A 1-year-old baby gets pepper sprayed by ICE, her family said www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Raising a 'non-iPad' kid is indeed, possible. The easiest way is not to start. www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/20...

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

The hardest part about 40 is realizing your health-related actions really matter now.

Seven Democrats and one independent broke with their party to back a deal to end the longest U.S. government shutdown. The vote split Democrats, while Republicans needed eight more votes to overcome a filibuster. Here are the senators who voted:

A Latina housekeeper was shot dead after arriving at the wrong address for a cleaning job www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

“And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer” Judge Ellis today not only denounced the Trump administration’s immigration action, but had biting remarks on its clumsy views of Chicago itself UPDATE: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

The death of KitKat, a brown tabby cat, has reverberated throughout San Francisco after a Waymo struck the cat and continued driving. But mourners’ grief has been complicated by who, or what, should be held accountable.

Apropos of nothing I swear

For more on what the priest is talking about here — a prayer vigil that's been convened outside the Chicago-area ICE facility for nearly 20 years, but has now, leaders say, has been forced to move — see my report from last month, featuring Fr. Curran himself: religionnews.com/2025/10/14/a...

What Mamdami's win means for Muslim's nationwide: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Documented or not, Latinos are terrified of ICE. They're changing up their daily habits and have stopped going grocery shopping, to school and to family events. wapo.st/3WHpzZz

Keeping me contemplating, as always!

Singlehandedly keeping Peloton alive with my 30-minute Cody Rigsby Millennial rides

Michelle Obama talks about the East Wing demo, saying she never viewed it as her house, but the people’s house www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMgqCLyd/

Would be nice if NBC and CBS still had teams focused on race and identity to cover the impacts of having the first Muslim mayor of NYC. Too bad they laid them all off.

Media organizations will regret gutting people of color from newsrooms. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but they will see the consequences eventually.

Briefly considered taking a nap in the dentist‘s chair while I waited… if you wonder what it’s like having a toddler.

“I think oftentimes when people talk about this history, they usually focus on cis gay men . . . But there is a really exciting new, newish field of study, of scholars who are uncovering stories of people who were lesbians, bisexual, transgender and those really untold stories.”

I’ve been living in the cold for 10 years and I’m only now discovering fleece lined jeans. They’re hideous but so warm

Full story on what this group was doing here: religionnews.com/2025/10/30/f...

A Mexican woman hopes to be the first to build a 1,300 mile trail www.backpacker.com/stories/peop...

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020 NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month

I can’t prove it but I think these ads are illegal

The United States government’s detention of Ruben Torres Maldonado, the Portage Park man arrested by federal immigration agents while his 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment, is illegal, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

The Department of Defense has accepted a $130 million donation from a "friend" of President Trump — but the agency refuses to say who it is

A U.S. citizen wants to sue the federal government after he says he was wrongly detained by ICE. President Trump is seeking $230 million from the government, claiming mistreatment. The difference between their experiences underscores the ethical conflicts in Trump’s situation, legal experts said.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

I did abysmally. How about you? www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

New Quinnipiac University Poll: "A majority of voters (56 percent) disapprove of President Trump sending the National Guard and law enforcement from federal agencies, including ICE, to cities in the United States in an effort to reduce crime, while 41 percent approve." poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

No www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Good Lord, there is not a person alive in the U.S. today who doesn't know someone or isn't someone who voted for Donald Trump. This is a dumb argument that's ridiculous on its face. www.wsj.com/opinion/bias...

"The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure." You mean ... that wasn't true? 😮 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Twilight soundtrack is playing at my dentist‘s office. nature is healing.

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

"Immigration advocates and Democrats say Republicans have distorted and exaggerated the toll on taxpayers and that the stakes of the shutdown health care standoff primarily affect U.S. citizens." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

My daughter told my husband and I “leave me alone” twice today. She’s 3.

Prince Andrew has agreed to relinquish his Duke of York title following fresh revelations tied to Jeffrey Epstein and alleged Chinese espionage. His ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, has also agreed to relinquish her title Duchess of York. https://wapo.st/4qbXZRL

How do you say podcast in Spanish? Po0dcast. 🤨

Civil rights were something that was possible when America was geopolitically ascendant and the dominant social class felt secure in their position. As America declines relative to other great powers, as whites feel less powerful relative to others, civil rights will erode. Fear and hate will rise.

I wrote a story that pubbed today about the illegal, dangerous, and damaging activity happening in Yosemite while the park is left open but half-staffed due to the gov shutdown. I was surprised when the DOI asked me to issue a correction. They've also called for retractions from other publications.

Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that ongoing violence in the capital of Haiti has forced it to permanently close its Port-au-Prince emergency care center, a city now 90% controlled by gangs. n.pr/3KPQcJ3

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

Visual journalism Pulitzer are going to go off this year

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.