Jason Weidner

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

In the former official’s opinion, it was more likely that the vessel was carrying migrants on a human smuggling run. It would be impossible to know for sure, however, given that any evidence of drug smuggling was destroyed in the attack.

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

They booted you from Medicaid so they could build ICE Air.

The war on immigration is just all bad in every possible direction.
--It is very expensive
--It radicalizes government agencies
--It distorts US foreign policy
--It is very harmful to the economy
--It is also quite cruel.

There is no second/third order consequence that is positive.

look at our opposition party 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Florida Republicans are now selling concentration camp merch.

Absolutely vile and indefensibly repugnant.

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries.

For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.

New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.

Charlie Stadtlander 1:03 PM to julia.wong v ••• Julia- Charlie here from The Times's communications team, your note made its way to me and thank you for reaching out. As The Times's story makes clear, multiple people familiar with Apple's production facilities is China have put forward their observations on the workforce there. Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories. I can also point you to the comments of Patrick McGee, the author of the new book "Apple In China" , on a recent podcast appearance said: "The tasks that often are being done to make iPhones require little fingers. The fact that it's young Chinese women with little fingers like that actually matters. Apple engineers will talk about this." Charlie Stadtlander Managing Director, External Communications, Newsroom and Opinion The New Work Times

honestly speechless

“Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.”

like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?

Here is what we know about the people disappeared from the United States and were apparently rendered to incommunicado prison in El Salvador: Country Known Names Unknown Names Total Venezuela 245 7 252 El Salvador 12 24 36 Total 257 31 288 Venezuela, 252 people. 137 rendered under the Alien Enemies Act, the rest with final removal orders: 238 people rendered to El Salvador on March 15. Names leaked to CBS News on March 20. 7 people rendered to El Salvador on March 30. Names leaked to Fox News on March 31. 7 people rendered to El Salvador as part of a group of 10 on April 13. Names are unknown. We only know it was 7 people because El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, tweeted on April 20 that 252 Venezuelans are in Salvadoran custody, and 245 Venezuelans were already in El Salvador. El Salvador, 31 people, all with final removal orders: 23 people rendered to El Salvador on March 15. From much reporting, we know the identities of two: Kilmar Abrego Garcia and prominent MS-13 leader César Humberto López Larios, alias “Greñas.” The other 21 remain unnamed. 10 people rendered to El Salvador on March 30. Names leaked to Fox News on March 31. 3 people rendered to El Salvador as part of a group of 10 on April 13. Names are unknown. We only know it was 3 people because El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, tweeted on April 20 that 252 Venezuelans are in Salvadoran custody. As 245 Venezuelans were already in El Salvador, that would mean that 7 of the 10 were Venezuelan, leaving 3 Salvadorans.

288 people have been rendered to El Salvador’s mega-prison. We only know 257 of their names—and not because the US or Salvadoran governments shared them.

It shouldn't be up to civil society to compile things like this table. Of course, none of this should be happening at all.

See admis.me/b/2un

The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains? By Judith Roberts * As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise aw...

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

The DOGE stuff already has a whiff of "Big" meets "Zone of Interest". (What if a kid were in the body of an adult charged with running a concentration camp in a fresh think-outside-the-box way?) This Potemkin-Jimmy Buffett crossover pitch is likewise comparatively high-concept.

By the FBI's reckoning, spree killers are driven by fantasies of revenge — and those fantasies have been a key part of Trump and the far Right's messaging for a long time, eg qanon.

Fascist speech is always an incitement to violence.

"Woman" is now legally classified as "broodmare," I'm sure this will have absolutely zero long term consequences for reproductive healthcare down the line.

After all it's not like anti-trans agitation is part of a far wider far-right, explicitly natalist movement or anything, right?

the proposal: permanent siphon of public dollars negotiated, controlled, and enriching the same group of people who have installed themselves as the arbiters of decisions about what counts as national security, what is wasteful and what is useful public spending

To make a migrant, make a #border.

Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m Dropping at select colleges today. [Embedded image of a billboard ad:] A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West. Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why. We did. We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate. Join us. [signed by the Palantir founder]

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.

But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.

While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.

Hello?

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

the unifying principle driving this administration is eugenics — a eugenicist approach to the economy, a eugenicist approach to arts / sciences / etc. tear away every single support, wreck things on purpose, what doesn’t survive wasn’t “worthy,” those still standing pocket the dislodged wealth.

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election.

70% of these donations went to Republicans.

Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

So many of the countries getting hit hardest by Trump's Folly were lectured for years by the WB, IMF, Washington and others about taking responsibility for their own development through trade, not aid.

Trump just pulled the USAID rug out from under them, then kicked them when they were down.

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.

And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

what replaces due process under fascism is the assurance of protection for favored groups. even though it’s precarious, a lot of people feel just as protected under that framework as they do under one with due process