DOGE but for newspapers

Af-Am lit major Jodie Foster chose her field because of an interest ‘in literature that is as emotionally important as it is intellectually.’ In fact, she argued, Af-Am literature is perhaps the most American of all literary genres this country has produced..” www.harvardmagazine.com/radcliffe-in...

sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

What a shameful country we are.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting: Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants. It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

We are watching in real time who some scientists are willing to sacrifice in favor of access to funding: early career researchers, trainees, scientists from historically excluded groups and immigrants.

In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history: “On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” he said. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.” www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

This is the CEO of Barclays basically telling Epstein that Gramsci was right—capitalism and pop culture have pacified social movements so he need not fear popular revolt

Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) stepped down from his position as Senate Minority Leader position after praising Strom Thurmond’s 1948 Dixiecrat presidential campaign in 2002. Today Republicans are defending and deflecting the president’s post of a video depicting a Black President and First Lady as apes.

Here's Why,Vote No To The SAVE ACT......

"Bezos didn’t let the Post die. He chose which part lives. He spent the last two years remaking the opinion section into his ideological megaphone while letting the newsroom bleed out."

MAGA-aligned military commanders are pressuring enlisted service members to go to the Melania movie and bring their families. Troops at 8 different bases have complained. www.businessinsider.com/us-military-...

I would very much urge caution here. The sample sizes are *very* small. And pre-post trend analyses are often misleading—especially imprecise events (eg changes in public discussions).

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

A small number of NFL affiliated docs have been pushing this idea for at least a decade

"We are so proud of our son. He was many things, but the attribute that appears so often is: He was kind. In a world where you can choose to be so many things, he chose to be kind. For the rest of our lives, we will be trying to be more like him." defector.com/a-message-fr...

Patriotism is about striving for a righteous country, not parroting empty slogans and waving a flag. Our athletes get it.

Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

Block parties are actually really common in the upper Midwest! Love how rooted these protest practices are in longstanding civic practices.

I went to a Florida school for my undergrad and I studied humanities and took sociology courses. Right before Desantis got elected. It was such a rewarding educational experience. My professors were so passionate & talented & highly educated in their fields! And they’ve just destroying that now.

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Members of Congress will have access to unredacted Epstein files www.axios.com/2026/02/06/e...

BREAKING: Trump says he 'didn't make a mistake' with his racist video post. Q:  "A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?" Trump: "No, I didn't make a mistake." He adds later: "I guess it was a take off on the Lion King."

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

J.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it. “There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Applications are now open for our Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship — with a new track! We'll have two reporting fellows and one fellow each in audience engagement, news product and development. 19thnews.org/2026/02/fran...

I know this is kind of spitting into the wind, but I'd like to make an effort: Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them. They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._

I'm not in Minneapolis, but this is something I can do! Donate if you can!

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

Those are the hardest working scare quotes in the business. What is the goddamn bar for calling something racist without qualification if monkey videos don’t make the cut?

Story that messed me up for the day -- elementary school kids find their lost classmate in the immigration jail cafeteria. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:

www.fox47news.com/news/state/m... The tool enables Michiganders to report and document concerns about actions taken by federal immigration officers in their neighborhoods. Nessel said the platform collects details, photos and video of those events.

My suggestion is that the NY Times profile politicians who are not just thinking about kids detained by ICE, but actually doing something about it, rather than enabling it.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is why I can't understand the incrementalism. There's horror shit happening to kids in these places. Horror shit. OK? That has to matter. The longer we wait the longer these kids suffer.

Can’t imagine why students aren’t signing up

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

SCOOP: ICE has done more than 60 secret flights on Air Wisconsin since mid-January, according to @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social. I watched one load this afternoon. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/air-wisconsi...

The only thing that matters is what you do. She did nothing. Except pose for a NYT story, with ‘tears’ in her eyes.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin is refusing to voluntarily comply with the Justice Department investigation into that video she organized urging U.S. military members to resist illegal orders. Slotkin's legal team is requesting Jeanine Pirro preserve all relevant documents for "anticipated litigation."

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...