June 6th, 2025. Los Angeles. I watched it from a concrete room in Cambodia, the ceiling fan whining overhead, a quiet lunch going cold beside me. Protesters filled the screen. Screaming. Throwing. Bleeding. ICE had kicked off another wave of raids — this time sweeping through Westlake and the Fashion District…
Harvard didn’t flinch. That’s what I keep circling back to. In a year where most institutions either went quiet or contorted themselves into compliance, Harvard filed suit. Refused to hand over surveillance data. Challenged the regime's gag orders. Took hit after hit and stood back up.…
You can only stare at the numbers so long before they start to feel fake. One hundred sixty-two federal judges threatened in the first fifteen days of May. Two hundred seventy-seven over six months. One-third of the entire federal bench, marked and stalked and harassed into silence or worse. These…
May 2025 didn’t announce itself. It just sharpened. Week by week. Action by action. Until even the air felt thinner. It started with May Day protests—a nationwide wave of resistance against a renewed deportation machine. People marching in a thousand cities, trying to drag the country's…
I didn’t watch the video. I couldn’t. I read the transcript instead. The whole thing. It was enough. Trump hosting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa this week should have been routine. Two nations. Longstanding ties. Trade, security, rare earths, diplomacy. The kind of state meeting that once passed…
On May 9th, 2025, federal agents arrested Ras Baraka, the sitting mayor of Newark, New Jersey. They cuffed him outside Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility with a $1 billion contract tied to GEO Group, during what should have been a routine oversight visit. Let that settle in. A mayor.…
It happened again. This time it was a two-year-old girl, an American by birth, carried off to a place she had never chosen, by a system that doesn't even pretend to recognize her anymore. No trial. No hearing. No real process at all. They bundled her up alongside…
I spent most of the day pacing. Sometimes you get hit with a piece of news so wrong it feels like it lands in your chest instead of your head. Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested this week. Two felony charges: obstruction of a U.S. agency and harboring an undocumented…