The Diaper Story That Fueled a Protest The public first heard a very tidy tale: Martin Soto, a 31-year-old Peruvian national, was supposedly arrested by ICE agents on February 1 while buying diapers for his child. The claim came from his wife, Gabriela Soto, and it quickly became the kind of story activists and sympathetic media outlets know how to package. A father, diapers, handcuffs, and immigration officers make a ready-made outrage kit. By May, Gabriela was leading a hunger strike tied to Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, where she said detainees were facing bad food, poor sanitation, gas fumes, and weak medical care. Claims Inside Delaney Hall Went National Gabriela Soto told NJ.com that detainees were being served meals contaminated with worms and mold, and she said her goal was not only to free her husband but every detainee in the facility. She also said she saw her husband resisting as guards forced him into a van while he was handcuffed. The protests then spread into broader demonstrations against ICE tactics and the Trump administration’s deportation policies. She also set up a GoFundMe for her family while Soto was in custody. As usual, the…

A Former Democratic Insider Puts It in Writing Evan Barker, a former Obama intern and longtime Democrat, is preparing to release her memoir, Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative. Barker has said she became disenchanted with Democratic leadership after years in the party, including work that she says helped raise tens of millions of dollars. Her account is not a polite little note from the suggestion box. It is a claim from someone who says she lived inside the machine, helped run parts of it, and now believes the machinery was sorting people by identity while calling it justice. The Wall Street Journal Previewed the Book Wall Street Journal writer Barton Swaim previewed Barker's memoir and described a political world filled with ritualized progressive signaling. According to the preview, Barker writes about consultants and activists who openly attacked “whiteness” and “maleness,” even when they were white men themselves. She says some male progressives would praise candidates who looked less like them and more like others, a kind of workplace penance program with better catering. Barker also claims private doubts often vanished the moment a Zoom meeting began, when the pronouns came out and the approved talking points marched in.…