WASHPOST: Surveillance in DC from the air: Nearly 80 helicopters were identified flying over D.C. as Trump crackdown continues, with the flights most intensely focused on majority Black neighborhoods. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patients’ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)

Uh, is someone checking on the Mormons?

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

Ron Gochez - organizer in LA: "But what they didn’t think was going to happen was that the people would resist and would fight back. And that’s exactly what happened in Paramount and in Compton, California, where for eight-and-a-half hours, the people combated in the truthout.org/video/la-com...

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

Real things my middle schooler asked me today: 1. The middle school next door had ICE this week. Is my school next? I have friends who are undocumented. 2. Won't DC be the target if someone bombs us like they did on 9/11? 3. Why are people sadder about Charlie Kirk getting shot than kids? I hate it

The occupation of DC isn’t about tackling serious crime. It’s a dragnet targeting immigrants and people of color, the data shows

LOL trying to Mangione this guy with the engraved bullets story

No offense but Threads is going way harder on Kirk

This citizen and vet was grabbed by immigration agents--and held for three days He wasn't allowed to contact anyone, not his lawyer, not his family "No one told me what I was there for. I thought I was gonna just disappear and never see my fucking kids again" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares. www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

Fuck Muriel Bowser

D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Really want a journalistic deep dive on the supply chain for the turkey legs at renn faire

New: @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into how Trump (and RFK Jr) is undermining mental health research at @motherjones.com–which could lead to fewer breakthroughs in early intervention strategies. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

He just likes it because it's pretty

Over the last two years, Ste. Genevieve first appeared on the ICE facility detention list in March 2025. As of August 4, ICE reported an annualized average of 32 detainees at Ste. Genevieve. Using an interval average, the number of people detained by ICE on that date was likely closer to 97.

Ste. Genevieve County Jail is located in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently detains a person at this facility for an average of 16 days. detentionreports.com/facility/STE...

I found this great toolkit on jury nullification, but wondering if anyone has resources that are shorter for public education in DC? beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

At this rate every DC resident is going to be empaneled on a grand jury within the next year. My fellow Washingtonians, hold the government to their burden.

One Florida mom told me she's moving to Berlin next month because she doesn't know where else to take her daughter for care. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

"One US citizen child with severe medical needs was hospitalized multiple times while in CBP custody, where an officer allegedly dismissed her mother’s pleas for help by telling her to “just give the girl a cracker.” Another child recovering from brain surgery was reportedly denied follow-up care"

"People rallied with the doctors, calling for medical professionals to be allowed inside..." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

NEW— ICE vehicles chased a landscaping truck through Takoma Park, MD, on Monday about a mile from DC, which ended with the truck crashing on someone’s lawn and narrowly missing another car, multiple residents confirm to me. Video shows ICE going into a backyard to find/arrest the men from the truck.

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

Republicans are uncomfortable around black and brown people and therefore want to eradicate them. It’s a genocidal impulse.

MVM, the contractor under Trump 1.0 caught holding unaccompanied children in an office building and making them bathe in the sink, is at it again; this time they held a woman and her son at a hotel for days, incommunicado, despite the ICE locator claiming she was detained multiple states away.

I think it's really worth noting that this concentration camp was opened one month and three days ago. This woman saw enough horror in that time to quit and tell the public what she saw. Which suggests that it's not as bad as we think, or as bad as we can envision from her description—it's worse.

🤭OKKK! I for one trust Ghislaine Maxwell's natural vigilance for sexual violence against minors!

Newsflash, transit to the airport is not usually the biggest obstacle to quick deportation. It is, unfortunately for fascists, due process and the rule of law.

The Olmstead decision affirmed that disabled people have the right to live in the community—not locked away in institutions. Today, that right is under attack. Learn more about Olmstead: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6c6...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wednesdays

Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Advocates warn that if the Trump administration’s push to end the decades-old Flores Settlement Agreement is successful, outside oversight of the conditions in which immigrant youth are detained would end. My latest for @kffhealthnews.org www.cbsnews.com/news/immigra...

This is terrifying and also everyone facing these kinds of political and trumped up charges should take them all the way to trial and let a jury see these videos. I don't want to see a single guilty plea. Drop the charges or own them, assholes.

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

Just gave. Please consider helping if you can. Right now is an incredibly important time. Right now.

Not the Medicaid cuts. The gambling tax. Have you ever seen such blatant and unrepentant wickedness in all your life?

Something I think a lot about is when Miss Major was first arrested for crossdressing as a teenager in NYC in the 1950s she wasn't put in prison--she was put in Bedlam

If you look at the Epstein story through the lens of his victims and their life stories you get a story about every powerful institution in public life failing on any measure of accountability but repeatedly being outmatched by the courage of teenagers, sex workers, and runaways

ICE detains a pastor in Easton, Md., who has been in the U.S. for 24 years and has no criminal record, the Star Democrat reports. www.stardem.com/news/local_n...

ICE isn't just tearing families apart--they're also extorting them. According to the article, the pastor's family is being charged $50 for each 20-minute phone call he makes from detention. And it would likely cost them at least $10,000 for a release on bond.

The Wall Street Journal reports “FBI Director Kash Patel has privately told other government officials that Trump’s name appeared in the files.” “Who exactly would Kash Patel have been telling this to?” asks @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

New video footage showed a look inside 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE has held hundreds of migrants for days, with more than a dozen men on the floor atop thin thermal blankets or sitting on benches. It has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers and denials from the Trump administration.

Thanks, Trump. www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/ju...