It is a weekly abstract of the earlier week’s Every day Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and a few by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You possibly can click on on the title of a DM in an effort to view the unique piece in its entirety. Additionally, please notice, we are going to proceed to supply a video instructing by Matthew every Monday.
January 19, 2026: Extra on Minnesota & the Spiral of Violence Taking part in Out There (MF)
As we proceed to witness the abuses of ICE’s assaults on folks of coloration, but in addition white individuals who dare to protest these horrors, we’re additionally seeing some tiny cracks in Trump’s base. Even Joe Rogan, the MAGA manosphere broadcaster who satisfied many younger males to vote for Trump in 2024, is talking out on the “horrific” deportations and “gestapo” techniques* at present occurring.** There’s additionally a connection between the nonetheless unreleased Epstein recordsdata and immigration, insofar as numerous Epstein victims had been apparently trafficked from overseas. Threats to invade Greenland, Columbia, Iran and extra serve to distract from the Epstein recordsdata. However we’ve not forgotten.
January 20, 2026: A Report From the Floor in Minneapolis (MF)
We share excerpts from a letter by a lady in Minneapolis who chooses to stay nameless, for apparent causes. She says: Issues are FAR WORSE than something the mainstream media is presenting. There are too many movies to share, and much too many ICE raids, beatings, abductions, and different crimes to even start to rely. She says that she and everybody she is aware of is “drained and indignant” and “shaken to the core.” With over 2000… ICE brokers right here and one other 1000 on their method, it’s a deliberate political concentrating on of my state. Considered one of my coworkers witnessed Renee Good’s homicide. I do know many individuals who dwell in that neighborhood, the place ICE is completely relentless. The notifications for raids and abductions are nonstop–-all hours of the day and night time. At instances, they’re going door to door–-lately kicking within the door armed to the enamel, coming into illegally with no warrant…. They’re additionally abducting white authorized observers, together with those that supply no confrontation by any means.
January 21, 2026: Report From the Floor in Minneapolis, Half II (MF)
We proceed to share right here the letter from a mom in Minneapolis. Like each mother or father right here, I fear for my daughter’s faculty as a result of they’re, sure, concentrating on faculties. Final week they attacked college students and employees at a Minneapolis highschool. Yesterday it was a center faculty and elementary faculty. ICE is at day care facilities and preschools. Many youngsters can’t even go to highschool now as a result of there’s a lot concern they or their dad and mom shall be taken. 1000’s upon hundreds of individuals are afraid to depart their properties to go grocery procuring, go to meals cabinets, get medication, or go to work.… However make no mistake–we aren’t backing down. I’ve lived lots of locations in my life, and I’ve to say they selected the fallacious freaking state. Individuals are organizing past something I’ve ever seen in my life, and it makes me so damned proud to dwell on this metropolis. I’ve by no means liked it extra, and I’ll maintain combating for it.
January 22, 2026: How MAGA’s SCOTUS Lit the Hearth Burning American Democracy (MF)
How did our nation get into such a sorry state? An excellent a part of the blame must go to the un-Supreme Courtroom. In 2010, in an insane ruling, Residents United declared that firms are folks, giving them and billionaires virtually limitless rights to purchase elections. Then SCOTUS intentionally dragged its ft for a lot of months to ensure that Trump wouldn’t face prices earlier than the 2024 election for his dominant position within the January 6 riot. In addition they delayed the trial for his crimes in stealing extremely delicate paperwork and placing them, unguarded, at Mar-a-Lago. He thinks nothing of invading cities together with his “private” militia, in any other case generally known as ICE, using Gestapo-like techniques. He threatens politicians who don’t agree with him. There was a day when SCOTUS gave the impression to be on the aspect of fact, justice, and the Structure. Not now.
January 23, 2026: King’s Optimism & Realism amidst Temptations to Despair (MF)
Listed below are some excerpts from an essay that MLK, Jr. wrote shortly earlier than he was murdered whereas marching for justice with rubbish staff in Memphis: Individuals are usually shocked to be taught that I’m an optimist.… They haven’t any comprehension of the power that comes from religion in God and man.… Man has the capability to do proper in addition to fallacious, and his historical past is a path upward, not downward.… Whereas it’s a bitter proven fact that in America in 1968, I’m denied equality solely as a result of I’m black, but I’m not a chattel sIn lave. Thousands and thousands of individuals have fought hundreds of battles to enlarge my freedom…. White America should acknowledge that justice for black folks can’t be achieved with out radical adjustments within the construction of our society. The comfy, the entrenched, the privileged can not proceed to tremble on the prospect of change in the established order.
January 24, 2026: Within the Midst of Insanity (GG)
The potential invasion of Greenland would drive NATO to expel the U.S. from that alliance, however would most particularly trigger the collapse of the worth of the U.S. greenback, as different nations promote their U.S. bonds as a measure of protest in opposition to Trump’s imperial insanity. Regardless of all this, Trump retains pushing. Maybe he thinks that the resultant civil unrest can be a possibility to advance his dictatorship, cancel elections, and so forth. In the meantime, pals of GG’s are touring to Minneapolis to place their our bodies on the road, as hundreds of residents of that metropolis do every day. GG is unable to make that journey, however he has discovered consolation and energy within the songs and knowledge of indigenous Greenlandic folks. One Greenlandic shaman, Angaanagaq, is a pacesetter in the IceWisdom challenge, which is dedicated to bringing the knowledge of the Far North to folks everywhere in the world. Take heed to the ability of his music within the video under.
* Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, “ICE Is About to Get Extra Cash That It Can Spend,” MSN, July 3, 2025.
** Julianna Bragg, “Rogan Blasts Trump’s Gestapo,” Axios, January 14, 2026.
Banner picture: Icebergs in Disko Bay, Greenland. The type of ice we respect. Picture by Hector John Periquin on Unsplash
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient For a New Era, by Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox.
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth.
