Immigration raids in Hawaiʻi are especially ironic since the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi was illegally overthrown and the Hawaiian Islands annexed by the United States against the will of the people.

This has seemed to go largely under the radar thanks to so many various evils this week, but this is such an insidious form of white supremacy.

Welcome to Truthout, @theappeal.org! ❤️

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, has introduced legislation to recognize Israel’s genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza and call for the U.S. to take concrete actions like an arms embargo to end the ongoing slaughter.

Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard

this would wipe out entire universities’ eligibility for funding

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

"Thank you for admitting that MPD is still working with ICE because the mayor has said several times that MPD is not working with ICE and you just confirmed that [you are]," Commissioner Jamila White, chair, ANC 8A, said.

My annual 11/11 Occupiers Day article ✊ truthout.org/articles/ice...

4 UC Berkeley undergrads who put up a cardboard insect to protest Turning P*int USA’s sold out campus event are being charged with FELONY VANDALISM. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

Quick note about this again; the 100 mile zone has nothing to do with Border Patrol’s ability to operate. They can operate anywhere in the country. The 100 mile zone is ONLY about where they have heightened stop and search powers. It’s not a jurisdictional thing.

People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Here's some more AI making up a quote from me. It's gonna be a nightmare, so let's pray the bubble pops soon and big.

All the time. ALL the time.

ICE profiteers, genocide enablers, Wall Street oligarchs: the bankrollers of Trump's White House ballroom. My latest for @truthout.org.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

We have multiple Eugene Debs references in pieces in published and soon-to-be-published Truthout pieces (some that pre-date Mamdani's victory speech!) and it brings me such joy.

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

Today, Ms.Rachel accepted Glamour Magazine ‘Women of The Year’ by wearing a custom dress with drawings from children from Gaza.

Huge win.

Van Jones on CNN baselessly linking Mamdani to antisemitism yet again while calling him Mohamdani. Who puts this man on television?!

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, marking a historic win for the left over a high-powered, moneyed coalition of establishment forces that came together in hopes of defeating him.

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.

Man I wish I could go back in time and tell high school Negin that a Shia Muslim democratic socialist would become mayor of New York because she genuinely would’ve been astonished. Adult me is astonished!!

SCOOP: YouTube deleted accounts of 3 major Palestinian human rights organizations— Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — as a part of the Trump admin's campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes. ✍🏽w/ Nikita Mazurov theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

Can't denounce racism when you yourself are Islamophobic. That's the bottom line re: both Gillibrand, Schumer and many other Democrats.

There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died. That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time. www.cato.org/commentary/q...

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

Someone teach the guests on MSNBC how to say Mamdani. It's not hard?!

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

He wasn’t already dead?

CBS News has fired most of its climate crisis production staff as part of the company’s dozens of news staff layoffs last week. The decision came following the Paramount Skydance merger, and David Ellison, a pro-Trump billionaire, became chief executive of the new Paramount Skydance company.

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Because it’s cis kids. The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇 No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

This @oilchange.bsky.social report into how Aus, Norway, the US and Canada are going hell-for-leather on oil and gas is pretty incredible. This graphic stood out to me: oilchange.org/publications...

"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."

During a heated debate, Katie Miller, wife to Stephen Miller, suggested that her co-panelist on the show, progressive commentator Cenk Uygur, should be deported. “You better check your citizenship application and hope that everything was legal and correct,” she said.

Calls are growing for the U.S. to end arms transfers to the UAE after reports of horrific slaughter in Sudan this week by the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces. On Sunday, the paramilitary force took control of el-Fasher, which was the Sudan Armed Forces’s last major outpost in Darfur.

Approximately 460 patients and their companions were killed in a horrific massacre at a hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan, on Tuesday, the UN reports, amid a takeover of the North Darfur capital by Rapid Security Forces this week.

It would be nice for Democratic leadership to call this what it is

A U.S. official says the Biden administration buried his finding that the IDF intentionally shot a journalist, alleging the State Department downplayed it to avoid angering Israel.

I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.

I was interviewed by my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. "Refusing to give up in apocalyptic times is an act of love, and in some ways, it’s an act of faith — it’s about making a commitment to what’s sacred to us."

"Nearly everyone involved in this effort is a woman: the work of finding missing family members, like many other forms of labor for incarcerated people, is largely carried by women."

I definitely think about it every time Trump drops bombs on a Venezuelan ship. He called it