disgusting

"...Weiss and the Free Press were there to help reactionaries at elite institutions advance their internal turf wars – & unlike a year ago, those reactionaries can now count on the full weight of Trump’s authoritarian administration to back them up." www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

A couple of months ago, I started digging into the Justice Department’s decision to seek a death sentence for Luigi Mangione. One thing I found: Never since Congress reinstated the federal death penalty had an attorney general bent so many rules to get her way. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/l...

ICE Air ran an excruciatingly long 50-hour deportation flight on Sept. 11-12, stopping at Guantanamo Bay before deporting people to Mauritania, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, DRC, & Guinea. The plane also stopped in Senegal on the way there and back—likely for fuel—and in Ghana again on the return.

"“They thought we were just white trash rednecks & that we would just roll over & take it & not say anything." Remarkable new feature by @laurengill.bsky.social about the doubts & resistance that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' mega prison project has spurred in rural Arkansas: boltsmag.org/arkansas-pri...

nysfocus.com/2025/09/10/w... stories like this - only 5 claims investigated in 12 yrs! - underscore just how remarkable the New Orleans DA's conviction integrity unit was. It was able to exonerate or resentence 100s of people in just a few years. Then state Republicans essentially shut it down.

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

San Diego County may become first in the U.S. to give civilian board oversight of jail healthcare providers www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/09/07/s...

The leftwing French investigative site Mediapart is doing a whole series devoted to the journalists killed in Gaza. Would really love to see more of this sort of professional solidarity from US media outlets and journalists: www.mediapart.fr/studio/panor...

Shadow docket strikes again. The country's highest court has endorsed naked racial & national origin discrimination. calmatters.org/justice/2025...

A new escalation in the broader push by the Louisiana governor and attorney general to Make Executions Great Again lailluminator.com/2025/09/04/l...

“We live in a world in which it is possible at any moment to summon a human to your doorstep bearing tools to assemble your Ikea furniture or the exact banh mi you desire... It is perhaps unsurprising that people extend this same logic to women on OnlyFans…” thebaffler.com/outbursts/ti...

I know it doesn't matter, but Baltimore is experiencing HISTORICALLY low rates of violent crime right now: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What's been everyone's piece of journalism this year? Specifically narrative, investigative, and essays? I think about this one from @psfrench.bsky.social for @boltsmag.org a lot: boltsmag.org/the-human-co...

8/27/69: Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, w/Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Peter Boyle M: Mike Bloomfield More: @psfrench.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/high... @thomasbeard.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... Our take: brightlightsfilm.com/the-whole-wo...

In its alleged fight against antisemitism, the Trump administration has relied on two groups with murky funders—one of which is in Israel. Here's my deep dive @thebaffler.com into Canary Mission and Betar, two extreme Zionist groups at the heart of Trump's crackdown. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...

Analysis by @boltsmag.org shows "how rarely elected prosecutors face any contestation at all—a trend Bolts has covered for years, which neither the rise of “progressive prosecutors” nor any pushback has changed" Only 15 of the 66 prosecutor races we ID'ed are contested! boltsmag.org/2025-prosecu...

"Each individual element – the targeting of a working hospital, of journalists & rescue workers, of civilian injured already under treatment – would be expected to draw accusations of a war crime in its own right" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Wild situation in New Orleans: The Democratic city council is trying to legalize live facial recognition surveillance technology. They say it can't be used for immigration enforcement - but state Republicans just passed a law criminalizing official non-cooperation w ICE boltsmag.org/new-orleans-...

"“The chief justice is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It’ll Help ICE.

"It is very hard to wall off data collected from lawful government use. The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”

NEW: Democratic leaders in New Orleans are preparing to legalize real-time surveillance with cameras that process facial recognition tech. Civil liberties groups are pressing the alarm: Louisiana has new laws that require localities comply with ICE, and they say this new tech could feed into that.

‼️✈️ 1/3 Some of you may know that I’ve been working for a while to transition my ICE Air work to an institutionalized setting, and I’m very excited to say there is a great plan now.Human Rights First, who I’m sure you all know and respect, will not just assume the work, but elevate it to a new level.

My dear friend Izza & I worked at a refugee camp community kitchen in 2016. She's since become a human rights lawyer & is running a marathon to raise funds for WCK's critical Gaza operations. Please consider giving if you are able / have ever appreciated my work! donate.wck.org/fundraiser/6...

I'm in the September issue of @newrepublic reviewing a new book on shade - ft. America's addiction to AC, Los Angeles's absurd urban policy priorities, Mike Davis (who else), the La Sombrita debacle, sun as hostile architecture, & a little gratuitous Boston hate newrepublic.com/article/1983...

Today in @thenation.com, we have another piece by @mohamhawish.bsky.social that's as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. This one's about the pain of being exiled from your homeland, possibly forever. Anything Mohammed writes is a must-read. So please read this. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

A fact you should never let leave your mind. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-enragi...

"For months now, Dr. Chanelle Diaz, a primary care physician with roots in immigrant health, has noticed a troubling pattern: her undocumented patients [..] have stopped showing up." "They've just gone off the map." #NewYork #USA #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

And the university has to adopt the govt's new definitions of "male" and "female." Jesse Watters has finally emerged victorious in his long crusade against Brown's gender fluid admin-approved sex parties

America is now a place where the term "neonatal arrests" is entering the lexicon. Under Trump's plan, noncitizen babies could be detained at birth. "The administration has already facilitated such neonatal arrests by repealing a 2011 rule that prohibited ICE enforcement in and around hospitals."

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

"Under this definition of antisemitism, which absurdly conflates criticism of a nation-state & political ideology with the ancient evil of Jew-hatred, it is impossible with any honesty to teach about topics such as the history of the creation of Israel" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WSJ running the “Chesa Boudin playbook” on Mamdani: Preemptive Blame: Link the progressive to crime before they get elected. Fear Forecasting: Push a narrative of guaranteed doom if they win. Distorted Coverage: Once elected, portray crime as out of control—even if the data shows a decline.

Especially in LA, embrace of the personal sphere—cars clogging its arterial freeways, single-family homes sprawling out into the desert—has come at the direct expense of its communal spaces. Shade is scarce and leveraged against homeless Angelenos, public-housing residents, and low-wage workers.

www.latimes.com/california/s... lol

"More than 100 international aid organisations and rights groups...warned on Wednesday that the world was watching as “mass starvation spreads across Gaza”. ~10% of all recorded deaths from malnutrition in Gaza *since Oct 7* have come just in the last 24 hours. www.ft.com/content/acb6...

Late to this, but I wrote about the immigration raids in LA, unions' vexed relationship to immigrant workers & how worker centers emerged from that vacuum, how they are mobilizing now, & the possibility that more expansive solidarities might emerge out of this crisis: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u... The DNC is not going to focus on whether Biden should have run again, or whether he should have dropped out earlier, or whether Harris should have been the one to replace him, why waste the money on the audit at all

Rahm's career derailed when he covered up the murder of a Black teenager by a police officer. His last few years have been all about casting himself as a victim of 'woke-ism' or, here, 'the culture police.' Words that are a lot coming from him especially. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"It is creating an atmosphere of fear. And my colleagues and I have had numerous patients tell us that they hesitated or waited too long to come in for health care." www.cbsnews.com/news/doctors...

Malcolm Alexander spent 38 yrs in Angola for a rape he didn't commit. “It could be an enemy of mine, I wouldn't even want him to go through that," he told me. Under a brand-new LA law limiting post-conviction relief, Alexander would likely still be in prison. My report: boltsmag.org/louisiana-li...

“I lived 38 years of my life in the institution for something I didn't do. And believe me, that's a nightmare,” Malcolm Alexander tells Bolts. “It could be an enemy of mine, I wouldn't even want him to go through that.” boltsmag.org/louisia...

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba

i worked on some of these cases pro bono. its an absolute travesty. not only are they unable to effectively challenge their conviction, many of them were convicted by non-unanimous juries

As ICE conducts violent raids among low-wage immigrant laborers, “the question now is whether the shocking exercise of state power…will cause unions to close ranks…or conceive of their ties to immigrant workers more expansively.” — @psfrench.bsky.social

As always, please look to the states for a preview of what heinous law is coming next to the federal level.