Have a round of drinks on New York Focus! Join us for a night of raffles and mingling for our 5th birthday party on Oct. 14 at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn. Tickets are $5 in advance. www.eventbrite.com/e/its-our-bi...

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Retirement in America today means gambling on disaster as more and more Americans are being forced to wipe out what little savings they have. I spoke with Altadena fire victims who now think they'll never have the chance to stop working. inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

I wrote about the political marriage between crony capitalism and fringe health conspiracism in the Trump administration, and its many many contradictions. theintercept.com/2025/10/02/r...

Bad news feels inescapable. There’s a lot of it, it goes viral, and things are getting worse. But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention. We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in. www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

I wrote about why "talk to your doctor" is one of the most awful things politicians and other can say at a time when so many Americans can't even afford healthcare. open.substack.com/pub/selectal...

where is the media on this story about the FDA's fake autism drug approval?? selectall.substack.com/p/new-fda-ap...

I wrote about how the new autism treatment approval by the FDA amounts to a real-time experiment on US children selectall.substack.com/p/new-fda-ap...

Throwing this out there: @accountabilityji.bsky.social Help us grow our operation so we can keep producing hard-hitting reporting on the worst right-wing actors in America. www.importantcontext.news/p/rewriting-...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Mastering the Universe by @ironicprofessor.bsky.social www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2215-m...

My latest: Why abolition is good open.substack.com/pub/selectal...

Trump is posthumously awarding Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Vance flew his casket on Air Force 2. A memorial is happening at The Kennedy Center. State Dept and Pentagon are taking steps to prevent criticism of Kirk. This is NOT normal treatment for an extremist. It’s a message.

Seventeen years after Louise was raped, Boston police told her they had a DNA match for her alleged rapist. But under Massachusetts state law, the case would be almost impossible to prosecute. With @wbur.org

Images show hundreds of Palestinian men, seemingly grabbed at random, being marched through the streets of Tulkarem.

How post-9/11 policy and immigration enforcement reshaped meatpacking - and the West. This @highcountrynews.org & @thefern.org investigation digs into how meatpacking's increasing reliance on refugee labor created an escalating crisis for the industry - and the small towns where plants are based.

This is the festering heart of the American political right. Fascists don’t recognize the inherent value of human life. This cruel, villainous ideology needs to be utterly defeated.

The reason affluent media people are such suckers for “civility” is that the actual content of most politics has no real stakes for them personally. If you want to find these people’s true political feelings, mess with their money.

“The main thing is that [Vienna] just kept the policy commitment: housing is a human right, we’re going to keep building it.” @aldasky.bsky.social @cplusc.bsky.social

To hold off fascism, we need to do more than resist. We need to learn from history, and build a *charismatic* state, with civil servants working hand-in-hand with working class communities to make lives better. @ear2thepavement.bsky.social nails it! www.currentaffairs.org/news/make-bu...

Political violence is bad unless you're committing it against your most vulnerable constituents for a photo op, I guess.

To defeat Trumpism, the administrative state must once again become a powerful force for good in ordinary Americans’ lives. My latest for @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/make-bu...

Across New York State, police officers have driven drunk. And sometimes, they avoided criminal punishment. An investigation with @nytimes.com.

“America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident.” Half a century of inequality has produced an oligarchy—Trump is the product, not the cause. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on how the slogan “Organize or Die” has become uncomfortably relevant.

This man needs to be removed from his position. He is a danger to public health and a fraud.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich released a map proposing to annex over 80% of the West Bank. He’s not far off from the rest of the Israeli political establishment — even the “pragmatic” opposition.

A 26-year-old employee at was killed when a valve blew off a pump last year. Another worker had sued the company two years earlier after being injured on the job. Our friends at @insideclimatenews.org reveal how a controversial oil field disrupted small town life near the Louisiana border ...

“I, like many others, thought that working for Microsoft was the opportunity of a lifetime. I worked three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was actively being used to facilitate the murder of my people.” - No Azure for Apartheid member

During the Great Depression, these 7 Black wet nurses staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination. This is what a labor movement looks like. #LaborDay @hammerandhope.bsky.social

🚨The Seventh Issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues. The damage here is connected to damage elsewhere. But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

The millionaire CEO who stole a hat from a child at the US Open is, ultimately, indicative of the whole ruling class. This is what we’re up against, a small number of people and a system that will gladly and unapologetically steal from children and from all of us. www.jphilll.com/p/who-steals...

In our magazine: Brenda Bazán is a Mexican-American independent photographer from San Antonio who was on assignment for @texastribune.org from July 5-11 in Kerr County covering the Hill Country flood. Her photos are presented in partnership with the Tribune. www.texasobserver.org/where-the-wa...

“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. (Published June)

Vienna has the lowest rent of any major city in Western Europe, it is roughly 3 times cheaper than London, and its income distribution is far more equitable than NYC’s, largely thanks to a thriving, popular state-led social housing model that provides high-quality affordable developments to people.

“I am asking everyone: use your voice, share the truth,” Mohamed Abu Tawila tells us from Gaza. “Call for the protection of civilians, and support… families getting food, water, medicine, shelter. We want life, safety, and a chance to live. Don’t forget us.”

*America’s pro-work culture is destroying our health and well-being. Bernie Sanders has the right idea in calling for a 4-day workweek* From @lilysanca.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/05...

This Labor Day, we deserve the right to work less. The purpose of our lives is not to toil for GDP or so that the rich can get even richer. We deserve less work so that we can have more time to spend as we wish. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/05...

New Olurinatti production out now! youtu.be/FnACzwV7Mwc?...

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem waived the Endangered Species Act and several other statutes to permit the plan.

Since April, tens of thousands of New Yorkers have been forced to pay for health insurance that doesn’t cover basic medical care. At a hearing before state lawmakers last week, the health insurance company signaled that change may be on the way. nysfocus.com/2025/08/27/h...

The disaster that struck the Gulf Coast 20 years ago was not an aberration but a product of U.S. history. #HurricaneKatrina #climatecrisis #blacklivesmatter

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

In this News Brief, we detail recent "updates" pro-Israel crybullies have pressured media outlets to make (some more willing than others) that give readers the distinct impression emaciated children in Gaza aren't really an urgent humanitarian crisis if they have rickets, cancer, or cerebral palsy.

“My aunt died beneath the debris, alongside many others who carried nothing but their faith and a small hope for survival.”

this is good: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...

I used to find "DEI" to be a weak corporate counterpoint to "racial justice" but now I unironically want every business in America doing DEI as loudly as possible because the relevant counterpoint today is "overt racism." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...

Saguaros are struggling to cope with extreme weather, monitoring studies reveal.

Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.

In an entirely predictable but grotesque move, the US Department of Justice has been demanding medical records for trans patients and the identities of doctors providing gender-affirming care. Doctors must not just refuse; we must build underground care systems. www.thenation.com/article/soci...