Monica C. Camacho

“The audience won’t understand without context”

“If you give the audience context, it’s too long and they’ll tune out”

“We do news, not civics lessons”

“No one else is talking about it so it must not be important”

“Other ppl are talking about it so what’s the point if it’s been done before”

*flips table*

Unpaid internships that required prior full time experience and yet were only open to students and recent grads for the barest hint of compliance w labor law

Begging journalists and media to publish more explainers like this. They’re not sexy or prestigious but audiences need, like, and, yes, even share them bc they’re a window into an otherwise opaque and confusing world that’s easy to caricature as the deep state

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I’m so sorry. The rainbow bridge never gets any easier.

Athena sends purrs

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.

Then the harassment began.

Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.

Six credible threats to his life.

More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

Trans healthcare for kids is disappearing in LA. Here’s what parents are doing about it Even in deep-blue California, Trump’s crackdown on transgender care is shuttering clinics and forcing desperate parents into an underground world of hidden providers and escape plans to Mexico.

"Thorn said his family is applying for visas to travel to Mexico in September to explore [gender-affirming care] options south of the border."

"We have to figure out whether we sell our house to leave town."

"It really guts me that it may really have to come to this."
#California #USA #Healthcare

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I try to strategically stash inconspicuous fidget tools and jewelry everywhere. I can silently twirl a spinner ring or rub a worry stone or a textured sticker on the back of my phone without attracting much attention, especially if my hands are hidden under a desk.

The Attorneys General of Arkansas and Missouri are threatening websites that provide information on reproductive care of violating deceptive trade practice law.

Perhaps not coincidentally, it's the same rational being used by the Missouri AG to censor sexual speech online.

1: Having a question doesn’t mean you’re old; it just means you’re a person, bc no one knows everything

2: young ppl aren’t necessarily good at this either. See also: stereotype of zoomer trying to navigate sub folders

3: your self deprecation insults your female colleagues as well as yourself

New pet peeve unlocked: white collar workers being uncomfortable with computers and calling it “being an old lady” or “having an old lady question.”

The first programmers were Boomer women and now they’re all retirement age. It’s 2025, why are we still doing this

And Dershowitz wonders why he’s not welcome at the farmer’s market

He also threatened to sue their public library for not inviting him to promote his book. Love this for him.

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How Trump Made One of the Most Controversial Post-9/11 Policies the New Normal Thousands of other people are going to get put into detention of indeterminate length with far less recourse, which could stretch years.

For @slate.com, I wrote about one dimension of the totalizing Trump/Miller immigration crackdown that's not getting enough notice, which is that they're moving to make indefinite detention — with no release dates and few options to get out — a norm

Alysia Yeoh with her trans flag bat.

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…fuck.

“Her father was a composer who had died of leukemia six months before. He had learned only after he fell ill that his employer had canceled his health insurance. The cost of the treatments had left his grieving family bankrupt and homeless.”

This clip...I have no words.

Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

Following our lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Education has released the billions of dollars they illegally froze for essential programs for our kids.

This is a major victory, and we will keep fighting so students, schools, and families have access to the resources they deserve.

That worm hole needs to take anyone who uses “aggravated” as a synonym for “irritated.”

Unearthing the past: Iraq’s mass graves and the quest for justice A European-backed UN body explored mass graves in Iraq between 2018 and 2024, supporting steps towards justice and reconciliation—and providing wider lessons for the region…

Visiting Fellow @raniaab.bsky.social's policy brief documents the ongoing attempt to identify and bring justice, dignity and closure to the disappearance and killings of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, many of whom are believed to be in mass graves @ecfrmena.bsky.social
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Can I get a bot to post the pedantry I’m too inhibited to say out loud? Hearing/reading someone mixing up subject and object pronouns (“she and I” vs “me and her”) is like nails on a chalkboard to me but nitpicking grammar is a shitty way to treat ppl so I just cringe in silence

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Supposedly Korean beauty stores popular with Chinese tourists sell suitcases for this very reason