SCOOP w/ @dell.bsky.social: the FBI is warning law enforcement to look out for people impersonating ICE to facilitate other criminal acts Plus, some odd details I got via FOIA about a March incident in which an aspiring prank YouTuber allegedly impersonated ICE: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

The Israeli military launched the early stages of a ground offensive to seize Gaza City overnight, an Israeli military official said Tuesday, as Palestinians in the enclave said they faced a night of relentless heavy bombardment.

"The visible health problems of the oldest president in American history barely registered in mainstream coverage," writes @passantino.bsky.social for Status_. But @nytimes.com 🐔, @wsj.com 🐔🐔 & other major outlets published dozens of stories about Biden's physical fitness while he was in office.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

Oh I saw it. Looked like he'd just fallen while water-skiing.

@davidjroth.bsky.social you’re almost certainly watching something better but I feel like you should know Dedniel Núñez just pitched a real good Wet Guy inning

This is the last thing Cardinal Bob saw before he went into the conclave and they made him pope lol

This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!

Keep sharing this because it is vital to understanding this moment. The timing of his entry into politics after this trip, the one position he’s held firm on (at odds with past presidents of both political parties) and the unraveling of the post-WW II world order. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.

My single favourite piece of polling of the last 2 years

Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student who was a leader in talks between demonstrators and Columbia University officials last spring, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents Saturday night despite having a green card, his attorney said.

You can watch Christiane Amanpour realize in real time on CNN just how seriously Canadians are taking the annexation threats.

hey, can one of the reasonable centrist writers condescendingly explain to me again that it is overblown to call these people segregationists?

Scoop: Scott Jennings is in the final stages of negotiating a new contract with CNN—and he's set for a big pay raise. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/scott-jenn...

When the Trump administration abruptly terminated ten thousand foreign assistance contracts and grants last week, it ended funding for programs around the world – including those that had been granted waivers by the State Department to continue their lifesaving work.

A top USAID official was put on leave after a scathing memo detailing Trump political appointees' moves which blocked life-saving humanitarian work, which will “no doubt result in preventable death, destabilization, and threats to national security on a massive scale” www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...

this appears to be the new regime oped page at wapo. WOW. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.” @apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/doge...

Cuts to democracy programs at home and abroad: www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/p...

NEW: Five former leaders of USAID from across Republican and Democratic administrations spoke out against the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the humanitarian agency and called on “Congress to swiftly protect the Agency’s statutory role.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...

I think this is our future unless someone stops him. Musk’s plan for X has been for it to replace the entire banking system. His keen interest in seizing control of Treasury payments (and its tech) may forebode an intention to have such payments go through X www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/2...

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

‘Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.’

New - Elon Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, said that “the remembrance and acknowledgement of the dark past of the country and its people should be central in shaping the German society,” and that “failing to do so is an insult to the victims of Nazism…”

Analysis on Trump’s call for an “ethnic cleansing,” according to critics, of Gaza www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/m...

I had a pair of jeans that had a really baffling red stain and I tried so many different tricks to try to get it out in the washing machine and they’re still less washed than Lattimore

Trump’s nominee to be UN ambassador disputes allegations of Musk's gesture resembling Nazi salute at Trump rally www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Some highlights from Hegseth’s confirmation hearing for SecDef: -Said his comments about women serving in combat was really about how DOD has lowered standards, then couldn’t give a real example of how standards had been lowered (1/x)

The FBI did not interview several women from Hegseth’s past, including his two ex-wives and a sexual assault accuser. Separately, the Senate Armed Services Committee has heard privately from more than one former member a veterans group Hegseth briefly ran, source said. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Apple’s board of directors has recommended shareholders vote against a conservative think tank’s proposal to consider scrapping the tech giant’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

NEW: The man connected to the rental of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas yesterday is an active-duty Special Forces operations sergeant, who was on leave from Germany where he was serving with 10th SFG, according to multiple US officials.

important to remember that they have been saying this for decades

State Department’s Barbara Leaf said HTS’ Ahmad al-Sharaa “came across as pragmatic,” but “we will judge by deeds, not just by words.” Read more from Alex Marquardt, @michaelconte.bsky.social, and me on the US delegation’s trip to Damascus www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/p...

The United States is removing the $10 million bounty on the leader of HTS, who is now the de-facto leader of Syria, a top State Department official announced Friday.

Remember how the US has 900 US troops in Syria to fight ISIS? A Pentagon spox said he just learned the number is actually 2,000 and has been at that level for “months,” since before the fall of Assad

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

US State Dept spox said the Biden admin disagrees with the finding of genocide but that “we need to be doing everything we can to ensure water access is strong, and that everybody who needs water in Gaza is able to get it.” Says they raise the issue when discussing getting aid in with Israel.

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of genocide by ‘deliberately’ restricting water in Gaza edition.cnn.com/2024/12/19/m...

Cyber-espionage is part and parcel to the US-China rivalry, but: “In conversations with their Chinese counterparts, US diplomats have complained that the scope and scale of the Salt Typhoon hacks is excessive, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.” www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/p...