NEW: For @theguardian.com, I spoke to people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s whose parents were deported under the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations about the long-term impacts of family separation:
Georgia House chamber inside the Georgia State Capitol during a legislative session. A state representative speaks at a podium while others stand nearby, including someone holding a copy of “There Is No Place for Us.”
Framed resolution from the Georgia House of Representatives honoring Brian Goldstone and his book “There Is No Place for Us,” with an official gold seal at the bottom.
Well, this wasn't something I ever expected: today several state representatives honored THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US with a resolution at the Georgia State Capitol.
I'm very grateful—and hopeful it helps shine a light on Georgia's predatory housing market and the need for stronger tenant protections.
Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
It's all so clear
I’ve been covering abortion access since 2015, and I’ve never experienced the kind of fervor that I witnessed outside a clinic in North Carolina: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Apparently I was saving all my productivity for the hour we lost.
Oh yeah? That's what is destroying society?
A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Thank you so much to @claywallace.bsky.social for having me on to talk about two last-second anti-trans bills in Kentucky! #kyga26
Check it out:
Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.
She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.
Writers with MFAs (or PhDs): The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University (where I teach!) is hiring a full-time, tenure-track, Associate Programs Director at the Assistant Professor rank. (On campus in Louisville 2-3 days/week.) www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
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Two veteran journalists made a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals, but the BBC later refused to air it.
This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to investigate why and what it says about the future of journalism:
Acc to witnesses in southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have killed dozens, Israeli soldiers disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The government’s official story would unravel in court — refuted by video surveillance, crime scene photos and witness statements.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Any time there is ballet-related discourse (this time, re: Timothée Chalamet's comments), I want to reshare this piece, which talked to artists fighting to make work conditions better & more equitable: “I think it’s important for [...] audiences to know that dancers are having these conversations.”
Oh that sounds amazing! "in control of my destiny" is such a great way to put it.
Absolutely, I think this is really underrated!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing!!
i love doing stuff alone!!!!!!!
Thank you so much!
NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.
openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...
NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.
When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”
Video + interview with her and her daughter:
This whole thread is amazing
This obviously applies to so much. But the amount of times I've heard "kids are going to go hungry" or "I'm scared my kids are going be hungry" this week is just...almost beyond comprehension.
This obviously applies to so much. But the amount of times I've heard "kids are going to go hungry" or "I'm scared my kids are going be hungry" this week is just...almost beyond comprehension.
AI is destroying the environment, depleting water, causing layoffs, destroying critical thinking, but at least it's also inaccurate.
“Every day felt like a week. Every week felt like a month. Every month felt like a year,” said Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager in Columbia, Missouri... “Camp East Montana was 1,000% worse than a prison.”
apnews.com/article/suic...
A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z
