In FRIDAY's Times-Picayune, from @jeff-duncan.bsky.social: Drew Brees gets Hall call ⚜️ www.nola.com/sports/saint... From @rodwalkernola.bsky.social: Jose Alvarado, unlike Pelicans at trade deadline, always brought excitement LSU hoops, softball, NFL awards, Olympics + more! subscribe.nola.com

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Drew Brees got the Hall call ⚜️ www.nola.com/sports/saint...

JOURNALISM!

NEW CHEATING DROPPED www.bbc.com/sport/articl...

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The hunger

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...

jesus christ

The Washington Post laid off hundreds of the country's most dogged reporters today, who did indispensable work holding the powerful accountable at home & abroad. We are heartbroken. Please share with anyone who cares about the future of journalism: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

If major media institutions won't build or properly invest in thoughtful sports coverage -- especially when it considers and holds power accountable -- we need to do what WaPo won't. (I'm trying to do that, too, upping my paid subscriptions to indie media while building my own platform.)

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

“Within months, more than 1.4 million Black Louisianans could lose meaningful representation in Congress and at every level of government — not because they stopped voting, but because the U.S. Supreme Court may soon make it legal to erase their power.”

Lost my job at the Washington Post today, along with many of the best in the business. I want to keep covering tech and the internet. If you have leads on jobs for me or my colleagues, please reach out. I’m so proud of our work.

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

"The Washington Post could have been the moral center of the news industry in this era, as it was during the 1970s. It had the reporters, editors, editorial writers, columnists, researchers, lawyers and legacy. But it didn’t have the owner." newrepublic.com/article/2061...

This is just awful news. Patrick is one of the best reporters out there, and we relied on his work constantly, including his reporting for the Texas Tribune before he went to WaPo. We would hire him if only we could. x.com/PatrickSvite...

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.

Sports coverage is more than scores. It’s about the people, politics and cultural factors that drive it. Sports journalism adds vivid color and context to these dynamics. Without it, every sports fan suffers. Some of the best sports journalism all-time came from WaPo. Inexcusable loss.

Unbelievable

I just got off the phone with Elizabeth's dad...she and her mom were freed tonight! Updated story: sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

I went to Catholic school from grades K-12 and the only verse I can recite by heart is Ezekiel 25:17

Scott Rabalais: LSU women playing their best basketball as crucial stretch arrives

"In 1960, an NFL Championship Game ticket ran you $8; adjusted for inflation, that’s about $87.60. Last year, the cheapest seat for the Super Bowl ... was $3,000." prospect.org/2026/02/03/f...

Sen. Cassidy, how did this happen I wonder

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

Rep. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social told reporters that there were about 1,100 detainees currently housed at the facility. That includes hundreds of other minors all the way down to a 2-month-old infant.

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

i met this guy on Saturday. he was engaged in the devious business of walking a kid who'd just been maced back to his apartment and washing out their eyes.

SISU is an excellent movie, 10/10

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Y que CSPM

Treat. Yo. Self. ⤵️

The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports. Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...

Bad Bunny accepts the #GRAMMYs award for Album of the Year.

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Crying in the club* *the couch

BENITOOOOOOOOOOO

My girl Cher said LUTHER VANDROSSSSS lmaooooooooo

Chaka Khan!

Post Malone, really?

Slash has been ratatouilling this whole time, it’s rock’s worst kept secret

Bad Bunny with a powerful anti-ICE speech at the Grammys 🔥🔥🔥🔥 "Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out.’ We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."

“F—k ICE” – Billie Eilish Follow along for more updates from the 2026 #GRAMMYs: www.vanityfair.com/live/grammy-...

Beating out Kendrick, Bad Bunny AND the K-Pop girlies for song of the year?! Nahhhhhhh

Useful idiots

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.