Mattathias Schwartz

Old enough to remember when folks were looking at old emails and speculating about what "pizza" might be code for

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

CNN: In a major break, Britain has stopped sharing some intelligence about suspected drug trafficking with the US over America's deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean.

The UK does not want to be complicit in the military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns

Mark Wolf, a federal judge, said he had stepped down and warned of an “existential threat to democracy” by President Trump, whom he accused of “using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries”🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

Read Judge Mark L. Wolf's full essay in @theatlantic.com here -- www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns

Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns

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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

A Mission Gone Wrong Why are we still fighting the drug war?

a kind of sequel www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

A Massacre in Jamaica After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.

this one stayed with me ... although honestly? I don't love the art ... www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

Essential reporting www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

If you’re baking and using brown sugar, and some of it shakes out in small clumps, here’s my go-to kitchen pro tip…

You eat them.

They’re little treats.

You deserve it.

False Positives | Mattathias Schwartz [The] No Fly List contains fewer than 100,000 names; nevertheless, one major airline told DHS that it and other watch lists were generating 9,000 false positives a day — more than 3 million a year. On...

a kind of sequel www.nplusonemag.com/issue-29/pol...

The Whole Haystack How Basaaly Moalin became the only person convicted as a direct result of the agency’s metadata program. Mattathias Schwartz reports.

this one was good www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.

NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
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Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.

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How Dick Cheney Looked on 9/11 Like most official photos, photos of Dick Cheney on 9/11 are institutional selfies, neither staged nor candid.

an old Cheney take, from 2015 www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

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"Consider Jerry Orbach," oil on panel, 5" x 7" #Orbachtober

I’m not saying it doesn’t pour

With just a moment's reflection, this is really dark stuff. The idea here is to have live-in help that doesn't actually have to live in, that doesn't have to be in the same country, that can be paid third-world wages, that you don't ever have to face the humanity of. Lucky for humanity it's useless.

When it rains, it rains

Jon Raymond Novelist and screenwriter Jonathan Raymond is known for grounded stories of everyday life.

the great jon raymond on the cool shit he does and thinks about
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Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force in the Caribbean

About 10,000 U.S. troops and dozens of military aircraft and ships are in the region. From NYT Politics:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

"Both courts were mistaken to conclude that a federal court may review the President’s judgment at all."

The Trump admin has asked the Supreme Court to override two rulings and okay National Guard in the Chicago area,

@amarimow.bsky.social reports

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Full ruling here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Seventh Circuit upholds Judge Perry's block on National Guard deployments in Chicago.

Free gift link >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

There's a consensus that winning is better than losing. I don't disagree. But, there is a special kind of clarity that comes with losing.

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportation flights. The AP spoke to a number of people who said they were placed in the device after they had already been shackled.