GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

freedom of speech for me, not for thee strikes again arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

“Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.” www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

"More than 20 citizens have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases their families couldn’t find them."

best advice i got as a young journalist/writer was not to fall into the personal essay writing trap

started / going

Groyper Occupied Government www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways…Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.” Crickets from the State Department. Awful.

new @teenvogue.com: students at the 9 colleges invited to Trump's "college compact" have been pushing their universities to reject it. + a bit of a scoop: @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social tells us that they're launching a national coalition to support students pushing their schools to fight the Trump admin

watching the government's social media accounts spit out groyper stuff on main this whole last year, this is how i imagined the behind the scenes chats were going

A professor had to flee the country last week after receiving death threats for his work on antifa. I spoke with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about his experience being targeted by the far-right and what the history of fascism can teach us about this moment. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

very, very bad universitystar.com/33285/news/t...

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

"Musk’s data centers will probably bring in only a few hundred jobs to Memphis while consuming millions of gallons of water a day and more electricity than is needed to power all the city’s homes. Natural-gas turbines powering the data centers have brought pollution and controversy over their use.."

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

I have more thoughts, but this a lot of words to say that signatories of the compact will be expected to disregard the rights of transgender students. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

amNY warned about the extreme hostility to journalists from ICE agents at immigration courts in NY months ago. Now their reporter Dean Moses is one of several senselessly assaulted by ICE for doing their jobs. www.amny.com/immigration/...

Wrote this five years ago, a year after the massacre's centennial. "The documentaries have been done, the articles have been written, the books have been written," Ora Scaife-Truitt said. "But once everybody left, what were we left with?" www.facingsouth.org/2020/10/desc...

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

buried some other numbers in here that are probably more interesting. Asheville, which is facing $1 billion in total recovery costs, has spent more than $24 million on its recovery effort, but has only been reimbursed for $5.1 million. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

the time of year where i dream of receiving one good email

Getting my ass handed to me by the inexorable march of time. Time just absolutely beating the everliving shit out of me up and down the block

the people behind the left wing illiberalism panic are not concerned how public school kids in oklahoma are being educated

Online early from our new print issue: Jennifer Zacharia on Anas al-Sharif, the Palestinian reporter for Al Jazeera who was assassinated yesterday in a targeted Israeli airstrike on a tent outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City along with four other Al Jazeera journalists.

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

No words left for this engineered horror. "More than 100 aid groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel's forced 'mass starvation' of Palestinians engulfs Gaza. The groups warned that deepening starvation of the population was spreading across the besieged enclave."

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” /3

yet another example of the institutions & their leaders inability/disinterest in protecting their workers and students, and the necessity of organizing to do it ourselves

things i'm thinking about right now: Thomas Jefferson understood UVA as an institution w/ slavery at it's core. UVA rented human beings, who literally built the university, as a cost saving measure in the 1800s. at any given time before abolition, there were 125 to 200 enslaved people on campus.

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

you have to ask, what will constitute a resolution of the civil rights investigation? let's say UVA completely dismantles everything related to diversity and still admits a class where a third of the student body is nonwhite. would the administration consider this per se evidence of discrimination?

really shocking lack of a sense of obligation to faculty, students, staff here

trump launched a politically motivated investigation into UVA's decision to admit nonwhite student and jim ryan folded in an immense disservice to the university

he’s skating outta here and leaving the university and the rest of us to the vultures www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

lol this rocks

The fucking NFL has issued a commendation of Louisiana police for arresting the Gaza/Sudan Super Bowl halftime protester.

A fun game to play is Who Said This and you have to pick between modern day reactionary centrists and William F. Buckley

have been biking around little rock for about a week now mid-heat wave and if i had any money or political capital here i would put it towards good public transit

New from 404 Media: Flock has cut off cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia from national lookups after our investigations and others based on our reporting. Comes after we revealed cops doing lookups for ICE and an abortion case. Massive changes to this tech www.404media.co/flock-remove...

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

the entire democratic gerontocracy should be getting primaried after this