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Boston-based, here for inspiration and hope
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Every day, repeat to yourself:
It's not coming - it's already here.
It's not going to happen - it's happening.
It's not what will we do when - it's what are we doing while.
It's not coming - it's already here.
It's not going to happen - it's happening.
It's not what will we do when - it's what are we doing while.
July 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Every day, repeat to yourself:
It's not coming - it's already here.
It's not going to happen - it's happening.
It's not what will we do when - it's what are we doing while.
It's not coming - it's already here.
It's not going to happen - it's happening.
It's not what will we do when - it's what are we doing while.
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Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.
June 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.
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The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
June 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
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Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
June 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
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UN says its mission to help Gaza is ‘most obstructed in recent history’ as its entire population is at risk of famine.
Gaza ‘hungriest place on Earth’, all its people at risk of famine, UN warns
UN says its mission to help Gaza is ‘most obstructed in recent history’ as its entire population is at risk of famine.
bit.ly
May 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
UN says its mission to help Gaza is ‘most obstructed in recent history’ as its entire population is at risk of famine.
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Today, Gaza endures a siege, starvation, and bombardment more severe than any tragedy recorded in history — as if the suffering of its people is unmatched since the dawn of creation.
May 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Today, Gaza endures a siege, starvation, and bombardment more severe than any tragedy recorded in history — as if the suffering of its people is unmatched since the dawn of creation.
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I'm so happy people are finally talking about Christian Nationalism, I truly am.
But, if you're viewing rightwing ecosystem through the lens of a hierarchy--i.e., Heritage Foundation being the head of the network--you're not getting how the right works.
They essentially function like a co-op. 🧵
But, if you're viewing rightwing ecosystem through the lens of a hierarchy--i.e., Heritage Foundation being the head of the network--you're not getting how the right works.
They essentially function like a co-op. 🧵
In the 80s, Big Oil & televangelists colluded to radicalize the GOP & white evangelicals, & created the most powerful group you never heard of:
The Council for National Policy.
We are all witnessing their 40 year plot come to fruition.
My republished reporting:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Council for National Policy.
We are all witnessing their 40 year plot come to fruition.
My republished reporting:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Spread of Christian Nationalism in Louisiana Politics
“But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after."
substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm so happy people are finally talking about Christian Nationalism, I truly am.
But, if you're viewing rightwing ecosystem through the lens of a hierarchy--i.e., Heritage Foundation being the head of the network--you're not getting how the right works.
They essentially function like a co-op. 🧵
But, if you're viewing rightwing ecosystem through the lens of a hierarchy--i.e., Heritage Foundation being the head of the network--you're not getting how the right works.
They essentially function like a co-op. 🧵
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In anti-authoritarian struggles, criticizing the regime for their blatant corruption is often one of the most important ways to mobilize the public and break through to regime supporters.
The Trump regime is the most corrupt in US history—it’s worth repeating ad nauseam
The Trump regime is the most corrupt in US history—it’s worth repeating ad nauseam
More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging www.propublica.org/article/us-o...
More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging
Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the ma...
www.propublica.org
May 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
In anti-authoritarian struggles, criticizing the regime for their blatant corruption is often one of the most important ways to mobilize the public and break through to regime supporters.
The Trump regime is the most corrupt in US history—it’s worth repeating ad nauseam
The Trump regime is the most corrupt in US history—it’s worth repeating ad nauseam
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The man on the left wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine *last week* that pregnancy is a one of the medical conditions that increases the risk of severe covid and thereby warrants vaccination.
Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...
Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...
![screenshot from twitter:
Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy
Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it’s common sense and it’s good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again
[video of RFK Jr flanked by on left by Marty Makary, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and on right by Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreihsslbl3un52tvdmk2estvtow42trcflc4qb2f73de54c662oclue@jpeg)
May 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The man on the left wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine *last week* that pregnancy is a one of the medical conditions that increases the risk of severe covid and thereby warrants vaccination.
Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...
Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...
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On #MothersDay, we celebrate Carolina, a mother who has labored in CA's blueberries and grapes for decades. “I have faith that one day soon – everyone in this country will realize that families like mine have been here working for years, feeding this country. #WeFeedYou
May 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On #MothersDay, we celebrate Carolina, a mother who has labored in CA's blueberries and grapes for decades. “I have faith that one day soon – everyone in this country will realize that families like mine have been here working for years, feeding this country. #WeFeedYou
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READ: For many in Gaza, the psychological toll of seeing their children go hungry is far worse than the physical exhaustion they feel from malnutrition and scavenging for food. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/a-da...
A day in the life hunting for food and water during the Gaza famine
For many in Gaza, the psychological toll of seeing their children go hungry is far worse than the physical exhaustion they feel from malnutrition and scavenging for food.
mondoweiss.net
May 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
READ: For many in Gaza, the psychological toll of seeing their children go hungry is far worse than the physical exhaustion they feel from malnutrition and scavenging for food. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/a-da...
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You don’t win politically by winning over your opponents, but by building a political bloc that can defeat them.
May 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
You don’t win politically by winning over your opponents, but by building a political bloc that can defeat them.
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An alternate version of this graph sorted by total funding changes rather than percentages is revealing
May 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
An alternate version of this graph sorted by total funding changes rather than percentages is revealing
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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Zionism has emerged as a core ideological force motivating the U.S. government's increasingly aggressive encroachments on constitutionally protected civil liberties at home, not only as part of foreign policy abroad. A bipartisan project. So who will change this course before there’s no going back?
April 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Zionism has emerged as a core ideological force motivating the U.S. government's increasingly aggressive encroachments on constitutionally protected civil liberties at home, not only as part of foreign policy abroad. A bipartisan project. So who will change this course before there’s no going back?
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This has to be the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency.
Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president
It is literal pay-to-play
Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president
It is literal pay-to-play
Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His Memecoin
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This has to be the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency.
Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president
It is literal pay-to-play
Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president
It is literal pay-to-play
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Is it spam or is it just Pete Hegseth texting you classified information?
a speech bubble with three circles inside of it .
ALT: a speech bubble with three circles inside of it .
media.tenor.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Is it spam or is it just Pete Hegseth texting you classified information?
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The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
April 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
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This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
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8/ This is a watershed moment, as Trump thumbs his nose at a Supreme Court ruling, gaslighting the public by pretending his won 9-0 when he lost 9-0.
If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.
If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
8/ This is a watershed moment, as Trump thumbs his nose at a Supreme Court ruling, gaslighting the public by pretending his won 9-0 when he lost 9-0.
If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.
If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.