump and his cabinet of billionaire parasites

2. In a conflict spiraling into full-scale war, Goma, the largest city in the mineral-rich northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, falls to the M23 militia reinforced by Rwandan special forces

3. Democratic Party leaders crumple in the face of US President Trump's attacks on peoples' democratic and constitutional rights

4. US students, educators, and workers react spontaneously to condemn the US Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants

5. US President Trump declares a political war with Jerome Powell after the Federal Reserve chairman announces a decision to put off reducing federal interest rates: “If the Fed had spent less time on DEI, gender ideology, ‘green energy,’ and fake climate change, inflation would never have been a problem”

6. A report on the degrading spectacle of the first confirmation hearing of US President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

7. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with support from approximately 1,500 active-duty troops, launch a large-scale anti-immigrant operation at the San Diego border crossing between California and Mexico

8. By passing a motion on migration policy through the Bundestag which abrogates fundamental constitutional principles and European law, Christian Democrats in Germany make rubbish of promises to honor a "firewall" between themselves and the far-right AfD political party

9. In an op-ed, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer indicates how Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, and Donald Trump are role models guiding his plans to deregulate business; how did this come about? Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce relates how “Everyone... at Davos is taking a page out of the Donald Trump playbook…."

10. Attempting to shut it down, Oregon's Governor, Tina Kotek, intervenes in the strike of 5,000 Providence nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers

11. The gathering of members of a small neo-Nazi organization on Australia Day in Adelaide and other cities in Australia puts a spotlight on how the establishment has been increasingly moving to the right

12. A challenge to US dominance of artificial intelligence (AI):  the Chinese open source artificial intelligence app, DeepSeek, relies on less resources to outperform expensive Western AI software on most benchmarks 

13. More students are arrested for having participated in anti-genocide protests at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio; meanwhile President Donald Trump signs an executive order directing the cancellation of the visas of pro-Palestinian noncitizen college students

14. Canada’s social democrats and union bureaucracies call for “national unity” while seeking prerogatives in the face of US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and plans to secure unbridled dominance and control over North America

15. The senior minister in New Zealand’s National Party-led coalition government, and head of the far-right ACT political party, David Seymour, warns of the danger of young people being attracted to Marxism while promoting plans to privatize public services and double the military budget to prepare for war

16. Residents facing eviction from boarding houses in a Sydney, Australia suburb describe their plight to reporters of the World Socialist Web Site

17. The increasing repression of journalists and political opponents by the Erdoğan government in Turkey is part of a worldwide trend of the ruling classes to utilize authoritarian regimes under conditions of imperialist war and growing social inequality

18. Nigerian government aerial bombardments on people misidentified as members of armed gangs have killed dozens of civilians in recent weeks

19. Although no charges have been filed yet, the acclaimed British author Neil Gaiman faces serious accusations of sexual assault and abuse by multiple women

20. US President Trump boasts of having facilities to concentrate 30,000 deported immigrants at Guantánamo Bay

21. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

22. San Francisco city resources for immigrants needing legal help