Let’s imagine that the protest outside the Prairieland detention facility in Alvarado, Texas on July 4, 2025, occurred exactly as it did, with all parties still responsible for what they did and said– but the word “terrorism” was never used to describe it. Would the protestors still have received a combined sentence of 450 years in prison? … Read more
It’s infuriating that I have to defend this profoundly unjust yet unfairly maligned, rights-violating, prison gate-keeping, Hollerith-ass, bureaucratic government-enforced insult to human dignity in app form, but here we are. On Inauguration Day, January 20th, one of the first things Trump did was cancel the CBP One app— an app developed by Customs and Border … Read more
Dear Committee Members, specifically Chairman Green, I would like to know why, in numerous published statements, Chairman Green has claimed that Anna Giaritelli published a “groundbreaking scoop showing that the criminal cartels had hijacked the CBP One app using virtual private networks (VPNs), and were exploiting the app to make even more money by scheduling … Read more
Image: A black person’s hand and a white person’s handforming a heart. Someday somebody’s gonna ask you A question that you should say yes to Once in your life Maybe tonight I’ve got a question for you — “Question,” Old 97’s Control over your own life. Since we were old enough to recognize the concept, each one of us … Read more