Rob Mickey

New CBS head Bari Weiss' devotion to reporting on "the world as it actually is" is so great that when confronted with multiple large factual errors in one of her site's articles, she... did nothing to change or correct the article radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...

This (and all of your other posts) are super-helpful, thanks!

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Judge Immergut is a Republican and a 2019 Trump appointee.

Why are those of us with even passing familiarity with authoritarian consolidation freaking out? Because the answers to a) will Trump's paramilitary forces fire on civilians and b) will elements in the military follow orders to carry out unambiguously illegal extra-judicial murders are both "yes."

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening

www.404media.co/google-calls...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

The Trump Administration's SCOTUS Winning Streak Podcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · 09/29/2025 · 1h 59m

LISTEN: So appreciate @leahlitman.bsky.social, @profmmurray.bsky.social, & @kateshaw.bsky.social for allowing NYT columnist @jamellebouie.net & I to join them in a deep dive about the ongoing attempt to derail the promise of the 14th Amendment. Begins at min 57:00. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

RIP, Herr Doktor Offe

Bonica used to have to analyze data to show this kind of pattern, but now they just come out and say it

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Brief thread: just a reminder that the budget reconciliation law enacted by President Trump and the GOP Congress (H.R. 1, OBBBA) cut $1.1T/10 yrs in net spending from Medicaid, CHIP & the Marketplaces. That includes $990B in gross #Medicaid cuts: the largest cuts to the program in its history (1/x).

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations of Foreign Students and Academics Violate the First Amendment The decision is the most thorough in a line of recent court decisions reaching similar results.

My take on today's important - and correct! - federal court decision holding speech-based deportations of non-citizen students and academics violate the First Amendment: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Case # 412 that principled commitments to “states’ rights” are almost always bollocks

DOJ’s attempts to charge these cases in DC and LA have been resoundingly unsuccessful. Grand juries have rejected a huge proportion of the attempts to indict. One case in LA that went to trial as a misdemeanor recently ended in acquittal

Tweet from Elon Musk: "The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group"

I sure hope the ADL is proud that they stuck up for Elon Musk when he did a Nazi salute back in January.

A liberal Chicago suburb is paying reparations — will others follow? Evanston set up a fund to compensate Black citizens for residential racism, and has since expanded it

A liberal Chicago suburb is paying reparations — will others follow? on.ft.com/4gNB1vY | opinion

Local News Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.

Some clearly true, ideology-free science shows that we should expect this: the thermostatic effect of elections on US public opinion.

RIP, Jonathan Lear. Only knew him through his writings, but he seemed like a once-in-decades combination of insightful and deeply humane.

@abhw.bsky.social, this is cool!

1985 -- that was before the strike zone changed! #umpireforlife

JD Vance appropriating the term "blood libel" to describe legitimate criticism of ICE agents is one of the most antisemitic things I have heard in US politics in the past few weeks. Yet this administration has somehow managed to convince a lot of people it actually cares about fighting antisemitism.

The Pentagon denies the event will feature a scorpion-swallowing competition.

I’m thrilled that my job market paper, “Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in sub-Saharan Africa,” is hot off the press and open-access at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. A quick thread featuring more than you ever wanted to know about land tenure.