Ken (they/them)

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory.

The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

This is the future progressives want

it's important to remember the people doing this aren't "just following orders," they signed up to do this, they're excited to do it, it's what they want to be doing, and each one of them is personally culpable for the entirety of ICE's conduct

White words on a black background read: 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 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.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

I like most foods but I’m here to say right now that okra can die a fiery death and I wouldn’t shed a single tear

Hear me out: What if it's both the hoarding and the havoc?

Spoiler: It will not make IVF more accessible

We hope this paper can share the threat modeling and privacy steps researchers, journalists, advocates can take when working to quantify the impact the evolving legal landscape is having on people seeking abortions, while minimizing risk of criminalization. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Society of Family Planning Research Practice Support: Digital and data security for abortion research in a post-Dobbs era—A primer for qualitative researchers Abortion is banned or severely restricted in nearly half of the United States. Research on the impact of these restrictions and abortion care has neve…

Big moment for me, my first-ever publication credit!
The Digital Defense Fund team contributed to this paper on practical data privacy practices for research with abortion seekers, including those facing the most serious threats. Just out in Contraception:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Abortion is normal.

As soon as Roe fell I knew I'd spend the rest of my life fighting for repro justice I won't see in my lifetime. It's not great but it is what it is.

Red flag in this wasteful move: a USAID spox falsely claimed that birth control pills, IUDs, and arm implants cause abortions.

“The administration will no longer supply abortifacient birth control under the guise of foreign aid.” 🚩🚩🚩

No U.S. presidential administration has ever said birth control causes abortions as far as I know.

Now a USAID spokesperson is echoing language—“abortifacient birth control”—used by far-right groups like Alliance Defending Freedom, Hobby Lobby, and Students for Life
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

the US is the way it is because this basic level of respect for another person’s humanity is a bridge too far for people of a certain demo

my imminent crash out is gonna get its own wikipedia page with sections that look like this

In a genocide, you kill journalists to stop them from telling the world about your war crimes.

“Runs” is doing a lot of work here

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

I love it when I talk about Mississippi and white people send me links to the Nina Simone song. Wow thank y’all so much how interesting never heard that one before what a valuable contribution to this conversation

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Ed Note | State Law Compels BlueSky to Block Mississippi IPs Ashton Pittman writes about how Mississippi’s social media age-verification law prompted BlueSky to block access to Mississippi IP addresses.

Mississippi's new social media age-verification law has now forced BlueSky to block Mississippi IP addresses.

Our Mississippi Free Press team is now urgently having to grapple with what that means for our audience—and for press freedom.

My new editorial:

Because what they try in MS, they will try in other places, and it will be the resistance strategies that Southerners built that will be how we fight back.

Like it’s the same routine with y’all every time! Make Mississippi the punching bag while you sit in the “safety” of your blue state. States like MS are treated as testing grounds for restricting our rights. Stop acting so damn superior and start thinking and organizing like we’re a community.

If you’re not from Mississippi, your dumb commentary about my home and the people who have lived there for generations are unnecessary, unfunny, unhelpful, and uncreative.

Every time our rights are restricted, y’all decide to punch down instead of asking how you can help us organize for better.

Texas Cops: We Wrongly Tried to Get a Woman Charged With Murder For an Abortion, and We’d Do It Again Generally speaking, it is not a great sign when when cops admit things like “I don't know what the law states right now” under oath.

New: Lizelle Gonzalez is suing officials who wrongly charged her with murder for an abortion—and depositions with investigators show that, if given the chance, they would handle future cases the same way

Police and sheriffs have so much power to ruin people’s lives by manipulating the legal process

Israel is not "throttling food supply" It is STARVING PEOPLE AS PART OF ONGOING GENOCIDE.