but the protesters are the violent ones… right, right

BREAKING: I am suing Northwestern University, a member of congress, two cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the United States. I explain why in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/when-we-figh...

April 2024, a Pomona College student after her school had her arrested for protesting for Gaza and BDS: “We stand unwavering in our demands, and we know that the things that have historically toppled apartheid states is pressure from institutions.” www.teenvogue.com/story/studen...

April 2024, a Pomona College student after her school had her arrested for protesting for Gaza and BDS: “We stand unwavering in our demands, and we know that the things that have historically toppled apartheid states is pressure from institutions.” www.teenvogue.com/story/studen...

Keeping a stash of KN95s (adult- and kid-sized) is incredibly useful at the end of the world. Pros: you can be outside and not feel like death. Cons: you will be heckled for wearing a mask so you don’t feel like you’re going to die. This happened to me on a bad AQI day last summer.

1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES

AQI in Minneapolis is now 530. It’s over 80 degrees at 11pm. For neighbors without air conditioning, and our neighbors experiencing unsheltered homelessness, these are incredibly dangerous conditions. I’ll be out tomorrow with masks and cold water, checking on neighbors. Please do the same.

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

been trying to avoid this as long as possible, but I'm definitely in need of emergency mutual aid since, like every other journalist in this godforsaken economy I'm unemployed and it's tremendously bad rn. Any help appreciated. I hate this, thanks. cashapp is $ShadyDame PayPal is sorayamcdonald

If you live in Philly and you have menswear to donate, please consider donating to the Warehouse: careerwardrobe.org - they are particularly in need of menswear at this time.

ICE has killed 3 men—either with gunfire or by chasing them into traffic—in 7 days

Where are all the people that signed the Harper letter? Where is FIRE foundation?

Decades of dehumanizing copaganda have primed people to see a Black man allegedly fleeing law enforcement as deserving of death, as expendable. ICE has the same script writers now trying the same tactics. The only way to challenge their narrative is to challenge all of it, every time:

With Joan Sebastian Guerrero, ICE has shot and killed six people (out of 22, including Renee Good) in vehicles in the last year. They've adopted the driver "weaponized" their car as an extension of the "I feared for my life" justification police have used to rationalize killing Black & Brown folks.

This was about the Prairieland case. The story hadn’t come out yet

I do think a big part of the “working class man” narrative IS that the working class doesn’t actually look like blue collar white men. It looks like immigrant nurse aids in nursing homes and bookkeepers like my grandma and every other area dominated by women, often women of color.

From @melissagiragrant.com: "Since Trump returned to office, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the tenth person federal immigration agents have shot and killed." trib.al/sOr88ID

Any editors accepting books/culture-related pitches? Reporting; focused more on part of book/reading culture and nostalgia than a specific title or author. It is timely as in seasonal for summer, and would love to pitch it because I keep thinking about it!

Noémi's husband Jesús was arrested at work, and then deported to Mexico. Now he's living in Kini... and he still calls his wife and each of their four kids every morning to wake them up. “I wish somebody could tell me: ‘OK, he’s going to be there two years, or three years,’” she said.

Mario was arrested at work and spent weeks detained. Six nights sleeping on the floor of a holding cell - the “ice box”. Two months at the Adelanto detention center. He was released on bond, and is awaiting a decision on his immigration case. His time detention still loops in his mind.

What happens after ICE raids a city? Last year in LA, partners and primary breadwinners, grandparents and children, carwasheros and coffee shop regulars were arrested, detained and deported – disappearing from their neighborhoods... This is what came next.

Last summer, Angelenos began to vanish. Families are still living under the shadows of ICE raids, sorting through the emotional and administrative aftermath. These are their stories.

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

Prairieland AMA starts at 2 pm ET!

