For me, the main takeaway from that thread by Pritzker's CoS: she suggests, imo, that even very informed and very engaged political hobbyists are wildly underestimating how fragile and dangerous a moment this is. my read: this is a response, in part, to ppl who want CBP/ICE agents arrested

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

NYC's immigration courthouses have loomed large in our reporting on ICE. Routine hearings now inspire terror for immigrants, who might be aggressively detained in the halls. However, I didn’t realize, until TPM spoke to him, that Mamdani’s father was there this spring for a citizenship interview.

“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Alfonsi wrote in her email.

One wild thing that's probably not gotten enough attention this year is the administration refusing to let members of Congress inspect immigration detention facilities, a violation of the law. This story has some details on how that's played out. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Wild. ICE arrests a woman, won't accept proof she was born in the U.S., not Mexico, including a Maryland birth certificate.

Advocates have created a system with @repdangoldman.bsky.social to fight "unjust detention." While they are scoring victories and freeing detainees, they are left wondering how many others are being wrongly held without access to similar help. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-h...

@hunterw.bsky.social follows a Venezuelan family from the point when their son is taken from them by federal agents in the halls of immigration court to when he is freed, days later, through the work of activists and a member of Congress.

how in the fuck is this shit real

This whole thread, man, you should be following Josh anyway, but this whole thread documenting derangement in real time

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Currently at the New York Young Republican’s annual gala, where the MC is 18-year-old streamer Matan Even. Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos

A deep look at the comings and goings inside of Manhattan’s immigration courts, where individuals and sometimes whole families are, now notoriously, surrounded by ICE and removed from the halls, often with little notice. Observers then rush to set them free.

Fetterman drafted a letter to Israel's president asking him to grant Netanyahu's request for a pardon.

Via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: CBP posted a pic of two detained Iranians, saying, “No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present.” According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...

Following the Canal Street raid earlier this year, @hunterw.bsky.social spent weeks embedded with an underground network of New Yorkers helping immigrants to stay safe amid Trump’s constantly shifting deportation regime. We’ll be publishing several stories highlighting what he saw.

Sotomayor quoted RBG's famous "umbrella" line today, from her dissent in a case that hobbled the Voting Rights Act. it was an appropriate linkage, as the Roberts Court's destruction of voting rights and campaign finance regulations alike form the foundation of its profoundly anti-democratic legacy

1 welcome center in NYC began in 2023, when Abbott + DeSantis started sending busloads of undocumented migrants to blue cities Under Trump's ICE crackdown, it's serving mostly young West African immigrant men, most of whom are orphaned or fleeing abuse at home talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...

Some of the same churches that are part of the Undocumented Underground in New York played key roles in the fight against slavery. They are springing back into action to defend migrants. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...

Since October, I have been reporting on the effects of Trump's mass deportation agenda in NYC. I have found heavy ICE machinery and a resistance network full of regular people defending migrants Our series on the "Undocumented Underground" kicks off today and I hope you will give it a read.

Republicans try to remember a world in which not all policy came from Trump.

This is a really excellent explanation of liberalism’s shortcomings, why it also remains essential, how the quest for justice lost its way, and how we can get back to a synthesis of justice and liberalism, from @waleedshahid.bsky.social www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-henhou...

NEW >> I spoke to industry experts and CNN staffers to find out what the Netflix–Warner Bros. Discovery deal means for the company. "There’s some short-lived relief I think that it wasn’t Paramount, and Bari won’t be our boss," one staffer said. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The metaverse lost more than $77 billion.

In a world where 11 months out counts as the “eve“ of an election, any state can safely pass an illegal gerrymander so long as they even slightly run down the clock talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

"Soon after oral arguments, Trump announced a flurry of modifications to his tariffs on certain foreign imports levied using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). At the same time, the administration continued stacking up tariffs on more specific goods under a different statute."

Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New York Attorney General Tish James’ office is preparing legal strategies and lawsuits to file that would challenge any National Guard deployment, one official told TPM.

The diehards are starting to decide after much prayerful consideration with their beautiful brides that being in the minority next year sounds like a shit sandwich.

Potentially world-altering levels of brazen corruption by Trump, his cronies, and family www.wsj.com/world/russia...

TPM's Golden Duke Awards: coming soon. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-t...

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE. “They’re failing all of us,” his mom said. thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...

MAHA! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Bolsonaro apparently tried to destroy his ankle monitor with a soldering iron while under house arrest. He claimed his medicine caused him to become paranoid and attack it.

The fun thing about being a longtime reader of @talkingpointsmemo.com is that as soon as I saw this headline I knew @joshtpm.bsky.social was incorporating by reference the whole previous series he did on "The Brittle Grip" more than a decade ago. Since then, the oligarchy got somewhat more grippy.

Trump's anti-DEI crusade hit healthcare when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, under Dr. Mehmet Oz, removed race questions from its kidney failure patient form. The problem is, those questions weren't about DEI. That data informed actual medical breakthroughs talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

Way more questions than answers from this one www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Jack Posobiec, one of the primary influencers behind the Trump administration's claims that its enemies are all "antifa," notes that "antifa" was founded during the Weimar Republic. (His point is that it makes sense for the Trump admin to target German antifa groups.)

Data on race and ethnicity has put us on the cusp of breakthroughs in treating kidney failure, which disproportionately affects Black Americans. But the Trump administration has halted that data collection as part of its war on supposed "DEI." Important new story from @laylaayanna.bsky.social

This story is insane. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...

Seconding this! It's so so impressive and admirable.

Josh really doesn't get enough credit as a digital journalism pioneer — and as an entrepreneur who built something meaningful and lasting.

Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke... ... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.

"In the short term, no enforcing mechanism exists that would incentivize Justice Department officials or the Trump White House to abide by Congress’ demand. [...] Practically, there’s no real way for Congress to know if the Trump administration buries damaging documents or files."

Big news: Indiana Republicans signal they still do not have the votes to re-gerrymander the state, and that the Senate won't convene the Senate after all in December. Getting 1-2 seats out of Indiana was central to the GOP's redistricting-war math. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week. prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...