One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

One thing I love about @prismreports.org is that they work so closely with incarcerated writers, and surface things I had never thought about before. This piece on how extended incarceration is a violation of reproductive rights by functionally serving as involuntary sterilization is fantastic.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Long prison sentences function as involuntary sterilization of incarcerated people. By keeping me imprisoned through the years when I might have become a parent, the prison system reproduces the eugenicist logic that sought to keep “undesirable” people from having children, writes Mithrellas Curtis.

🚨Urgent medical appeal for a journalist’s father in Gaza🚨 @prismreports.org has been working with Shaimaa Eid, a Gaza-based journalist who has been diligently reporting and sending us dispatches of the genocide. prismreports.org/2025/10/07/g...

Less than a year into the Trump admin, queer-serving orgs are pushed to the brink, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports. Groups providing mental health services to LGBTQIA+ youth report a massive rise in need, as funding is slashed & political attacks escalate.

Heleena Darwish, the author of this dispatch from Palestine, is also a qualified English language teacher raising money to establish an educational centre in Khan Younis. If you are able to support, your contribution will help Heleena rebuild a future for children in south Gaza.⤵️

SAVE THE DATE: NOV. 18 — @eleanorg.bsky.social is hosting a fundraiser for doctors in central Gaza. She’ll be interviewing Mohammed Bamyeh and Ather Zia for "No-State Solutions: Towards Decolonized Futures, from Palestine to Kashmir.” Ticket sales are donations: artkillingapathy.simpletix.com

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

The news about Teen Vogue is terrible, the latest in the long list of corporate-owned media layoffs, closures, and shifting tone and coverage. There are so many great independent outlets, a list too long but this is a fantastic starter pack. PLEASE pick a few & support them if you're able.

Normally, SNAP benefits would be distributed to millions of people today. If you or others in your community need help, the "where to go for support" section of our recent piece lists some state- & locally-run programs to look for near you that may be able to help. prismreports.org/2025/10/30/s...

People are often invited into unlearning by love in the expansive sense. @lewispants.bsky.social noticed that what created the conditions for unlearning was, in part, or sometimes almost entirely about relationships. @prismreports.org

‘Solidarity is always the way forward’: In a Q&A with @adryancore.bsky.social, abolitionist organizer @mskellymhayes.bsky.social discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” (pub. Nov. 4 by @akpress.org) featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, & activists.

“In speaking to women now raising children alone, I learned that they feel the weight of each moment as it ticks by, knowing there will be no relief.” Through the stories of Palestinian women who lost their husbands, we can understand real solidarity in struggle, Heleena Darwish reports.

“You can’t recognize what you need to unlearn until you’re in some way confronted with it.” In a Q&A with @adryancore.bsky.social, journalist & activist @lewispants.bsky.social discussed his new book “Radical Unlearning,” (@beaconpress.bsky.social) a guide for breaking free from harmful ideologies.

“It is always the programs that impact the working class that are the first ones to be cut.” Local food relief sites navigate increased demand amid SNAP pause, Tamar Sarai reports. With the ongoing federal govt. shutdown, food assistance via SNAP won’t come through for 42 million Americans in Nov.

Amid an unprecedented overdose crisis, diversion programs have failed to separate the court system and policing from drug use. For some, it's sobriety or a jail cell. Read my latest for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social ⬇️ baltimorebeat.com/baltimores-a...

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

I attended this webinar earlier, and wanted to share this infographic if folx need a visual to highlight how Zionism is embedded in how American newsrooms typically operate, for which I am truly grateful for the much-needed work that @prismreports.org does! 🍉 visualizingpalestine.org/visual/edite...

Chicago fights back against Trump admin’s sweeping violence, @nberlat.bsky.social reports. ICE raids & attacks against protesters have brutalized Chicago-area communities. But local organizers are committed to coming together to protect their neighbors.

Israel calls us “human animals,” never understanding that our bond with animals is the deepest proof of our humanity, writes Hend Salama Abo Helow in an op-ed. Like all of us Palestinians in Gaza, our animals have been displaced, starved, bombed, & terrorized, yet we refuse to abandon each other.

Miami’s Wynwood loses its queer heart to gentrification, Kat Grimmett reports. As developers reshape Miami’s art district, LGBTQIA+ venues are vanishing, leaving a community of 190,000 people with few places to gather.

The destruction of Gaza has taken place alongside the surge in AI, an industry that props up an empire of lies that constantly pushes mediocre, propagandistic content into a vast market that’s aching to receive its products. Avik Jain Chatlani’s new op-ed critiques the accelerated end of language.

