The rapid normalization of the violence is the point

I’m investigating university partnerships with ICE for @prismreports.org with support from the lovely editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social 📲 Send me a message on Signal at julesthejourno.09 or email me at [email protected] ⚠️ Do NOT use a school-provided email address

*pretends to be shocked* great reporting, btw

Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.

Can we just pause and think for a second about why 42 million people in the U.S. are on SNAP… 42 MILLION. That is more than the population of the entire state of California.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

While Trump’s NSPM-7 memo claims so-called anti-Christian beliefs are signs of “left-wing violence,” a Chicago pastor who belongs to a Presbyterian church was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE. You can’t make this up.

I can’t believe I have to check my credit score through all of this.

Fact-check: Most of the goons in Trump's deportation army aren't even ICE agents. Only about 13% of the personnel carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda are employed by ICE’s primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs. Check out the full report: tinyurl.com/yvavwh4f

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” (Pub. Oct. 2024)

Every journalist covering the White House, government, free speech, repression, etc. should honestly report on what this is: an attempt to manufacture consent for what would be a dictatorial power grab.

With his ban on military shaving waivers, Pete Hegseth knows damn well who he’s pushing out: Black troops.

Have you heard of Flock Safety? The surveillance company was once a small technology startup with a mission to “eliminate” non-violent crime. Now it’s becoming a one-stop shop for law enforcement to buy and plug into all the big brother-esque tech they can get. My latest for BreakThrough News 👇🏽

Welcome to the era of digitized white supremacy.

When big tech companies and imperialist states are able to roam unchecked, it is inevitable that they will join forces. This is a byproduct of capitalism.

This is real I shit you not

Our tax dollars & the U.S.’ support of Israel enable the occupying force to commit genocide. We've compiled an ongoing, updating list of fundraisers for Palestinian liberation. We owe Palestinians our money & support. If you’re able to share funds, here are orgs & grassroots efforts to start.

“The Supreme Court’s assault on democracy and President Donald Trump’s are tightly intertwined… Trump may be behind this plan, but it was the Supreme Court that made such brazen partisan gerrymandering possible.”

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

"[Federal a]gents wait at schools, courthouses, hospitals, and churches, searching for immigrants to detain. They point guns at passersby ... They conduct surprise checkpoints miles from U.S. borders, confiscate phones, and question people about their political beliefs."

Since the start of Trump’s second term, colleges in both blue & red states have signed contracts with ICE & CBP, ‪@julialuz.bsky.social‬ reports. Universities have become yet another set of tools in the government’s mass deportation arsenal. prismreports.org/2025/07/31/h...

I reported for @prismreports.org on how universities are another tool in the government’s mass deportation arsenal.

Opinion | Don't get angry at ICE agents. They are just following orders. by Adolf Eichmann

My next story explores how universities are deepening ties with ICE and CBP as students and faculty prepare to return to their campuses in the fall. I’m going to keep following this story as the impacts of these ties become more and more undeniable. If you have tips, Signal me: julesthejourno.09 📲

As the U.S. and Israel escalates their war with Iran, Israel is doing something else: annexing Palestine under the radar. Roads for settlers. Cages for Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/how-...

In order to maintain ideological diversity, I make sure that 50% of my organization's hires are Trump supporters, even though only 2% of my applicants are Trump supporters. Here's why DEI at universities must be banned.

I’m writing a story on universities partnering with federal immigration agencies (to be published in @prismreports.org) and am looking for sources! 📲 Please read the attached images for more details and reach out to me if any of the following apply to you. 🔁 Share this post!

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

Verifying myself for the Journalists of Color slack. journalistsofcolor.us If you are a journalist of color, please consider joining! 👇🏽

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

In my first piece for my newsletter, I talk about what inspired the title “ANTAGONiSTIC” and what it means to embody the term👇🏽

Why did South Africans do away with Apartheid? Because they became too woke.

With @yesmedia.bsky.social closing this June, I’ve finally gone full throw-myself-to-the-wolves vibes and done the scariest thing a writer can do… start a Substack. 🤭 To keep up with my independent journalism and other writings, subscribe here: tinyurl.com/2d5hjhkn

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: After nearly 30 years of publishing independent, justice-centered journalism, YES! Media will sunset operations at the end of June 2025. Read our full farewell message here: buff.ly/mrp7eo8

There’s so much to say and too little room, so I’ll let my LinkedIn post speak for itself. Thank you to @freeblackgirl.bsky.social for opening the door for journalists like me and making way for solutions-accountability journalism. I am forever grateful.

In an incredibly important report for @yesmedia.bsky.social, our associate editor @julialuz.bsky.social chronicles how universities are intentionally targeting students who are protesting the Israeli assault on Gaza by fighting for divestment.

🎥 Watch: “As we see with the Trump Administration, it really doesn’t matter how diplomatic you are. If you are advocating for Palestinian liberation, if you’re criticizing Israel, they are going to crack down on you,” says YES! associate editor @julialuz.bsky.social

I’m on @freespeechtv.bsky.social right now talking with @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social about my recent reports for @yesmedia.bsky.social 🫶🏽 tune in!

Scenes from the March on Washington on April 5, 2025.

When will we move the conversation to how deportations are just plain cruel?

Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained. What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera. What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.

BREAKING: The U.S. government confirms they are trying to deport Palestinian grad student Mahmoud Khalil—not for any crime, but for his beliefs. A memo from Marco Rubio says his pro-Palestine activism “damages U.S. foreign policy.” This is state repression, plain and simple.

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NEW: A coordinated right-wing movement seeks to crush Palestine activism in the United States. For my latest in @yesmedia.bsky.social, I cover how students at three New York colleges are resisting repression.

“The Encampments”, a new documentary that follows Mahmoud Khalil and other student activists as they fight for divestment and Palestinian liberation, is "one of the most crucial films of this decade," writes YES! associate editor @julialuz.bsky.social

If you are still awaiting an invitation to join the Free Palestine movement, #TheEncampments, a documentary that follows Mahmoud Khalil and other activists at Columbia, offers a compelling one. Read this review for @yesmedia.bsky.social by our brilliant associate editor @julialuz.bsky.social:

“The Encampments,” a new documentary from BreakThrough News and Watermelon Pictures that just broke a box office record, is one of the most crucial films of this decade. I share why in my review for @yesmedia.bsky.social 👇🏽

Chevron supplies 70% of Israel’s power. So, as @amalahmed.bsky.social reports in @yesmedia.bsky.social, the BDS movement is calling for a boycott of Chevron, modeled on the global anti-Apartheid efforts against Shell in the 80s and 90s.