NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

The gender pay gap traps women in bad marriages by making it financially risky to leave.

I wrote about the back-to-back murders committed by ICE agents, which are part of a sickening pattern that the Supreme Court has allowed to fester ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I wish I could do more to comfort and buoy trans people who are struggling with thoughts of ending it. For myself, I lived with those thoughts daily during my teens and 20s. I couldn't imagine genuinely wanting to live during that time. I got better, and I'm still not sure how.

I worked on some research about online sexual violence. We were shocked by how many of the victims found the details of what they experienced on 8chan, in anonymous forums where men bragged and challenged each other to sexual assault.

one of the worst and most dangerous parts of the Internet is the ease with which sexual abusers can find and encourage each other.

The administration that thought the best way to defeat COVID was to hide the deaths has now moved on to Iran

It will never stop feeling weird to see previously kind of normal organizations turn into the Association for Scowling at Black Women in Particular While Ogling Everyone’s Genitals

I was born and raised in Northern Ontario and I am absolutely boiling with rage at the ways in which people elsewhere are talking about the forest fires there as though this is a common occurrence. The air thick with smoke for kilometers, entire communities wiped out - this shit is not normal.

if, instead of organizing around rallies or campaigns, if the democrats ever wholeheartedly re-embraced the labor movement specifically and formal organizing like this around housing and similar material aspects of american life, my god just imagine

“In this cohort study among 231 783 youths identified in claims data, prescription of a puberty blocker was associated with decreased adjusted odds of mood disorder and suicidal thoughts and behavior diagnoses for transgender youths compared with cisgender youths.”

“Flock doesn’t need to contract with ICE,” said Matthew Cavedon, director of the project on criminal justice at the CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank. “As long as Flock’s contract allows the people that they’re working with to contract with ICE, then that’s how it goes.”

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

While we’re on the subject, I also think it’s weird freak behavior to be an adult who makes Hating Children For Merely Existing their entire personality.

Just posting this to say, yes. Every single law enforcement agency "cooperates" with ICE. The two systems are inextricably intertwined. This is why the "good immigrant/ bad immigrant" framing is harmful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...

"I don't like being called cis" "I don't like being called white" "I don't like being called abled" That's because you view yourself as "normal" or "the default" and everyone else as *not*. Viewing yourself as the baseline is just another form of prejudice. It's just a more implicit type.

Centrists want it to be true, so they repeat the lie nonstop. Incessant lying like that is an authoritarian strategy, & it should be clear by now that the people opposed to racial justice are racial authoritarians.

Far too many men have responded to women’s concerns about sexual harassment and violence by avoiding women altogether. I need more men to realize that socially withdrawing from all women is just plain and simple discrimination.

The other major concern with climate catastrophe is how they are a fertile ground for right-wing ideologies to flourish. Many right-wing groups are very organized and excel at quick response. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Carte Blanche for murder. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...

Rather than focus on ICE hiring practices (or lack thereof), the killer of Johan (Joan) Sebastián Durán Guerrero should be put properly in the context of the nexus of violence work, extreme right-wing beliefs related to race, and misogyny.

At the risk of my mentions staying a nightmare for the entire weekend… A follow up thread on the types of behaviors I think have made my puppy wary of white men strangers:

Thread. Rapists running a coercive sex ring AND transmitting CSAM AND inducing other men to abuse women and girls in turn. The alleged behavior is legitimately monstrous and it’s a HUGE deal that the Trump regime is undermining law enforcement to help/free them. Epstein in real time

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

The "defund the police" cost Democrats countless elections claim always sits awkwardly with the fact that peak "defund" activism was 2020, the year that Democrats won their first federal governing trifecta since 2008.

I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

sign with monarch butterflies marking the spot where ICE took a neighbor in south minneapolis on january 21, 2026 “we miss you. we love you. we fight for your freedom.”

As Adam Bonica says, “America’s problems are solved problems. Just not here.”

At the risk of my mentions staying a nightmare for the entire weekend… A follow up thread on the types of behaviors I think have made my puppy wary of white men strangers:

I did a bit of very minor digging and Taylor Farms also sells under the brands Earthbound Farm and Eat Smart. In addition to Taco Bell they also supply to Chipotle, McDonald's, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster. Are these compromised? Who fucking knows 🤷🏻‍♀️ but better safe than sorry.

Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.

I post about sexual violence on this app on a regular basis. But the vitriol reserved for women who acknowledge casual misogyny is unparalleled.

I’ve had a puppy for a month now. We take him to the same coffee shop every Saturday morning. That’s all it took for him to develop a preference for everyone-but-white-men. Because everyone but white men will say hi to a wiggly puppy in one pleasant way or another.

HEY TERFS ARE YOU PLEASED REMEMBER HOW WE SAID THAT EVERYONE'S LIBERATION IS BOUND UP TOGETHER BECAUSE EVERYONE'S SAFETY AND THRIVING IS ONE SINGLE THING AND NONE OF US ARE TRULY SEPARATE AND EVERYONE SHARES THE SAME ENEMY Do you remember that can you see it yet, like

"After enduring months of anti-ICE protests at its bank offices, Citizens Financial Group is parting ways with two for-profit prison operators that oversee detention facilities for the federal immigration enforcement agency." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/17/b...

I am a climate scientist and, same.

Yup. The public needs to get organized & local People's Assemblies in each state are a way to begin. Start collecting testimonies of ICE's impact in your state. Invite all who attend to get behind a campaign to fire everyone in ICE during the first week of any potential Dem presidency. Begin now.

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

I'm getting really sick of seeing rapists just get to promote rape on TV and in the government day in and day out with no consequences or truly any reaction at all at this point

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

I think a lot about how 21st century fascism and the male grievance politics it channels is about men feeling like they don't get away with rape enough already.

"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is shitty on a bunch of levels but friendly reminder we depend on Canada and vice versa to help fight fires. This kind of rhetoric isn't helping anything.

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

For a lot of these food recalls and outbreaks, we’re still in the first year of what deregulation looks like. All of DOGE’s cuts led us here—and fast. There was a level of basic health and safety we took for granted that unregulated corporations will never provide for us on their own.

I represent organizers who have been beaten, pepper sprayed, and assaulted by ICE. They still go out every day to help their people. We will sue, but some combo of a truth and reconciliation process along with massive cash reparations for the victims of these fascists has to be on the table.

As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.

5-year-old Camila's crayon drawings in detention look just like my 5-year-old's drawings. We need this to end, and then we need prosecutions for everybody who had a hand in harming these families. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

Put another way, the entire adult userbase is going to have to upload their IDs to sketchy third-party companies and link their identities to their online activity to stop a few dozen kids from accessing a platform that is mainly left-leaning news and commentary. What problem is this solving?