Piper French
@PiperSFrench
reporting @boltsmag, other work in @nybooks @nymag @readlux @thedrift_mag etc. en/es/fr
In January 2024 I got a one-line email from a woman I didn't know: "Jimmie Duncan an innocent man on death row is looking to get into contact with you." I've been working on the story ever since. Here it is, finally : a @boltsmag / @MotherJones collab.
I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.
Breaking: An Israeli airstrike just killed Adam Yahya Abu Harbid, a cameraman for Al-Quds Al-Youm channel, along with all members of his family, after targeting their tent in Al-Yarmouk market in Gaza City.
I am so grateful for @sameerproject please support them they are doing what so many of us wish we could do with them, they are getting urgent aid directly to the people in need. when you feel overwhelmed by the scale of devastation look to them and donate. you can help today
Bari is scrambling to get ahead of the fact that she denied starvation in Gaza—something the photos and footage now make undeniable. Israel’s most fervent defenders have all abruptly shifted their message from denial to acknowledgement + blaming someone else in the past few days.
This is what’s really scaring me. Bari fucking Weiss should not feel compelled to do damage control NOW. They’ve gleefully trucked through so many unspeakable horrors.
This is a verified fundraiser that a trusted friend shared with me. Support food aid that will be getting into Gaza here. launchgood.com/v4/campaign/ga…
Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 days*
A number of premiere international news organizations - BBC, AP, AFP, Reuters - have issued a statement warning that their reporters are facing starvation. All news orgs should be standing in solidarity with these reporters. bbc.com/mediacentre/st…
🚨 🚨🚨 “Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations” “In a video filmed Tuesday inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, families fretted over babies with distended bellies and tiny fists that they clenched as they cried.”…
What really happened inside 45 E 45th st? The real story—of how alt conservative media, a corruption administration, Trump, and global financial firms conspired against the city's public servants and the poorest people in America—will fill you with rage. slate.com/news-and-polit…
funniest things that happened to me in paris: getting spit at by a diabolic french toddler, watching a bobo 6 yr old lean out of her Marais apt window to spit down on some tourists, realizing every other customer at the gare bistrot was an iron maiden fan in town for a concert
An Israeli security source monitored the aftermath of an airstrike in which children were burned alive: "Her daughter was still alive, she was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter."
A new investigation by @yuval_abraham in @972mag adds yet further evidence that Israel intentionally targets Palestinian civilians and aims to maximize casualties: 972mag.com/double-tap-isr…
More than 100 Palestinian deaths by Israeli-engineered starvation logged to date — about 10% of them occurring in the last 24 hours. ft.com/content/acb611…
Wrote for @nybooks abt the LA immigration raids, unions' vexed relationship to immigrant workers & how worker centers emerged from that vacuum, how they are mobilizing now & the possibility that more expansive solidarities might emerge out of this crisis: nybooks.com/online/2025/07…
reposting this excellent piece on the labor movement's place (and dilemma) in the current struggles in LA nybooks.com/online/2025/07…
Below is a message from Anas Alshariff Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza. He, along with nearly two million Gazans, including women and children, are being starved under the draconian siege and ongoing bombardment by Israeli occupying forces. We call for immediate humanitarian aid…
Journalists, politicians, university presidents and writers have debated what "intifada" means for almost two years. But from the beginning, Israel was saying "human animals," was promising starvation. If it has been a question of language, it meant what it sounded like it meant.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
"Instead of often telling my kids “I love you,” I have been repeating for the past two weeks: “Kids, eat less. Kids, drink less.” And I imagine this being my last thing I say to them and it is devastating." - Refaat Alareer, October 2023
Latest for @AP: ICE officials will have access to all 79 million Medicaid enrollees' personal data, including addresses and ethnicities, according to an extraordinary agreement signed on Monday. w/ @kimberlykindy apnews.com/article/immigr…
Hello: I'm collecting examples of anti-Muslim remarks people in the United States have received over their lives for a research project. Please fill out this survey if it applies to you (and please share!): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
NEW in Bolts: Louisiana Republicans passed a new law that effectively eviscerates people's ability to claim their innocence and seek relief once they've been convicted. huge blow to the rights of people in prison in a state full of wrongful convictions: boltsmag.org/louisiana-limi…