Harrowing & Brutalizing. A young student exercised her First Amendment rights and has been detained over a year for it. While in detention, conditions are disgusting & inhumane. Kordia has never been charged w/ a crime but denied due process, lawyer & family visits. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

The courts have been a generally positive check on abusive practices by the federal government, refusing to sanction unconstitutional attacks on the First Amendment. This is good news: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Harrowing & Brutalizing. A young student exercised her First Amendment rights and has been detained over a year for it. While in detention, conditions are disgusting & inhumane. Kordia has never been charged w/ a crime but denied due process, lawyer & family visits. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

If you need a primer on the protests in Bangladesh and why this is such an important election for future progressive movements: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/w...

Erasure is the point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

If you need a primer on the protests in Bangladesh and why this is such an important election for future progressive movements: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/w...

Significant election for Bangladesh -- mixed with the constant never-ending 21st century plague of disinformation that discourages, divides & disenfranchises voters: france24.com/en/live-news...

The clearest sign that a democracy has died is that a leader and his party make it impossible for their opponents to win an election & hold power. Once that stage is reached, however, the change is extremely difficult to reverse. We are hurdling towards autocracy. Your speech matters more than ever.

Erasure is the name of the game. Erasing Indigenous history, Black existence, Latino bodies, domestic extremist studies. The goal is narrative singularity. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...

We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Trump has been operating from this playbook since Day One back in office. I wrote an entire report about his attacks on protesters, press, law firms, judges, students, universities, public servants, prosecutors -- anyone who doesn't fall in line. www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

Trump has been operating from this playbook since Day One back in office. I wrote an entire report about his attacks on protesters, press, law firms, judges, students, universities, public servants, prosecutors -- anyone who doesn't fall in line. www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

Disturbing. Sounds like every autocracy right now: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/w...

The clearest sign that a democracy has died is that a leader and his party make it impossible for their opponents to win an election & hold power. Once that stage is reached, however, the change is extremely difficult to reverse. We are hurdling towards autocracy. Your speech matters more than ever.

A wild unfolding of injustice, cowardice, and capitulation: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Press freedom, commitments to the rule of law, and overall democratic health is backsliding around the world. With the government killing civilian streamers and deporting freelance journalists in the US alone, it feels like it's just a grab bag of bad all over: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...

I was looking back on my old research on platform behavior. The biggest social media co's have implemented NONE of the expert recs that I & others have urgently pushed. In fact, platform accountability is largely a thing of the past, as tech bros align w/ Trump. www.freepress.net/big-tech-bac...

I was looking back on my old research on platform behavior. The biggest social media co's have implemented NONE of the expert recs that I & others have urgently pushed. In fact, platform accountability is largely a thing of the past, as tech bros align w/ Trump. www.freepress.net/big-tech-bac...

Just a reminder: TikTok & Snap have settled a new lawsuit alleging their platforms/products harm kids' well-being. This means there are troves of discovery that we, the public, will not get access to. Evidence of how harmful platforms are. Dozens of more lawsuits are coming. Stay tuned.

The bombastic rhetorical style and overt political greed is strategy. It moves the window of acceptability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Only sustained collective resistance will get us out of this doomloop: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: Europol & Paris cybercrime unit raid Musk X office in France. "Investigations range from sexually explicit deepfakes, aiding the distribution of child sexual abuse material to the dissemination of Holocaust-denial content." #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU www.politico.eu/article/poli...

The bombastic rhetorical style and overt political greed is strategy. It moves the window of acceptability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

She should be called to Congress to testify about the administration's rising lawlessness, its brutality against press & protesters across the country, and the blatant misconduct exhibited -- from agents on the ground to prosecutors doing Trump's censorial bidding.

I'm glad more awareness is growing on why we need laws that allow people to sue federal agents of the gov't for constitutional violations. But this reads like no one ever thought of it. We've been talking abt & fighting for robust civil rights protections for decades. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

California’s EV boom led to cleaner air in its neighborhoods, with satellite data linking this growth to lower NO₂ pollution. insideevs.com/news/785951/...

