Journalists: I can't recommend the Knight-Wallace fellowship enough. Personally and professionally, it changed my life. Here's a chance to learn more if you're considering giving it a go! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now. Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them. I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):

If you only read one piece memorializing Alice Wong, it should be this one.

who in Congress is taking this up? we should be launching investigations and getting a full accounting of how f’ed we are @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...

'The damage is done already': What 2 weeks without SNAP meant for NYC https://gothamist.com/news/the-damage-is-done-already-what-2-weeks-without-snap-meant-for-nyc

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism. It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.

Page One in Houston: @houstonchronicle.com #redistrict

Anybody who thinks thousands of agonizing deaths is a fine price to pay for saving a fractional amount of government spending is unworthy of being listened to, let alone being given political power www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...

“one of the central paradoxes of twenty-first-century capitalist urban planning: planners and policymakers are expected to make cities simultaneously more profitable and more affordable. These two pursuits are fundamentally in tension with each other”

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

Alice Wong, your voice (written and spoken) lives on. rest in power

“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:

5000 people have signed up to run for office with @runforsomething.net in the last week. Between the election wins & the shutdown fury, we’re taking that momentum in to 2026.

America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The administration went all the way to the Supreme Court on Friday night to halt food-stamp funding. 🤡

how long did it take to reunite separated families from the first term? take that and multiply it by 100? we need an accounting of every single person they’ve abducted

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

It's been 46 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

Jackson says the decision is "more than merely regrettable. It is an abdication of the Court's duty to ensure that equitable standards apply equally to all litigants—to transgender people and the Government alike." And she faults the majority for ignoring "the animus evident in the Executive Order."

26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani. Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money. That is how we win.

This was a great piece from @leximcmenamin.com. bsky.app/profile/lexi...

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if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

this is depressing 💔

"What the plan describes, in essence, is a shadow logistics network built on agreements with local police under the 287(g) program. These once symbolic gestures of cooperation are today a pipeline for real-time biometric checks and arrest notifications. Transportation is the next logical step."

Same coercive model they’re using with abortion.

This is a tangible example of how regulatory agencies matter to people in practical ways. The CFPB had been investigating and blocking these abuses of the law, until Russ Vought and Trump stopped them from doing so. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Everybody gets that Bloomberg is the main reason Cuomo is still afloat, right? archive.ph/4sE8g

I wrote about the onslaught of ad slop in my wonderful home of New York City for Mubi's Notebook mag. If you've ever looked at a screen and thought "what the hell is that?" this one's for you... mubi.com/en/notebook/...

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown. The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files. They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

👀 on the record even? let's go

Here is my fuller dispatch from this afternoon in @hellgatenyc.com

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art

More than 170 *US citizens* have been detained and held (and “dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot”) by immigration agents this year. “Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.” [propublica.org]

Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers. It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

love a good ed. note

I hosted a roundtable with federal workers impacted by furloughs, and AFGE 1128 President Alton McDonald offered to share his thoughts about this administration’s treatment of federal workers. Listen to his story:

This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef

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Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.