John Oakes

50+: Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130: Agents also can arrest U.S. citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20: Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD

I am excited because I have discovered that my Nicorettes are actually Z tabs #zohran

Mayor Adams Closed NYC’s Migrant ‘Welcome Center.’ More Arrive Every Day. Mayor Eric Adams celebrated the Roosevelt Hotel’s closure and the city’s handling of the migrant crisis. A mother who spent a year there offered her own mixed assessment.

Dina and her husband spent their life savings to flee Venezuela. This week her husband was detained by ICE, in front of their children, during a mandatory asylum hearing.

In July, she told me how her family longed for safety and stability after years of precarity.

tinyurl.com/3uknzf5y @thecity.nyc

GOP's latest government shutdown scapegoat: No Kings protests Republicans try to shift blame from themselves to protesters.

The Trump regime has run out of excuses for the government shutdown, so they’re now blaming the vast majority of Americans who simply wish to preserve democracy.

See you on Saturday at a NoKings.org protest—the tides are turning.

Opinion | The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front

Andrew Ross on the "other" hostages: 11,000 Palestinians held in Israeli gulags.

Federal authorities are using immigration law to limit the First Amendment rights of noncitizens. Legal experts warn that this extension of executive power can be used to censor citizens’ speech, too.

My latest for @documentedny.bsky.social:
t.co/ySnyXiLrpl

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📣 NO KINGS N.Y.C.
📍 Times Square (the red steps)
📆 October 18th
⏰ 11am

The NYC march route is from Times Sq, south on 7th Ave, dispersing at 14th St.
We need your help to make this big, and to make our voices heard.
Bring a friend, tell a friend, sign up to volunteer at NoKingsNYC.org

Portland never stops being Portland.

Israel detains two Palestinian children in Hebron under claims of 'espionage' One resident says the children, aged five and six, are 'now living in fear' following their release

Israel detains two Palestinian children in Hebron under claims of 'espionage' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-detains-two-palestinian-children-hebron-under-claims-espionage

Life is a problem that can’t be solved Remembering Kaleb Horton

god dammit www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

Saturday night
Inspiration

Go to nokings.org
On October 18, 2025
Millions of us are rising again to show the world
AMERICA HAS NO KINGS
and
The power belongs to the people
Let's Roll
California VOTE YES on
Prop 50

If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian Evergreen Review

“Copyright laws are great if you are a rumored-to-be-cryogenically-frozen racist in America, but thieves like us we know how the song goes.”

Up now our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian” by @laraacorona.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/if-bruc...

JUST IN: We just disrupted this vile, vulture capitalist lovefest. David Rubenstein, Governor Youngkin, and Governor Moore all on stage together, plotting how to profit from our extinction. They were having such a nice time. We ruined it.

#BOYCOTTDISNEY
#BOYCOTTHULU #CANCELHULU
#BOYCOTTNEXSTAR
Billionaires hoard their money… time for us to start hoarding ours
(why is the fcc allowing monopolies to form?)
#RELEASETHEEPSTEINFILES

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division.

Updated nation piece : www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Hey everyone, in the heat of things, I originally saw this quote in a piece in the Nation, and their quote has since been updated to specify that it was specific to Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, etc.

But Kirk’s clearly anti-black statements speak for themselves:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported

Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling.

We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

Images of US President Donald Trump and the UK’s Prince Andrew with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto Windsor Castle near London on Tuesday, where Trump will be staying during his state visit. Police said four people were arrested.

Opinion | Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial The Attorney General seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal. Charlie Kirk knew better.

Even the Wall Street Journal says Bondi has gone over the edge

Boxthorn Evergreen Review

“When the head is imagined as a house, in the ancient way, it is often received as a story, a compendium of humiliations, and—most readily—as a keepsake.”

From our brand-new Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “Boxthorn” by Jason Schwartz. Art by Lyne Lapointe. evergreenreview.com/read/boxthorn/

The first voting rights advocate to adopt the hunger strike died #onthisday. In 1909, Marion Wallace-Dunlop demanded to be categorized a political prisoner. Her request denied, she went on a hunger strike and was later freed. Activists collectively applied the tactic. #votingrights #collectiveaction

Bioluminescence and Other Poems Evergreen Review

“back in the day
before I was slick
head and gray
minds grew hair
leaping free
from conk and jheri
curl captivity . . .”

F/W 2025 issue unrolling now!: “P-Funk Peoples and Afro Metaphysics of Sun Ra” and five more poems by Gregory Powell. Art by William Downs. evergreenreview.com/read/biolumi...

Just drafted my quick reaction piece about this, and I think it's important to get across this is not Los Angeles, or DC, bad as both of those are. This is an extreme escalation. I've never had more of an "oh god, it's really happening here" gnawing in the pit of my stomach. I feel physically ill.

Hey. A new day of national activism is planned for October 18. Sign up here: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

People in #Gaza suffer while UNRWA’s lifesaving aid — food, medicine, shelter, hygiene supplies — has been blocked by Israeli Authorities.

We can deliver at scale, across Gaza. The needs are huge.

UNRWA aid saves lives.

Lift the siege.