My last NYT piece encapsulates this era of retaliation and brutality: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

Liam and his father are back home in Minneapolis. And the images of @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social made me cry. That's how our electeds should act. Standing shoulder to shoulder with constituents, fighting to ensure human dignity and safety. #justice

“Constitutional rights and democratic norms don’t disappear all at once; they erode slowly. The next three years of this presidency will require Americans to vigilantly defend free speech and open debate.” - @attorneynora.bsky.social + @nytimes.com Read: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.

Trump tried to mount a deportation efforts --> largely met with judicial smackdowns on his unconstitutional campaign. The rule of law has stayed strong. The BIG question is what Trump does next. Will he double down & go after judges more aggressively? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

"Como expli­caba recien­te­mente Nora Bena­vi­dez, abo­gada de Free Press, la Admi­nis­tra­ción silen­cia a sus crí­ti­cos en nom­bre de la pro­tec­ción de la liber­tad de expre­sión. Y ahí está la clave." Gracias @elpais.com por incluir mis pensamientos: elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.

Can we agree this is bad?

Gracias por incluyendo mis pensamientos sobre la censura y Trump:

"Como expli­caba recien­te­mente Nora Bena­vi­dez, abo­gada de Free Press, la Admi­nis­tra­ción silen­cia a sus crí­ti­cos en nom­bre de la pro­tec­ción de la liber­tad de expre­sión. Y ahí está la clave." Gracias @elpais.com por incluir mis pensamientos: elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

My last NYT piece encapsulates this era of retaliation and brutality: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

“While journalists and civilians continue to heroically document conditions on the ground in the face of escalating violence from federal agents, the Trump administration is using every weapon at its disposal to shut down efforts to document, report and dissent.” -- @ruddock.bsky.social

“Built into any system of domination is the tendency to proclaim its own normalcy. To acknowledge resistance as a mass phenomenon is to acknowledge the possibility that something is wrong with the system.” Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Free Press' @attorneynora.bsky.social documents Donald Trump’s war on free speech and the need for systemic resistance in her 2025 report CHOKEHOLD. A must-read for all: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

We all have the right to protest. To engage in nonviolent civil disobedience. For some ( like students or employees), you have face standard absence consequences. But attending a walkout should not expose one to greater penalty than a normal absence from class or work.

Love a walkout. Make your voices heard. This moment needs it.

Students who participate in protest shouldn’t be threatened that their moral & expressive conduct opposing the ICE murder of Alex Pretti & others is going to haunt their careers. But that’s exactly what some Atlanta schools pushed ahead of Friday’s national walkouts: www.axios.com/local/atlant...

Students who participate in protest shouldn’t be threatened that their moral & expressive conduct opposing the ICE murder of Alex Pretti & others is going to haunt their careers. But that’s exactly what some Atlanta schools pushed ahead of Friday’s national walkouts: www.axios.com/local/atlant...

Loving these judges just slashing thru and calling unconsitutional shit what it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

REAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Our bodies keep the score on everything. If you feel secondhand trauma reading this story, imagine Liam. Or any other person kidnapped off the street. This is not an immigration conversation. It’s a campaign to gut due process & they’re just starting with immigrants.

Remember when we said there would be lies ahead of the midterms? Today the FBI raided an election office in Georgia to get their 2020 election ballots. And the Georgia House introduced a bill to allow the state election board unbridled authority to rewrite voting regulation this year.

Remember when we said there would be lies ahead of the midterms? Today the FBI raided an election office in Georgia to get their 2020 election ballots. And the Georgia House introduced a bill to allow the state election board unbridled authority to rewrite voting regulation this year.

At this moment, the incessant & chaotic attacks on freedom can make collective action feel daunting, even impossible. While collective & sustained action is never fail-proof, it has disrupted the admin's violent takeover. A thread on how coordinated, systemic resistance blunts Trump's tyranny: 1/