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American. Journalist. New York Times Opinion writer and MSNBC political analyst.

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Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

“These are not seasoned activists. They are neighbors, like Jean.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

04.03.2026 02:26 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.

Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line.

At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia.

(Published Jan. 2026)

03.03.2026 00:00 👍 927 🔁 510 💬 45 📌 34
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States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

02.03.2026 15:12 👍 224 🔁 201 💬 23 📌 55
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

25.02.2026 20:30 👍 2440 🔁 1162 💬 164 📌 349
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NYU cancels affinity graduations - Washington Square News NYU canceled 13 culture, identity and faith-based graduation ceremonies due to the “current political climate,” according to student groups that are urging administrators to either rescind the order o...

Club organizers learned that affinity celebrations — where graduating students hold separate ceremonies honoring their historically underrepresented backgrounds — would no longer be permitted...The administrators instead proposed a single celebration at the Paulson Center.

25.02.2026 15:43 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

22.02.2026 18:10 👍 8091 🔁 4393 💬 338 📌 375
What exactly is a ‘concentration camp’?

This week @jamellebouie.net had some questions for me about where the US is at now and why the term "concentration camp" might be a useful way to think about the crisis. (He interviewed me eight years ago for Slate on a similar topic. Let's hope we don't end up having the same discussion in 2034.)

21.02.2026 17:20 👍 878 🔁 251 💬 14 📌 14
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👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

21.02.2026 00:27 👍 20351 🔁 7493 💬 451 📌 381
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With a Golden Gavel and a Threat to Iran, Trump Launches His Board of Peace

“Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Vietnam all accepted invitations to join the Board of Peace.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

19.02.2026 23:24 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
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Jesse Jackson Knew Better Than to Forget The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away

Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away. I wrote about how he saw our future so well.

18.02.2026 17:06 👍 248 🔁 82 💬 7 📌 12

Those butterflies you feel when you realize the pilot is Black 🫶🏽

18.02.2026 16:59 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84

“For all his rhetorical thunder, the Democrats never fully embraced his vision of an unashamedly liberal party based not on the white middle class but rather on his coalition of poor and working-class people of all colors.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

17.02.2026 14:28 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

14.02.2026 22:41 👍 3284 🔁 680 💬 98 📌 41
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How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement

“The scheme, known as Project 100,000, protected the white middle class by preserving college deferments.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b... @bstaples.bsky.social

11.02.2026 20:21 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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When Trump Officials’ Claims About Shootings Unravel in Court

“It’s a way to discredit individuals and tip the scales so that the use of force seems more reasonable from the outset…” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

10.02.2026 13:01 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
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Here’s What a Warm Night Looks Like for Homeless New Yorkers

Good read from Emma Goldberg, who visited NYC’s warming centers and asked homeless New Yorkers what helps bring people in from the cold www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/n...

10.02.2026 00:51 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

Three thoughts.

1. It’s always been about the white nationalism

2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning

3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness

06.02.2026 16:40 👍 2722 🔁 468 💬 26 📌 18
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‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

Black Americans have always been at the heart of the country’s democracy movement and attacking and humiliating them is key work of those who hate democracy.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

03.02.2026 12:59 👍 103 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 1
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Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

03.02.2026 00:22 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

His own personal Sundown Town, in a region with a rich history of sundown towns, in a state originally founded for White people only

02.02.2026 21:32 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Not good

02.02.2026 18:26 👍 74 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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Small Businesses in Minneapolis Serve a City in Crisis. ‘This Is Our New Normal.’

This is hugely inspiring and also a call to action for communities across the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

02.02.2026 14:13 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 2

If you live in New York and you see someone in a camp, on a sidewalk, under an underpass, in a subway station: Call 311, and you'll likely be referred to 911 because of the temps outside. Get them help. This weather is dangerous.

By law*, the city will provide them with a bed inside.
*Settlements

31.01.2026 23:26 👍 112 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 0
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ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school.

Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools.

“I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

31.01.2026 13:32 👍 4015 🔁 2179 💬 63 📌 120
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Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.

Messages to ICE from students at Liam Conejo Ramos's elementary school. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

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30.01.2026 17:07 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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Journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort arrested in connection with church protest against ICE Lemon's attorney said he was taken into custody by federal officers Thursday night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

30.01.2026 15:10 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

The Department of Homeland Security revoked the Global Entry travel privileges of a U.S. citizen who protested ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

30.01.2026 14:55 👍 57 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 3
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Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

30.01.2026 12:58 👍 17382 🔁 7706 💬 1242 📌 1447
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Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

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