Forget antifa. So-called wine moms are fronting the anti-ICE backlash to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. And Trumpist conservatives are taking notice.

Women are “leading the opposition” during Trump’s second term, said The 19th. A new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll found that while 40% of men approve of ICE’s actions, just 26% of women do. That’s why moms like Renee Good have figured so prominently in protests and in documenting the activities of federal agents.

What did the commentators say?
“Momfluencers” are on the “front lines” of ICE protests in Minneapolis, said Salon. Women social media influencers who usually portray a “very curated version of motherhood” are now focusing on the presence of federal immigration agents in their communities. It’s a natural pivot because “we are in the headspace of protecting our communities and protecting our children,” said Yelena Kibasova, a Twin Cities mom, to the outlet. Staying neutral “feels impossible if you care about your community or your kids’ future.”

“Organized gangs” of wine moms are using “antifa tactics” to harass ICE agents in Minnesota, said David Marcus at Fox News. Their efforts to resist deportation arrests by “following, harassing and doxxing” agents are a crime. Just 24% say it’s acceptable to go “beyond peaceful protest” to resist ICE, according to a recent poll, but that number “leaps to an astounding 61%” among white women ages 18 to 44. 

Blaming wine moms for the deaths of Good and Alex Pretti is a “baseless, misogynist myth,” said Darryn DiFrancesco at The Conversation. The strategy “aims to divert blame” from the Trump administration by once again “blaming mothers for social problems.” We should recognize that mothers have a “long history of trying to fix” society’s ills. Mothers like Good are “no exception.”

What next?
The wine mom phenomenon may be new, but the tactics are not. There’s a “debt of gratitude to Black liberation movements” like the Black Panther Party of the 1960s, said Jill Garvey, the founder of grassroots organizing network States at the Core, to The New York Times. Methods have also been borrowed from the American Indian Movement, an indigenous-rights group. The hope is that ICE-watching will one day be embedded in the social structure of cities, said one organizer, in the “same way that people organize a PTA.”

Bangladesh goes to the polls tomorrow in its first general election since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was deposed by youth-led protests in 2024. Tomorrow will be seen as a verdict on that student uprising and also as a signal of the political direction of the subcontinent more broadly. 

In a country of more than 127 million registered voters, it will be the “biggest democratic process of 2026 anywhere,” said the EU delegation to Bangladesh on X. For the “first free and fair election in more than a decade, the prevailing mood” on Dhaka’s streets is “one of anticipation,” said CNN. 

Who’s in the running? 
Of the 59 registered political parties in Bangladesh, 51 are taking part, with 1,981 candidates standing, including 249 independents. Hasina’s party, the Awami League, has been banned. 

The contest is expected to be a battle between two rival coalitions. The first is headed by the center-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by Tarique Rahman, the son of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and a representative of the entrenched political elite. The other coalition is led by the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami and includes the National Citizen Party, formed by student leaders of the 2024 uprising. 

What’s at stake? 
The vote will reflect deep-seated concerns on issues including high inflation (which reached 8.58% last month), economic stagnation, law and order, and endemic corruption. Nearly half of those registered to vote are between the ages of 18 and 37, and youth unemployment and the lack of opportunities for young Bangladeshis have been central campaign issues. For many, the question of national identity is also at stake, as religious and secular forces vie for power. 

As well as voting for representatives in the national parliament, Bangladeshis will also cast their ballot in a referendum on reforms to restructure state institutions and limit executive power. “Everyone agreed that there must be reform in the system so that no one can become a dictator in the future,” Salman Al-Azami, of Liverpool Hope University, said to Anadolu Agency. 

The polling will also be seen as a verdict on the success of the student uprising. As many as 1,400 people died in the protests, the majority of them killed in the security crackdown ordered by Hasina. After the election, said the BBC, students will “learn whether their revolution, and the bloodshed, were worth it.”

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A classic cookbook is often formed in the forges of time. Years of kitchen use and page-flipping transform a tome into a genre fixture. Now and again, a brand-new example is towed into the kitchen. “Six Seasons of Pasta: A New Way with Everyone’s Favorite Food” is one such cookbook.

Division as greatness
Chef-author Joshua McFadden had been known for years as a vegetable soothsayer. His debut cookbook, “Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables,” showed how to bring vegetables to glorious life. His co-author, Martha Holmberg, translated McFadden’s restaurant-minded technique into unimpeachable recipes for the home cook.

McFadden is as impassioned about pasta as he is about the garden. This book is anchored by six chapters that divide the year: spring, early summer, midsummer, late summer, fall and winter. Artichokes star in five pastas for spring, including in radiatore with chicken and lemon-flavored ricotta. Eggplant appears with linguine, tomato and almond pesto or nestled with capers and golden raisins between ribbons of mafaldine. 

Boil, boil, toil and (no) trouble
The book includes a series of treatises on the fundamentals of McFadden’s pasta-cooking style. He clarifies how much salt is the right amount to add to your boiling water. He reveals the effortlessness of building your sauce in the skillet as the pasta boils. And he tells you why you should add any cheese while you finish cooking the pasta in said skillet: so it has an opportunity to melt and emulsify the sauce. Simple tips for faultless recipes.