went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible 🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌

his final message…

I just sniped a kid in Overwatch and he wrote "ohhh Kirked me" and I just found out they're using that as shorthand for a good snipe HOLY SHIT LOL

Hello (again) from somewhere off I-81! It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list) www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...

RIP 2025 2025-2025

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

expanded edition 📽️

[shoving yeats into a locker] how’s the gyre fuckass

Via Ralph Chapoco: A new report finds that almost 1,200 Alabamians paroled out of life sentences are on supervision for the rest of their lives; must pay a $40 monthly fee and can lose their freedom for slightest infraction, even if they remained trouble-free for decades. https://ow.ly/l1Kb50XMSvg

One of the best to ever do it

I'm not great about tooting my own horn. But as an independent journalist whose work is reliant on contributions from my readers, it's part of the job. So here's a post and thread on my work over the last year and beyond -- and why you, reader, should subscribe. (Plus, shameless dog photos!)

Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze

It's a very dead horse to beat at this point, but it is in fact funny to imagine the reaction to someone in the Obama-era DOJ---Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Vanita Gupta---writing "You are hoes."

love when a police department tells me they don't have body cam footage of an incident, and then I read about the body cam footage in another newspaper.

My favorite response is “oh how are you gonna feel when it’s your president? We’ll see then.“ I wish every president got impeached and removed. I’d throw a fucking party every time it happened.

“We felt less than human.” How government treats folks in custody is not a lot better than how they treat them when they’re released. A moment from the story of a server helping a man: “May God bless that woman, because she gave me a taco and a Coke.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

Guys with speakers on their motorcycles: hey check out how shitty this sounds

"how many ... kids ... did you kill ... today"

fuck you and may the horse you rode in on live a long and beautiful life away from the corrupting influence of man

Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision. Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.

Anecdotally, fishing guides in the Everglades will tell you they're getting absolutely smoked by lemon sharks. Although if the sharks could talk, they'd tell you that's a skill issue.

Lawgeeks, there is an astonishing concurring op. from Judge Kidd (11th Cir.) calling on an AUSA by name to extend grace in resentencing a woman who provided substantial assistance to the government over the course of rehabilitation. Starts on page 8. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

ICYMI: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considered recording or following law enforcement to be obstruction of justice, and they said "that sure sounds like obstruction." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available. Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC... Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi... The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best

New from me today -- a fed jury in Brooklyn has awarded $2.56M o a woman who sued the NYPD after cops slammed her head to the ground during a George Floyd protest. Brigid Pierce tells us she suffered permanent brain damage and will likely face early dementia. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/22/n...

Latest: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considers recording or following federal law enforcement to be obstruction of justice. DHS response: "That sure sounds like obstruction of justice." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

well if it's a radio play then it obviously wouldn't have been seen now would it

love that they are using the same system to access the Epstein files that people use to buy Chainsmokers tickets

some more incredible Dwarf Fortress patch notes just released

“This may be the first time an ICE agent is incarcerated in his own ICE jail.” www.citybeat.com/news/update-...

Florida Highway Patrol is refusing to release records of an immigration sweep to me, citing its agreement with ICE. Anyone else getting this kind of response from local and state PDs?

You should take reasonable steps to protect your comms, but the goal here is absolutely to chill protected public speech. The response from every Tom Paine, freedom-loving American (speaking of anti-Christian) should be your own favorite four-letter word.

Federal prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz. This time it's USA v. Cristal Caballero, which had been set for a preliminary hearing Monday. Motion below, followed by excerpts from the criminal complaint.

All of the competent line prosecutors in the DC USAO got fired or quit, and you’ll never guess what happened next.

We tracked around 1,600 people detained in "Operation Midway Blitz" - the Chicago-area ICE raids that took place this fall. Here's where they ended up. @themarshallproject.org @geoffhing.bsky.social @shannonheffernan.bsky.social

Latest: A report by the Cato Institute, a new AP investigation, and reams of court documents show how DHS is abusing a law about impeding federal law enforcement to threaten and arrest people for protected First Amendment activity. Those cases are falling apart in court reason.com/2025/12/18/t...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is turning killing people into a family business

An F-35 pilot's helmet costs roughly 3 penises

You know, as a criminal justice reporter, I can tell you what it means when the government refuses to release an autopsy report.

It's very funny that the Louisiana attorney general went crying to the media about this

You should read this story about deaths due to poor dialysis treatment at a federal women's medical prison. Medical neglect in prison is widespread and unimaginably barbaric. (I had to file a FOIA lawsuit for the mortality reports mentioned here too) www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/16/w...

If I came across Greg Bovino I would simply pick him up gently and put him in my pocket.

Pour one out for Dan Bongino

I was very happy to give FOIA records to a reporter for this @themarshallproject.org investigation into deaths at a federal women's center due to poor dialysis treatment. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/16/w...

The University of Arkansas spent $36,000 on balloons last year. After seeing what they got, we think it was worth every penny. In FOIAball this week, we EMBRACE THE HOG. www.foiaball.com/p/college-fo...

That's the good stuff

Bad stuff about Orwell: hated gays and vegetarians; anti-wife guy (didn't credit wife for editing his work or saving his life in Spain); turgid fiction writer. Good stuff: consistent about totalitarianism, to the point of being shot by a fascist sniper and almost liquidated by the Soviet NKVD