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I have always wanted to ratio the Department of Homeland Security

DHS responded to our ICE hiring investigation, claiming the journalist 'was NEVER offered a job' and received only a 'tentative selection letter.' Slate stands by our reporting, and our official statement is below.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

"Stephen, if you could slip into the body of a person for 24 hrs who would it be?" @jdickerson.bsky.social asks Stephen Colbert at the Political Gabfest 20th anniversary live show in New York City this past week. Watch now for more at slate.com/ColbertPlus.

The last story I did as a freelancer is finally out! For @slate.com I took a deep dive into the world of Katie Miller as she sheds her image as government attack dog and rebrands herself "trad-wife-in-chief" for her new podcast slate.com/news-and-pol...

Currently in Vegas for the third time this year (primarily to see the Knicks smack the Magic in the NBA Cup semis) and wondering why the vibe is so off in the city this time around. And then I remembered that @lukewinkie.bsky.social covered all of this pretty thoroughly.

See you tomorrow, Chicago! Former Chicago Mayor and Obama's White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel joins Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz for Political Gabfest live! 🎟️ Get your tickets now: slate.com/gabfestlivec...

First stop on the tour: Chicago on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at Park West. Get your tickets NOW: t.co/eeW8tLclXk

Back in 2005, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz started gabbing about politics, and the rest is history (literally). It's been 20 years, and we're throwing a big party. On the road. With you. The Political Gabfest 20th Anniversary Tour: t.co/eeW8tLclXk

The real reason Daniel Day-Lewis came out of retirement was so that @isaacbutler.bsky.social could write about him

Now on @slate.com: Swift repeats a whole lot of familiar steps on Showgirl, to diminishing returns in a world on fire. But the Martin/Shellback sheen glows if you don't try to look too close. Taylor, please take five, and put a million $ in the swear jar. slate.com/culture/2025...

I ranked all of the popular Slop Bowls for @slate.com! Through my research, I found horror stories of customers allegedly being served severed fingers, class action lawsuits, and glorious, gooey mac and cheese. Capitalism may ruin everything, but that doesn't mean we need to abandon discernment!

on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension: Brendan Carr teased his plan to intimidate Disney/ABC in a letter he sent back in December. last month, two big media deals made broadcasters more vulnerable to Carr's threats. add the censorship around Charlie Kirk, and a dirty ploy was set: slate.com/technology/2...

Decoder Ring is so good bsky.app/profile/kati...

Congrats to 4 (!!) @slate.com podcasts -- Decoder Ring, Death, Sex & Money, Slow Burn and Political Gabfest -- for making Left of Dial’s list of the 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time (voted on by 300 audio creators, podcast hosts, writers, etc.) www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...

"This 50-year-old chain restaurant, this totem of Scranton squareness, has somehow become … cool?" —Dan Kois for @slate.com slate.com/business/202... /?src=longreads

love this reflection from @tonyhotran.bsky.social on the chatbots that have always been with us: slate.com/technology/2...

If you haven't walked into a Chili's and ordered a Triple Dipper or a 3-for-Me in the last couple of years, you might be lacking something truly fulfilling in your life. slate.com/business/2025/08/chilis-menu-restaurants-food-tiktok-red-hot-mozz.html

Congratulations to @alexsammon.bsky.social! He won this week's audience award for "My Scammer" at @slate.com slate.com/technology/2...

Here’s me, again, in Slate, on the rise and fall - and re-rise? - of spoof comedies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun: slate.com/culture/2025...

LOL. Slate @samadams.bsky.social mapped Andrew Cuomo's venturous two-block journey in his "hitting the streets" campaign launch. slate.com/culture/2025...

truly an all-star panel!! listen to Amicus' Court term wrap here: slate.com/podcasts/ami...

Slate's annual End of Term Breakfast Table. With @jamellebouie.net and @sifill.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social and of course @mjsdc.bsky.social. No Crying in Baseball, No "Hysterical" w/r/t SCOTUS edition.

Tomorrow at 1 pm, Slate Plus members are invited to join @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and me for a LIVE virtual recording of Amicus' annual Breakfast Table episode! Featuring all-star guests @stevevladeck.bsky.social, @jamellebouie.net, and @sifill.bsky.social. Sign up here: slate.com/amicuspluslive

I understand there is some debate about the scope of this ruling, but my view remains that the Supreme Court has just effectively abolished universal injunctions, at least as we know them. The question now is really whether lower courts can craft something to replace them that still sweeps widely.

