The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is not “stability.” It’s a recipe for state collapse, regional conflagration, and unending violence.
@alfatau.bsky.social reports on the chaos this war is unleashing.
i know people on here don't rly care about culture coverage but sharing because I'm proud I did it: reviewed Mitski's new residency at NYC's The Shed @us.theguardian.com
seeing her perform for the ninth time in 9 years (!), I feel confident saying that Mitski is in her triumphant era.
@statesnewsroom.com conducted a 50-state investigation examining state and federal budgets, as well as the tax records of hundreds of crisis pregnancy centers around the country, finding that while the magnitude of public funding for them is growing, oversight is not.
stateline.org/2026/03/04/r...
Ty both for your work!!
Immigration enforcement in Arizona last year took a sharp upturn after the election of Donald Trump, with a boom in street level arrests
@raphaeldelaghetto.bsky.social and I take a look at the numbers
azluminaria.org/2026/03/03/i...
There's still time to apply for a summer internship
@inthesetimes.com!
As fascists and billionaires ransack the journalism industry, there's never been a better time to join an award-winning, nonprofit, progressive outlet.
Deadline is March 15!
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A researcher with the American Friends Service Committee and the national “Purge Palantir” campaign said the next phase is about scaling, helping communities identify where Palantir is embedded through political relationships, and sharing tactics that can be adapted locally.
Amid what detainees say is a clampdown in Dilley, TX, including seizures of kids' drawings and crayons, Christian Hinojosa stuffed letters in her jacket to hide them from guards. She told @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me her story. We published the letters today.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
The EEOC just reversed its own position, which it held for over a decade, that Title VII not only protects trans workers from discrimination but specifically that banning a trans worker from using a bathroom aligned with their gender identity is against the law www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...
“I’m a real bug for poetry,” Malcolm wrote in prison. “When you think back over all of our past lives, only poetry could best fit into the vast emptiness created by man.” I explore the poetic sensibility of Malcolm X for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/poet...
When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.
They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
Tim Walz isn't declaring an eviction moratorium in Minnesota, so many families affected by ICE are at risk of eviction in a few days. Please donate to the rent funds at keepMNhoused.com if you have some scratch.
Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas.
she can help you do it, too.
Friends! The ICE siege of Minneapolis is not over, and YOU can help keep 200 families safe and housed for another month!
These are trusted folks who have already helped 10% of all Central Minneapolis households pay rent. Please pitch in: gofund.me/d4acb0e6c
In this country, even being in prison doesn't guarantee someone a bed to sleep in or a meal.
In gang-controlled areas of this prison in TN, it’s common practice to demand “rent” from any unaffiliated people. This violence is encouraged by guards.
truthout.org/articles/thi...
wrote about the decline in people seeking careers in public service for @newrepublic.com -- a detrimental trend that existed before this administration but it is almost certainly going to accelerate during it.
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
Inside the first-ever Young Worker March on Washington: young federal workers are organizing for higher wages, affordable care/housing, union rights, and a future they can actually live in.
Amie Stager reports, in partnership with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social
if only there could’ve been a way for them to have learned this a year before the election. like the voters and youth organizing groups who said that would happen without a change in Gaza policy back in November 2023
In plain language, Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence in his hometown of Dallas.
"The raids at the family detention site an hour southwest of San Antonio are in response to a ProPublica article published Feb. 9, which features the letters and drawings of children inside, according to Manriquez.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
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The largest rent strike in a century?
The Minnesota unions behind the massive Jan. 23 day of action are now backing a potential rent strike to demand an eviction moratorium. At least 10K could withhold rent starting March 1. Here's what to know (1/6) inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
In our latest, we speak with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social about fascism as an antagonistic politics of social reproduction, some of the particular features of the crackdowns on care in Trump’s second term, and Alberto’s book Late Fascism
www.patreon.com/posts/150947...
I wrote about having solidarity with young people in our struggles against ICE for @inthesetimes.com
inthesetimes.com/article/in-t...
NEW: A Georgia railroad owned by a descendant of an enslaver is using eminent domain to take land owned by descendants of the enslaved. If you want to understand how slavery still shapes power today, start here: capitalbnews.org/georgia-rail...
Full write up on Tuesday’s Surprise City Council meeting where 1000+ community members showed up to oppose a recently purchased industrial warehouse located across from a high school, a preschool and middle school that DHS/ICE plans to use as a concentration camp. It’s the size of 7 football fields.
