This is an outrageous escalation in the Trump administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press. Read @rcfp.org statement.

BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Trying to make wonton soup tonight

I’m making brioche dough for the first time and it’s got four hours left to prove and it is the size of the giant pillsbury dough boy in ghostbusters 2

We asked for ICE bodycam footage via FOIA four separate times. DHS claims it doesn't have any, despite at least one judge ordering its officers to wear them. theintercept.com/2026/01/09/d...

Me, logging on to work after the long weekend

I made these lil rice patties. Crispy on the outside!

One of my least favorite genres of posts is people with huge followings complaining about the results of having huge followings (I.e. “I posted something benign and got a ton of negative comments!” Yes. That will totally happen if you have a million followers.)

Elegant

I made the best Waldorf salad ever using leftover ingredients from last night’s pho: chicken, Thai basil, cilantro, mint, toasted walnuts, grapes, apple soaked in lemon, romaine, leftover Caesar dressing from trapper’s and a hard boiled egg. I’d cross an ocean in a paper hat for this salad

Jacob got me this and some other ebert books for Christmas. I’ve been eating up his old descriptions of old newsrooms, down to the detail that printing presses make the whole building shake. How could I have forgotten that?

Man oh man, this was so damn good

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If lacuna were real, I’d delete my memory of watching the movie face off so I could watch it for the first time again. A masterpiece

I made punch for one aka orange juice + 7up … with 7up Shirley temple no sugar. Very strange! I used to make this with regular sprite or 7up a lot in my early 20s when I was hungover. I realize now craving it should have been a sign I had a terrible vitamin c deficiency

I’m making pho for the first time, which is so intimidating to me tbh but it’s not as complicated as I assumed it would be? I’m using the recipe from nini nguyen’s book streetlightnews.org/nini-nguyen-...

I canceled my subscription after the reorg/etc. at vanity fair but somehow still received the all-male cover Hollywood issue. 100 journalism points to whoever came up with “let’s hear it for the boys!”

the second crew member's hand on the back of the guy running the vomit hose is like vomit hose guy is actually the one puking and crew member 2 is comforting him and holding his hair back. supposedly there was a lot of toxic behavior on the madmen set but this is proof there was also a lot of love

i'm grateful there's a fervor to launch new projects and publications right now, because the times are as dire as they appear to be, and a generation of young writers is looking out at a landscape that appears to be all ash and dust

Strib has a live blog following what seems like the imminent targeting of Somali migrants in the Twin Cities by ICE: www.startribune.com/live-minneap...

"I am told that writers used to be interesting." this is so fucking good www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

I sort of choked on my own spit when i got to the bottom of this and saw nuzzi’s salary for her vanity fair position is $200k and she’s never been to a meeting, responded to an email or edited anything pagesix.com/2025/12/01/c...

"This is the point where our story starts to get weird." Oh sweetie.

Honestly, yeah. This is her mom’s bio from her law firm fulneckylaw.com/2020/07/abou...

honestly, this song gets stuck in my head at least once a week, along with killer tofu and that "bangin on a trash can, strummin on a streetlight" song, both by fictional band The Beets

it's our first fall/winter with Reggie, and during the last few days, we've learned his tolerance for cold temps is insane. he wants to be outside for hours, even if it's freezing, and the only sign the cold affects him is he more or less goes to sleep for the night around 5 p.m.

I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?

Jacob put lights up all over our house and I made late night coffee with raspberry cocoa and tbh it’s cozy af

I drove through this town at least ten times a year, and my mom had us all convinced you were supposed to roll down your windows and shout WAHOOOOOO at someone. "they like it when you do it!" I did this for 20 years, including during college, before I discovered, oh my mom just made that shit up

A day after the Post's story, the Coast Guard reversed this policy "only after the White House and Department of Homeland Security had falsely claimed The Post’s reporting was inaccurate, with DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin calling the story 'fake crap.'" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I should add: criticism of capitalism *in general* is also hardly unusual among American Christians and Jews, as well as American Muslims. Malcolm X once speculated that capitalism would ultimately fall, comparing the system to a blood-sucking vulture.

Update: Two of the Florida academics featured in our piece, Karen Leader and Rebel Cole, have been reinstated: www.reuters.com/world/us/two...

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/ @garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...

The fact that this news outlet literally has the person who developed Poynter's AI ethics policy on their board and still allowed multiple documented cases of fabricated quotes from the top editor go unchecked and undisclosed is alarming

INBOX: In a detailed LinkedIn post, investigative reporter @mackoxenden.bsky.social accuses Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news outlet based in SW Florida, of firing her in retaliation for raising concerns about her executive editor's use of AI, leading to the insertion of hallucinated quotes.

we weren't there at the same time, but Emily previously was an investigative reporter at the clarion ledger and I've admired her work for a long time. her investigations were part of why I wanted to work at the clarion ledger tbh. this is stunning. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...

Chicago local newsrooms out with a powerful investigation today: Feds Used Chemical Weapons On Chicagoans At Least 49 Times — Even After Judge Said To Stop. Most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/f...

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

Still a few days to apply to work on our team 💕

ICYMI: The letter 10 secretaries of state sent yesterday to DOJ & DHS asking if they really ran states' voter rolls through SAVE (the newly expanded system that checks citizenship). The election officials have legal and privacy concerns and want to know why they were misled.

This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.

“Asked for comment, Walsh emailed back: ‘fuck off.’” www.reuters.com/investigatio...