For nearly two months, I’ve been speaking to three trans women detained at a notorious immigration facility in Louisiana. They were incredibly brave to talk to me abt what they’ve endured. veritenews.org/2026/10/05/tr…

Wilson is very much right! She’s the “intellectual girlies who are a little too much into Greek tragedies” Rupi Kaur (a bit cliché, too earnest, interested in aesthetics above all) and there’s genuinely nothing wrong with that

Never. Take it at 5 am from Bushwick to Cathedral Parkway, get there and watch the sunrise on the Great Hill

There are many secular critics who are writing admirably about AI. But it's been apparent to me for a while that religious—particularly catholic—critics are speaking to the public's moral disquiet in a way that secular thinkers, reliant on utilitarian claims about harm, are not.

This is part of the decades-long shift toward viewing higher ed solely as job training. I do think most students already see it that way— they have few other options. But what if the proliferation of low-wage service jobs reflects an economic issue rather than an educational one?

people have said it before but the whole shortform video / youtube / podcast content industry is so extractive of actual newsroom labor, and as far as I can tell very few of those studios have hard news operations, reporters / checkers / researchers...

One of the 7 Cornell rapists, Scott Kretzschmar is apparently still enrolled at @Cornell despite being accused of drugging and gang raping a student for hours on campus. But don’t worry, Cornell takes sexual violence “very seriously” according to their bullshit PR statement.

a brief thread *for non-trans ppl* on why i think recent ads by democrats are so upsetting to the trans community. tl;dr this is not about language but a plain reading of words that suggests these dems will not materially help trans people be any safer where they live. 1/x

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JD Vance spread a vicious lie about Haitians eating dogs and cats, said "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Then, the administration stripped Haitians of their TPS and this kid was so distressed, he killed himself.

Here’s my latest @CityLimitsNews on the implications of @DarializaforNY’s victory. I use the work of Manning Marable as a lens to peek into the race and the potential for a truly coalitional politics. citylimits.org/opinion-manni…

RT @tinyhotopicbish: ICE abducted 75+ people in a club in Memphis Tennessee last night at 1 am and threw them in buses and nobody knows whe…

I wrote this article with @yuliramazzini about Nayib Bukele quiet bid for a third term. With only two opposition candidates in the race and their parties combined polling less than 3%, the race looks increasingly one-sided.

Somos has always come off as tone deaf to Puerto Ricans, tbqh. Ppl should at least support small biz affected by the drought, and meet with activists. There’s a lot the US Congress can do, such as releasing FEMA money for reconstruction.

Another legal immigrant arrested and imprisoned. Here's the rule: DHS can't arrest anyone without a final order of removal. The only constitutional purpose of civil immigration detention is to remove them. If you don't have a removal order, you can't lock them up just for fun.

are you fucking kidding me

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It really is so incredibly annoying, as someone who lives in the neighborhood, that they cut off our ability to cross from Amsterdam to Broadway

There's also the camaraderie caused by late train or a car blocking streetcar tracks that fosters civic spirit.

Have you ever googled an immigration term and ended up more confused? Well, I gotchu: veritenews.org/2026/08/18/ve…