A map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under the first phase of the ceasefire plan while remaining in control of nearly 60% of the besieged Strip aje.io/kekalb

“Every story is an opportunity to revive Rama’s dream of writing & keep her alive between the lines.” During the genocide, writing has become an ultimate form of resistance, allowing Eman Ghassan Abu Zayed to tell the stories of Gaza, ensuring their histories live on forever.

‘My body is as besieged as my city’: Israel’s blockade drives Palestinians into daily negotiations with their dignity, Mariam Mohammed Al-Khateeb reports. Women have become the front-line managers of scarcity in Gaza. Yet their suffering is often erased by Western policy & humanitarian discourse.

Two years of Israel’s genocidal war against every form of life in Gaza have invaded the very core of children’s imagination. Funerals, death, & martyrdom have replaced cartoons, playgrounds, & birthday parties as the themes of their play. Ahmad Abushawish details how Israel stole childhood in Gaza.

Two years of genocide have left us ravaged, but our hope for Gaza will never be stifled, writes Shaimaa Eid. Israel’s war of extermination has spared nothing & no one, but still we cling to the hope that we will rebuild Gaza stone by stone & plant new life among its ruins.

‘Trump wants to turn Gaza into a colony’: Gazans respond with skepticism to U.S. peace proposal, Malak Hijazi reports. Gazans warn that President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan sidelines Palestinians & risks erasing Gaza’s rights & identity.

“As the genocide rages on, I am still struggling with how the term 'journalist' is given both to those on the ground who have died reporting important stories & those who have been complicit in these atrocities,” writes Samaa Khullar.

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Breaking: The Italian General Confederation of Labour, Italy's largest union with over 5 million members, is calling for a general strike in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Italian government vessels, along with Spanish ones, have abandoned the GSF www.instagram.com/p/DPRv1o6iDq7/

Sophia reporting from the Conscience Both Italy and Spain have withdrawn their ships, abandoning the Global Sumud Flotilla to be intercepted by the Israelis

As the Trump admin devises new ways to make the U.S. inhospitable for noncitizens, Washingtonians rally around refugees & find new forms of solidarity, Otto Frey reports. In Washington, D.C., local orgs are coordinating respite centers, free stores, housing, & community gatherings for migrants.

This isn't a proposal for a ceasefire; it's a roadmap for a colony controlled by war criminals.

We’re listening to “A People’s Climate” by our friends @counterstream.bsky.social which just launched last weekend👏 The show exposes the omissions in climate coverage while amplifying the voices of the people most harmed by ecological violence when we talk about climate change. Listen ⤵️

"In 24 months of genocide, not a single US hospital has condemned the Israeli military’s bombing of 36 hospitals in Gaza or the unlawful abduction, torture, and targeted assassinations of nearly 2,000 Palestinian healthcare workers and first responders." asfia.substack.com/p/zionism-in...

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Extremely proud of @tinavasquez.bsky.social & this very sensitive, difficult, & deeply informative investigation highlighting Isabella, a former H-2A visa worker who thought she was entering the program for agricultural work but faced harrowing circumstances instead. prismreports.org/2025/09/24/w...

UPDATE 9/22/25: On Sept. 19, Maklad said he was flown from Texas to Venezuela, where Venezuelan immigration agents weren't expecting him & hadn’t agreed to accept him. He was flown back to Texas & still has no answers about how long he’ll be detained or what will happen to him.

Meet Yamilet Galvan, an 11-year-old kid whose last days of summer were spoiled by the Department of Homeland Security. @lesbrains.bsky.social introduces us to Galvan who has plenty to say about Trump, ICE’s racist raids, & the grown-ups who voted for the mess that young people find themselves in.

“I no longer know where my body ends & my heart begins,” writes Shaimaa Eid, uprooted once again in a new dispatch from Palestine. “My body is now stuck in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, while my heart remains in northern Gaza, where I left my home & memories under the horrors of war.”

Catastrophic health & environmental conditions from Israel’s genocide are increasing the incidence of life-threatening rare illnesses in Gaza's children, Ghada Abu Muaileq reports. “If we cannot even provide medicine for common pediatric illnesses, what hope do we have for treating rare syndromes?”

📢Join us for Killing the Story, a virtual event on Oct. 7, 1pm PT/4pm ET! Palestinian, Arab, & Muslim journalists give firsthand accounts about how media manufactures consent & silences dissent as we approach 2 years of the Israeli-imposed & U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. tinyurl.com/killingthest...

"Can you be objective?" "Axios' Middle East expert served in the Israeli intelligence corps." "The Atlantic's editor-in-chief volunteered to serve in the Israeli military." New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, More Perfect Union... #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

Useful to read up on this: gnet-research.org/2023/02/06/g...