Well done UC Berkeley. Well done Human Rights Watch. Well done CECOT survivors. Well done 60 Minutes.

Reposting this because other outlets saying “well CBS didn’t run it but here’s OUR reporting” as if 60 Minutes hasn’t already run a bunch of pieces, is a bad look.

Automatic repost for the Vasa Museum, an incredible museum about an absolutely amazing historical episode

“Delegalization” is IMHO the most undercovered/under-understood story of the first year of Trump 2. But it’s really, really hard to talk about it in a way that breaks through. Some problems:

Best case scenario, this is Weiss thinking that she will succeed where everyone else has failed for _decades_ and successfully talk the White House into commenting on a story that looks bad for them. They just don’t do it and they haven’t for ages and you can’t let them kill the story by refusing.

I want to be clear: 60 Minutes has mot been as relevant in the past 15 years as it has been on the CECOT story. It has been leading coverage since MARCH.

Happy eighth night, y’all. Happy Festival of Lights.

We’ve been at my mom’s house 6.5 hours and we’re already having The Great Driver Fight. Hoosier: do NOT talk to me about drivers. You’re from Ohio! Your drivers have been a problem for as long as I have been alive! Ohioan: at least we make roads people can drive on!!

Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.

LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION: Drelyse Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. drelyserestaurant.com

It’s been several days and I’ve finally processed my grief at how wildly inadequate the “La Perla” video is to express it on Bluesky.

I appreciate the people who have been raising attention to this and related issues, and hope this will be of interest to you @carlygoodman.bsky.social @akalhan.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @immlawachall.bsky.social

documentedny.com/2025/12/19/i... I used to tell potential story subjects/sources that I’d never heard of ICE going after anyone for speaking to the press. That’s no longer true. But fighting a case in public can also save you, or others.

Today’s Throughline (my @documentedny.bsky.social column) is about the family of Any López Belloza, the various meanings of “targeting,” and the calculus of speaking out about your immigration case if it means your loved ones might be on ICE’s radar. linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%...

TIL @blanksslate.bsky.social does a surprisingly creditable @minakimes.bsky.social impression (He is live-impersonating her watching this Rams/Seahawks game)

Normalize hanukiah posting throughout Hanukkah as the lights get more abundant and the darkness gets pushed back.

I could tell a story in which the reason I washed out of newsrooms is that I was white and it was post-2020. I don’t do that because there are plenty of other explanations, and it would be _journalistically inaccurate_ to pick that one absent evidence.

Who can help us with either Chinese subtitles or a Cantonese(/Shanghainese) dub

Me to @blanksslate.bsky.social last night: “wow, a whole cohort of kids are about to see The Princess Bride for the first time.” Blanks: “yeah. …Wow, yeah.” Me: “I envy them.”

Hey Internet: Do you eat tomatoes like apples? If so: are you a Ferrari fan?

I had so many critiques of modernity but I was so lucky to see some of it and I miss it

No thesis more vindicated www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555... bsky.app/profile/rgoo...

Normalize hanukiah posting throughout Hanukkah as the lights get more abundant and the darkness gets pushed back.

I support this. RAISE THE OJ RATIO

The Maccabees were awful role models. But Hanukkah is prominent as a holiday of diaspora and I think that’s beautiful.

We are called upon to place our hanukiahs outside the front door or in the window; “in a time of danger, placing it on a table will suffice.” This should not be a time of danger. It must not be a time of fear. Happy Hanukkah.

Happy Hanukiah Panic-Cleaning to all who celebrate.

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

I regret to inform you, and also the restaurant in my neighborhood that basically stole my name, that the best restaurant I have been to that basically stole my name is Restaurant Adarra in Richmond.

Think about how afraid you have to be to change a daily routine out of it.

(It could and also, it won’t, and a lot of where we are in this moment relies on understanding where “can” fits in between those two verbs. Which isn’t static!)

If you’re in conversation with someone and they ask what you do, and you do the customary winking circumlocution, and instead of looking intrigued they shrug and move on? That’s a keeper

In one of the stories about the nativity display in Massachusetts, DHS spox Tricia McLaughlin went out of her way to say the nativity scene was a lie because “ICE does not separate families.” It “NEVER happens,” she wrote (emphasis in original). Yuanxin Zheng would like a word.

Love to walk a block from my apartment to my trivia night and get greeted by massive multi-agency plus National Guard police response to what was reputedly just a car accident.

the best distillation I’ve ever seen of my biggest problem with issue polling. A lot of positions are softly held and downstream of other principles/preferences! If you try to match the positions instead of what motivates the positions, you lose ppl who disagree but don’t win those who agree!

Fairly remarkable article here: ICE's acting director is publicly demanding that a parish in Massachusetts remove its nativity scene because it offends the administration. www.masslive.com/news/2025/12...

USBP is straight up posting misinformation. Every day in U.S. immigration courts, judges deny cases because they can send people to Honduras under the ACA instead of hearing them here!

I’m not a trendsetter or an influencer but I think the world is crying out for Herringbone Winter.

Putting this out into the universe: The first company that figures out how to stream audio to one earpod and one hearing aid will have my loyalty forever. It’s awesome to hear things through my skull but I’d like to hear in stereo sometimes.

Yeah, uh, heaven forfend that any undergrad concentrate on learning about a region of the world that remains incredibly important to the United States....

Reposted to count accurately lol

If you value my work, you should support the organizations that allow me to do it. (1/3)

Pablo. MF. Torre.

Spencer is doing more _reported scoops_ than pretty much anyone else whose primary output is a newsletter. He’s not getting tips. He’s working sources and pounding leather.

The Great Downloading

HOO. HOO. HOO. HOOSIERS.

Eigh. Teen. Seconds.

If you are currently in Vienna, Austria, I need you to yell as loud as you can for @blanksslate.bsky.social to wake up

WIDE LEFT

Did you know that remembering to exhale is important?