"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Complaints allege sexual and physical abuse at Basile ICE facility Current and former detainees at the South Louisiana ICE Detention Center in Basile, Louisiana have filed multiple complaints through immigration rights groups against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and…

Luigi Mangione’s terrorism charges were dismissed today, with Judge Gregory Carro ruling the evidence as “legally insufficient.” Mangione will still face second-degree murder charges in New York. *Pre-trial hearings* will begin on Dec. 1 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Luigi Mangione’s New York State court hearings will begin on Dec. 1. My story for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Judge Carro dismissed the terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione claiming the evidence was "legally insufficient for these charges." Murder in the second degree charges stand. Motion to dismiss due to double jeopardy ruled premature. LM's motion to stay denied. @rollingstone.com

I’m at Manhattan criminal courthouse today for the Luigi Mangione pre trial court appearance. Mangione's legal team is here, as well as 24 members of the public and about 70 members of the press.

The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."

Before calling New Orleans "quite bad" and threatening to send the National Guard here, Trump once called it a "sexy city" and hyped up a Trump Tower NOLA (which never happened despite post-Katrina promises) @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump to make an announcement from Oval tomorrow at 2 pm, as it now stands. rollcall.com/factbase/tru...

Twenty years ago, Donald Trump pledged to stand behind New Orleans as it rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina. The place where the 70-story building was supposed to sit is still a parking lot. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Also… please don’t miss the intro website Trump Tower New Orleans had. It featured Trump, Don Jr. and Ivanka in masquerade masks. Just in case you need a pick-me up today for whatever reason.

Also… please don’t miss the intro website Trump Tower New Orleans had. It featured Trump, Don Jr. and Ivanka in masquerade masks. Just in case you need a pick-me up today for whatever reason.

Twenty years ago, Donald Trump pledged to stand behind New Orleans as it rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina. The place where the 70-story building was supposed to sit is still a parking lot. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

So honored my @pulitzercenter.org and @lailluminator.com fellowship on misoprostol and reproductive health in Louisiana won a Murrow award. Grateful to all of the doctors, nurses and patients who shared their stories with me

WINNER! The Louisiana Illuminator receives a national Edward R. Murrow Award for its reproductive health reporting. Reporter @lorenaoneil.com and Editor @greglarose.bsky.social worked on this project supported by @pulitzercenter.org lailluminator.com/2025/08/14/i...

There's much more in the piece, with commentary from the great @mattdpearce.com, @arielwittenberg.bsky.social, @mishal-khan.bsky.social, and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, who touched on this dynamic in the barnburner linked below. In sum, the fight over AI in journalism is just beginning to erupt.

Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not protect everybody equally. Instead it upheld the Tennessee law that seeks to eradicate trans kids. My latest in @thenation www.thenation.com/article/poli...

It's been a year since #Louisiana became the first state in the U.S. to reclassify pregnancy care drugs as controlled dangerous substances. StoryReach U.S. Fellow @lorenaoneil.com explains how this has affected the lives of many. Story for @lailluminator.com. bit.ly/45YRYju

🧪NIH staff have released the Bethesda Declaration, a public statement signed by over 340 scientists and staff, urging their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse significant cuts and freezes to external grants. It comes in response to a proposed 40% budget cut to NIH for 2026. #MedSky

misoprostol before an IUD insertion seems like a good idea. the most painful part of insertion is typically the tenaculum holding your cervix. Misoprostol softens and opens your cervix.

The beautiful Breonna Taylor should have celebrated her 32nd birthday today. Never forget her. ❤️🕊️

Confusion over maternal care medication plagues politics in Louisiana and beyond lailluminator.com/2025/06/06/m...

WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

Just incredibly cruelty. Lorena has reported for months about concerns that this law could kill people hemorrhaging during birth

Reading:

Louisiana's law that defines mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances is leading to patients being denied care for biopsies, hysteroscopies, and miscarriages. Read @lorenaoneil.com in @lailluminator.com lailluminator.com/2025/06/06/m...

The political assault on the medications continues to ramp up on the state & national level. La. doctors detail challenges accessing misoprostol for their patients. One OB had to manually dilate their patient's cervix because they couldn't get misoprostol for a hysteroscopy

NEW: A year ago, Louisiana became the first state to reclassify pregnancy care drugs as controlled dangerous substances. Since then, a misinformation-fueled political assault has continued to ramp up on the state and national level. @lorenaoneil.com reports. lailluminator.com/2025/06/06/m...

For the final story of my @pulitzercenter.bsky.social StoryReach fellowship with @lailluminator.com, I look at where we are on mifepristone and misoprostol one year after the law was signed that reclassified the pills as controlled dangerous substances in Louisiana: lailluminator.com/2025/06/06/m...

The Manhattan DA provided images of what they say are handwritten notes Luigi Mangione wrote in the months leading up to the assassination of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson. rollingstone.com/culture/cult... @rollingstone.com

Luigi Mangione's lawyers request to remove bulletproof vest and hand shackles ahead of his appearance on June 26 at state court. "To counsel's knowledge, there have been no threats to Mr. Mangione's safety, and the only one wishing to execute him is the federal government."

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

“An authoritarian regime, or the Trump administration… are always going to use the people most maligned and most marginalized in order to attack and erode the rights of every American, precisely because they know that not everyone will come to their defense.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Earlier this month I sat down with @aoc.bsky.social for a @rollingstone.com interview and spoke with the congresswoman about her Fighting Oligarchy tour, tech billionaires, immigration and Trump: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"If the president is in any way confused about his responsibility, he should resign. Trump wants to transform the definition of what it means to be an American — from upholding the Constitution and our freedoms — to a pledge of loyalty to him." - @aoc.bsky.social

Good luck Kylie!!!

She talks about how this is a time when communities need to come together with courage rather than fear, how Democrats need to chart a path for a more inclusive future rather than constantly play defense, and how, above all, connectivity helps to avoid despair. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"If the president is in any way confused about his responsibility, he should resign. Trump wants to transform the definition of what it means to be an American — from upholding the Constitution and our freedoms — to a pledge of loyalty to him." - @aoc.bsky.social

[email protected] tells Rolling Stone that tech billionaires “think they can start imposing this dystopian worldview that includes everything from the subjugation of women to democracy itself.” Interview: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I asked @aoc.bsky.social about the Trump administration deporting U.S. citizen children with cancer: "If this president is breaking the Constitution and if he’s starting to deport and force out U.S. citizens from this country, that, to me, is shut-it-down territory." @rollingstone.com

Earlier this month I sat down with @aoc.bsky.social for a @rollingstone.com interview and spoke with the congresswoman about her Fighting Oligarchy tour, tech billionaires, immigration and Trump: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive: Today @aoc.bsky.social is re-introducing the DEFIANCE Act, a survivor-focused bill giving victims civil recourse against non consensual AI porn @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive: Today @aoc.bsky.social is re-introducing the DEFIANCE Act, a survivor-focused bill giving victims civil recourse against non consensual AI porn @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As Republicans in Congress try to tie the face of Medicaid work requirements to able-bodied people — including young men — there is data that shows many of these people are actually poor middle-aged women. My latest for @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2025/05/medi...

Elon Musk cuts emergency weather warnings: “the cuts have led to a staffing crisis so dire that at least eight of the department’s 122 offices will soon no longer have forecasters working overnight, said Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the union that represents Weather Service employees.”