This well-written piece by @jonnyauping.bsky.social will make you think, which is just what I want on NYE! mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/zone-one

real quick yall send an xmas subscription to a friend to: -don’t rock the inbox ( @natalieweiner.bsky.social + @marissarmoss.bsky.social) -welcome to hell world ( @lukeoneil47.bsky.social) -basketball feelings ( @wtevs.bsky.social) they’ll be like whoa what is this it rules

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

My dear friend Tasneem and her family in Gaza have lost everything; their home, their livelihood, their security. This is the case for thousands of Gazans. I support Tasneem, there are many more in need. Please give to Tasneem. And to others. ❤️🙏 chuffed.org/project/1587...

I reported this Sunday feature for @rollingstone.com on the federal push to use immigration enforcement as a gateway to biometric surveillance. Read the full story here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A new Amnesty International report concludes, 'What we are seeing in Florida should alarm the entire region.'

Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”

For my latest story in @inkstickmedia.com, I dug deeper into how the lack of AI regulation leads to more harmful conditions for our immigrant neighbors inkstickmedia.com/what-will-un...

Critics say the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is a “nightmare” brought about by unfettered mass surveillance and artificial intelligence. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/what-will-un...

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

every crisis we talk about nationally - policing, housing, public health, environmental harm - shows up first at the local level, and the only reason the public ever learns about many of these issues is because a local journalist put in the hours. it is an actual survival tool for all of us.

Thanksgiving is Wael’s favorite holiday. He loves making meals with his dad, Maher. But as of today, Maher has been in ICE detention for nearly a month.

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

"By focusing on people whose lives are shaped by global stories, Inkstick makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to the world of media. That’s the kind of work you can support with a NewsMatch donation." By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social

Inkstick's @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social takes a hard look inside the fight against the ever-expanding American surveillance state :

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

@tkbarnes.bsky.social reports: “Raytheon was allowed to claim about half a million dollars in tax refunds for jobs it did not create due to a loophole in its economic development contract with Buncombe County.”

Essential work by @tkbarnes.bsky.social

The American surveillance state is growing rapidly. Activists and experts say immigrants and people of color are most at risk. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/inside-the-f...

Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about the professors who’ve faced 18 months of retaliation from their own university after being arrested at an anti-genocide demonstration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Via ProPublica, Fort Worth Report and The Texas Tribune, led by a reporter who was an @rns.org reporting fellow last year: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

@inkstickmedia.com is doing absolutely vital work, and they also happen to be some of the most talented and driven people I’ve ever worked with. When you support them now, your donation doubles for NewsMatch: inkstick.substack.com/p/help-inkst...

I'm really glad @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social put together this piece working through Stephen Miller's objectives in branding perceived enemies of the regime terrorists. As I observe, "branding your political enemies as terrorists is a classic fascist move." inkstickmedia.com/trumps-terro...

Despite threats of a crackdown, cities around the US are rallying against ICE, deportations, and domestic troop deployments. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/trumps-terro...

DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times newrepublic.com/article/2019...

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people. “I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire. And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time. I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

missed this really good @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social piece on an under-reported trend: the MAGA-fication of the military/federal agencies being deployed to American cities inkstickmedia.com/lets-go-bash...

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

inkstickmedia.com/lets-go-bash... Check out the article that I am in. Written by the great journalist Tyler Hicks from Instick Media. It's very enlightening and powerful piece. Thank you again, Tyler. We need more columnist and a voice from folks like you more than ever now.

Speaking to @inkstickmedia.com, a military officer in California warned about the increasing “MAGA-fication” he's seeing inside the military. As Trump deploys troops to more cities, he says he's worried that some of his fellow soldiers have “softened at the idea of abusing their fellow people.”

Tyler Hicks on the militarization of Trump's America @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/lets-go-bash...

Trump said he and Hegseth talked about using U.S. cities as “training grounds.” Unfortunately, this @inkstickmedia.com story feels even timelier now.

In my latest story for @inkstickmedia.com, I talked to current and former military members about how they’re feeling in this moment.

Experts worry Washington's shift away from green energy is providing China with an opening. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social

Learned a lot:

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

a hard but essential read. I’m so glad we could run this piece from Tyler, and at the same time when so many are warning of mass starvation in Gaza. as Dr. Adil Husain told @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social “This is a man-made starvation.”

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

He helped the families of dying children. Spent all night with them even once the child was taken to the morgue. A former colleague tells us on the record that Ayman Soliman is the reason certain poor families who lost their babies at the hospital didn’t have… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This may be the most important story I’ve written yet, and I’m grateful to @oliviamesser.bsky.social, @carakelly.bsky.social and @thebarbedwire.com for giving it a home: thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/22/c...

“It still haunts me ... But I made the decision to push ketamine to give him a peaceful death. And he’s a 9-year-old boy. In what world is that natural? What world is it natural to just let kids die and be shot at the food aid distribution site, trying to get food?”