#Books: How people in the US read in 2025: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/most-ameri...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

#ReproductiveFreedom Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Due to Homicide, Suicide, and Drug Overdose jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-peo...

While #food prices soar and #SNAP benefits are cut, there is ever more food wasted by companies. City Harvest NYC rescues this food and gets it to needy families: sentientmedia.org/new-york-cit...

Human Rights Watch's ICE Flight Monitor documented 10,672 total flights during the Trump admin. October alone saw a record 1,014 domestic shuffle flights—the highest on record—plus 199 deportation flights, which is above historic levels. austinkocher.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

#NY An Officer Bungled a Teen Rape Case. The Victim Was Abused Again. The investigator, who did not believe the teen, faced little punishment, illustrating the different ways that officers in New York State are disciplined for misconduct. nysfocus.com/2025/11/17/n...

Stories of women who died because they weren't able to access #abortion: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

#history There's something about this nation, and about the way Ken Burns sees it, that makes me want to weep. He makes me fall in love with it all over again. This weekend, I recommend The American Revolution #documentary on PBS: www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...

New #podcast alert. Check out animal activist @flatbushcats podcast Underfoot, about the systemic issues affecting strays #cats #pets podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

While our government remains #shutdown - and republicans claim they want to eliminate waste - Trump's buddies in #Argentina may get $20 to $40 million from US taxpayers popular.info/p/update-tax...

influencers who are not disclosing that they are right-wing hacks are dissuading women from using hormonal #birthcontrol. www.khou.com/video/news/h...

#NewYork ’s Biggest #ICE Detention Center Bans #Books Deliveries nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

More information on the cops who used 83k cameras to track an #abortion patient on her abuser's tip, and how the cops tried to cover their tracks. jessica.substack.com/p/texas-abor...

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your #HealthInsurance to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. www.propublica.org/article/heal...

#Environment The political killings you don’t hear about: Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable. heated.world/p/the-politi...

Remember when Trump & MAGAs supposedly cared about government waste? “A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for #Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary” popular.info/p/trumps-arg...

What does the data tell us about #terrorism? csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

Police raid at a party results in dozens of arrests of Tren de Aragua members, except police has failed to prove a single case against the people arrested. www.texasobserver.org/officials-tr...

"Anyone who has experienced a period inside or outside of prison has a shared experience: the overflow. The state issues incarcerated women 15 pads and just 10 tampons per month ... if you can afford them." prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/09/24/w...

Here’s the most annoying part of this story. We KNEW the government would ask for these records. The issue here is that Meta’s default response is to comply… when they are under no obligation to do so.

Canceling a streaming service? How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!

Trump's Unjust and Illegal Killing of 11 Venezuelans reason.com/volokh/2025/...

#ICE Detains Woman With Green Card Who Passed US Citizenship Exam www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...

Every time I remember that Cary Grant didn’t get an Oscar for this, I get upset. #film #cinema

Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorce www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

How to start an #ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community: www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...

How conservatives are trying to move the repeal of the #19thAmendment from the far right into the mainstream open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

Pictures of the men sent by #Ice to #ElSalvador. This was a human rights violation and the people responsible should be prosecuted for human rights violations, truly. www.propublica.org/article/ceco...

It's nice to know that I am officially better at podcasting than Sam Harris but worse than Andrew Huberman www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...

#History: Ken Burns is my favorite documentarian and The Civil War is my favorite thing he’s done. Insanely excited to see his new #documentary series The American Revolution. Please support your local PBS station: youtu.be/dBToyHSGD2Q?...

Fans of The #GildedAge, a new biography of Mamie Fish has been named as one of Amazon's best #books of August a.co/d/ivtvzYk

“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .” - Vital Knowledge @politico.com 🇺🇸 www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

If you love #TrueCrime / mysteries, and you want to see a series done with respect and love and granting dignity to the dead, check out Naming the Dead: youtu.be/INF_pu2Zl2c?...

2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Counter-point to Ian Dunt's essay on supporting young men. open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy www.politico.eu/article/germ...

#film #cinema Omg, so excited for this! flickeralley.com/products/he-...

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

also, the utterly circular reasoning about police and crime in the media drives me nuts. crime went down? must be the cops, give them more money. crime went up? need more money for cops

Just days ago, Relevant Research released DetentionReports.com and already news outlets are finding it to be a powerful tool for reporting and transparency. 👀 Congrats to Adam & Sunita for getting this done! Learn more at: austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-tool-d...

Y’all know why they’re doing this, right? It has nothing to do with weight tracking. It has to do with abortion. apnews.com/article/trum...

#ICE accused of racial profiling in detentions of Latino U.S. citizens www.axios.com/2025/07/09/i...

#Texas is seeking information on women who sought abortions in other states. A recent court ruling may grant them that information. Dr. Carmen Purl is the person who sued, claiming that hiding abortion data enables child abuse. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/doct...

#DefundThePolice “Who will do ___ if the cops don’t do it?” Bogotá Colombia fired 1,800 cops and hired 20 mimes to curb traffic fatalities… and it worked: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tra...

My mom received this bullshit email from #SocialSecurity. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...