For anyone else who needs a reminder of what’s possible.

More people need to understand that saying only “criminals” should be subjected to expanding state violence around us is what led to the broader public being targeted by it, too. Criminality is subjective, and power determines what it is or is not.

I'm honored to share the winners of the 5th Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, given in memory of my sister. Both essays this year reflect on the stark, inherent violence of prison, and convey a key message for our time: Where there is injustice, there is resistance. truthout.org/articles/ann...

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

On top of everything else, the Trump admin is pushing to open the last remaining truly wild wilderness up for logging and development. Ag Sec Brooke Rollins gave the public little time to comment on the proposal -- and 99% are opposed. Will the forests be saved by the admin's sheer incompetence?

Masked federal agents raided a snack bar factory in the small town of Cato, New York. “They were there to humiliate people,” said a coordinator. “They’re terrorizing kids,” said another advocate. “What is the goal of taking all of these families and ripping them apart other than cruelty?”

Heavy Sigh.

avoiding rushing out any take on this new order because I can’t tell you off the top of my head how much of it simply reiterates what Joint Terrorism Task Forces are already empowered to do? but this part leapt out, because this designation sounds possibly new: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

People have named whiteness & class solidarity as explanations for the selective outrage of some over Kimmel's targeting, vs. worse targeting of e.g. Ozturk, Khalil, Mario Guevara, etc. Yes, that's part of it. But I haven't seen people discuss the role of criminalization itself.

As the Justice Department announces plans to go after George Soros and his foundation, it's clear that Trump's crusade against the (broadly defined) left is getting bolder. @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and I wrote for @truthout.org about the repression we might see, and how we can ground ourselves.

"Pushback can help stem the fascistic tide. The right is loud. Its actors have a terrifying amount of power and the machinery of the state at their disposal. Nothing about their playbook, though, is inevitable. And we in the media have a specific responsibility in acting as a bulwark."

Yesterday marked 8 years since the late Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in a moment of uncalculated joy so threatening to Egyptian authorities that they arrested, tortured, prosecuted her, and sent her to exile. Sarah in my heart today. 🌈

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

ICE agents held a man’s five year old autistic daughter and taunted him with “Is that your daughter” in an attempt to get him to come out of the house. They were rebuffed but two days later took him from his car.

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told a delegation of more than 200 U.S. lawmakers that Israel is akin to the “wife” of the United States. “Every time we have members of Congress come over here, I always say to them, ‘Guys, welcome to the 436th Congressional District of the United States.’”

Will the free market absolutists who spent the last year and a half enthusiastically promoting Milei’s libertarian model retract that endorsement now that the U.S. is offering a massive taxpayer funded bailout for his government?

I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE. truthout.org/articles/im-... (I wrote a thing in @truthout.org about what it's like to be a primary care doctor when ICE is attacking my patients. )

Grateful for the opportunity to write about the history of GI resistance - a history that is critical to remember in this moment of increased state violence and repression. Shout out to Aaron Hughes for co-writing this piece with me.

“OpenAI’s own advanced reasoning models actually hallucinated more frequently than simpler systems. The company’s o1 reasoning model ‘hallucinated 16% of the time’ when summarizing public information, while newer models o3 and o4-mini ‘hallucinated 33% and 48% of the time, respectively.’”

Media crackdowns are a core part of the fascist playbook. As more repression looms, @neginowl.bsky.social & I write, those of us in media need to ground ourselves in our own power, seeking creative ways to raise our voices and rooting ourselves in our solidarities. truthout.org/articles/jim...

FBI Director Kash Patel appeared to not know of infamous mass shooter Dylann Roof, who murdered nine people at a historic Black church in 2015 in one of the deadliest white supremacist massacres in modern U.S. history. “Can you give me a reminder? I’ve got a lot in front of me,” he said.

For @truthout.org, I wrote about how right wing lawmakers and activists are using Charlie Kirk's killing to pursue a wide-ranging McCarthyist crackdown on political opponents. truthout.org/articles/con...

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

Which show was threatened by the government before being pulled? The answer might (not) surprise you.

Why would the Trump Administration have to crack down on Charlie Kirk's critics when the nation's most powerful institutions are happy to do it on their behalf? This is a nation of cowards www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

cool era

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞 👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it

Ask yourself, if this lie or unsubstantiated claim was true, would it justify their conclusion? If the answer is no, than this should not be the primary basis of the pushback

There is no such thing as a "domestic terror organization." He can't actually do this.

NEW: AP reports all 14 men have now been deported to their home countries by Ghana, in direct violation of international law. A court in the US determined each person would be persecuted or tortured in their home countries. We sent them to Ghana, which quickly deported them to their home countries.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

I spoke to @theintercept.com about a bonkers bill that would let Marco Rubio, who thinks pro-Palestine op-ed writers are terrorists, revoke passports for whoever he deems a supporter of terrorism. It would also let a future Democratic administration target those it dislikes the same way.

icymi years ago like, everybody trans in media and basically everybody else called out the times' anti-trans biases and they: pretended it didn't happen nytletter.com

The most unsurprising aspect of this story is that the cops apparently detained the wrong guy. Very on brand.

I’ve been working on this for months! It is now out. Read. Read. Read. The stories I collected reveal the extent of bias tactics in U.S. newsrooms, even those we wouldn’t expect Palestine to be muzzled in. Thank you for trusting me to report!

imagine believing this is remotely a positive thing

"Every single person who has died during these cycles of actions and reprisals — around 140 people in large protests –– has been killed by the police." - @nanjala.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social

The entire anti-protest policing architecture is built on US funded anti-terrorism machinery. The ICE kidnappings in the street are familiar because that’s how the Kenya (and Uganda) police have been kidnapping Somali citizens and then their own for 20 years. When a Kenyan protester gets tortured

Look what's in close proximity to Israel's illegal attack on Doha, at least 2 nurseries, 3 schools, 6 embassies, a petrol station, a public park. This all happened in the middle of the afternoon, when schools are ending and children engaging in extra curricular activities

US doctrine is that nobody but Israel is sovereign in MENA.

Israel bombs the Hamas negotiating team as they were discussing what appears to be a sham ceasefire proposal from the US. Bombing them in Qatar, a mediating country. And bombing them with reported US coordination, even though Qatar hosts a massive US military base. This is where impunity leads.

Unless those in Riyadh or Abu Dhabi knew in advance.

Israeli arms maker Elbit has reportedly closed its UK branch after persistent protests and shutdowns led by Palestine Action targeting its facilities.

US Foreign Policy since 1492.

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

This man was confirmed unanimously in the Senate. 99-0. Now he’s sanctioning human rights groups for…working with the International Criminal Court.