Gutting international desks is troubling for another reason : deeply reported coverage helps shape foreign policy, and affects thousands of lives abroad. Washington Post journalists have done tremendous work documenting the horrors of US wars, and shifting national convo.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

"The ruling, if it were to stand, would have major implications for anyone detained as the Trump administration sought to deport them. It would remove the most effective means that immigration lawyers have for freeing their clients from detention while they are in immigration proceedings."

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"The man shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents has been charged" really captures the reality of today.

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Inkstick’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 (So Far) Ft. - @jmhattem.bsky.social - @mollycrabapple.bsky.social - Robin Andersen - Lionel & Liz Morrison - @rozinaali.bsky.social - @reecejones.bsky.social & Greg Boos

[email protected] has produced an excellent podcast series called "Aftershock" that revisits its coverage of the War on Terror. A must listen www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Haunting photos by Victor Blue from Syria in @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...

This is an astonishing, must-read, and chilling piece. "The old admonition of authoritarian regimes everywhere — If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of — has no meaning in Gaza." nymag.com/intelligence...

The Pentagon officials, in a classified briefing, acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors. theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...

Zohran Mamdani's opponents seem dangerously close to saying there's something wrong about a Muslim leading NYC. I wrote about Mamdani and Islamophobia for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump admin shifted $8bn from R&D funds, and accepted a $130mn donation, to pay military. Meanwhile, the govt will not use emergency funds to pay for food stamp benefits in Nov. 42m Americans rely on food stamps

Hell. nymag.com/intelligence...

Leqaa Kordia faces deportation for protesting the war in Gaza, in which she lost more than 175 of her relatives. She is the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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...

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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: