Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16hWhen federal agents fatally shot the US citizen protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January during the nation’s largest immigration-enforcement operation ever, it marked a turning point for the second Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. 🧵 24720
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 18hToday, @wired.com is publishing Choke Points, an 18-month investigation into how Israel’s network of checkpoints, gates, and roadblocks is reshaping daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A thread on the reporting, and what we found: 113465
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 17hthe pic is of me! but i'm still in touch with many of them today :) 120
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 17hthere is a generation of current college students who didn’t realize that #MeToo didn’t end rape culture, in part because the adults around them ridiculed it for going “too far”; the generation in between was silenced and punished, while the schools let student turnover free them from accountability 0887
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 17hthis picture is from 10 years ago in October. as students we took it upon ourselves to organize bystander intervention and consent workshops because our institutions let survivors down. it popped into my head this week considering how in some ways students today have worse material conditions 320131
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)brittany spanos 🧿 @ohheybrittany.bsky.social · 29/09/2026my latest cover story is on megan thee stallion for marie claire 🧡 we went deep on her health scare during moulin rouge, life after klay thompson and what to expect with her upcoming album ‘act iii’ read here: www.marieclaire.com/culture/mega... 117843
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 29/09/2026Read the full investigation by @mulchy.bsky.social here: chicagoreader.com/news/ice-flo...chicagoreader.comFeds tapped local surveillance networks in botched Chicago prosecutions - Chicago ReaderDuring their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras. 02612
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 29/09/2026Federal authorities tapped into a network of Flock automated license plate readers and surveillance cameras while trying to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz last year, according to court records reviewed by the Reader. 🧵 24015
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 29/09/2026on top of the emails showing Epstein directly supporting individual predatory professors, a professor who planned a "campus rape and consent" conference with the intention of undermining mid-2010s attempts at progress around Title IX requested funding for it from Epsteinchron.comFormer UT professor sought money from Jeffrey Epstein FoundationHe sought $10K-$20K to cover the costs of a campus rape policy event. 19135
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026Public backlash against ICE climaxed after the January 2026 fatal shootings of two US citizens in Minneapolis. Since then, stealthier arrest operations have fueled enforcement that is quieter but just as ruthless. The 24 hours between the mornings of July 13-14 stand out as exceptionally deadly. 🧵 48346
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Bex 🖤🏴 @thinlyveiledtruth.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/09/2026People are disappearing incredibly quickly. And part of the invisibility is that just when we need even more capacity for rapid response and patrols, public interest has turned away because people don't think it's a problem anymore. We're tired. 511865
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Re-sharing (and shares welcomed!!!), my upcoming class for @shipmanagency.bsky.social … Starting this Saturday, on pitching, open to nonfiction writers of all kinds … Enroll today, if you are considering doing so, it’s last call … www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...theshipmanagency.comCraft Seminar: The Art of the Pitch with Sandy Ernest Allen — The Shipman Agency2 Sessions: Saturdays, October 3 + 10 1:00-3:00pm ET Sandy Ernest Allen Master the art of pitching with journalist and editor Sandy Ernest Allen. Sandy is a trans and queer freelance journalist, a... 11922
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For every story like the Cornell gang rape, there are thousands more that couldn’t make it into the light. I wrote about a few dozen of them at one university in On the Wrong Side. The university’s treatment of survivors is eerily similar to what Jane Doe at Cornell experienced.bookshop.orgOn the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop... 2442147
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And that brings us to present day. The most reliable way for a campus sexual assault story to make it into a newspaper is for the survivor to file a lawsuit against their school. And the two main vehicles survivors used to do that have been closed for years. 130452
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026cornellsun.comSupport the Sun! - The Cornell Daily SunThe Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880. 08226
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This story was a big collaboration between graphics, data, photo, and immigration. A story with bylines across 4 desks, which I think shows the seriousness with which The Guardian takes covering this 011032
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. Now ICE is anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life.theguardian.comGone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than everAfter public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere 5514295
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both. 9443183
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026The biggest category of arrests this summer were people on probation, picked up by immigration officers at their work, or who were arrested in communities across the country. 130584
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026As has long been the case, ICE works with jails and prisons to take custody of immigrants after they have been booked in. Since Trump took office last year, only 46% of detainees have been previously convicted of crimes. 2309101
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026And it's clear that ICE is using both familiar and novel tactics to maximize arrests, from jail transfers to so-called 287(g) agreements that deputize local police forces to carry out immigration enforcement on ICE’s behalf. 2364141
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before. 22684451
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US. 18828494
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵 54854518
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)The Xylom @thexylom.com · 28/09/2026A group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers. This week, a federal judge ruled that the state must air-condition all Texas prisons by the end of 2029. This story was first published by @19thnews.org.thexylom.comThe ‘Lionesses’ Who Sued To Get Air Conditioning in Every Texas Prison — And WonA group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers. 021877
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I can't recommend @nbedera.bsky.social's book 'On the Wrong Side' enough. I interviewed her in 2024, this part really stuck with me. Rapists often don't just not face consequences but reap benefits bc the school is so sorry for even investigating them/afraid of seeming 'biased': 122151
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 28/09/2026I am being extremely well behaved and relegating my full thoughts about this to my book proposal 1420
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A combined 45 Biden administration alums now work at either OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta.therevolvingdoorproject.orgTracking the Revolving Door Between AI and Former Biden Officials | Revolving Door ProjectThis tracker was first published August 3, 2026 and last updated on September 16, 2026. The artificial intelligence industry is rapidly reshaping every facet of life, from the popularity of chatbots… 39647
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026plus role of frats + athleticswafb.comLSU football player accused of sexually assaulting student on campusA criminal investigation has been launched into an alleged sexual assault involving an LSU football player and a student, the East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office confirmed in a statement Tuesd... 2492
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026and:wired.comA College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to WorkMaddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back. 1494
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026honestly really impressive this eboard was able to run this without cornell locking them out of their office/dorm rooms 21251
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026i tried to see if they'd let ME report on it 😭 and no dice yet lol 170
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026like, hella people in boston mask! what the fuck was this story framing! i really dont know man 2432
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026like i went to a new lesbian bar in philly over the weekend and easily a quarter to a third of patrons were wearing KN95s. and because i have immunocompromised loved ones who are more informed than anyone else about what is safe for them, i was excited to feel like i had a new place to bring them 1572
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026because if this WAS from a LGBTQ+ run newsroom, and particularly one with trans people in it, i think the covid aspect of it could've been handled much more carefully and without being ableist because taking COVID precautions is so totally normal in many, NOT ALL, but many queer spaces 1647
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026this is 100% true AND this story has esp pissed me off w/ the gutting of "mainstream" LGBTQ media + journos. there is a version of this story we could giggle at without Ted Cruz seeing but the LGBTQ newsrooms left are either all owned by same company or self-funded and struggling so instead, this 211718
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026yeah this exact thing has been pmo so bad 0100
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026hey are your dms open? im trying to write about this 110
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026thousands of people protested in New York City streets over Netanyahu’s UN visit today. over 100 were arrested. on the ground with @alicesperi.bsky.social @us.theguardian.comtheguardian.comNetanyahu’s speech at UN spurs protests in New York City: ‘Let Gaza live’Actor Susan Sarandon, whistleblower Chelsea Manning and comedian Caleb Hearon are detained by NYPD 220262
Reposted by Lex McMenamin (they/them)Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 24/09/2026Peak “Where we’re at” is a story designed to be cruel to people already living on the margins being given so many resources that it breaks containment and lures in the crowd willing to financially support anyone being equally cruel to those they’ve deemed unworthy of any grace or kindness. 113128