After Prism’s investigations into New York-based Israel Heritage Foundation, a new 501(c)(3) in Florida is helmed by much of the same leaders in similar work to advance Israeli interests. @glentalk.bsky.social reports on Israel Justice Organization's repackaged efforts to influence U.S. officials.
🚨NEWS: Trump quietly dismantled ICE's civil liberties enforcement office as the agency faces 6,000 complaints, according to court records reviewed by @levernews.com.
Without the office, Congress-mandated ICE reforms could go unenforced.
Dems have not been pressing to reverse the cuts.
Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."
Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
“Every single time a FedEx plane lands & I’m watching them land, I wonder, ‘Oh, is that the one?’”
At Oakland’s public airport, @alexnpress.bsky.social reports, workers & organizers ask who controls civilian infrastructure when it becomes part of the war machine.
inthesetimes.com/article/logi...
A former prison in Marana slated to become an immigration detention center has a capacity of 513 people, according to state documents. But a procurement order released by the federal government aims to push that capacity to 775.
azluminaria.org/2026/03/12/f...
I had the opportunity to talk on @kjzz.org "The Show" about this story and about what communities face when it comes to LandBack. I also got to share some perspective as an Indigenous person and journalist on the efforts. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
In 2025, the state of California helped fund at least four initiatives to return land to tribes, adding up to thousands of acres.
The TPM team is heading to Austin for a special event w/our friends @texasobserver.org
Join us on 4/8 for a live taping of our flagship podcast with @kateriga.bsky.social and @joshtpm.bsky.social plus a chat with @byjustinmiller.bsky.social
Get your tix here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
I am beginning to think that we are not afraid enough of the potential that AI will not just automate jobs, but may destroy the entire way that organized labor builds power for working people.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-existen...
What does labor solidarity with Palestine look like in action?
Join us on Wed, 3/18, 1 PM ET with the National Labor Network for Ceasefire for an international webinar with trade unionists from Italy & Britain organizing for justice for Palestinians.
bit.ly/palestine-la...
NEW: Kansas revoked 1,700 transgender drivers’ licenses. Some are leaving the state
I spoke to trans Kansans and the one Republican who voted against the law.
For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
DraftKings wants your legislature.
@matthewccook5.bsky.social reports a DraftKings-backed super PAC is pouring $1.2M into Illinois Democratic primaries, backing candidates who’ll block tighter rules and higher taxes after the state’s per-bet tax cut into profits.
In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police
www.patreon.com/posts/152641...
Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.
She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.
She did not attend the state of the union, tho Sonia traveled to DC with Rep @repyassansari.bsky.social to advocate for the release of her partner, Yari, detained for a year by ICE, despite suffering from Leukemia.
www.lookoutnews.org/during-state...
Immigrant Rights Groups by State. List by @jayapal.house.gov - docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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...
