“According to two of the people briefed on the situation, military officials deployed that technology earlier this week against what they thought was a cartel drone, but which turned out to be a party balloon. “
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
My new column:
A masterclass by @vermontgmg.bsky.social
on how ICE/CBP became so specifically incompetent and violent. Unintelligent design--capped off by a fateful order from Stephen Miller. w @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
A must-read by @chashomans.bsky.social - esp this perfectly rendered description of Bovino lobbing a grenade “with the jocular informality of a backyard barbecue host tossing a tallboy to a newly arrived neighbor”…
Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...
Stephen Miller called the victim, an ICU nurse at the VA filming ICE, a “domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.” Greg Bovino said he “wanted to massacre law enforcement.” You saw the videos. How can any Republican not call for their resignations?
MS NOW: "I'm just getting something handed to me -- a statement from DHS -- that it will investigate the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old protester by its officers rather than the FBI. So they're gonna be investigating that which they already issued a summary about. It would seem like a closed book."
This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
On the eve of a new potential conflict, I wrote a little post about how some war on terror tactics have been recycled and repurposed open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...
I had such a great time talking with Matt Shaer on his new pod, Origin Stories about the tortured process of writing and reporting and what it takes to do long stories.. tip one: don't send 2 page pitch letters!!
thank you @sarahposner.bsky.social - as always... it was fun doing this - rarely do you get to deconstruct your own weirdness :)
Jennifer Szalai reviews Furious Minds for the New York Times. What a thrill, I love this review so much.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
When Charlie Kirk was shot, he did a full oval office address. When it's college kids on campus it's "things can happen." What a sociopath.
slippery slope, or put another way: "The Bush Administration tortured detainees to protect American lives' - this administration just digs it..."
Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same. Hegseth’s Boat Strikes Are Illegal. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...
Important story about the lie that is now shaping US immigration policy. On These South African Farms, Black and White Neighbors Fight Crime Together www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/w...
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts stands by Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host release his controversial interview with Nick Fuentes.
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
that article was such a massive embarrassment - i mean, subject matter wise, and also as a piece of writing - was it writing? awful headline, non-story, editor hoping to be "buzzy" .. or something. ... as a former GQ writer, it offends me on a few levels.
Vermont still has robust local and state news coverage which makes a real difference when scandals like this break: vtdigger.org/2025/10/17/o...
Americans believe that Trump is using the pretext of criminal justice to silence and disappear his political enemies, in he classic style of authoritarian dictatorship
The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...
This is nearly a weekly occurrence
@mikeajensen.bsky.social and I were perturbed at how a recent report on left wing terrorism and political violence is predictably being weaponized. So we dug into the analysis for @justsecurity.org
www.justsecurity.org/122278/corre...
Barbara Starr, who covered the Pentagon for decades, says the announcement is "beyond odd" and that the preexisting press corps "still is working every day no matter how afraid of it you all seem to be"
Awful: Trump's $230 million shakedown from DOJ can be paid to him confidentially at first, without the public ever finding out about it until later, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me.
Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
Jamie Raskin tells me he'll formally demand any and all communications between the White House and DOJ about these $230 million claims. He's set to push it at the next Judiciary Committee meeting, challenging Republicans.
Read these Raskin quotes, they're striking:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
It's been a week of ostentatious bigotry in American politics, David A. Graham argues in The Atlantic Daily.
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
