Immigration judge in Louisiana orders Mahmoud Khalil deported to Algeria or Syria. Khalil is a permanent US resident. His wife and newborn baby are US citizens www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

My latest piece, in this week's @newyorker.com, is the story of what happens when the government declares war on an entire population based on little more than fear, confusion, and racial animus. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Democrats are losing voters nationwide

"The Legitimization Cell's motivation was not security, but public relations"

2 weeks ago: “This is not the first time [Anas] Al-Sharif has been targeted by the Israeli military, but the danger to his life is now acute” Throughout the 22 months of US-backed war in Gaza, clear warnings have gone unheeded—a choice by policymakers in DC under Biden+Trump cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-...

So many roads lead back to 1996. apnews.com/article/immi...

New book coming.

Hello: I'm collecting examples of anti-Muslim remarks people in the United States have received over their lives. Please fill out this survey fill out this survey if it applies to you (and please share!): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

BREAKING: Emails given to Congress by DOJ whistleblower reveal new details about the Abrego Garcia fiasco. They show how Trump officials searched for ways to paint him as a dangerous criminal and gang "leader" and couldn't find any. But smears continued. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1977...

Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class: newrepublic.com/article/1954...

Mamdani won 545,334 votes, the largest vote total in 36 years since former Mayor David Dinkins won with 547,000 votes in 1989 over former Mayor Ed Koch. Granted, that was not a ranked-choice election.

The types of Qs CBP is asking these days, including to journalists

An intense, shocking read, raising all kinds of questions. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“How exactly is the American government getting away with this?” @rozinaali.bsky.social asks about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil and other students and scholars for their pro-Palestine speech in @nybooks.com. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

This is abhorrent.

Reposting given reports of an Israeli attack on Iran.

If you work at DHS or ICE and want to talk about what's going on in Los Angeles please reach out on Signal: @haleaziz.81

In this week’s issue of @newyorker.com, I profile Lina Qasem Hassan, a family medicine doctor and the board chair of Physicians for Human Rights Israel. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

LAT reporter👇

Mahmoud Khalil has not been charged with a crime—but the government is attempting to deport him and other students and scholars for their points of view. Type Media Center @rozinaali.bsky.social for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

“The experience [of ICE arrests] is characterized by nothing so much as terror…. Abdalla’s fear as Khalil is dragged away is unmistakable. As is Öztürk’s [plea] as agents encircle her…she stated later she felt ‘sure they were going to kill me.’” — @rozinaali.bsky.social

"Mahmoud Khalil has not been charged with a crime—but the government is attempting to deport him and other students and scholars for their points of view." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I wrote about how the US government is making its case in court to justify detaining students like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk for their free speech. For @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reports that Israel plans to seize 75% of Gaza and relocate more than 1,3 million Palestinians in the upcoming offensive, ultimately forcing the entire population into three military zones with food supplies strictly controlled by GHF/Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys urgently ask Judge Farbiarz to order ICE to permit Khalil to hold his newborn son today "for the most elementary human reasons." ICE has so far denied the request, despite his wife and child having made the 1,500-mile trip. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yesterday, the Gaza MoH released a 1000-page list of Palestinians killed in Gaza (52,959). The first 18 pages are names of babies. Today, UN warned that 14,000 more babies will die in the next 48 hours if aid isn't allowed in.

These Medicaid cuts will be extremely bad and they’re just to offset tax cuts for very wealthy people www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

On the fear and hatred left behind by Assad’s police state, as seen on a single street in Tadamon, Damascus. Wonderful journalism on a tragic subject by @leloveluck.bsky.social, Zakaria Zakaria, and @salwangeorges.bsky.social, for @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

A key sentence: "Project Esther exclusively focuses on antisemitism on the left, ignoring antisemitic harassment and violence from the right."

The Heritage Foundation's Project Esther "changed the paradigm by associating anyone who opposes Israeli policies with the ‘Hamas Support Network'... [It] aims to convince the public to perceive the pro-Palestinian movement as a threat to America itself." The playbook for criminalizing dissent:

The Department of Homeland Security wants 20,000 National Guard forces to assist with its immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

A new report finds the bottom 60% of U.S. households—or *two-thirds* of the population—can't afford a “minimal quality of life": housing, health care, and other necessities. "Indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving. But they don’t reflect the reality of most Americans."

District court in Vermont grants bail to Rumeysa Ozturk "Her continued detention chills the speech of millions in this country who are not citizens."

“As of today, I think it’s safe to say that all the progress that was achieved during the ceasefire has been reversed.” @ichotiner.bsky.social speaks with a relief worker on the ground in Gaza as starving people in the territory become increasingly desperate. nyer.cm/igSh6NP

Trump is jailing immigrant families again--a legal nonprofit says 100+ families were held at Karnes, TX detention center since Mar. 2025, then were transferred to a bigger, more remote facility in Dilley it asserts isn't adequately retrofitted for children www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“while continuing to wage this iteration of the war on terror in the Middle East and Africa, the Trump administration has also repurposed the tools and tropes of counter-terrorism against new targets: drug cartels and migrants <and> domestic political opponents” www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...

“They walked the full length of the train and questioned every single passenger about their citizenship status. According to the conductor, who has worked nearly 40 years on that route, this was a first. In all his decades of service, federal agents have never boarded his train like this.”

Acc to @npr.org investigation, State Dept is removing certain topics from assessments of human rights around the world: - harsh prison conditions - govt corruption - restrictions on political process - coercive medical practice - gender-based violence - violence against ppl with disabilities

Lawyers say "Ozturk has suffered five asthma attacks in detention." Immigration judge denied bond to Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Uni student. She remains in detention in Louisiana apnews.com/article/rume...

"The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.’"

“Less has been made of the strikes themselves, which raise their own set of questions, including what the U.S.’s aims are in Yemen, and under what legal authority it is pursuing those aims.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

ICE’s growing unaccountability turns each of its actions into a mystery, raising a new and unavoidable question: at what point do arrests start to resemble actual disappearances. My latest: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A list of all the data DOGE + Trump & co. are gathering about you. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about one family who lost fifteen women and children www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport 238 Venezuelans to a brutal Salvadoran prison. They were accused of being gangsters, but couldnt see the evidence against them. This is the story of one—Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay make-up artist, who is innocent: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...