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Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

The spiked James Talarico interview CBS corporate doesn’t want Americans to see.

youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Wow.

US FCC notice to broadcasters prompts concerns on curtailing free speech Critics say such actions and increasing corporate ownership of media is causing a backsliding in US media freedom.

I talked to @aljazeera.com about the FCC. What a time to be finishing a book about media billionaires.

www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

All - after two years of transformation at The Washington Post, now is the right time for me to step aside. I want to thank Jeff Bezos for his support and leadership throughout my tenure as CEO and Publisher. The institution could not have a better owner. During my tenure, difficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post so it can for many years ahead publish high-quality nonpartisan news to millions of customers each day. With gratitude, Will

Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):

2026…so far.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand.

Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

What institutions will?

Washington Post laid off its reporter covering Amazon. From @columjournreview.bsky.social

🎯 I’m finishing a book about this.

Framing Washington Post layoffs as anything other than a billionaire owner killing journalism to curry favor with the government he does business with is journalistic malpractice.

You think the guy who owns Amazon hasn’t figured out digital?

The manuscript is almost finished!

Democracy dies in the bright light of billionaire ownership.

I mean, it's a really weird time to have written a book about all of this but also feel like you just scratched the surface of the terribleness.

In a crushing blow to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss, Kid Rock's alternative Super Bowl halftime show will air on Rumble and OAN, not CBS.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

W.H.A.T. A. B.U.R.N.!

The city of Minneapolis and its residents were formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

St. Peter police chief intervened and got federal agents to release resident, sources say Sources tell MPR News that the police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into detention. It is believed to t...

Important reporting from Minnesota Public Radio which was impacted by Trump’s funding cuts last year.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

PEACEFUL OBSERVER DONT SHOOT

This is America

If this is the same Peter Attia MD who was just revealed as one of Bari Weiss's big new additions to CBS News, he can just tell the stories about the "outrageous" life Jeffrey Epstein led on the Evening News.

Think of the ratings!

here is the video version of this post, with a few other thoughts as well. youtu.be/wBS13rx-M7s

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Don’t look away. Don’t be cynical. The president of the United States is a serial child rapist, according to files posted and then hastily removed by his own DoJ.

Yes authoritarians hate a free press. But these regimes also are filled with billionaire oligarchs who usurp or abandon journalism in exchange for favorable govt treatment to boost their own power.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

apnews.com/article/amaz...

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

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Bari Weiss isn’t the first out-of-touch exec to urge news staffers to quit.

A Sam Zell private equity boss in a 2007 memo said “print will prosper” and urged unhappy staffers interested in digital to exit Tribune.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.