There are real people on the end of these grants. Rust belt autoworkers. Great Plains farmers and roughnecks. Coal communities looking to a new economic future.

It’s genuinely heartbreaking. They don’t have do this — the money is already obligated — but I guess they enjoy destroying lives.

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

Is the irony of the president’s friend buying something called “the free press” and immediately installing a government truth compliance officer lost on everybody?

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

Whoa. The criminal charge was for failure to file a change of address under 8 USC 1306(b), which makes it a crime for any noncitizen (of any legal status) to fail to register a change of address with the government within 10 days of moving.

Unheard of to charge for that.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Note from oncology nurse: Hi Lizzie No official word yet. I reached out to our Specialty pharmacy to see if they know anything--when I hear from them, I will update you

Everything going great with the whole “will my $17k/month cancer meds be subject to 100% tariff” question.

For over a decade I was lucky enough to work side by side with my journalistic role model-turned partner in crime, the truly badass @jordansmith.bsky.social. There's no reporter in the country like her & I miss her terribly. But I'm also so proud & excited for what's to come. #WrongfulConvictionDay

I was lucky enough to work with Jordan on two podcasts: the second season of Murderville and a miniseries about SCOTUS. Learned so much from her brilliance. Going to miss working with you friend. Maybe we can make a junk science podcast one day.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Introducing Collateral Damage | Collateral Damage from The Intercept The Intercept is launching a new podcast series reported and hosted by investigative journalist Radley Balko.

I've been writing about the war on drugs for more than 20 years. There are some cases that have stuck with me -- names that have never left my head. For the last couple years, I've been working with The Intercept on a podcast to tell their stories. It launches in a week.

This has been in the works for a long time & it’s thrilling to see it out in the world. Radley’s reporting has a lot to teach us about how we got to our present moment in the US. (Shoutout to my stellar colleague, producer Laura Flynn, who has taught our household everything we know about podcasts.)

This is so cool. Radley Balko is a leading voice in journalism about police overreach and he’s had a huge influence on me as a reporter.

the daily caller published a call to violence of the left yesterday, a news organization that has connections to the heritage foundation

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

The Emptiness of Attacking Critics for Their Hypocrisy It’s hard to defend crackdowns on free speech. It’s easier to simply claim everyone’s doing it.

Good lord, these dudes will never understand that the whole *point* of the "cancel culture" moral panic in which they participated was to create a permission structure for the current crackdown.

Chait et al were used, precisely to produce this outcome, & they'll never, ever look it in the face.

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump's Executive Order on Antifa Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

“Anti-fascism was one of the most unifying and electrifying banners to organize under during Trump’s first administration.” - important reflection from comrade Matthew Whitley on not dismissing the ways antifa IS real (but not what Trump says) @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

“A constitution adapts,” he wrote. “Due process is agile… Due process matures with technological developments to protect constitutional rights.”

If ever there was a time not to normalize Trump’s authoritarian fever dreams, this is it.

This should be impeachable. ‘War ravaged’ Portland? He’s insane - & insanely power hungry. The script is set - call an imaginary group a terror group and then send in the troops.

Yesterday, Meta unveiled a new "feed" on its platforms that will exclusively feature AI-generated videos.

This overshadowed another big announcement...

On Tuesday, Meta launched a super new PAC geared towards electing politicians that will block any AI regulation.

Hello?

“It is beyond highly irregular to have all the operational and command GOFOs tasked to fly to DC and also not tell any of them why,” said one of the officials, using military shorthand for general and flag officers. “To say the military leadership is anxious would be an understatement.”

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Since Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is re-fighting the Battle of Wounded Knee over on X, I thought that I would re-up my article for The Intercept from last Thanksgiving

Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
theintercept.com/2024/11/28/a...

Even the US Army's official history portrays Wounded Knee as a massacre in which "soldiers also employed artillery despite the presence of numerous noncombatants... including women and children..."
theintercept.com/2024/11/28/a...

What It’s Like on the Gaza-Bound Flotilla Attacked by Drones Global Sumud Flotilla volunteer Tommy Marcus and human rights lawyer Diana Buttu speak on Israel’s aid blockade and continued bombardment on Gaza.

Flotilla volunteer @tgmarc.bsky.social and human rights lawyer Diana Buttu spoke to @jordanuhl.com on Israel’s aid blockade and continued bombardment on Gaza.

Venezuela Boat Pilots Targeted by Trump Are Low-Level Pawns in the Drug Game “They are the poorest and weakest link. They are simply pawns in the operation.”

When drug boat operators -- impoverished fishermen trying to get by -- were caught in the past, they got a few years in prison. Now Trump is executing them without trials.

A must-read and an exceptionally smart take from my colleague Matt Sledge @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/09/26/t...

One of my favorite interviews to date: