Chilling Dissent
The Persistent Push to Depict Luigi Mangione and His Supporters as Terrorists
Trump calls them extremists. Mainstream media casts them as unhinged. We saw something else at a protest for Luigi Mangione.
Justice
Voices
The Bullet as Shitpost: Media Won’t Publish Manifestos but Reproduces Scrawls on Casing
From “ANTI-ICE” to “Notices bulges OwO,” the media latches onto memes on bullets. At its core, it’s the shooters trolling.
Unmasking ICE
Courts Block Meta From Sharing Anti-ICE Activists’ Instagram Account Info With Feds
For now, Meta cannot disclose to federal investigators the identities of Instagram users who named and shamed a Border Patrol agent.
Chilling Dissent
MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure
“This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency."
Voices
Jimmy Kimmel Wasn’t the Biggest Corporate Media Capitulation to Trump This Week
The mainstream media barely made a peep about Trump’s latest attack on Mahmoud Khalil’s free speech rights.
Unmasking ICE
The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents
StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.
Utah Was Shifting Away From the Death Penalty. Then Came Trump and Tyler Robinson.
The immediate calls for the execution of Charlie Kirk’s killer mark a resurgence of pro-death penalty politics in Utah and beyond.
Voices
The Data Shows Political Violence Is Actually Down
After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, everyone was handwaving about rising political violence. But is it?
The War on Immigrants
Many ICE Agents Lose Ability to Spy on Immigrants’ Payments to Family Back Home
After The Intercept exposed how immigration agents surveil wire transfers, Arizona AG Kris Mayes cut off some of their access.
Voices
Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Is Part of a Trend: Spiking Gun Violence in Red States
It’s not Washington or Chicago but Republican-run, reliably right-wing states that lead the nation in gun violence rates.