New York City comptroller Brad Lander arrested at immigration court hearing Mayoral candidate was detained by Ice as he escorted an immigrant out of court, says his wife

"I am extraordinarily proud of my husband," said Brad Lander's wife, Meg Barnette, during a press conference just now.

"What was going on in those courtrooms is absolutely unacceptable... This is not the way people are treated in the US."

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UnitedHealth faces federal scrutiny into whistleblower claims Attention comes in wake of ex-employees’ allegations that insurer paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers and used improper tactics to gain Medicare Advantage enrollees

“Last week, shortly before the Guardian was to publish a second story providing additional detail about Gonite’s pending lawsuit and the other two whistleblowers’ declarations, UnitedHealth filed a lawsuit against the Guardian”- @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

thanks MAX!

a real accomplishment by the makers of Parasite that Trump is still upset about the best picture win 5 years later

the horses did it again!

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

I didn't have space to get into it much in my piece, but there is a Catholic version of the political work done by "the sin of empathy" and it's "ordo amoris" – a concept embraced by JD Vance to justify privileging his family and fellow citizens over strangers

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

I tried to write about empathy and ended up writing about fascism again

gonna say what we’ve all been thinking: the phrase “jammy eggs” is absolutely disgusting

The Newspaper Flourishing Without a Paywall How the Guardian US is using Trump to get readers to cough up a donation.

“there is a real crisis of access to reliable information for people who don’t want or have the means to subscribe”- @thebetsy.bsky.social via @charlottetklein.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...

White House buoyed up by submission of major law firm attacked by Trump Paul, Weiss’s chair hung former partner out to dry after a series of attacks on US legal community by president

NEW: Trump agreed to rescind executive order targeting Paul Weiss after seeing the firm’s chairman offer up criticism of Mark Pomerantz at a meeting on Wednesday as he tried to appease the president. The White House then publicized his criticism @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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!! H/t @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Hi there, Today Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post and the third richest man on the planet, directly intervened for a second time in recent months in his newspaper’s coverage, undermining its editorial independence. Bezos announced in an email to staff that he had directed the Post’s opinion editor to limit the section’s pieces only to those “in support and defense of … personal liberties and free markets”, appearing to restrict how the Post’s opinion writers can respond to the crisis in the US – and the world – brought about by Donald Trump’s second reign as president. Rather than comply with this politicized edict, the Post’s opinion editor resigned. Since the US election, Bezos has stepped up his direct interventions in the Post’s coverage. In October, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder, who has billions of dollars at stake in government contracts, told editors at the Post to pull a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris, the first time in 30 years the newspaper’s editorial board had not endorsed a candidate. The Guardian will never take editorial direction from our billionaire owner – because thankfully, we don't have one. Instead, we rely on readers like you to fund our truly independent work. We’re grateful for your past support of our work. If you are able to make a sustained commitment to journalism that is free from proprietorial interference, please consider supporting us on a monthly basis from $5 – or we of course welcome all one-time gifts. This is what billionaire ownership of news organizations looks like. We are proud to offer an alternative – thanks to your support.

Bezos's interference in the Post during the morning becomes a fund-raising pitch by the Guardian during the afternoon

When SDNY refused to drop the Eric Adams case, it was moved to the Public Integrity Section.

The acting leader of the Public Integrity Section also refused to drop the case and resigned.

Condé Nast, McClatchy and Other Publishers Accuse AI Firm Cohere of Copyright Violations The lawsuit accuses the Canadian company of sharing versions of entire articles without permission.

“when prompted to pull an article the Guardian published on Oct. 7, 2024, titled, “‘The pain will never leave’: Nova massacre survivors return to site one year on,” …Cohere referenced an entirely different, and nonexistent article”- @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/med...

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

New: @propublica.org is tracking who's in Musk's DOGE crew. 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

Thousands of ICE press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
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Trump signs order authorizing tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China Decision could set the stage for a damaging trade war between the US and three of its top trade partners Donald Trump has signed an order authorizing tariffs after vowing to impose dramatic taxes on goods from Canada, Mexico and China starting this…

Trump signs order authorizing tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China

doing the federal government like a SPAC pitch deck

Revealed: Trump Pentagon nominee endorsed extremist Christian doctrine on podcast In newly uncovered recordings, Pete Hegseth rails against feminism, ‘critical race theory’, and even democracy itself

“Hegseth expresses agreement with the principle of sphere sovereignty, which…envisions a subordination of ‘civil government’ to Old Testament law, capital punishment for infringements of that law such as homosexuality, and rigidly patriarchal families/churches” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Knicks have 2 All-Star starters for first time in 50 years

Tuesday’s @guardian front page: Trump: ‘I was saved by God to make America great again’.
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‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Trump Jr event in Greenland People in Maga hats at meal last week did not know Donald Trump’s son and were invited off the street, hotel boss says

‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Trump Jr event in Greenland’

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Zuckerberg said the move to Texas “will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.”

But, one former employee told me, "They’ve always had people there... positioning it as though they’re doing something new to address liberal California bias is laughable at best.”