Mara Gay
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American. Journalist. New York Times Opinion writer and MSNBC political analyst.
Nice reminder here that the legacy of Jim Crow is not only racism but authoritarianism
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Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated man
A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican lawmaker...
https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-criminal-clerk-calvin-duncan-exonerated-d247677aa601a85cac604645d50fc739
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Strange agenda for a political party facing a referendum this November.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
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White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/politics/white-house-defense-budget.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.0n8_.um4f3mAn0_ON
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Gothamist
21 days ago
Spring is here again: You can now ride the Coney Island Cyclone
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Spring is here again: You can now ride the Coney Island Cyclone
Luna Park is open for the reason
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/spring-is-here-again-you-can-now-ride-the-coney-island-cyclone
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Two Black officers and two women
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
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Hegseth Criticized for Removing Four Officers From Promotion List
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/politics/hegseth-generals-promotion.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Not a lot of sleep at Mamdani’s City Hall where a group of young and hungry progressives are out to prove the left can govern.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...
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Opinion | The Promise and Perils of Mamdani’s Millennial Playbook
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/zohran-mamdani-work-gen-z-millennial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WVA.dB-G.rzUlgnKyDCG1
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Howard French
23 days ago
Reading. (Reid's book is great, btw.)
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...
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Opinion | It Was One of the Cold War’s Greatest Crimes. No One Has Paid a Price.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/opinion/congo-lumumba-cia-assassination.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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jamelle
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i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people
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Opinion | Trump Said This Policy Would Make Manhattan a ‘Ghost Town.’ He Was Wrong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/congestion-pricing-traffic-new-york.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Howard French
23 days ago
Ghana showing the way.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity'
The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg06q36052o
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U.S. treasurer’s name won’t appear on currency anymore, so Trump’s can instead. The U.S. Treasurer: “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name..”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...
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Trump’s Signature Is Set to Be Added to America’s Currency
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/trump-signature-us-dollars.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
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Disturbing and important story about what is happening in our military
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
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Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html
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“Heidi Altman, vice president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center, said the deployment to airports was an affront to Americans after they had ‘watched ICE agents terrorize their neighborhoods for over a year’”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...
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ICE Agents at Some Airports Begin Checking IDs in Security Lines
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/ice-airports-checking-ids-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.Kezs.-a2Iffih6fre
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afacwa.org/pay_tsa/
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U.S. Flight Attendants Demand Pay for TSA to Keep Airports Secure, Not Create Havoc with ICE - Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
Washington, DC—As U.S. airports suffer long security delays, Flight Attendant Union leaders representing more than 100,000 of aviation’s first responders released the following joint statement: “Tran...
https://afacwa.org/pay_tsa/
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Christopher Columbus Statue Is Installed on White House Grounds
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/arts/design/columbus-statue-trump-white-house.html?smid=url-share
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Opinion | Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/opinion/iran-war-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TFA.eAon.OPzbTbkfBHH1
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Poor baby
abcnews.com/Health/teen-...
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A teen girl's harrowing journey with measles highlights how serious the virus can be for the immunocompromised
Makayla Skjerva, a North Dakota 14-year-old, contracted measles after being exposed at school in February. Makayla, who is immunocompromised, fell seriously ill.
https://abcnews.com/Health/teen-girls-harrowing-journey-measles-highlights-virus-immunocompromised/story?id=130927489
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“These are not seasoned activists. They are neighbors, like Jean.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
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Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/trump-immigration-ice-raids-safe-houses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QlA.AU_o.OS3RQXTRBixf&smid=bs-share
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ProPublica
about 2 months ago
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)
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Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans
Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/high-risk-pregnancies-chronic-conditions-abortion-bans?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1772496010&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Apoorva Mandavilli
about 2 months ago
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...
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States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/health/hiv-drugs-ryan-white.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QFA.4qEV.FvXYbFdnGZox&smid=url-share
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Will Bunch
about 2 months ago
Here's a story about his death
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/
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Ivan Pereira
about 2 months ago
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.
