As Alma notes, it was only months ago that four employees were illegally fired, Teen Vogue was shuttered, and employees, many who had done their work remotely for years, were forced to choose between moving to NYC with no assistance and no raise, to continue doing their work in office. I HATE CONDE!

It’s important to recall the racist moral panic underwriting the original ICE deployment to Minneapolis. It's a reminder that none of this has ever been about the cut-and-dried enforcement of immigration law. https://bit.ly/4rb3wIn

Papers from my favorite conference I’ve attended at Yale, got to sit next to Sheila E!

Trump keeps targeting Minnesota’s Somali community. But as one organizer says: “What we’ve built here, we’re not going to let it be easy for people to take that away from us.” https://bit.ly/4kvkvCv

just a fucking weird statement on it's face but also highlights how filthy rich and completely out of touch trump's whole cabinet is. a private boat for a family vacation? stopping by a billionaire's island for lunch? nannies, plural?? the epstein class, indeed.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was never a love story. It was a warning

[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car.

Chappell Roan announced her departure from Casey Wasserman’s talent agency, the highest-profile blowback faced by the agency after flirtatious correspondence between its founder and Ghislaine Maxwell were uncovered in the latest Epstein files.

The UN Sec.-Gen. said he is “gravely concerned” by Israel’s reported decision to expand admin. and enforcement measures in Areas A & B of the occupied West Bank, warning the move is “eroding the prospect for the two-State solution.” He reiterated that Israeli settlements have “no legal validity”...

Deregulation doesn’t have to mean gutting protections. Zohran Mamdani is testing a progressive version that helps small businesses survive without empowering corporate giants. https://bit.ly/4qtwySi

This is disastrous and evil. Spread the word. Call your members of Congress, even if you don't live in these states.

My team @propublica.org is hiring. We're looking for a data reporter itching to do ambitious, impactful investigations that uncover abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. Maybe that's you? grnh.se/iunysgl96us

“This is a commission on religious liberty.” “Ok, then I don’t know why we’re talking about a foreign country.” Video: Chris Menahan via X (@infolibnews) - x.com/infolibnews/...

Useful rubric. Many conflate the terms, sweeping the facts and legitimate (and necessary) areas of inquiry under the rug, one presumably adorned with tin-foil. Unclear whether it's journalistic/analytic cynicism, laziness or reflective of a society-wide loss of critical thinking skills.

Ask yourselves why schools don’t teach at least basic contract literacy, (this would be great senior year) considering the first contract many teens sign put them into a lifetime of predatory debt.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active coverup of the largest sex trafficking scandal & influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States — and Donald Trump is right at the center of it”

It's the department’s largest contract to purchase weapons from an Israeli company in available records.

1/3 of the country watched Bad Bunny last night That’s why Republicans are distancing themselves from Trumps racist social media posts

wrote about the sweeping Republican backlash to Trump's racist video post. I don't think the GOP has suddenly found a line it won't cross. I think trump's poll numbers have scared them. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-obam...

At Least 50 People Arrested in Minneapolis While Marking One Month Since Renee Good’s Killing

Am excellent *conceptual* interview with author and analyst Nathan Thrall on why the term "apartheid" is the most accurate and most succinct formulation for understanding the political regime which exits for 7,000,000 Palestinians west of the Jordan River.

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

Bad Bunny has the light blue version of the Puerto Rican flag which signifies the independence movement. One of the reasons the Puerto Rican flag is often displayed by Puerto Ricans is that it was once illegal to display on the island. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_Law...

An underrated good the next Democratic administration could do with virtually zero actual political blowback from voters would be to come in with anti-trust laws like a wrecking ball and break up media and tech companies. It would fuck up The Other Side, too.

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

Huge victory for workers and patients

In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history: “On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

Only 36 Palestinians in need of medical treatment were allowed to leave Gaza during the first four days of the crossing’s reopening. Thousands more are trapped with dire need of medical attention.

What has it really been like to experience the ICE terror campaign in Minneapolis? Do not miss these perspectives from postal workers, nurses, chefs, and journalists who grew up there—a tour de force of vivid reporting from our CIR colleagues on @revealnews.org revealnews.org/podcast/minn...

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Scenes from an anti-fascist protest against the Winter Olympics in Milan.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

The wedding was real! 😂😘

It opened in a sugar cane plantation! They danced on power poles that exploded! It was arguably more dense symbolically than Kendrick’s show.

It wasn't random that Israel was booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. There were only two outbursts of booing at the ceremony: one for Israel & the other for JD Vance.

this is excellent

Muslims are concentrated in 10 states in the US. NJ is one of them.

One of the best examples of racial exceptionalism clouding basic cognitive function on the part of a subset of the US commentariat was when the NYT ran a rare story about the IDF shooting children in the head and evidenced this with actual MRIs and X-Rays and people still denied this was possible.

Anywho, I am an organizer, yes AND I'm also theorizing and producing intellectual work. Don't think that I don't see your bullshit. I just don't usually comment on it.

Writing something about Lalami’s The Moor’s Account and can’t believe how much I’m learning about the sixteenth century. Definitely have to teach this incredible novel again in a new class, The Global Muslim Left: An Intellectual History. Don’t think I did it justice the first time I taught it tbh

You could probably count on both hands the total number of people in Congress currently who genuinely believe in withdrawing from the region on the basis that our current involvement is bad for both the US and for the people of the region

Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has resigned just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs. n.pr/4qjynkB

⛵️The Global Sumud Flotilla announced two days ago the largest coordinated humanitarian action for Palestine: on March 29, 2026, a maritime flotilla & overland convoy will depart together, mobilizing thousands from over 100 countries to challenge Israel’s siege & mass starvation in Gaza, they said...

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

This book really affected me, I think because the narrative vividly illustrates in such a personal way how everything works in practice bsky.app/profile/dipl...

A source “close to American efforts” says the US is actively planning for regime collapse in Iran and Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Trump, is involved. When Kushner spoke about Gaza being prime real estate, he was flat and affectless, almost bored by the human cost. It is the same here.