Now unlocked: we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

have thought of Virginia Giuffre frequently since she died last year, but truly daily for the last month, and her name should be spoken much, much more than it has been

unhoused people, social workers, and advocates all say the same thing: encampment closures are incredibly destabilizing. why are “progressive” leaders set on this policy? perhaps violence and classicism were always the intended result of a system that responds to poverty with guns and bulldozers.

saying in 2022 that researchers were discouraged from studying detransitioners is a ridiculous claim

a lot of Gaza news in the last 24 hours, including this exclusive from this morning

“Publics are made and maintained, not discovered preformed, like rock formations. It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled.” ily Becca Rothfeld

I catch copy errors literally every day in major news outlets — today in CNN, probably multiple times a week in New York Times, on and on. media companies, you already aren’t paying for enough copy editors, and whatever you’re leaving to AI is not catching this stuff! pls get it together!

A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These crisis PR strategies: building a pseudo-feminist narrative around an alleged predator, relying on access journalists, and turning to partisan influencer "news" sources over actual journalists when that fails, are consistent across each of these cases. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...

so much to be said here. for one thing, hard to imagine a woman influencer pushing astroturfed Epstein defenses on TikTok and Youtube vilifying his accusers, a la Depp and Baldoni, but I guess we might've seen that had he not died............ we live in hell part a thousand

September 24, 2024: Mark Zuckerberg Is Done With Politics February 18, 2026: Meta makes biggest-ever electoral investment in pro-AI state politicians

My thoughts on how critical fully funded public libraries are to any Left political project in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

This would be less scary if science journalists hadn't completely abandoned science in favor of right wing propaganda on youth trans care already.

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop futurism.com/artificial-i...

🧵 THREAD: 🚨The Prairieland Case is a five-alarm fire for the right to protest in America🚨 If you care about your neighbors being terrorized by ICE — and about your own freedom to dissent — you need to understand what's happening in Texas right now. /1

Drafting a poll. Hilary Cass has been spouting a lot of stuff that should get push-back in the media, but doesn't, like policing haircuts and nicknames to prevent trans cooties. Yet bc of the Cass report ppl treat her as an authority. Who wants to see Cass interviewed by @ichotiner.bsky.social ?

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison. Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

Happy for this one to be out today! this piece is particularly important to the folks profiled here, an amazing prison LGBTQ+ affirming organization called Be the Change, and I'd love to be able to share any reactions with those folks <3 truthout.org/articles/thi...

rachel aviv writing about gisèle pelicot oh i dreamed of days like this

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists." theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

okay sure, 30 years of Infinite Jest. just a little confused because the misogyny charges I'm aware of stem from DFW being an abuser, not from the book necessarily............... like am I missing something (piece below from 2018)

philadelphia residents won a similar lawsuit back in 2020. it ended with a $9mil settlement & followed a city-council prohibition on the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and other "less lethal" munitions.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

flying as a trans person, within the US or returning to it, has become so needlessly stressful and i don't feel like cis people Get It at all

Judges have mostly rejected the government’s attempt to detain anyone who is black or brown. As of early January (the last time anyone had time to count) 300 judges in 1000s of decisions rejected the government’s arguments. Less than a dozen permit it. 9/ www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

solidarity w my new CWA siblings! 👠getting fired for union activity is despicable and sadly super common; the brothel owners claiming rights to any IP of any worker is truly disgusting!

For Everything is Political, I reported on young people working multiple jobs. It's about more than side hustles—factors like worker exploitation & lack of opportunities to break in have impacted multiple generations. Now, some young adults say working only one job has never felt viable.

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

Wow who could have ever foreseen a white woman using tears to manipulate power! I, for one, am stunned. (Yes it’s good character detail.)

BREAKING: An ICE flight just refueled in Ireland again. A local activist pressed police to investigate for human trafficking; the plane took off 30 minutes ago. Plus, that MAGA billionaire's jet did another ICE flight, this time to Sierra Leone. #speirghorm gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-flight-r...

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

if ICE is taking your photograph, seems like one of the best things you can do in the moment is tuck your chin and look down. maybe that's intuitive but the tech does seem to be really weak at that angle, fwiw.

Our collaboration with the @transjournalists.org has been using public records and FOIA to see how the current administration has impacted the trans community. www.muckrock.com/project/the-...

I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change

We're raising money for @copalmn.bsky.social with this kick-ass bandana and it's already pretty popular! Rep The Flytrap for a good cause.

José hasn’t left his house for 29 days – not to shovel the snow at his driveway, not to fix up the car. When the car needed an oil change, he video-called his wife, Sara, from inside so he could walk her through it. He’s afraid to even get near the front door. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

oh!

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

I’m not sure how it’s possible not to speak a word of Spanish in America in 2026 but it sounds like a lot of you have work to do ✨

My latest piece for @theguardian.com covers Jeffrey Epstein's newly revealed ties to the crypto sector, including his early-stage investments in Coinbase and the Bitcoin ecosystem: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

not only is this true, I also wish I couldn't understand what this says

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

I spoke with workers about their experiences with ICE in Maine as Senator Collins claimed to have halted the operation as she faces re-election this year www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...