You absolutely have the constitutional right to record ICE, Border Patrol, or any law enforcement officer in public, and with everything happening in Charlotte right now, people need to understand that clearly.

The alt text in this photo... 🤌🏼

As the nationwide outbreak of infant botulism continues to grow, and new test results show botulism bacteria in some samples of ByHeart infant formula, the source of the potentially deadly contamination remains unknown.

This part.

So much for privacy.

Migrants at largest US detention camp face foul water, rotten food, congresswoman says reut.rs/4qRPCLg

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

Leaked footage from inside an ICE detention facility near Houston. No beds, no bathrooms, hundreds of men, women, and children in one combined cell/room. They are kept in freezing conditions.

So they say

Had a great convo with an artist I know who’s looking for a way to help out. We talked about how there are images photogs often won’t share right now to avoid incriminating folks & talked about the possibility of trusted artists creating illustrations that don’t reveal people’s real world features.

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

ICyMi: "The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that nearly 13,000 air traffic controllers had been working without pay for weeks." apnews.com/article/gove...

I'm so sorry Karen. You are an incredible reporter & while we don't know each other I have admired your work. If you see that I connect to anybody or any place where you see a job prospect please let me know, I'm happy to make an introduction. If I hear of a FT gig I will send it your way.

I feel like it's 1994 again and pop ups have yet to be slayed

Sing it from the mountain tops

"[Yesterday's] raids across Southern California showed a continuing escalation of violence by masked federal agents as they kidnapped at least 20 people, including parents after their school drop-offs, U.S. citizens, and a mother is ripped from her infant." lataco.com/daily-memo-o...

Solidarity is the only way

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

“We’ve seen reprehensible behavior by DHS agents against journalists in all three of America’s largest cities. There’s no reason to think it will stop there, so it’s critical that we refuse to normalize this,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told amNewYork.

This seems like the right song for this day, this country - this app today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYED...

Alongside @404media.co, we sued DHS demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

This is good to see. Hopefully they’ll investigate the assaults on independent journalists and everyone else who has been attacked as well.

This is the fullest truth. ...also watching the video but only if it has subs so I don't have to put audio on

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Maduro also gives himself special powers to mobilise army and give it authority over public services and oil industry.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced it was terminating its labor contract with the union representing over 30,000 prison employees, marking the latest step in the Trump administration’s push to tighten control over the federal workforce.

Group that includes most major insurers — apart form UnitedHealthcare — says its plans will continue to cover vaccines including Covid and flu despite potential changes to recommendations. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/a...

The r/teachers subreddit is full of stories about lists of teachers who criticized Charlie Kirk (many listings without evidence) and harassment campaigns to get them fired. Free speech and open debate my ass. It’s the same as it always was—another way to destroy education

After a USTA memo, ABC appeared to mute the audience booing President Trump before the US Open Men's Final on September 7, playing music over his appearance (Glenn Garner/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

PubMatic sues Google in Virginia over alleged illegal ad tech market monopolization, the second such suit since an April ruling that Google monopolized ad tech (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Trump's anti-press rhetoric is "not bluster; it is not a personality trait. It is deliberate," @stephaniesugars.bsky.social told @di-sly.bsky.social. "It is very much at the cost of the strength of our social fabric and our shared reality."

military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference

At an event with DeSantis, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said officials will push to end "all vaccine mandates" in law. "Every last one of them is wrong," (Politico) That’s measles, polio, chicken pox and tetanus… America’s anti-science anti-intellect shift is going to kill so many people.

I can now also confirm that previous reporting is correct, and the ICC charges against Ben Gvir and Smotrich are/were centred around the crime against humanity of apartheid. The crime has never been charged by an international tribunal. #WestBank #Palestine

Sandwich guy’s “moment of culinary resistance – he wouldn't be subservient, one could say – has become a symbol of the [DC]’s refusal to accept the situation quietly.” @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

Google's lobbyists are a major force in D.C., yet they're not at the top of the spending charts. A colleague has a great story explaining the workaround www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Genius

ATLANTA: Vigil for Gaza's Journalists Saturday, August 16 · 7pm · Freedom Park Join local journalists and community members to honor the 260+ reporters, photographers, and media workers killed in Israel's ongoing mass slaughter in Gaza. More details in next post. Please share widely.

What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there

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Wowzers.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Adding this to my list of favorite books. An essential read. Reframes the Huck Finn story from Jim’s perspective. Scenes that may have been considered lively or boisterous the original play out deadly serious & terrifying here. 📚