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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
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The Homeless We Don’t See | Jay Neugeboren As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time job are experiencing homelessness.

Truly moved and thankful for this remarkably generous, in-depth review in @nybooks.com.

"The great virtue of There Is No Place for Us is its refusal to look away from the disheartening reality it depicts, or from the depth and pervasiveness of the problem and the pain it causes people."

We’re thrilled to share that Mya Frazier's article, “Power failure,” a collaboration between FERN and Switchyard Magazine, was the winner of a 2025 CCNow Journalism Award!

More than a century and a half ago, this country ignored the explicit words of men who sought to raise an empire of slavery. It subsequently transformed those men into gallant knights who sought only to preserve their beloved Camelot. There was a fatigue, in certain quarters, with Reconstruction—which is to say, multiracial democracy—and a desire for reunion, to make America great again. Thus, in the late 19th century and much of the 20th, this country’s most storied intellectuals transfigured hate-mongers into heroes and ignored their words—just as, right now, some are ignoring Kirk’s.

Ta-Nehisi Coates's piece on the thing is the best one I've seen. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Headline from The Intercept: "Trump’s Chicago Occupation Could Cost Four Times More Than Housing City Homeless -- ​ Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city’s homeless — plus it’s illegal, experts say." September 3 2025. By Nick Turse

This truth bears repeating, again and again.

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Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia South Korea said it had expressed concerns to the U.S. about the raid and that it was trying to secure the release of its citizens.

"Among those detained were South Korean employees on business travel....

"The raid could raise concerns for South Korean companies that are sending personnel to the US and hiring locally."

It comes weeks after Hyundai pledged $26 billion in US investments.

Gift link ⬇️

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Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.

A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

Profoundly grateful that my book continues to resonate with those in the trenches of this fight. @cafreema.bsky.social's reflections are powerful:

"Our society and government must make housing available to ALL. We must destroy housing as a commodity and recognize it as the human right it is."

4 things to know about Gaza right now amid warnings of 'mass starvation' risk Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."

If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen.

He walked 3 hours to find a working internet connection to file the story

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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

“The expression ‘skin and bones’ doesn’t do it justice. I saw the severity of malnutrition that I would not have thought possible in a civilized world. This is man-made starvation being used as a weapon of war..."
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The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

Pope condemns ‘barbarity’ of Israel’s war in Gaza After pontiff calls for peace, Gaza’s health ministry says 73 Palestinians waiting for aid have been killed Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “barbarity” of the war in Gaza and the “indiscriminate use of force” as Gaza’s health ministry said at least 73 Palestinians had been killed queueing for food. The Hamas-run ministry said on Sunday that the victims had been killed in different locations, mostly in northern Gaza. Continue reading...

Pope condemns ‘barbarity’ of Israel’s war in Gaza

Israeli Troops Kill Dozens Near Border Crossing, Gaza Health Officials Say

Soldiers opening fire on starving people who are trying to get food. This is genocide.
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Roughly 12 million Americans are expected to lose their health insurance over the next decade—and now they'll get to watch their credit scores collapse too.

This country is a machine for manufacturing needless suffering.

The Sunday Long Read: Alec MacGillis, Public Libraries, Texas Flood The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.

A lovely essay by @alecmac.bsky.social

"At a time when the rush of events seems particularly frenzied and overwhelming, the magazines have come to seem the ideal medium—a medium, quite literally, in that they are mediating the crush."

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Opinion | A New Era of Hunger Has Begun

An estimated 47.4 million Americans suffered from hunger last year.

13.8 million were children.

Now this country is set to strip SNAP benefits from *two million* more people—while allocating over $100 billion to "help squads of men in masks" terrorize immigrants.

A searing essay by Tracy Kidder:

I don't subscribe to many newsletters. Andrea Pitzer's is among the best. Well worth your time.

UN reports 798 deaths near Gaza aid hubs in six weeks The U.N. rights office said on Friday it had recorded at least 798 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and near convoys run by other relief groups.

This is genocide. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Detroit sues crypto landlord RealT over blight, tenant harm The lawsuit alleges RealT, a cryptocurrency-based real estate company, failed to maintain hundreds of properties it owns in Detroit.

BREAKING: The City of Detroit is suing a cryptocurrency-based real estate company RealT for failing to maintain hundreds of rental properties across the city, following investigations by @outliermedia.org.

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Incredible reporting from @outliermedia.org on how property speculators have undermined stable and safe housing for Detroit renters.

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, *this* is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.

What’s the worst detail in this story?

The mother forced to use unclean water to make formula for her baby?

The child w/cancer now facing relapse symptoms?

The 16-year-old trying to be strong for her 2 younger siblings and mom, all trapped in the camp together?

This is America. Don’t look away.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

“It’s amazing when you grow up and realize how redlining has allowed these industries to kill your family,” he said in an interview. “Elon Musk is a representation of the oligarchy we already knew was operating under Jim Crow. It’s a familiar evil.”

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Utterly stunning @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social optical gas imaging video from the site of Musk's massive new fossil power station fuelling the Grok text generation engine on X

@nickcunningham.bsky.social's full write-up here - must-read gasoutlook.com/analysis/xai...

All this for a crappy chatbot.

How America Failed the Unhoused Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place For Us is an enraging book about the intertwined calamities of homelessness and wage labor.

It's hard to express what this review by @libbycwatson.com means to me — not just for its praise ("an incredible feat… the 21st-century equivalent of The Jungle") but for how precisely it captures the heart of my book: a system that cruelly exploits people's labor while denying them everything else.

Concentration Camps and the Machinery of Repression: Lessons for Saving Democracy – Ash Center Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed affil...

If you want to understand what's happening with the concentration camp arc we're on—all this domestic and overseas detention, and the attempt to erase various groups from society—please join me (and others!) Wednesday June 11 @ noon to find out what can be done. Free, but registration required.