pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

bitch you can't be serious the fragility and pettiness of these people, who aren't content just to strip away people's rights they want to pretend they're Good and Just Doing Law, too, and are deeply offended when people acknowledge otherwise

The Supreme Court of the United States has concluded, as a matter of law, that Donald Trump and his administration's racism and vitriol toward Haitians—in its termination of TPS—is not "overtly racial." Justice Kagan, in dissent, calls them out: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...

In Louisiana, which has more ICE lockups than almost any state, a crisis of prolonged detention is accelerating. Data suggests that the number of immigrants in ICE custody for more than a year has spiked five-fold since 2024. Our story with The Lens Nola: boltsmag.org/louisia...

Increasingly alarmed at the extent to which people are, not only relying on AI, but fully capitulating to the notion that we must outsource our brains to it.

The view from Brooklyn. Love you NYC ❤️

Seeing alternate explanations for the tarp and, as I know nothing about construction work, fair. That said, Trump is singularly obsessed with optics & spectacle as evidenced by the whole illegally-slapping-his-name-on-the-Kennedy-Center thing, so perhaps we can understand people’s kneejerk reaction.

Only just learned that they covered up the removal of Trump’s name with a tarp. Comically undignified behavior.

I don't have words for the revulsion I feel toward Elon Musk.

Co-sign. That this monster is on cusp of becoming trillionaire via IPO built on fraud is sickening: Enron Musk. Chainsaw-wielding sociopath has nonchalantly hurt so many ppl, is obviously deranged—that he’s lionized & not shunned as total pariah is another moral indictment of our social structures.

Been thinking about this constantly for a long time now and the fact that this reality is not reflected in mainstream media narratives about Musk goes a long way in explaining where we are.

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

It's been 100 days since the US reportedly bombed a girls school in Iran, killing 100+ kids. I pressed members of Congress on what they're doing in response to one of the most horrific war crimes in modern US history. Some didn't even know about it. And some just didn't care:

For another look at how Bari Weiss has peddled fascist propaganda, read this, on Trump’s remaking of the U.S. refugee resettlement program to solely benefit white South Africans

I love the World Cup so much but I’m finding it impossible to enjoy or even engage with it at this point

Free Speech Champion(tm) Bari Weiss demanding CBS News smear an American executed by her government for protesting bsky.app/profile/elio...

For comparison, more than 13,000 eligible federal inmates were released early to home confinement during COVID, a policy which the Trump administration tried to reverse. By 2023, only 22 had reoffended.

All of that to say. This is all very recent. And there's something gut-wrenching to me about the people who fought for those rights having to watch as they disappear. theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...

Last weekend, I was talking to my grandmother about the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. She has early stage dementia so it's hard for her to keep track of recent news, but she was absolutely devastated. She grew up in DC during Jim Crow, and she marched and protested for those rights.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

A quick story ... In spring of 2024, we started hearing from both prosecutors and defense attorneys about problems in Blackburn's courtroom. We posted a reporter in there for a few weeks to see and the criticisms were true: she missed names, was scattered on process and relied heavily on her staff

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

North Nashville community members are concerned about a proposed data center at Fisk University, calling the project “kind of diabolical.” Meanwhile, project managers claim data centers are inevitable and the HBCU will do it “the right way.” 🖊️: @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

A marvelous piece, our hideous death penalty lottery juxtaposed to the humanity of those caught in it—imagine the sheer fortuities required to get Richard Glossip released? The charitable strangers? This system is plumb broke…

The observations ppl make who’ve been incarcerated so long when they get out is just…oof 😢, like Glossip here says he forgot what carpet felt like & almost lost his balance on it; thought dollar bills would be smaller; and that his reflexes forgot that running water doesn’t quickly auto shutoff

Spent some time with Richard Glossip in the days after his release. He’s still facing retrial — and only just starting to process the trauma of the past 29 years. But it was moving and surreal to see him at home in the outside world. With @jordansmith.bsky.social for @theintercept.com:

@lilianasegura.bsky.social and I had an exclusive sit-down with Richard Glossip just days after he was released. Check out our latest @theintercept.com

Reporters @thecity.nyc spent months acquiring & analyzing every habeas petition filed by immigrants around NYC We identified 430 street arrests, far outnumbering courthouse arrests 93% targeted Latinos Latinos make up 66% of the undocumented population projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a...

Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last week after prison officials botched his execution. "We could hear him groaning in pain," says @nashvillebanner.bsky.social journalist Steven Hale, who attended as a media witness.

No one wants to live next to a noisy computer warehouse and communities across the country are successfully fighting them.

If you haven't watched this animated documentary on Manny Babbitt, a combat veteran executed by the state California for acts he committed as a result of combat PTSD, I recommend it. lastdayoffreedom.net

This is a big deal. Kudos to Judge Waverly Crenshaw, who saw this case for what it was. I wrote background on the vincdictive prosecution motion for @theintercept.com here: theintercept.com/2026/02/24/t... and covered the evidentiary hearing in Nashville here:

Another huge bravo to the Trump DOJ, again surpassing all expectations! It is truly a rare, virtually unheard of accomplishment to have an indictment that prosecutors brought dismissed under the nearly impossible to meet selective & vindictive prosecution standards: these guys are legends!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Federal judge in Tennessee DISMISSES the criminal prosecution against Kilmar Ábrego García as a vindictive prosecution. First time this happens during Trump 2.0. Lays much of the blame at the feet of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Gov. Bill Lee just announced he is granting Tony Carruthers a 1-year reprieve. His attorney immediately started weeping at the news.

Outside after Tony Carruthers’ lethal injection was called off, attorney Maria DeLiberato who was in the chamber with him says “they tortured him trying to find a vein.” She says they got a line in right arm, tried left arm, tried feet, tried jugular, tried a central line in chest and then shoulder.

Just left Riverbend prison, where an execution vigil and a long, confusing wait eventually culminated with the news that Tony Carruthers was taken off the gurney after failed attempts to find a vein for lethal injection. A mix of relief, joy, and horror among the people outside.

JUST NOW: Tennessee prison officials say they called off the execution of Tony Carruthers after repeated failures to establish an IV line for lethal injection.

I will never, ever, support the death penalty. Please read this, and, if it shocks you, please be aware this is only a microcosm of how deeply broken carceral systems and the “justice system” across the world is. The US has some uniquely horrific features, but they are far from unique.

Important thread from Steven on yet another horrific state murder that will almost certainly be carried out tomorrow, despite everything laid out below. If you'd like to join us for the vigil for Tony Carruthers at Riverbend tomorrow morning, make sure you're on the property before 9:30a.

I wrote about the man Tennessee plans to kill today. There is so much more to this story than one article can capture and it’s going to bother me for a long time. For @theintercept.com

Here's our updated story -- with a much better photo! -- on Richard Glossip's release from jail. His fight isn't over. But it's pretty amazing to see. (With @jordansmith.bsky.social for @theintercept.com)

BREAKING: Richard Glossip was just released from the Oklahoma County Jail accompanied by his wife and members of his legal team. "It's overwhelming but it's amazing at the same time," he said. More to come.

ATTY STMT: Judge grants #RichardGlossip bond:“For the first time in 29 years of being incarcerated for a crime he did not commit…Mr. Glossip now has the chance to taste freedom while his defense team continues to pursue justice on his behalf…” More here: tinyurl.com/3hv8zbb6

NEW @theintercept.com w/ jordansmith.bsky.social. “For the first time in 29 years of being incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, during which he faced 9 execution dates and ate 3 last meals, Richard Glossip now has the chance to taste freedom"-- Glossip's longtime attorney Don Knight

🚨BREAKING: After three decades behind bars and 9 execution dates, Richard Glossip has been granted bond by an Oklahoma County judge, setting him up for release in the days to come. Bond set at $500k. Story with @jordansmith.bsky.social to come @theintercept.com

Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”