Donald Trump is replacing Kristi Noem, who was head of the Department of Homeland Security until a few minutes ago.

In short, Kristi Noem has not succeeded in achieving dictatorial control of the population of the US via DHS. Trump is trying a new strategy aimed at the same goal.

This shows that the day-to-day resistance to ICE has prevented them from achieving their chief objective. They aimed to normalize the violence of federal mercenaries as an accepted part of daily life. So far, they have failed.

Thanks to the brave people of the Twin Cities and everyone all around the country who is fighting back.

This fight is far from over.

https://crimethinc.com/Escalation2026

In the game "Bloc by Bloc," which dramatizes the experience of participating in an insurrection, there is a "chief of police fired" card. When you draw this card, you gain nothing—you simply reshuffle all the cards in the police strategy deck and continue playing.

https://crimethinc.com/blocbybloc

The latest polls shows that less than 40% of people in the US are convinced that ICE should exist at all.

The disparity between the number of politicians calling to abolish ICE and the proportion of the population that is clamoring to abolish ICE aptly illustrates the fundamentally reactionary character of political representatives as a class.

Change is going to have to come from us, from grassroots initiatives and direct action.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/seven-steps-to-stop-ice

Tomorrow is March 8, International Women's Day.

In 1910, Clara Zetkin proposed this event at an international women’s conference at Folkets Hus, headquarters of the Danish labor movement.

That building later became the historic autonomous social center Ungdomshuset—famously evicted and reduced to rubble in one of the biggest Danish police operations since the Second World War on March 1, 2007. The occupiers relentlessly pressured the government until it was forced to turn over another building for their use.

The cycles of resistance continue.

You can read the whole history here:

https://crimethinc.com/ungdomshuset

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

"It is time to abandon the illusion that states serve the peoples. Nation-states are the fundamental pillars of the capitalist system (of capital owners and narrow power centers). To sustain their own power, they need the people, the worker, the unemployed, the army, raw materials, migrants, the family, technology, and ideologies that generate exploitation (nationalism, religiosity, sexism, and scientism). No people, especially forces outside power, can claim that nation-states represent them. Peoples know they are oppressed, exploited, and suppressed under power, yet due to the illusion that life without the state is impossible, they tolerate these usurpations of rights.

"As women, we have no state; as workers, we have no state; as migrants, we have no state; as indigenous peoples, we have no state. When we say we have no state, we mean there has never been and will never be, a state that represents us, protects our interests, or prioritizes our well-being."

https://www.kjkonline.net/en/nivis/882

From February 25 to March 1, the Twin Cities hosted hundreds of people who traveled to Minnesota to take part in the Melt the ICE week of action.

You can read a full reportback on the week of action here:

https://crimethinc.com/weekofaction2026

Several events took place daily—including marches, blockades, noise demos, speaking events, and trainings. These actions and workshops served to bolster the resistance to the ICE occupation in Minnesota and to teach activists from all over the country how to export the Twin Cities’ rapid response model to their hometowns.

The fight against ICE continues.

The desire for a politician who would “run the country like a business”—which is to say, like a dictatorship—has always been an autocratic fantasy.

Now Trump aims to run the whole world "like a business"—dictatorial control, endless expansion, ceaseless extraction and profiteering.

The problem is capitalism itself—a social order that systematically rewards the pursuit of profit at all costs, concentrating power in fewer and fewer hands and cultivating selfishness and rapacity as if they were civic virtues.

The Trump presidency is the logical conclusion.

http://crimethinc.com/work