Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line. At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia. (Published Jan. 2026)

Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Club organizers learned that affinity celebrations — where graduating students hold separate ceremonies honoring their historically underrepresented backgrounds — would no longer be permitted...The administrators instead proposed a single celebration at the Paulson Center.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

This week @jamellebouie.net had some questions for me about where the US is at now and why the term "concentration camp" might be a useful way to think about the crisis. (He interviewed me eight years ago for Slate on a similar topic. Let's hope we don't end up having the same discussion in 2034.)

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Vietnam all accepted invitations to join the Board of Peace.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away. I wrote about how he saw our future so well.

Those butterflies you feel when you realize the pilot is Black 🫶🏽

“For all his rhetorical thunder, the Democrats never fully embraced his vision of an unashamedly liberal party based not on the white middle class but rather on his coalition of poor and working-class people of all colors.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

“The scheme, known as Project 100,000, protected the white middle class by preserving college deferments.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b... @bstaples.bsky.social

“It’s a way to discredit individuals and tip the scales so that the use of force seems more reasonable from the outset…” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Good read from Emma Goldberg, who visited NYC’s warming centers and asked homeless New Yorkers what helps bring people in from the cold www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/n...

Three thoughts. 1. It’s always been about the white nationalism 2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning 3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness

Black Americans have always been at the heart of the country’s democracy movement and attacking and humiliating them is key work of those who hate democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

His own personal Sundown Town, in a region with a rich history of sundown towns, in a state originally founded for White people only

Not good

This is hugely inspiring and also a call to action for communities across the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

If you live in New York and you see someone in a camp, on a sidewalk, under an underpass, in a subway station: Call 311, and you'll likely be referred to 911 because of the temps outside. Get them help. This weather is dangerous. By law*, the city will provide them with a bed inside. *Settlements

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school. Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools. “I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

Messages to ICE from students at Liam Conejo Ramos's elementary school. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

The Department of Homeland Security revoked the Global Entry travel privileges of a U.S. citizen who protested ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

This five year old is still in jail

Important

Rep. Tom Suozzi(D-NY), getting raked over the coals for his vote for more ICE funding, says in a campaign email that he didn’t understand what he was doing

The Minnesota killings laid bare that Trump’s project is regime change. The goal was described by MAGA thinkers, the pattern set on Day One. The nation let his early moves—the Jan. 6 pardons, the TikTok power grab—slip by. Denial & complacency must end. Now My column www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate…”

What does America’s only opposition party stand for?

Listening to a NYC mayor discuss preparations like “brining the roadways” ahead of a major weather event feels oddly surreal right now. The activation of a massive municipal government to serve the public instead of terrorize it should be normal.

More reasons to shop small and local www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Breaking MS NOW: Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.

FBI supervisory agent Tracee Mergen in Minneapolis resigned after FBI leadership in DC pressured her to discontinue an investigation into ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot & killed Renee Good. An investigation following an agent-involved shooting death is commonplace. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

On repeat today, Martin Luther King Jr.’s favorite song, and the one he requested for his funeral. music.apple.com/us/album/pre...

Gift link, because everyone would should know. share.inquirer.com/S3NaPo

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Isaiah Blackwell used his body as a shield in guiding Jake Lang away from counterprotesters before two Black women were his unexpected getaway drivers. Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said, “Lang saw that Black man as less than him. The Black man saw Lang as a human being.”

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

In December, I traveled to Montgomery to visit the Legacy Museum, which traces the story of Black America from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. I wanted to understand how the museum & its affiliated sites were operating in a moment where so much of the history they present is under attack.