NEW: House Oversight Committee wants to interview Epstein prison guard -- interview request comes after
@miamiherald exclusively reported that she was overheard by inmate talking about covering up his killing. Here is a free link to our story: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Brilliant essay by Susan Pederson on the ‘podcast bros’ who “manfully explained Epstein to me” and why this infuriated her. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Great reporting by Tammy Kim on how an agency that “recovered twenty-one billion dollars in direct relief for consumers and five billion dollars in civil penalties from a wide range of companies” was turned into a “zombie regulator” by Russell Vought & Trump. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Important ruling on immigration operations in Minnesota
Judge Tostrud (Trump appointee):
"Plaintiffs have made a clear showing that Defendants have adopted a POLICY authorizing federal immigration officers to conduct investigatory stops based on ethnicity or race without reasonable suspicion."
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A hidden benefit of the Iran war for Netanyahu and his supporters: averting attention from the crimes of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
The second sentence of DOJ's brief--the brief it filed yesterday in the law firm case--is very wrong. The First Amendment protects private speech by (among other things) restricting what public officials can say. See, e.g., Bantam Books, NRA v. Vullo. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Treating war with the solemnity it merits: “On Thursday, the White House posted a video overlaying airstrike footage with the lyrics ‘Kaboom, kablow’ from the viral rap song ‘Bazooka,’ and another mixing clips of missile detonations with SpongeBob SquarePants.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
@justinevdl.bsky.social just joined Bluesky. Give her a follow and preorder UNREASONABLE WOMEN immediately. An extraordinary book everyone will be talking about this year.
Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.
It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.
Let's take stock of where we are.
“Allies”? Who other than the figure in question was fueling this? “But behind the scenes, his move toward war grew inexorably, fueled by allies like Mr. Netanyahu who pushed the president to strike a decisive blow against Iran’s theocratic government.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
A Rohingya refugee who fled state persecution, nearly blind and unable to speak English, is left to die on the frozen streets of Buffalo, thanks to state negligence and inhumanity. www.dw.com/en/us-blind-...
The “Donald Dash” appears to have done far more to shrink America’s population than ICE: “The U.S. saw 675,000 deportations and 2.2 million ‘self-deportations’ last year, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.” www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
If you haven’t yet read this piece by Ava Kofman, get to it late, as I did, because it’s simply extraordinary. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Breaking: Trump fixed our broken healthcare system, saved the country from “Obamacare,” brought the price of groceries down, made rent affordable; nobody has ever seen anything like it, nobody can believe it.
Trump just plugged his most populist measure, “no tax on tips.” He neglected to mention that it’s more of a gift to industry than to low-paid restaurant workers. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Very excited to announce that Rachael Bedard, Jasmine Garsd, Tanvi Misra, Jasper Craven, Ryan “R.L.” Nave, and Katie Rose Quand are now fellows at Type Media Center. typemediacenter.org/2026/02/24/t...
We @knightcolumbia.org have started to post short essays from some of the scholars and advocates participating in our "Reconstructing Free Expression" project. I'm going to post the essays in this thread, as we publish them. They're really good! knightcolumbia.org/research/rec...
“When asked for comment about the missing pages and the accusations against the president, a White House spokeswoman told NPR that Trump ‘has done more for Epstein's victims than anyone before him.’”
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
Yes, life must allow for unforced errors.
Just imagine what might have happened if, on income inequality, free trade and a host of other economic issues, the Democratic Party had listened to Jesse Jackson instead of sidelining him. newrepublic.com/article/2066...
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
Post material laced with Nazi and Confederate themes at the Department of Labor, get a promotion to do PR for Homeland Security. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Someone please explain to me how annihilating the planet is conservative. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
2017 poll: Nearly 50% of Americans don’t know Puerto Ricans are fellow citizens www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/u...
