Greetings from Printers’ Row Lit Fest in Chicago. Please join me at 4 PM CT today, when I will be discussing my book, “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.”

The great @mikeallen remembers the same: "After a Bush speech, the newspaper reporters would be struggling with their leads when suddenly the gym (or wherever we were filing) was engulfed with the voice of Knoller ... with an efficient, insightful take." www.axios.com/newsletters/...

The diaries of the Minnesota school shooter go for over 250 pages. I've spent the last few days reading them. The writing is full of self-hatred, detailed planning, and obsessions with inflicting pain & suffering. From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...

Trump is using emergency powers more than his predecessors. On average, presidents have declared about seven national emergencies per four-year term. Trump declared that many during his first month in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"All presidents have the authority ...to declare a national emergency ... But Mr. Trump has already invoked this power much more frequently than his predecessors and, experts say, for situations that do not qualify as true emergencies." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

10 emergency declarations ↓ 33 executive orders ↓ Hundreds of actions www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

President Trump cited a number of false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., as he announced a federal takeover of the city. Here's a fact check.

They'll go where they can make money. "After making fortunes hauling oil, gas and metals around the world, the traders are turning to opportunities buying, storing and selling energy back into grids. In Europe capacity is set to rise sevenfold by 2030." 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Mar-a-Lagofication of the White House… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Trump calls the Epstein case a "hoax." His MAGA base disagrees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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“A suburban New York county that recently barred residents from wearing masks is now making an exception for police officers so they can obscure their identities while helping the federal authorities detain immigrants.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n...

The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.

GIFT LINK: The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official rejected broad uses of two Covid vaccines, citing unknown risks or injuries despite assurances of safety from dozens of staff experts, newly released documents show. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

USA TODAY reporters called Social Security's 1-800 line multiple times over several days and found the wait times to be consistently over an hour. Multiple times they did not reach a live person before the line disconnected with no warning. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

RIP Rod Nordland, one of our generation's most extraordinary foreign correspondents. For 40 years, if there was a war or conflict or crisis anywhere around the world, Rod was likely to be there reporting the hell out of it. An inspiration to so many of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/b...

A sad day for @washingtonpost readers as the standalone Metro section in print is eliminated and folded behind Style. As a lifelong Washingtonian and veteran of the Metro staff, I always admired the Post's commitment to covering Washington as a community not just a capital.

What was the 1980s like? Well, there was a buff Australian man who starred in commercials for batteries where he just shouted “oi” and on the basis of that, he got a network series where he drove around in a big custom truck and solved crimes.

New: The White House wants you to laugh at its mass-deportation memes. The Trump admin is using dark jokes, hype videos and personal jabs to promote its immigration policy. A former MAGA organizer is disturbed by how far they've gone: "This is not reality TV. It’s actual reality" wapo.st/3ZT5FNl

I talked to @dieworkwear.bsky.social for this story, who JD Vance and DHS made jokes about deporting. He's unnerved but hopes it'll backfire, saying most people take no "pleasure in cruelty" Of X: "It’s hard to recognize when you’re in sewage until you get out of the sewage" wapo.st/3ZT5FNl

NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

The State Department Published A Substack Manifesto On ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-sta...

🏆☕️👔 Achievement unlocked: I got home one evening recently and discovered I'd somehow spilled coffee on the *back* of my shirt.

(AP) — Secretary of State Rubio says the Trump administration will start revoking visas for some Chinese students.

Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives. By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

Joe Kent, top aide to DNI Tulsi Gabbard, ordered rewriting to an intel analysis re Venezuela & TDA so the doc could not be "used against" Trump, adding to concerns about politicizing intel. More emails also emerging. @julianbarnes.bsky.social Maggie Haberman & me. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

Efforts to drive down the smoking rate have worked: We're at a 75-year low for smoking and a 25-year low for vaping. Now the CDC office credited with some of that work is gone. I met with teens in West Virginia who were sad to see their anti-vaping group cut: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

I tracked more than 1,000 accounts that Elon Musk follows on X to recreate what he sees www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump has long had plane envy. “People come in from, especially the Middle East countries, with brand-new 747-800s, the brand-new super-duper-new one, and we have planes that are thirty-one years old," he told @sbg1.bsky.social and me when we interviewed him in 2021 www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Fun to pop on the Apple News Today podcast and chat about an innovative and sophisticated new way to wreck the atmosphere. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

When your news org that is less than 3 years old wins a Pulitzer Prize! www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Facebook tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment. 😳

The Trump administration halted $1 billion for mental health services for children, saying that the programs funded by a bipartisan law aimed at stemming gun violence in schools were no longer in “the best interest of the federal government.”

"Virtually every detail of Mr. Witkoff’s announcement, made during a conference panel with Mr. Trump’s second-eldest son, contained a conflict of interest." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

Yesterday we published our investigation into torture & death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna. Now, what I & several Guardian colleagues have been working on for past few months: inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons for Ukrainians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This story dives into some truth: The Washington Post has been breaking major stories left and right lately. That's a fact. apnews.com/article/wash...

1/ 80 years ago yesterday, US forces liberated #Dachau concentration camp. My maternal grandfather #DavidMaxEichhorn, a Jewish Chaplain, was there. I will spend next week documenting from contemporaneous reports what he saw & did. #NeverForget #NeverAgain www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Fantastic charts by the @upshot.nytimes.com's @aatishb.bsky.social + Irineo Cabreros summing up Trump's first 100 days. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ed Martin, Trump's pick for D.C. U.S. District Attorney, ghostwrote online attacks against an Illinois judge with whom he was in a legal dispute. We obtained emails that show Martin bought a laptop for the woman who made the posts and coached her on how to make them look organic: propub.li/4d1aut5

From Book Bans to Canceled Lectures, the Naval Academy Is Bending to Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u... John Ismay, a Pentagon reporter based in Washington, was commissioned as an officer from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1999.

NASA is canceling the lease of its NYC climate center, made famous when its first-floor diner, Tom's, appeared o̶n̶ ̶"̶S̶e̶i̶n̶f̶e̶l̶d̶"̶ in a Suzanne Vega song. Staff are expected to work remotely until a new space is found. 🎁🔗 with @lorengrush.bsky.social : www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say.

Essential reporting from @opensecrets.org on companies profiting from fed deportation policies. Following the money exposes blatant corruption. Consider supporting the non-profit bringing these insights to light. Disclosure: I am Vice Chair of the Board, an unpaid position. tinyurl.com/4fadmbm4

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio - recently pardoned for his role on Jan 6 - says Trump is “our murder weapon.”

It would get tiresome to post every time this stupid feature made a factual error, but literally the first "Catholic" parish listed here is a nondenominational Presbyterian-ish church

a kicker about Trump firing Bill Burck as lawyer for Trump Org bc Burck is representing Harvard in its fight against the Trump admin is that this whole time, Burck's law firm, Quinn Emanuel, has also been pro bono representing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the guy mistakenly deported to El Salvador

Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...