Leqaa Kordia was incarcerated in the Prairieland ICE detention facility in North Texas. she was in the facility when the Prairieland protesters now charged with 500+ years in federal prison set off fireworks outside for detainees to know they were there in solidarity.

hey folks! tomorrow at 2 pm ET, I'll be doing an AMA on r/politics about the Prairieland case in North Texas, the questions it raises for the First Amendment, and how it targeted trans folks. my colleague Sam Levine, who attended the trial, is participating too. bring your questions!

Join @lexmcmenamin.com and @samrlevine.bsky.social for an AMA today at 2pm ET on Reddit's r/politics about the Prairieland case, where Texas anti-ICE protesters were sentenced to 450 years in prison.

lol this one actually made me nauseous

the most important thing about a woman sharing the worst thing that ever happened to her with the world is that you use it to dunk on all the other women who criticized you

oldest story in the book and yet "the left" getting its ass beat over its refusal to acknowledge it

hey folks! tomorrow at 2 pm ET, I'll be doing an AMA on r/politics about the Prairieland case in North Texas, the questions it raises for the First Amendment, and how it targeted trans folks. my colleague Sam Levine, who attended the trial, is participating too. bring your questions!

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

for example, I did not have the spidey sense that there would be more Platner allegations 48 hours after posting this, but I didn't need to in order to anticipate it

HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com

'Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.' www.wired.com/story/how-pa...

no matter which way the cultural pendulum swings I am always in the right when it comes to her

violence against women (and any gender nonconformity) is so baked into American culture that the whole political sphere is able to pretend that, for all intents and purposes, it doesn’t exist — from Epstein, to the WH, Supreme Court and probably a majority of Congress, to community organizing

🚨 PHILLY STRIKE ALERT 🚨 As of 12:01pm, 1600 IBEW Local 614 PECO workers are on strike—the first in the utility company’s 145-year history. “PECO's lack of seriousness over six months of bargaining has forced us to this point. We are officially on strike. We strike strong, and we strike to win.”

millions of fireworks will go off in the next 48 hours. the protest at the center of the Prairieland case last July 4th — a year ago tomorrow — was a noise demo setting off fireworks for the detainees inside the ICE facility. did you know the federal government categorized fireworks as explosives?

The FTC has filed a motion for a temporary restraining order in Texas seeking to bar WPATH from seeking relief in any other courts. This follows WPATH's motion for a TRO in their separate case against the FTC in DC. This seems to be a new tactic by the govt to lock defendants into O' Connor's court

i saw more cis people online losing their shit over playstation ending physical game releases than any part of this since tuesday, but madiba doesn’t miss and gives a fuck and this is what the big picture looks like. which seems not great when you put it into a 234-word graf.

it’s true! bullying 15 year old girls and calling it good politics is utterly mainstream!

this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years

looking for Indigenous journalists and photographers based in southern california for a project. drop your favorite Indigenous writer's name or handle below!

Going live with @lexmcmenamin.com this afternoon! www.youtube.com/live/4KW1una...

I'm so thankful to Becky and her mom for their trust, generosity, and strength in front of the Supreme Court. No matter what the Court says, Becky is a hero for standing up for herself and trans girls like her. Doing what's right, even when the odds are against you, is the definition of courage.

We are swiftly headed for a society in which a trans kid must undergo state mandated torture, are banned from being on line, are banned from hanging out in most public spaces, are banned from using bathrooms at school, banned from accessing the health care they need, and banned from playing sports.

in Jan, I was at the rally for the trans sports case at the Supreme Court. today SCOTUS ruled states can ban trans girls from sports. @us.theguardian.com "This hyper-focus on sports is yet another example of the ways that they are trying to erase trans and non-binary people from public life.”

Seven months ago, publications everywhere were extremely hesitant to name federal agents despite their violent behavior in public. With little budget or legal support, we took a risk when others wouldn't—because it was the right thing to do, and because the public needed to know:

Delighted to say my latest, for CN Traveler (?!) is live, about a historic trans resort here in the Catskills: www.cntraveler.com/story/the-ca...