“A Cape Verdean mother from Rhode Island has spent nearly two weeks in detention at Boston's Logan airport. The federal government now plans to move her to a facility in Maine, as a court deadline expires for officials to explain why she remains in custody.”

Read @lmcgaughy.bsky.social's thread 👇 And in case you missed the original investigation, start here:

Today in @thenation.com: a powerful investigation from incarcerated journalist Aaron Edward Olson into the way that Washington State discriminates against immigrants in prison. Proud to have worked on this one with @typeinvestigations.org. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Congratulations, @brian-goldstone.bsky.social! Listen to our episode of The Intercept Briefing with Goldstone on working and homelessness in today’s America: interc.pt/47UfVth

“Our city has gone from a thriving city to a standstill,” said one local official.

“Hospitals have become targets for the Israeli occupation and the Israeli army. Many hospitals have been destroyed… Doctors, nurses, and medical teams have been kidnapped from hospital premises.”

“We’ve been fighting for a very long time, and we’re at the point now where we’re done—and workers will go on strike by Thursday if this company does not come back with some new proposals and resolve all of these ridiculous Unfair Labor Practice charges.” @sbworkersunited.org

In American higher education, immigrant & refugee mothers face layered barriers that often prove insurmountable, Tasmiha Khan reports. Women asylum-seekers & visa holders come to the U.S. with degrees, credentials, & extensive work experience, only to find these achievements rendered useless.

There's one example of a successful hostile takeover of a major party - Donald Trump - and it didn't happen by playing nice with the party bigwigs. Trump went to war with them, humiliated them. And now "Little Marco" works for him.

In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes from: (Published Dec. 2024)

The government shutdown has deprived Americans of food stamps, LIHEAP and 25 Head Start programs. A lot of people rely on many of these programs at once. This is the suffering they've endured: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

"I have never seen an American president so desperate to force children and seniors to go hungry," Sen. Patty Murray said of Trump fighting a judge's order to fully fund SNAP.

In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social & @city.bsky.social are joined by Lara Sheehi & @reproutopia.bsky.social of @wawog.bsky.social to discuss withholding cultural production and why they organized a boycott to refuse to write for New York Times Opinion on.soundcloud.com/DgEAPtszHsiR...

Mamdani’s win is a warning for media: Better get some leftist contributors or you simply won’t be able to cover/understand what is happening around America.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

All the New York Has Fallen posts today are gonna be so funny

“We were out there 45 days under the snow, under the rain… we [said], ‘We are going on hunger strike, because we want our life back. Zohran Mamdani was with us.’”

As the Trump administration continued its illegal freeze on food assistance, the US Department of Agriculture sent a warning to grocery stores not to provide discounts to the more than 42 million Americans affected.

The Great Gatsby isn't just an indictment of the rich. It's a reminder of the people who are complicit in their actions selectall.substack.com/p/fitzgerald...

Qiyam Ansari has asthma — an attack nearly killed him — and even his cat suffers from it. Their region is notorious for its air pollution. Trump has halted rules that would have forced companies to more accurately measure and reduce emissions in such areas. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4hDtkcb

pleased as ever to have work from Luke O'Neil in the magazine. these three new stories are some of my all-time favorites, but having read We Had it Coming, i highly recommend the whole thing. "I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me."

DAILY MEMO: Federal Immigration Agents Heavily Target Mid-City L.A. For 2nd Day In A Row

This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration for profit—a long-dead symptom of the heedless cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing so grotesque could still take place in our enlightened era. proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

Tomorrow is November, time to write a novel: prowritingaid.com/novel-november

happy Halloween—enjoy this next entry in Protean’s tradition: we have Kim Kelly once again exploring more fascinating and macabre historical narratives, and making the case that we still show just as much ghoulish disrespect to human values and our fellows to this day.

My favorite Halloween tradition is writing a spooky history essay for @proteanmag.com, and 2025’s is a good one. This time, we’re heading back to the graveyard. Bring a shovel. proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

Approximately 460 patients and their companions were killed in a horrific massacre at a hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan, on Tuesday, the UN reports, amid a takeover of the North Darfur capital by Rapid Support Forces this week.

@thesicktimes.org has some great costume ideas and I’m DYING

When a police officer faces a complaint, Minneapolis frequently resolves this by forwarding it to a supervisor who simply speaks with the officer about the complaint, rather than triggering a formal investigation. Local critics are pushing back.

I could not agree more with this article by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social: the partisan Roberts Court is abusing the law to hand the Trump administration political wins at the expense of the American people. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

By popular demand, I have read some more fine Tuttle Twins books and written a very slightly critical review for Current Affairs. They are very poor

The Walton family surely does

New: Last month, a federal court dismissed COVID vaccine opponent Alex Berenson’s censorship lawsuit. We have a detailed story. www.importantcontext.news/p/federal-co...

I wrote about why the solution to time scarcity is not "time management" but about organizing against time thieves. open.substack.com/pub/selectal...

People who want their opinions to count as facts use "lived experience" as a way to tie their beliefs to their identity so they can dismiss criticism of their beliefs as attacks on their identity. Happens all across the political spectrum.

this is one reason why anything less than HOUSING for homeless people is a bad idea. other efforts like places to park for people living out of their cars are not solutions and normalize sweeping homeless ppl out of sight: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/03...

NEW: The prison agency told a judge that most of its facilities are operating smoothly. Incarcerated people say otherwise: Many told New York Focus that lock-ins are the new normal. nysfocus.com/2025/10/30/n...

wonder if pieces like this have something to do with it: (the latter doesn't even mention the word "cancer" in it)

Friendly reminder: "lived experience" is not a political philosophy or a substitute for one. selectall.substack.com/p/lived-expe...

The problem with "lived experience": open.substack.com/pub/selectal...

More than 300 Palestinian children remain in Israeli prisons, according to Defense for Children International–Palestine. Nearly half are being held without charges. interc.pt/3Lvwd2t

« Having fulfilled her duty to the utmost degree, Assata has joined the pantheon of Black revolutionary warrior women and men. [...] We who remain must now make her proud. » proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a... #assatashakur

At the “No Kings” protests on Saturday, TRNN was on the ground looking for the “paid protestors,” “agitators,” “Hamas supporters,” and “antifa terrorists” Republicans claimed would be filling the streets in what they called a “Hate America” rally. Here’s what we actually saw…

In our latest, we speak with @lalouverouge.bsky.social about what it means to build solidarity with young people at a time when the right demands we "protect" children by denying their trans identities, censoring their educations, banning books, and more www.patreon.com/posts/141679...