Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

"Authoritarianism is a catastrophic military disadvantage," @elysegraham.bsky.social tells @brookegladstone.bsky.social in an excellent episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social The segment originally aired earlier this year, and Graham was referring to a 2024 article she'd written for the Globe and Mail.

The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela. Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.

Back on the radio this week talking with the great @cwarzel.bsky.social about MAGA fakery on X and that moment when you realize you needa log off. Listen: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!

Brooke has a new video up on our Instagram and TikTok accounts, where she talks about her interview with @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social of @thirdway.bsky.social, and responds to the idea of Democrats moderating to win elections: www.instagram.com/p/DRfdWnAkaW6/ www.tiktok.com/@onthemedia/...

There is so much context missing from the discussion of the Davis cert petition. People are understandably scared. It’s also incredibly dangerous to act like same sex marriage has already been overturned and much of the mainstream reporting is frankly irresponsible.

People are unhoused because billionaires and multi millionaires like Cuomo are buying and hoarding property in *the* LGBTQIA+ murderous US of A

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

#Skrmetti is painful to read. SCOTUS held that heightened scrutiny does not apply to a ban on gender affirming care for minors with gender dysphoria. Justice Barrett’s concurrence says she would not find trans people a suspect classification—a lesson for all who read her Qs at oral arg positively.

The Skrmetti loss is devastating on many levels. It is basically Geduldig for gender dysphoria. Geduldig never made any sense and was essentially abrogated by decades of sex discrimination jurisprudence that developed later.

we're not going to "you're valid without transitioning" and "you'll always have a place as a second-class citizen" our way out of the suicides and immiseration

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.

Can Dems stop playing dead now or do they need to ask James Carville first?

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!

Boop www.forbes.com/sites/lindse...

just in: a federal judge finds patriot front liable for $2.75mil in damages for a july 2022 assault on a black man in boston storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just want to point out that @lacontroller.bsky.social, the city’s actual accountant, confirmed in a Twitter thread today that Bass did indeed cut fire department funding

And Californians’ recent vote to uphold slave labor continues to enable this horror

In 1985, at the height of what was then called a Second Gilded Age, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans was the equivalent of $377 billion today. That's less than the current net worth of one person, Elon Musk.

My friend Jose Olivares on how the Biden administration is laying the groundwork for expansion of private immigration detention facilities:

One more piece of the Skrmetti argument I think is important to underscore is the way Tennessee’s argument will be used to attack *all* sex discrimination claims.

More thoughts on today’s action coming. But our people are out and safe. We will keep fighting. If you want to support our jail fund, visit genderlib.org/donate

I wrote about what happens after an arrest. Here's how detention, initial conversations with attorneys, and arraignment play out in NYC (and in many other jurisdictions).

I am weeping

What’s at stake in US v. Skrmetti? More here, from me and @tekla.bsky.social: transequality.org/news/trans-h...

Disheartened by statements of nonprofit executives? Follow our trans union (same handle here and on insta) and take the lead from trans workers:

And Black and brown trans folks in detention are always the first to be thrown under that bus. The fact that health care for people in custody is the number one example of activists going “a bridge too far” for trans rights is telling.

Next week on Dec. 4, the Supreme Court will hear argument in US v. Skrmetti to decide the constitutionality of bans on trans health care for minors. This case is, in many ways, the trans health care parallel to Dobbs, and has potentially far reaching implications. Thread 1/

Georgetown Law is refusing reasonable accommodations to a pregnant student to take her final exam. They told her “motherhood is not for the faint of heart.” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My colleagues at Advocates for Trans Equality put together this incredible Trans Survival Guide, with many practical legal resources to protect ourselves: transequality.org/news/introdu...

Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory:

People dressed as Nazis are Nazis this isn't a street performance of Sound of Music

Wrote about how four years of “Fund the Police!” did zero for the Democrats except legitimize GOP talking points, depress Dem voter turnout, hand Trump a well-funded police state, and make the world a crueler, more violent place. An abject failure. theappeal.org/fund-the-pol...