Akela Lacy

NEWS: ICE agents are camped outside immigration courts to arrest people after they've had their cases dismissed in court. Other agents spotted in AZ, CA, IL, MA, MD, TX. w/ @noahhurowitz.bsky.social & Jose Olivares theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...

SCOOP: Police shot UCLA protesters in the head w/ rubber bullets @ the encampment against Israel's war on Gaza. Now they're suing. "These attacks also happened in Democratic-run cities and blue states. That is a clear, direct path to what’s happening now with Trump." theintercept.com/2025/05/05/u...

NEW: Shai Davidai is leaving Columbia. Davidai posted today that an investigation into him by the school found no wrongdoing. Students Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi have said Davidai called for their deportations ahead of their arrests by ICE theintercept.com/2025/07/09/p...

EXCLUSIVE: The pro-Palestine group @imeupolicy.bsky.social is spending $2 million on ads against Republicans in toss-up districts over ties to Israel & for Dems who support blocking weapons to Israel, taking advantage of GOP vulnerability amid Trump's war on Iran theintercept.com/2026/03/04/i...

NEW: Progressives are already pushing Talarico on Israel & Gaza, ICE. Organizers saw little daylight between he & Crockett on those policies but saw more room to move him than they did her. Also heard he’s being advised on improving on Gaza. W/ @jonahmv.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/03/04/j...

Crockett's pastor, Freddy Haynes III, has officially won her seat in TX-30. Haynes ran to Crockett's left on issues from Israel & Gaza to ICE and crypto. In response to q’s I sent him in February, he minced no words about where Dems are failing voters theintercept.com/2026/02/04/tex…

NEW POD 🎧: we listened to the State of the Union so you don’t have to. W/ @jesswash.bsky.social & @jordanuhl.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

operation midnight hammer

I don't see Republicans acting like this crosses a line at any point in the near future. even though he was attacking the entire caucus, Trump says far worse about progressive women (Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, etc) on the regular. this is the baseline

this went from "america is hot" to dateline

he's really mad they're not standing which is kinda wild to watch in real time like he keeps remembering it every few minutes and mumbling under his breath except it's into the mic

There is definitely a thread of racism & misogynoir in many of the attacks against Jasmine Crockett. You can’t chalk up every criticism to that though because a lot of it is just like, what’s with the crypto $

NEW POD 🎧: Cuba is spiraling into a humanitarian crisis. Trump has kept the Caribbean in his crosshairs, kidnapped the Venezuelan president & executed >140 people in boat strikes — what does he want with Cuba? W/ @mjbusta.bsky.social & @andrespertierra.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...