Please go vote for my dog by liking this photo so I can win some free wine (Freddie already got a dog treat bag and dog wine this morning so he’s sorted). www.instagram.com/p/DUvur4sEfZ...

Please go vote for my dog by liking this photo so I can win some free wine (Freddie already got a dog treat bag and dog wine this morning so he’s sorted). www.instagram.com/p/DUvur4sEfZ...

For more on how conditions at Dilley are affecting children, read my latest for @nbcnews.com

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

So hard to see someone living your dreams.

reminds of that old bible story of how people were hungry and jesus conjured himself a security detail bsky.app/profile/carl...

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

No notes. Perfect.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Very good piece by @jamellebouie.net He has a moral clarity I wish we saw more often in opinion journalism.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" killed Medicaid expansion in Mississippi, lawmakers say. It would've helped 300,000 people. www.mississippifreepress.org/medicaid-exp...

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

I don't know what happens next, but Liam and his family are not being deported today.

UPDATE: The court granted Ramos' family a continuance at today’s asylum hearing, per school officials in his district. "Today’s ruling provides additional time, and with that, continued uncertainty for a child and his family," says Zena Stenvik, superintendent of Columbia Heights public schools.

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Looking at raw employment growth makes it obvious how hard DOGE hit DC—the DC area has lost 56k jobs over the last year, more than 4x the next worst (San Francisco) Over the last year, the DC metro area has lost more jobs than the largest-growing US metro area (NYC) has gained

Accurate.

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

For years, Weil has written these elegies about the weather that might be a bit much but are often the most interesting writing in the paper. I want a local publication that runs this. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

““They’re both sick right now,” Gutierrez said. “She has no access to any medical care.” Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms, while her mom has broken out in hives, Gutierrez said. Neither has been given any medicine or testing — a particular concern given the measles cases in the facility.” She is 10

Hon hon…hon?

Thrilled to see the wonderful Arooj here (who you should all be listening to: www.aroojaftab.com)

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics

Liam Conejo Ramos is not alone. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

The emerging narrative from the people who worked for Biden seems to be "we debased ourselves repeatedly and violated our own laws for Israel and Israel won't even say thank you".

Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"

I’m sure the fine folks at ADL will be on this.

Knives are out- biggly

For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:

❤️❤️❤️

Isn't this what MD drivers do in DC every day?

We literally have an organization called “Neighbors for More Neighbors.” Everywhere I go I see some neighbors and I’m always happy to see them. Some are young, some are old, some are black, some are white, who cares. It’s called community and the degenerate fascist freaks can never understand

Why is the DEA arresting journalists on non-drug-related charges

interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”

I think it’s worth keeping in mind that the specific church that was protested, inspiring these outrageous constitutional violations by DOJ, is part of the network of Christian Nationalist churches tied to Doug Wilson and attended by Pete Hegseth.

Full story here www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/a...

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Rate my dog’s head / IQ

the violent normalization of racism, islamophobia, and xenophobia at work, thanks to far too many politicians of both parties. she has faced more vitriol & violent threats than pretty much anyone in politics yet you never hear the same concerns about her *safety*, i wonder why

video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight

On Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...