Jane Mayer

Here’s a question for Elon: have you seen the documentary Rovina’s Choice, in which a mother weeps as her little girl dies of malnutrition because of cuts to USAID?

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Exactly

the owner just spent 75 million on a film that opened with a 7 million take

No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost.com is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society

Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs

Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs- “saving” the paper by firing its staff. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

An Asian elephant has been born at the National Zoo The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and only the third born there in the zoo’s 136-year history.

Wonderful news- baby Asian elephant born at National Zoo as wild population dips www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

From 9/11 to Minneapolis: How ICE Became a Paramilitary Force Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 01/30/2026 · 30m

A masterclass by @vermontgmg.bsky.social
on how ICE/CBP became so specifically incompetent and violent. Unintelligent design--capped off by a fateful order from Stephen Miller. w @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg:

It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest:

“This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested."

More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...

Opinion | The Midterm Elections Need You. Here’s How to Help.

The Midterm Elections Need You. Here’s How to Help. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

ICYMI this explains so much: Donald Trump doesn’t need to destroy the court system to get his way, Aziz Huq writes. He just needs to create a shadow zone where the law no longer applies. Welcome to America’s “prerogative state”:

Wonderful book!

Yale Law School 😱

He's right.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w

Users say TikTok stifled posts about Minneapolis shooting as platform faltered TikTok users said their videos about federal immigration enforcement were being suppressed days after a deal to spin off the U.S. business to new investors was finalized.

Are the new owners censoring criticism of Trump? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I recommend Minnesota Public Radio live. I’m learning a lot I’m not getting elsewhere.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Jack Smith: "Donald Trump was not looking for honest answers about whether there was fraud in the election. He was looking for ways to stay in power. And when people told him things that conflicted with him staying in power, he rejected them."

The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t

Thank you!

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

Have you listened to the podcast?

Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

ICYMI: One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Justice Department weighs rollback of gun regulations The Justice Department is considering loosening a slate of gun regulations as it seeks to bolster support from ardent Second Amendment advocates.

👀https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/19/trump-justice-department-gun-regulations-atf/

incredible stuff

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