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NYU cancels affinity graduations - Washington Square News
NYU canceled 13 culture, identity and faith-based graduation ceremonies due to the “current political climate,” according to student groups that are urging administrators to either rescind the order o...
https://nyunews.com/news/2026/02/25/affinity-group-graduations-canceled/
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Will Bunch
about 2 months ago
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-...
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-detention-centers-georgia-dhs-noem-trump-20260222.html
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Andrea Pitzer
about 2 months ago
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.)
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What exactly is a ‘concentration camp’?
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render?campaign_id=129&emc=edit_jbo_20260221&instance_id=171444&isViewInBrowser=true&nl=jamelle-bouie&productCode=JBO®i_id=161556492&segment_id=215624&sendId=215624&uri=nyt://newsletter/bf42252b-e24d-5c98-821b-f975951ff5f6&user_id=775a5858a9eff1adcdd60e2d06083e04
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Kyle Cheney
about 2 months ago
👀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.
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“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...
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With a Golden Gavel and a Threat to Iran, Trump Launches His Board of Peace
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/trump-board-of-peace-meeting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NVA.Vbgl.y0morzpTBQXF
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Joel D. Anderson
about 2 months ago
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.
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Jesse Jackson Knew Better Than to Forget
The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away
https://www.theringer.com/2026/02/18/national-affairs/jesse-jackson-obit-civil-rights-legacy-martin-luther-king-jr
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Those butterflies you feel when you realize the pilot is Black 🫶🏽
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“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...
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Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/jesse-jackson-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.55ia.GUlJ6Enxz1p2
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 months ago
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.
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“The scheme, known as Project 100,000, protected the white middle class by preserving college deferments.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b...
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How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/books/review/the-war-within-a-war-wil-haygood.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVA.P1pK.GwO8XoK6UCcf
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“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...
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When Trump Officials’ Claims About Shootings Unravel in Court
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/homeland-security-shootings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFA.dNPw.xydegzapfrpX&smid=bs-share
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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...
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Here’s What a Warm Night Looks Like for Homeless New Yorkers
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/nyregion/cold-warming-centers-homeless.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFA.2jwc.JtAMIby18qG-
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
2 months ago
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
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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...
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‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/nekima-levy-armstrong-minnesota-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.Fiu0.5gmweykYff2f
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Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-nationalize-elections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.YpZR.TSNpPgfEGq3q
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His own personal Sundown Town, in a region with a rich history of sundown towns, in a state originally founded for White people only
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Laura Bassett
2 months ago
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This is hugely inspiring and also a call to action for communities across the country.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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Small Businesses in Minneapolis Serve a City in Crisis. ‘This Is Our New Normal.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/minnesota-business-owners-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.nxgh.7a8q05NuD4pz
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Nolan Hicks
3 months ago
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
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Jen Bendery
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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...
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ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take
Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-minneapolis-schools-children_n_697d3049e4b0b1de95c14d5c?origin=home-latest-news-unit
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Jamal Greene
3 months ago
Messages to ICE from students at Liam Conejo Ramos's elementary school. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
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Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/opinion/ice-kids-liam-ramos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IlA.TFeI.dd7hlqF5Bbuy&smid=url-share
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Journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort arrested in connection with church protest against ICE
Lemon's attorney said he was taken into custody by federal officers Thursday night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/ice-in-minnesota/journalists-don-lemon-georgia-fort-arrested-in-connection-with-church-protest-against-ice/89-a9df2642-4f6e-425b-8562-208cefa48843
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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...
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Don Lemon
3 months ago
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
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."
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Kristen Radtke
3 months ago
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being.
@theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868567/alex-pretti-minneapolis-childhood-friend?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IktWYlQ1a1F1ZUUiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84Njg1NjcvYWxleC1wcmV0dGktbWlubmVhcG9saXMtY2hpbGRob29kLWZyaWVuZCIsImV4cCI6MTc2OTk2NDA1NSwiaWF0IjoxNzY5NTMyMDU1fQ.FrZ0NlULSpVamKAg761dJTzxcH4-LkVYlrvVVZb2ZFc&utm_medium=gift-link
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Molly Jong-Fast
3 months ago
This five year old is still in jail
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