What they aren’t telling you is that under the new NYC contract, many rank and file officers will now be in the top 10% of income earners in the US. The catch? It’s being paid for with devastating budget cuts to public schools, libraries, affordable housing, healthcare, & more.

The horrific truth about why the powerful are ignoring COVID is that capitalism incentivizes abandoning the vulnerable.

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In light of today’s news that Meta provided a woman’s DMs to law enforcement to prosecute her for getting an abortion, I’m curious how social media company employees feel about their work being leveraged for these kinds of purposes. My DMs are open and I have Signal.

Our hyper-capitalistic society depends on us tying our identities to our jobs. What scares the ruling class is that workplace flexibility gives us the ability to reconnect our well-being to our communities, our families, to nature, and to ourselves.

Police need the media and the media need the police – and that's what makes for bad news coverage. In this episode of “Backspace,” @SanaSaeed breaks down the exchange of power at the heart of media coverage of crime and the police. Full episode: https://t.co/H03B5aWWj4

10 states where abortion is now illegal have sent Google more than 5,700 demands for location tracking data since 2018. There's growing alarm about how police or prosecutors could use that data to target abortion providers or people seeking the procedure.

Despite what some folks think, Carolyn Bryant isn't too old to be held accountable for Emmett Till's murder.

1. I am hearing more and more stories of people catching COVID on a plane while wearing an N95 mask. There are numerous reasons for this and we'll go through them to help you avoid getting COVID

NO MATTER WHAT those dorks @ the Supreme Court say about abortion — you (yes, YOU!) can get abortion pills mailed to you no matter where you live. Mifepristone + Misoprostol 💊 💊 @AidAccessUSA does “advanced provision” which means you don’t have to be pregnant to get them!

For ⁦@NYTmag⁩, I spent a year reporting this article about the problematic history of diversity in book publishing and the ways it has affected editors, authors and what you see (or don’t see) in bookstores

imagine thinking our police are underfunded

It is untenable for Democratic leaders to demand black voters rescue the party every election cycle because their fundamental rights are on the line, and then do little to secure those rights once they are in power.

Leaving this here in the event the powers that be are listening...

My story about a small South Texas community and its loud Mars-spaceship-building neighbor is going to be in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing. I'm so honored and delighted!

Really love this one 💕

Between 1936 and 1938, the federal government collected the narratives of over 2,300 formerly enslaved people. I tracked down the descendants of people who were interviewed and wrote about what these stories mean to them, and what they mean to our country.