Excited to announce @patrickcreis.bsky.social is joining @slate.com as our politics editor! “He brings a thoughtful, ambitious vision for our politics coverage that’s focused on clarity, depth, and the human side of policy and power..." Read more here: slate.com/briefing/202...

with @mjsdc.bsky.social

Trump's legal basis for federalizing the National Guard and deploying it in Los Angeles is surprisingly weak and vulnerable to judicial pushback—if the courts have the courage to enforce the law as written: slate.com/news-and-pol...

What it was like in the shit in 2025 slate.com/news-and-pol...

Is the right running on megalomania? @karaswisher.bsky.social joins @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on Amicus, Slate’s legal podcast, to share the briefing constitutional lawyers need to understand big tech’s federal government takeover. Listen now: link.chtbl.com/AmicusEp5102...

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

I watched Katy Perry take the stage at her new “megatour.” It was more obvious than ever why America has turned on her.

Join Amicus for a live taping at The WBUR Festival! Co-host @mjsdc.bsky.social will be interviewing legal scholar Jed Handelsman Shugerman to unpack the escalating power struggle between the Supreme Court and Donald Trump. 🎟️ Get tickets now: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-wbur-f...? @wbur.org

Friday 10 a.m., I'll be live-recording @slate.com Amicus podcast on the Supreme Court's made-up presidentialism ("Unitary Executive Theory") & how they just gave a green light to Trump to abuse his extreme new powers. With @mjsdc.bsky.social at the WBUR Festival! Tickets here: www.wburfestival.org

Update: This happened last night—Senate Republicans went nuclear, overruling the parliamentarian and blowing up the filibuster to repeal California's vehicle emissions standards. Many Republicans will likely cite this precedent as reason to bypass the filibuster to pass the reconciliation bill too.

I went on Death, Sex & Money to talk about my favorite rom-coms—and deny being a film snob—with @annasale.bsky.social and actual expert @katierayford.bsky.social

The Trump administration has settled on One Weird Trick to avoid judicial review: Kill nationwide injunctions, refuse to respect lower court rulings, and keep cases away from the Supreme Court indefinitely. Oddly, it was Kagan and BARRETT who hammered this yesterday. slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is one of the most low-stakes, utterly delightful deep dives I’ve read in ages. “The bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in the history of cinema—and one of the weirdest and most inexplicable flubs in any movie I can remember. It is elaborately, even ornately wrong.”

This week with @karaswisher.bsky.social on grifters without borders and with Mary-Rose Papandrea remembering Justice David Souter. Plus with @mjsdc.bsky.social on all the bad news/good news fit to print

Today: - @mjsdc.bsky.social previews the end of the SCOTUS term, - @robinhoodnyc.bsky.social's CEO has ideas for NYC charter revisions, - @johncassidysays.bsky.social on the history of critiquing capitalism, - 100 Years of Yogi Berra Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org

My first dispatch from the Diddy Trial for @slate.com: slate.com/culture/2025...

Now that a federal judge has shot down Jefferson Griffin's scheme to steal a North Carolina Supreme Court election from Allison Riggs, I'd like to focus on Griffin's arguments—which represented a conscience-shocking conspiracy to deprive citizens of their civil rights. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Thrilled to announce Mia Lobel is joining @slate.com as our executive producer of podcasts! A veteran audio producer, Mia brings over two decades of experience in podcast production, storytelling & collaboration. Read more in @semafor.com via @maxtani.bsky.social: www.semafor.com/article/05/0...

With @mjsdc.bsky.social on the blockbuster Alien Enemies Act ruling from Texas, and with UVA's @amandafrost.bsky.social on all things citizenship -- from birthright, to citizenship-stripping, to denaturalization.

Heartbreaking piece by @alexsammon.bsky.social from inside the ICE facility where Mahmoud Khalil remains illegally imprisoned for his free speech—on the day when Khalil first saw a photo his newborn son. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Mahmoud Khalil could not even hold the photos of his newborn son because of the plexiglass between him and the person who brought them. He is being denied the most basic bits of humanity. slate.com/news-and-pol...

no words. slate.com/news-and-pol...

How Mahmoud Khalil—detained by ICE in "the black hole" in Louisiana alongside 1000 others, refused by ICE to be present for his wife giving birth—first saw photos of his newborn son. slate.com/news-and-pol...

exclusive reporting by @alexsammon.bsky.social in @slate.com on what life is like for Mahmoud Khalil inside the remote ICE detention center he's being held, including the moment he saw his newborn son for the first time (via pictures that a friend snuck into the center) slate.com/news-and-pol...