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...

🚨LAWMAKER PAY RAISE- #Oklahoma legislators get a 56% pay increase- from $35,021 in 2019 to $54,900 in 2026, with leadership getting even more. *The 31,000+ state employees haven't seen a raise since 2019. Oklahoma Public Employees Association gave me this comment ⬇️

I’ve deleted threads about this like three times this year and just did again but I’ll say: ICE agents should be required to learn basic gun safety that covers how to hold and store firearms. a million videos this year have proven their gun handling tactics to be unsafe and, frankly, dumb af

A report finds Native American and Black youths are the least likely to be offered a path out of the justice system, while white children are most likely to be offered a break. The racial disparities get wider when a youth has a prior offense. www.investigatewest.org/native-ameri...

The federal court that struck down Texas' redistricting plan says the letter from a Trump DOJ appointee that kicked off the whole thing is "challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors. " storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

so I'm the worst but this reminded me that when I was reporting in my 20s, if older dudes called me a cute name (sweetheart, honey, etc. etc.), I'd repeat it back to them (ex: "thanks, sweetie" ; "no problem, sweetie"), and tbh nothing got them to completely stop doing that faster.

A Nashville judge late yesterday temporarily blocked the National Guard from Memphis Other recent court filings laid out their partial price tag: $26M in salaries/benefits (1000 troops x one year) $5,178,816 for hotels $1,123,875 for meals tennesseelookout.com/2025/11/18/f... @tennesseelookout.com

Water from underground mines makes Oklahoma’s Tar Creek flow red. Advances in water treatment could help address mining damage at one of the nation’s oldest Superfund sites. streetlightnews.org/tar-creek-wa...

“The decision that we couldn’t treat these waters effectively probably made sense in 1984,” said Robert Nairn, director of the Center for Restoration of Ecosystems and Watersheds at the University of Oklahoma. “I don’t think it makes sense today. Those waters are treatable.”

happy holidays from Reggie & Christmas Nixon

IFYKPTMBID If you know please tell me because I don’t

People who live in rural communities often have their concerns dismissed as being small potatoes, but I can say without a doubt that many thousands of people in Columbia County want to know what happened to Sarah Zuber -- and the ME office should make themselves available to answer Qs.

I made coff-tea again and ok I'll admit this was a *lowers sunglasses* bad idea

WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Wow!

Jfc do the @doughboys.bsky.social know how badly I needed Zach cherry week

I'm so glad curling season is here. also today reggie learned about leaves. he's afraid to step in piles of them and during our walk today he ate a single yellow leaf that spoke to him in some way

I'll probably watch the new Ken Burns documentary, but ever since we published this story in 2023 I'll always picture him hanging out with Clarence Thomas the Koch Bros at Bohemian Grove, the not-at-all bizarre, secretive dudes-only woodland retreat.

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

This dog is so curled up

Volunteer Opportunities in Oklahoma www.regionalfoodbank.org/volunteer-lo...

I’ll say: please support people helping people rn. The nonprofit sector is not doing great this year, and almost no one talks about it publicly. If you want this kind of work to exist, you have to support it.

digby fell asleep on my stream

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

“She said he talked a lot about the 1980s pop star Paula Abdul and that he said he wanted programming that could ‘be like Paula Abdul.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

This is absolutely a first amendment violation and one of the few things that still makes me furious: The hypocrisy that the Trump administration expects everyone to be a Christian yet won’t let actual Christians practice their faith where it’s needed most. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

Sitting here editing a high schooler's piece on how the upheaval surrounding SNAP has impacted her community and she's describing how devastation from a flood in February already cut resources and now people are lining up for a church's food bags hours before they start giving them out.

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

They're now discussing the newly created email. Plaintiffs' attorneys say they've tried using it and have not received a response yet. Brady asks what the judge thinks a reasonable response time is.

Plaintiffs attorney Alexa Van Brunt says they still don't have a working phone number that lets attorneys reach their clients. She says they just received a new one from the feds, and "it still doesn't work. It is disconnected."

“It’s a metaphor. I think people love what CBS used to be.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is how many people were lined up for the pop-up food distribution event to provide extra support for Tulsa families affected by the recent lapse in SNAP benefits at Food on the Move #tulsa #SNAP

Albert Camus, born on this day in 1913 into one world war to live through another, on how to live whole in a broken world www.themarginalian.org/2024/06/22/a...

some afternoons, reggie interrupts me while I'm working about every 10 minutes to let him out bc of the thing where he can let himself inside but not outside and letting him out by himself doesn't always work bc sometimes he needs our other dog there to watch him hunt squirrels or it doesn't count

e pluribus unum

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

Let's go! The City of Cleveland - home to a public power utility - is one of the first in the nation i've heard of so far banning shutoffs during this federal shutdown crisis. Public power can lead the nation in showing what democratic institutions can do to make our lives better.

Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.