Allison Nella Ferrera-Oltra

How immigration raids are reshaping Los Angeles In a city where much of the economy relies on immigrant labor, fear and absenteeism have paralyzed entire sectors of the local economy. Although the Trump administration began to withdraw 2,000 of the 4,000 National Guard members deployed in Los Angeles, the economic consequences have been visible since their arrival on June 8.

My latest piece in Le Monde, available in French and English - ans also the one I care about the most, as a former undocumented alien in the US of A

14-Juillet : les images marquantes d’un défilé pensé comme une « vraie opération militaire » Dans un contexte international marqué par une instabilité persistante, l’événement s’inscrivait dans le prolongement du discours prononcé par Emmanuel Macron, dimanche, devant les armées. Le photographe Julien Muguet, collaborateur régulier du « Monde », a documenté la cérémonie militaire.

14-Juillet : les images marquantes d’un défilé pensé comme une « vraie opération militaire »

Bastille Day: Pictures of a parade designed as a 'true military operation' Amid ongoing international instability, the event featured a speech delivered by Emmanuel Macron to the military. Photographer Julien Muguet, a regular contributor to Le Monde, documented the military...

Amid ongoing international instability, the event featured a speech delivered by Emmanuel Macron to the military. Photographer Julien Muguet, a regular contributor to Le Monde, documented the military ceremony. Peep my latest on Le Monde (FR & EN)

Népal : la vaccination contre le papillomavirus, victime des coupes budgétaires américaines, dans le regard de la photographe Nanna Heitmann A la suite de l’annonce, fin juin, du gouvernement Trump de suspendre son aide financière à l’Alliance mondiale pour les vaccins et l’immunisation (ou fonds GAVI), « Le Monde » publie le travail de la...

Following the American budgetary cuts in the humanitarian sectors, take a deep dive into the last (maybe least) anti-HPV campaign in Nepal (FR only atm)

NYC girls with trust funds were calling him “Zaddy Zohran” and you thought he was going to lose? Anyways, yearning to live under his radical socialist caliphate ✌️

“The Dictator” (2012), co-written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen, directed by Larry Charles.

862: Some Things We Don't Do Anymore This American Life · Episode

On this week’s “This American Life”, how the US is holding the smoking gun of their moral downfall, and are starting to bleed all over. An eye opening listen : open.spotify.com/episode/72NV...

LinkedIn France, ou si Internet m’était conté (2019, édition Hachette)

TCA : la souffrance silencieuse des malades révélée par la photographe Lavinia Nocelli A l’occasion de la semaine de sensibilisation aux troubles des conduites alimentaires, « Le Monde » publie le travail de la photographe italienne qui, en 2021, a passé trois mois dans un établissement...

My latest work in the newspaper that pays my bills (FR only this time).

Roughly 9 out of 10 ICE detainees are held in for-profit prisons.

George Zoley, the CEO of the largest private prison company in the US, has become $50 million richer since Trump was elected.

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Soutien au journaliste de «Blast», Yanis Mhamdi, détenu arbitrairement en Israël

Plus de 200 organisations syndicales, sociétés de journalistiques et journalistes indépendants exigent que l’Etat français se mobilise pour que cesse la détention du reporter de «Blast» Yanis Mhamdi, qui avait embarqué à bord du «Madleen»

✍️ Leur tribune :

The Fatal Flaws of the Futureless Left The rise of doomers, preppers, and antinatalists on the Left reveals something deeper than the hollow posture of rebellion: a collapse of belief in tomorrow. A Left that chants “No future” isn’t just demoralized — it’s unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.

The rise of doomers, preppers, and antinatalists on the Left reveals something deeper than the hollow posture of rebellion: a collapse of belief in tomorrow.

A Left that chants “No future” isn’t just demoralized — it’s unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.

Tu te calmes

Life and death of millennials, excerpt from @jacobinmag.bsky.social

Not even online prostitution is free from this fucking art style

Lastly, my favorite journalistic work of 2024 won the Pulitzer - and it is the best time to (re)discover this powerful investigative work from a free (!!!!) media that we should protect at all cost.

The Rubicon’s been crossed.
This episode is an important take on the freedom of speech and education, but also an interesting window onto the US definition of freedom.
It is ALSO a human right to be an immigrant and perpetrate political acts - and there’s a lot of walking on eggshells around that.

Stolen from @jeanjacky.bsky.social
3 months after my moving to Europe, I’d love to speak about the power of removing the Lib-veil blinding us all Americans (and particularly Californians). America has become a dictatorship. Admitting it is the first step of our addiction to submission.

Public media is under threat. Millions depend on the NPR Network every day. Silencing journalism is one way to silence truth and erode the power of the people. Donate now.

A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.

The invisible poison threatening Arctic communities In her project 'Under the Ice of the Arctic, Mercury,' French photographer Juliette Pavy reveals an alarming reality unfolding far from the public eye: the increasing exposure of Indigenous population...

In her project 'Under the Ice of the Arctic, Mercury,' photographer J.Pavy reveals an alarming reality unfolding far from the public eye: the increasing exposure of Indigenous populations in Greenland and Nunavut to methylmercury.
Check my latest work on Le Monde (FR) and (Eng).
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