Brave guy

Any of my followers know the ADK High Peaks well? looking to do a high-peak overnight this summer with my oldest, who, despite being 8, can put away some miles and loves a rock scramble. Phelps Mountain looks good, but open to suggestions

🚨New @ms.now: An ICE whistleblower, Ryan Schwank, is slated to testify at a congressional forum this afternoon that the agency is “lying to Congress & the American people” about its training of new recruits. Here's what to know 👇

BREAKING: Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is suing DHS to stop the transformation of a Williamsport warehouse into an immigration detention facility, citing environmental and public health concerns. buff.ly/dUJBE9a

School chancellor Samuels on my laptop as I’m covering a briefing from my kitchen: School’s open tomorrow My wife in the other room: “yay!” My kids in the other room: “no!!!”

Eastern Parkway is uncharacteristically quiet, save for the backup beeps of sanitation trucks. Only seen one cross country urban skier so far

If you are serious about "never again" then remember: it's not about standing up to a line of tanks when the camps are already running. It's about standing up to social & professional pressure when the whole thing is just getting started, when it's not yet cool to do so. That's bravery that matters.

The PlowNYC tracker has now been activated. Shows you how recently any street has been plowed. Check it out at nyc.gov/plownyc. Thank you to the 1000s of @nycsanitation.bsky.social workers out there battling this blizzard.

When a flack lies, it’s our responsibility to print their names and call them out.

I know we all know that this administration lies frequently and often, but I still think it's the case we in the media haven't quite yet reckoned with official agency spokespeople frequently, systematically and aggressively lying to reporters. DHS another example.

Snow on the Culver Line

tyranny. the most powerful enemies of our first amendment free speech rights in our nation's history.

Meanwhile, with my pedal-powered cargo bike, I stand to rule a significant portion of Brooklyn.

INBOX: MTA suspending LIRR service starting 1 a.m. Monday in anticipation of weather conditions

Local news inoculates democracy against propaganda, so of course it’s being dismantled, largely by people wielding financial instruments

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

“For years, companies have employed bots or orchestrated fake ‘AstroTurf’ campaigns to create the appearance of grassroots opinion on an issue, but the introduction of AI technology could make it even harder for elected officials to engage in earnest with the public.”

Apple could make a new retro ipod nano and shit gold for a decade. Instead they’re doing AI capex plays nobody wants

The fuck do these people think school *is*?

A free press can’t exist in a surveillance state. Geofence warrants allow the government to collect location data on everyone, including journalists and whistleblowers. A Supreme Court case could make it worse. Here’s how.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

"What do I think of the Board of Peace? I think it is a colonialist operation: others deciding for the Palestinians,” said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa: www.ncronline.org/news/us-led-...

Next para: "A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty."

Page 34: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct."

Page 29: "Absent genuine, particularized necessity, the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness requirement prohibits government officers from executing a civil arrest while systematically concealing their identities in a manner that eliminates contemporaneous and subsequent accountability."

ICE buys Roxbury, N.J., warehouse. Exact figures for the sale have not been released. Dalfen Industrial sold the site to ICE this afternoon. The sale has been confirmed by the city council and mayor.

My home state has always had a way with words

Really remarkable writing here, blasting the "strange timidity" of courts to interpret the Constitution itself, and their weird reliance on precedent to decide storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Rebukes U.S. Over Application to Search Reporter’s Home A prosecutor apologized for failing to alert the magistrate to a 1980 law that restricts searches for reporting materials. w/ Erik Wemple www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Just want to update: -we made the trip -it was fantastic; we hiked a total of 15 miles in the backcountry -the kid became a Junior Ranger -the Parks remain some of the best of this country

Illinois Governor Pritzker, following today's SCOTUS ruling, sends President Trump an invoice for $8,679,261,600 for refunds of the "illegal tariffs" the residents of his state were charged.

Theology Prof. Christopher Denny pushed back against the idea that pulling recognition of the unions was part of St. John’s Catholic mission, quoting Pope Francis: “There are no free workers without a union.'” He called the union busting "cafeteria Catholicism" @caylabam.bsky.social in NYDN

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Free bridge! www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

In Trump's speech he's now saying that the decision actually gives him more authority to impose tariffs under other statutes, which to be clear is absolute nonsense

economy's dogshit

NEW: Metadata left in a PDF exposes the people behind ICE's "mega" detention center plans, including the director of the Newark ERO field office and a former GEO Group executive. @regret.bsky.social with more:

NEW: A Homeland Security PDF uploaded to the New Hampshire governor's website included notes and metadata that revealed the DHS personnel involved in its creation. @regret.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/metada...

“This is an important win not just for The Handbasket but for the promise of transparency in DC. The court’s ruling vindicates the public’s right of access to body cam footage, and ensures that the public will get a full and accurate accounting of the episode at the US Institute of Peace last year.”

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Spent the afternoon (working) in my home swamp of New Jersey

Not Penn Station, Not Dulles…

What gets me about this one is how it reveals ICE‘s awareness that the people they’re targeting are *not* scary violent criminals: they’re good neighbors who will risk their safety to help others. You wouldn’t try this tactic unless you knew your justification for arresting this man was bullshit.

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

So Trump, and not the "anonymous staffer," actually did post the Obamas/apes video?

A chunk of ice froze out full service on the G train for a little less than an hour this morning, but delays have since thawed.