In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

NEW on the podcast: REI workers are calling for a national consumer boycott of the popular outdoor sports co-op during it’s annual anniversary sale from May 15-25. I sat down with Ashley, a worker in Greensboro, NC to talk about what’s been happening at the table, boycotts as a tactic, and more.

So this is just clear evidence of an ethnic purge huh

I am loving reading @weareravenous.com, which has hit the ground running really beautifully!!!

NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators

Ravenous is also proudly a home for dumb blogs. Here's me on the greatest food innovation of my lifetime: the cup that lets you drink soda and eat chicken tenders with one hand. www.weareravenous.com/sip-and-snac...

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beat

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Kevin Gonzalez has died just hours after reuniting with his parents, NBC Chicago/Telemundo Chicago reports: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Sama'a and her family need food, and donations have slowed to a trickle. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...

MLB made a rare choice to clear a player in its domestic violence probe, defending the decision by touting its “comprehensive" investigation. But we spoke to three (3) alleged witnesses—two ex-girlfriends—the league allegedly knew about but didn't interview. issa new [eyeblack]

“We moved 4.5 million people off SNAP” is a crazy way to say you took food away from 4.5 million people, mostly needy families. And also crazy to think this works for them politically!

I got inside the "Great Israel Real Estate Event" at Park East Synagogue on Tuesday evening. Everyone's talking about what happened outside. Here's what I saw inside: ads for illegal settlements and defiant scorn for international law via @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/05/z...

I'm currently homeless, staying at hotels and motels. I'm looking for work but it's difficult without an address. I drive Door Dash but my disability makes it something I can't do every day. Please donate to my gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/help-abby-... #minnesota #stpaul #mutualaid #homeless

Watch or read my talk with @aprilist.bsky.social and some lovely fans a couple weeks back here if you like "We're kind of loud, and we swear a lot and we drink too much maybe. I think that sort of resonates with people. And if you don't like it, you think you’re fucking better than me? Fuck you."

Aurora and Cephalus, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1810, 📸 by Jesse D. Garrabrant

A tragic loss. A brilliant new Puerto Rican voice gone too soon. Read VELORIO, please. It's, alongside @gabino.bsky.social's HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN, one of the best novels about the impact of Hurricane Maria on the island.

ICYMI, @weareravenous.com launched this week, and I went long on chef Telly Justice working with restaurants around the country to offer pay-what-you-can dining, showing how it's possible to be a for-profit restaurant and give away food for free. www.weareravenous.com/pay-what-you...

Thanks y'all so much for the support so far. Currently at 860/2000!!!!!!! 🙏🏾🍀🤞🏾 cash.app/$sotreu2 venmo.com/sotreu paypal.me/rikiam #MutualAid #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest

🌲 “The National Park Service” by Alison Loeb & Sam Guncler transforms public record into sound. As America marks 250 years, this 2025 @WNYC Public Song Project entry is a timely reflection on the public ideals behind National Parks. Contest open! Deadline THIS SUNDAY, May 10! Submit: wnyc.org/psp

“The Israeli navy crossing hundreds of miles at sea just to ensure civilian boats carrying food, baby formula & medical supplies don’t make it to Palestinians reveals the lengths Israel is prepared to go to in order to maintain its cruel & unlawful 19-year-long blockade of the occupied Gaza Strip."

You might be impacted by expanded SNAP work requirements. See if you meet the criteria: nysfocus.com/2026/04/27/s...

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

After staying static at several intersections for several hours, the protesters are moving now. NYPD just used pepper spray on them at 66th and 3rd.

Now that Atlanta's Cop City is built, it's rare to see in-depth reporting on the impact it's actually having. Nice work by @adamlmahoney.bsky.social + Madeline Thigpen capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-...

If you vote in NYC, you've probably wondered: "Who are these people running to be judges? Why doesn't it feel like I have much choice about voting for them? How were they selected? Why do many judges seem to be... bad?" May I present to you @hellgatenyc.com's latest big project: Courts of Contempt.

Seeing a lot of people repost this — understandably, her work deserves to be recognized — but this is a salient detail The Pulitzers may be theoretically righting a previous wrong here, but it comes off somewhat disingenuous without acknowledging the history www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

NEW—Video shared w me by a witness shows another angle of NYPD officer throwing a protester to the ground during an anti-ICE protest outside Wyckoff Medical Center in the early hours of Sunday morning + has helped identify the officer. His name is Hubert Mohamed, The Handbasket is first to report:

It's the Star Wars day. Here's a free RPG about the employees of a failed hotel spaceship. erinking.itch.io/four-hour-ho...

Kolek pointing at the Sixer bench after a three made me feel like I'm tripping shrooms

My colleague Aaron Parsley just won a Pulitzer for this story, written days after he survived the July 4 floods that killed his nephew. It's one of the most gutwrenching and memorable things you'll ever read. Please do.

John Sterling died this morning. Reupping this from his retirement: defector.com/john-sterlin...

So we’re a few days from the end of our subscription drive at @weareravenous.com, and I’m so amazed by the response we’ve gotten. But we’re still a bit far from hitting our goal, so I wanted to talk a bit about why that’s the goal and what we want to do with it 1/

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

This is the reach for such post, a systematic way to hide our stories. This is one of a million story that happen everyday.

I really love how this little game written by Michael Raston--inexplicably written on a piece of cardboard btw--has attributes that are faults. They are 22 minus your 3d6 roll. "I want to try to bribe a guard." "OK test your repulsiveness." mraston.itch.io/adventure-ga...

What an awesome reminder that we have a very cool bundle going right now! You can subscribe to us, our sister site @rascal.news (where this awesome Inscryption story came from), @aftermath.site, and @neverpo.st for just $12. Pretty rad way to start the weekend, IMO www.rogue.site/news/introdu...

“The name of [an ICE] officer accused of strangling a man in Fitchburg during an immigration arrest has been revealed in court, despite the federal government’s attempts to keep his identity a secret. The officer’s name is David Jackson, an acting supervisory detention and deportation officer.”

Sama'a and her family need our help to access food and clean drinking water. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/157569

Israel just abducted 179 people trying, once again, to breach its blockade of Gaza. Columbia students, two years later, are still demonstrating. Encampments and protests are still happening. Say what you will, the movement is still alive – even in the face of higher repression.

i love this Wikipedia illustration of the evolution of chicken tikka masala en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken...

Hundreds of men are still on hunger strike at North Lake ICE prison in MI. A lawyer in touch with them said: “they haven’t lost perspective that there’s value in doing something even if it’s just to keep the hope alive.” truthout.org/articles/hun...

This is an important effort to preserve our collective memory of this moment, to capture something that's already fading away, so we can point to it and show what they did and what we did about it. I see these memorial signs around my neighborhood, and they crush me every time z.umn.edu/HereandGone

Aid agencies warn that time is running out to avoid an 'irreversible humanitarian catastrophe'.

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...