Today at Ms. | January 28, 2026 |
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By Jackson Katz |The connective tissue of Donald Trump’s takeover of Venezuela, his threats to invade Greenland, the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by masked federal agents in Minneapolis, and the EEOC’s encouragement of white men to bring claims of discrimination against them is this: All represent increasingly desperate efforts by Trump and MAGA to forcefully put white men back in charge.
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By Rickey Gard Diamond | You and I survived New Year’s Eve and tried to look ahead to a better 2026. Then came the invasion of Venezuela—along with a giant serving of lies.
Trump is not the president of Venezuela. The United States is not “running” the country. He never deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, and he never spoke to oil executives about fentanyl or democracy before invading. When reporters asked what the U.S. planned to do with seized Venezuelan oil, Trump answered with stunning casualness: “Well, we keep it, I guess.” And who exactly is “we”?
Behind the bluster lies something far more dangerous than incompetence: a high-stakes effort to seize oil, prop up the U.S. dollar and maintain global economic dominance as rival powers work aggressively to move beyond it.
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By Cynthia Miller-Idriss | The brutality we are witnessing in Minnesota, at the hands of thousands of poorly trained, heavily armed and trigger-happy men who have full reign to hunt and harass anyone who is non-white, is nothing short of state-sponsored terror. It is a horrific illustration of what unfettered power does in the hands of leadership that celebrates and demands violence, especially from men.
As thousands of amped up men are deployed in the streets and taught there are no consequences for killing anyone who refuses to submit to their authority, we should anticipate more violence to come.
After all: The violence is the point.
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