Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

this book was how I really internalized how close all the cities/towns are in the West Bank/East Jerusalem and yet how they're divided from each other as well as internally by literal walls. a deranging book (laudatory).

my dog is very angry that i will not feed him a third dinner. i can't do it. i will not. it's not even 6pm.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was in East Palestine this week for the 3-yr anniversary of one of the worst industrial disasters in US history. Here's the compilation of testimonies residents in/around EP shared w/ me @therealnews.com I beg you to listen & share their stories w/ everyone you can therealnews.com/biden-trump-...

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

San Diego County launches new wastewater testing lab to track illness trends www.10news.com/news/local-n...

The decision by two Bay Area DAs to pursue felony conspiracy charges against student protesters has critics concerned about the growing push to suppress protest. “That’s really concerning for the health of our democracy.”

"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo." www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

OK, *ongoing* thread of books to read on Palestine. Some recent, some not at all so recent.

Bard College President Leon Botstein appears in the Epstein files more than 2,500 times, including arranging travel to Epstein’s island, hosting a visit with “girls” to campus and telling the child sex predator, “I miss you.” Sarah Trafton reports: www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

As others have been saying, MeToo didn’t go too far. It got too close (at least for some very powerful people).

We are seeing a new terrifying reality on a daily basis. Trump's DHS mob are killing US citizens, kidnapping kids from their schools and terrorizing hard working immigrants. Call your Senators TODAY and tell them don't fund ICEs terror campaign! Link in bio or act.seiu.org/a/do_not-fun...

In about a week, the Senate is expected to vote on giving ICE and Border Patrol BILLIONS MORE in funding. Together WE can stop that. Call your senator TODAY and urge them to vote NO! #ICEout #WeFeedYou

The SAVE Act is the GOP’s dangerous attempt to make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to register and vote. Urge your Members of Congress to protect our voting rights by rejecting the SAVE Act: win.newmode.net/declarationf...

2026 Cross Country Ski TeamUSA members #MaskUp & stay outside of the Olympic Village. Nathaniel Herz reports for FasterSkier. Coach Kristen Bourne said that their “top priority is making sure our athletes and staff stay healthy for the entirety of the Games.” fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...

Nonfiction Writers! Looking for a summer workshop? I’m excited to be one of the nonfiction faculty at this year’s McCormack Writing Center’s Oregon Summer workshop (formerly Tin House). mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe... Where else have I facilitated workshops? ⬇️

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

My family was imprisoned behind barbed wire and armed guards by our own government. Not for what they did. But because of who they were. I was born in that internment camp. My family history lives with me every day. It drives me to fight for my neighbors—for their rights and for their dignity.

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

Tax billionaires out of existence. Expand Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

The sun came up. And although the historic house scheduled to be toured by the Cultural Heritage Commission was still standing, a call was made to bring out the LAFD heavy equipment unit and pull the structure down, allegedly for purposes of public safety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5x4...

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

“North Carolina has long expected imprisoned people to shoulder part of the cost of their incarceration,” says a law professor who studies prison labor and revenue.

"Fix your hearts or die" - Saint Luigi

Today in the Rockaways, I stood with NYCHA residents to announce a $38M investment to bring clean, reliable heat pumps to Beach 41st Street Houses.

I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described

While Tom Homan was trying to grab headlines this morning ICE was again circling our schools. They’ve been out all morning and no “drawdown” is enough until every single one of these agents is out of our state and DHS is abolished.

Jeff Bezos's murder of the Washington Post is a plutocratic crime of the highest order. https://bit.ly/3ZPQUKt

Convene with as many governors in the union as possible - demand immediate action or withhold federal tax money. What would GOP do? Get in front of the cameras and beat them at their game.

A GOP-backed proposal in Missouri would require citizen-led ballot initiatives to win majorities in all eight congressional districts to pass. But amendments that lawmakers put on the ballot themselves wouldn't be subjected to the same high bar.

Better late than never! Here’s the audio file and written recap of Monday’s nights Iowa politics radio show, “KHOI’s Capitol Week.” The show will never take up more than 30 minutes of your time. laurabelin.substack.com/p/trump-in-i...

Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez: blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/08/b... Keith Porter: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

The incredibly inspiring response on the ground in Minneapolis is reminding me of John Berger's magnificent long-ago manifesto for the avenging heroes among us www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/19/j...

@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov a moderate position of reform presupposes that these agents are open to it. They are not. So knock it off with that pipe dream. Abolish ICE. Defund DHS. Impeach everyone.

@juliaserano.bsky.social provides an excellent rebuttal to the idea that Dems need to triangulate against trans people in order to win moderate votes. (Calling Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom). Lots of receipts for her argument.

Walmart is officially a trillion-dollar company. Today the retail giant joined the ranks of Meta, Tesla, Amazon and more to pass a $1 trillion market cap. Meanwhile, starting pay at Walmart is as low as $14/hour, and thousands of its workers have to rely on SNAP and Medicaid.

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The man who murdered Renee Good didn't need a bodycam because HE FILMED THAT SHIT LIKE IT WAS HIS IG REEL

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Two disabled autistic boys were murdered by their parents in Australia. The parents then took their own lives. The family recently lost their government disability support. Cutting off support ends lives. There’s nowhere near enough support for people with disabilities or caregivers:

Activist groups trying to block sale of warehouse for ICE detention center www.kshb.com/news/local-n...

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Here’s the non-Apple link: