it’s very difficult for me to reread old pieces of mine, but I am sharing this for the Olympics, for nostalgia, for Asian American women of a certain age, for little Asian girls everywhere gift link:

BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters

SCOTUS to Trump

Remember this? Where elons random Internet chode force literally stormed in and took over a government building?

“This ruling won’t undo the damage to Americans paying higher prices on everything from groceries to housing,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. “Any refunds must end up in the pockets of the Americans who were illegally cheated out of their money by Donald Trump.”

"They tried to prevent us from having grieving as a ceremony. And so us grieving in a public way and doing this from our hearts is, in fact, an act of resistance itself," Nick Tilsen

“We cannot merely act while holding our breath through this authoritarian escalation. We have to rest & exhale, feel the pain moving through our bodies. These are lessons that the life-sucking forces of capitalism & colonialism cannot teach.” ℹ️ Read the full blog: ndncollective.org/message-from...

The only position in AR state government with a better compensation package than Governor is Prison Lobbyist

Here are just 4 elections coming up in the next 10 days to know about. -- 1️⃣ This Democratic lawmaker in North Carolina gave the GOP *the* decisive vote to pass a pro-ICE law last summer. She faces a primary from a local progressive pastor, part of the Moral Monday movement.

new episode of ill conceived where we dig into jeffery epsteins connections to technologists and academics in the world of evolutionary biology, eugenics, and artificial intelligence

they’re radicalizing guys name colt shelby who work in the oil and gas industry

this great reporting by @laurengill.bsky.social follows-up on her feature last fall on the organizing that's happening in this community it's really worth spending some time with it if you haven't, and these topics interest you: boltsmag.org/arkansas-pri...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing. Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor. NEW:

Chatgpt has already pushed people to kill themselves and others. Did it push this teenager to do a mass shooting? www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... Bypass: archive.ph/EqNrW

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“…that many of them don't know why they're all doing this, except for the fact that their boss told them to do it. And that is equally horrifying and infuriating. This is no way to run a declining empire!”

“… nobody seems capable of giving a straight answer on whether the mission would be simply to attack military and nuclear-related sites, and then try to force the Iranians back to the negotiating table, or if government overthrow and a more drawn-out conflict is more likely. When I asked…

“I am just stunned at how little anyone we've spoken to lately – whether they be senior administration officials, Trump advisers, or anyone else close to the decision-making process – can give me a straight answer about what the mission would be here, beyond the Mad King Donald just doing his thing…

Last year, a civilian review board in Illinois debated unarmed alternatives to police and met with representatives from STAR, a Denver program that deploys mental health workers and paramedics to handle mental health and homelessness-related 911 calls.

The Vatican flatly rejected a U.S. invitation to join the Trump-led "Board of Peace" for Gaza. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem previously described the project as "a colonialist operation" focused on "others deciding for the Palestinians.” mondoweiss.net/2026/02/pope... #Palestine #Israel

Its Time For Mayor Mamdani To Live Up To His Campaign Promises On Transgender Youth www.erininthemorning... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Say it with us: ONE JOB should be enough. It should be enough to afford basic things like food, shelter, and healthcare. PERIOD.

While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.” “I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call.

If I may take this opportunity to challenge us collectively: it's easy to be an abolitionist when they're putting your neighbours in cages, but the real test is when it's about the people you think are the Bad Guys. Article by me:

Hooting, hollering, pumping my fist in the air

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this is the original story www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Citing my reporting for @propublica.org - about how federal prisons are losing staff to ICE - House Dems are raising concerns about how that's impacing prisoners' lives and demanding BOP answer Q's as to what the agency is doing about it democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

looking forward to virtually every media organization publishing an “elon musk says” piece breaking this down oh, they only do that for his bullshit sci-fi hype posts? curious

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

AI industries need to be regulated immediately. This is only the start.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Coming soon

Channeling Judge Young here. See: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

I talked with @andreapitzer.bsky.social about why we should understand the Trump administration as a concentration camp regime, and what it means to fight back.

“Watered-down ICE policy reforms do not serve as a break from the Democrats’ years-long rightward shift on immigration, but a repackaging of immigration enforcement to maintain the status quo.” - Lydia Pelot-Hobbs truthout.org/articles/ref...

So this drop in the bucket for the city would be $144 million more for libraries. Not paltry by any means. And could have a real positive impact.

The thing is, it is paltry for the city. But it’s huge for libraries. $491 million is what was allocated to libraries in Mamdani’s Preliminary budget. That’s 0.39% of $127 billion. If he lived up to his commitment of 0.5%, it would be $635 million!

“A tenth of a percent might seem paltry, but library budgets are on a tightrope (they nearly always are) and we’ve seen during previous funding deliberations that libraries need to quickly cut services and hours in response to even the smallest budgeting fluctuations.” lithub.com/new-york-may...

Been saying for years that Ghislaine is not an example of a woman who unfairly took the fall for a monsters empire. She was a co-monster

happy belated 10 year anniversary to when i called out my company’s low wages and i got fired for it and rightwingers went ballistic calling me an entitled millennial and then the company raised their wages and

I just read something that literally made my jaw drop but I’ve decided to just let Minneapolis handle their weird white boy problem themselves

I'm just thinking about what that baby is going to go through with that 🤬 as his teacher. The passive aggressiveness she's going to aim at him and he will have no idea what the hell is going on thinking that there's something wrong with him. 💔

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

I am sure I will regret weighing in here but this piece also uses the profile structure to get at what some of what really matters: how movements stay together and fracture, what goes into organizing, online v offline, how activism sometimes calls for annoying earnestness, etc.

for that series, i reported on CBP’s. ash surveillance apparatus in the sonoran desert, and its “prevention through deterrence” strategy, which funnels migrants onto dangerous routes—and which predates DHS by more than a decade: www.theverge.com/c/23203881/b...

most of all, i’m proud to work somewhere that knows the problems with ICE don’t begin and end with trump. in 2022 we published a series on DHS’s origins and history, looking at every component agency from CBP to TSA to FEMA www.theverge.com/c/23055922/h...

or @miasato.bsky.social’s incisive look at the far-right slopaganda machine that got us into this mess in the first place: www.theverge.com/news/873400/...