Maximilíano Durón
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Queer, Chicanx reporter covering contemporary art. Also, Senior Editor @ARTnews, [email protected]. he/him Black Lives Matter. Defund the Police. Abolish ICE.
Rep. Cleo Fields, whose 6th Congressional District was ruled unconstitutional, gives his testimony. Fields pointed out how the only four African-American representatives from Louisiana since 1877 are here. #lalege #lagov @LAFirstNews
“Last March, a fog took hold in my head and never left. It settled there somewhere between the moment a DHS agent asked me, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ and the moment I realized that I would miss the birth of my first child,” writes Khalil. A year ago, the Trump administration unlawfully arrested Khalil at his home and detained him for 104 days. “I walk free now, only after an army of lawyers sued the administration for targeting me because of my pro-Palestine speech. But the government is relentless in targeting me,” he writes. “So when I walk, I watch my back.” “When strangers approach me and ask, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ — the same words in the same expectant tone the DHS agent used before the handcuffs — I do not know if they want to shake my hand or spit in my face. I do not know whether they will say, ‘Thank you for what you're doing,’ or follow me through midtown aggressively shouting, ‘Am Yisrael Chai.’ Both have happened. At first glance, I can never tell them apart.” In a new essay, Khalil writes about grappling with these two truths: “That I walk through the city afraid and that the city, in small and persistent ways, tells me I am welcome. That I am watched and that I am seen.” Read it in full: nymag.visitlink.me/tM03B5
Here is what The Strokes did and how it should go down in history as one of the most important protests by a musical band of our times:
#The heroic doctor Hossam Abu Safiya is among the prisoners scheduled for execution 💔
This is what childhood looks like in Gaza.
Bill to track transgender Tennesseans passes state House
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: If Democrats win the 2026 midterms, they plan to pass a bill called the Alex Pretti Act that will end qualified immunity for ICE agents, allowing them to be sued or jailed for wrongdoing
Ms. Rachel is pushing to shut down a Texas ICE facility detaining children, saying kids belong back home with their families, not in detention.
🚨 BREAKING: BBC correspondent reporting live from Gaza says Israel used white phosphorus. The broadcast is instantly cut.
