NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Congrats to the happy couple!!! 🎉

The most quoted stat re expiration of the enhanced ACA subsidies is from KFF - that avg enrollee costs will rise 75%. But that analysis is from 2024, and the actual increase, per the IRS's setting of the % of income enrollees will pay in 2026, is higher. xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/worse-than...

Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Lawless authoritarians trying to bring politically motivated charges against their opponents abcnews.go.com/US/trump-off... The rule of law is in danger

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

A scary sentiment. It’s the scene in the dystopian book, play, film where a leader in a world gone awry is exposed to be completely overtaken by monstrous forces.

Yes, rents were affordable. Senior year at NYU - sublet an apartment on West 78th St between Broadway and Amsterdam (UWS) for $500/month total, split among 3 roommates. 2 years later, split 2BR in Park Slope for $800/month total rent (split with roommate, so I paid about $333 for smaller bedroom).

every nyc election headline is like “confounded by mamdani’s appeal, group of wealthy hedge fund health insurance executive landlords pledge millions”

Trump admin: We’re prosecuting war on American cities, violating rights, and hurting the economy too, laws mean nothing, it makes us giddy. Majority of US public: We hate it. Way too many US elites: He’s all powerful, the people love it, this is forever, let’s capitulate, that’s just being smart.

The market-first consensus has collapsed—leaving stagnant wages, rising costs, and hollowed-out communities. CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social in Democracy Journal argues: the choice ahead is authoritarian decline or a democratic economy that delivers. democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Zohran Mamdani is funny on the fly. From his AMA today:

Re-reading the report of the Social Security whistleblower, it is striking how many times good people within SSA tried to keep DOGE from committing crimes. Here's my understanding of the timeline 🧵

One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”

Some good news today:

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Is Cuomo soliciting voter fraud? nypost.com/2025/08/09/u...

So it turns out that Cuomo's slam at Mamdani's lodgings wasn't just a know-nothing misrepresentation of homelessness, rent control, and rent stabilization, it was also a stealth boosting of the landlord lobby's coming messaging on why rent stabilization should be gutted.

Andrew Cuomo’s crash out. If you don’t know the difference between “rent stabilized” and “rent controlled,” you should not be Mayor of NYC. Even more so if you are an infamous Governor who slashed homeless funding vouchers, gave away money to the rich, and was appointed to HUD as a favor to his dad

Zohran Mamdani just released a statement about Cuomo working with Trump:

Waiting for Congress to act is like waiting for your Lyft that was 3 minutes away and is now 7 minutes away.

They’ve got you debating whether a Levi’s ad is fascist while they torch the Constitution and sell off public power to crypto cults. This isn’t discourse. It’s distraction warfare.

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge? I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

They came for the foreign aid workers, justice department, public health institutions, universities and researchers, law firms, media organizations, not to mention longtime immigrants. Now it is nonprofits too. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

The more I dig into the unfolding immigration crackdown at ICE, the more I find evidence of a business motive at play. My latest story details a new policy to sharply expand the number of immigrants on GPS ankle monitors -- and make $$$ for a Florida private prison conglomerate. wapo.st/3TY4bOf

In a show of solidarity, Monday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will feature appearances tonight from three of Colbert’s closest late-night allies: Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and Jon Stewart. CBS Cancels The Late Show With Stephen Colbert—Show to End in May 2026According to…

Zohran Mamdani today at Nowadays at a party for campaign volunteers: “You know how I know it’s working - It used to be enough for the President of the U.S. to say “He’s a Socialist!” But now he calls me a Communist. Because the socialism just isn’t hitting the way it used to.” Protect this man!!!

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Immigration court felt like a murderous reality show today. The judge granted two gentlemen asylum hearings in 2029. But it was all a sham—They were abducted by ICE before they left the building. There is more the City & the State must do. We cannot allow the rule of law to be eroded case by case.

just looping back on this october 2024 warning and yep we have ticked through them all

Been talking to News12 Bronx since the 2008/2009 season.

Abusers never take no for an answer. nypost.com/2025/07/13/u...

Zohran Mamdani today at Nowadays at a party for campaign volunteers: “You know how I know it’s working - It used to be enough for the President of the U.S. to say “He’s a Socialist!” But now he calls me a Communist. Because the socialism just isn’t hitting the way it used to.” Protect this man!!!

🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles. The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.

“Then they started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their fifth and fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you or help with any investigation.”

“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.

"we are pleased to announce that three months after we ordered a thousand FBI agents to drop everything and sift through truckloads of new Epstein files, we have determined that the files don't exist"

I know it’s been ages, but anyone else remember August 2024 when the NYT wouldn’t publish hacked material about Trump because using information obtained illegally was against its ethical guidelines?