Muna
@munamire.bsky.social
freelance writer + producer + creative director | previously: segment producer at desus and mero | mire dot muna at gmail
When someone brings charges against freelancers contracted out by ICE, does the government give them a shield from civil liability? Or do they pay out of pocket? They’re not federal employees necessarily, so I’m wondering what exactly their liability is in these circumstances
October 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
When someone brings charges against freelancers contracted out by ICE, does the government give them a shield from civil liability? Or do they pay out of pocket? They’re not federal employees necessarily, so I’m wondering what exactly their liability is in these circumstances
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I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...
theonion.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
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JUST IN: Trump launches a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times — naming reporters Peter Baker, Michael Schmidt, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner — because he doesn't like what they have written/reported about him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
JUST IN: Trump launches a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times — naming reporters Peter Baker, Michael Schmidt, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner — because he doesn't like what they have written/reported about him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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WHAT THE HELL
September 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
WHAT THE HELL
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If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.
September 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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honestly this guy has struck me as fairly charisma-free up til this point (in a way that is itself kind of charming?) but it takes a special kind of rizz to get this much information out of the thugs who are actively detaining you
Lander tells supporters gathered in Foley Square that the ICE agents who detained him today are among the 40% of 8+ million NYers who are foreign-born
“One of whom is a Pakistani Muslim who lives in Brighton Beach — and the other, an Indo-Guyanese guy in South Ozone Park”
“One of whom is a Pakistani Muslim who lives in Brighton Beach — and the other, an Indo-Guyanese guy in South Ozone Park”
June 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
honestly this guy has struck me as fairly charisma-free up til this point (in a way that is itself kind of charming?) but it takes a special kind of rizz to get this much information out of the thugs who are actively detaining you
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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“The test conversations found that both Meta’s official AI helper, called Meta AI, and a vast array of user-created chatbots will engage in and sometimes escalate discussions that are decidedly sexual—even when the users are underage or the bots are programmed to simulate the personas of minors.”
Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children
Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.
www.wsj.com
April 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“The test conversations found that both Meta’s official AI helper, called Meta AI, and a vast array of user-created chatbots will engage in and sometimes escalate discussions that are decidedly sexual—even when the users are underage or the bots are programmed to simulate the personas of minors.”
Abolish ICE is 100x more viable than Defund the Police is. Rhetorically speaking
April 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Abolish ICE is 100x more viable than Defund the Police is. Rhetorically speaking
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"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
"ICE is a rogue federal agency operating with impunity-destabilizing families, terrorizing neighborhoods, and eroding the very principles of justice it claims to defend. What happened yesterday ... is not an accident-it is the deliberate outcome of a system sliding deeper into authoritarianism."
Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”
April 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
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I rallied against Con Edison’s proposed double-digit rate hikes yesterday alongside fellow New Yorkers.
In the Assembly, I’ve been one of the loudest critics of Con Ed's price gouging—and as Mayor, I will continue to fight this corporate greed so we can keep the lights on.
In the Assembly, I’ve been one of the loudest critics of Con Ed's price gouging—and as Mayor, I will continue to fight this corporate greed so we can keep the lights on.
April 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I rallied against Con Edison’s proposed double-digit rate hikes yesterday alongside fellow New Yorkers.
In the Assembly, I’ve been one of the loudest critics of Con Ed's price gouging—and as Mayor, I will continue to fight this corporate greed so we can keep the lights on.
In the Assembly, I’ve been one of the loudest critics of Con Ed's price gouging—and as Mayor, I will continue to fight this corporate greed so we can keep the lights on.
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in the spirit of self-crit: in past years I have certainly been among those who have been vocally skeptical of the role of law and lawyers in meaningfully constraining armed agents of the state. but I do think we have to hand it to lawyers at this time
By my count, there had been 103 lawsuits filed in the last 20 days, and judges had issued 50 restraining orders requiring the Trump administration to reverse the terminations. Those decisions came in more than 23 states. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
in the spirit of self-crit: in past years I have certainly been among those who have been vocally skeptical of the role of law and lawyers in meaningfully constraining armed agents of the state. but I do think we have to hand it to lawyers at this time
I am having round face dysphoria. I used to have the roundest face ever and between ages 29 and 34 I got snatched. Against my consent smh
April 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I am having round face dysphoria. I used to have the roundest face ever and between ages 29 and 34 I got snatched. Against my consent smh
I do feel like we shouldn’t let people in their 80s govern simply because they won’t fear having to go back to living with the rest of us on planet Earth after they’ve made their mess of the mortal realm
April 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I do feel like we shouldn’t let people in their 80s govern simply because they won’t fear having to go back to living with the rest of us on planet Earth after they’ve made their mess of the mortal realm
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It's a new day and a turning point for our campaign.
Tonight during Knicks Game 3 — and for the next five days — we will be introducing our vision for an affordable New York on television.
Andrew Cuomo is running for Eric Adams' second term. I'm running for you.
Tonight during Knicks Game 3 — and for the next five days — we will be introducing our vision for an affordable New York on television.
Andrew Cuomo is running for Eric Adams' second term. I'm running for you.
April 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It's a new day and a turning point for our campaign.
Tonight during Knicks Game 3 — and for the next five days — we will be introducing our vision for an affordable New York on television.
Andrew Cuomo is running for Eric Adams' second term. I'm running for you.
Tonight during Knicks Game 3 — and for the next five days — we will be introducing our vision for an affordable New York on television.
Andrew Cuomo is running for Eric Adams' second term. I'm running for you.
I’ve never seen anyone maintain relevancy like this. He’s the Madonna of Civil Rights
An honor to meet with the Reverend Al Sharpton at National Action Network HQ today.
April 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I’ve never seen anyone maintain relevancy like this. He’s the Madonna of Civil Rights
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As America loses the superficial liberal flavor of pop culture, we’re losing culture’s transformative power entirely.
How the Radical Right Captured the Culture
Blame Hollywood’s “unwokening” and the extraordinary rise of right-wing podcasters on slop: intellectually bereft, emotionally sterile content that’s shaped by data and optimized for clicks.
newrepublic.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
As America loses the superficial liberal flavor of pop culture, we’re losing culture’s transformative power entirely.
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“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”.
Got that? Not. A. Crime.”
From my new Guardian op-ed:
Got that? Not. A. Crime.”
From my new Guardian op-ed:
There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan
It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”.
Got that? Not. A. Crime.”
From my new Guardian op-ed:
Got that? Not. A. Crime.”
From my new Guardian op-ed:
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NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning.
This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition
After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning.
This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
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Permanent rentier millennials riding into our third economic crisis with no savings, no investments, and no retirement plan
April 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Permanent rentier millennials riding into our third economic crisis with no savings, no investments, and no retirement plan