My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

I haven't owned a car in 14 years - so when I'm on the road for work I still get tripped up by the "on/off" button for ignition. Like I have to remind myself to turn off the car when I park.

A new survey of Minneapolis residents on the aftermath of Operation Metro Surge. 38 percent who had encounters with immigration agents said agents “already had their guns drawn when they approached them"

May Wikipedia live long and prosper www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators 23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Update: Today, opt-in online pollster YouGov revealed that bogus respondents biased their 2024 religion survey. Based on this survey, Bible Society's 2025 The Quiet Revival report claimed a massive surge of churchgoing in England and Wales. The report has now been retracted.

Apart from the actual functionality, I don't think ICE in airports is gonna be the political dunk that Trump thinks it is. ICE interacting with civilians in public places has been bad

Great reporting from @danielsilliman.bsky.social - including body cam footage (released w permission of the parents) that is a useful and heartbreaking window into the process of trying to report abuse - roysreport.com/former-ligon...

Why we're here: Democrats refuse to fund Border Patrol and ICE w/o changes including an end to masks and requiring warrants signed by a judge before entering homes/biz. Republicans/WH refuse to add those 2 items, and have refused Dem offer to fund rest of DHS w/o more money for BP/ICE.

I listen to French news radio to try to keep some scraps of the language in my head and the top stories yesterday were: - Iran - Ukraine - local elections - Labubu movie

A Trump friend in a custody fight came up with a novel way to try to get his son back: He called ICE and told them his ex-girlfriend was in the country illegally. She has since been deported. By Megan Tuohy @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

can i get a "contract" on whether or not this will someday appear in a charging document

Good reporting as always from @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

a wild read - a Methodist pastor who took on management of Epstein's island *after* news broke about him. The quotes from the minister in here are something else www.umnews.org/en/news/prob...

Pope Leo tells journalists: “It is up to you to show the sufferings that war always brings to the people; to show the face of war and to relate it through the eyes of the victims, so as not to transform it into a videogame.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Michael B Jordan confession: I have never cried harder in any movie or tv show than when Wallace died

It's something to step back and think that we started a war that creates refugees and have no refugee program to take anyone in. Seems like a first in many decades

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10,000 to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom that's warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Doing my daily scan of Christian news sources

The Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville in a statement today denounces TN Rep. Andy Ogles' "hateful rhetoric about Muslim Americans" and "affirms that Muslim Americans do belong." (👇 and mailchi.mp/jewishnashvi...) (For context on Ogles' remarks: www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...)

Pentagon says first week of Iran war has cost $11.3b. That's 2x the entire annual budget of PEPFAR, which keeps 20 mil people alive and which DOGE tried to shutter last year for wastefulness

When I interviewed AI engineers last year, this is what their experience was too! The people who work at AI companies themselves aren't working less

a must read on betting apps Polymarket and Kalshi targeting young people www.wsj.com/business/med...

"nine-figure ad deal" is not a phrase reporters get to write very often in regards to public officials

This story of a minor refugee's arrest, from Judge Tunheim's ruling on Friday, is just horrible

The CBP statement that he was "not amenable to removal" makes no sense -- he was here legally and didn't want to self deport? buffalonews.com/news/local/a...

Three separate cases where DOJ failed to get an indictment - remarkable www.startribune.com/charges-drop...

I'm skeptical of the allegation of this article - that the State Dept is ending *all* humanitarian aid for seven nations. Aid comes thru so many different channels that I don't know what that means. Food? Health? There's not one "aid package" for Malawi www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

Is there a revival of churchgoing among US young adults? According to Opt-in online polls: Yes Surveys using random samples of the population: No https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/23/has-there-been-a-christian-revival-among-young-adults-in-the-uk-recent-surveys-may-be-misleading/

I’m hearing ads for betting companies now where they’re calling it “trading.” Cool cool cool

it’s twin peaks day ☕

8th grader who survived being shot in the head in the Annunciation shooting is now at the MN state capitol pushing for new gun restrictions www.startribune.com/minnesota-le...

Mamdani should hire my block to shovel out the city

“ICE has stopped failing trainees” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

An Ecuadorean man with legal status was shackled and left with broken bones in ICE detention. Excellent reporting by my colleague @andyrolsen.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/chur...

Norway the king of chess and winter

Federal court hearing today on the refugee detentions -

Yesterday we published a piece on refugees in hiding who are facing threat of detention. Last night DHS issued a new memo outlining its plans to expand refugee detention. Not only justifying their arrests but saying they could be detained indefinitely www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/minn...

I wonder if this will shift things at all. A lot of the refugees I know of who were released under a judge’s order were not given their ID documents back. So they don’t know if they can drive etc

New from me: Refugees disappeared in Minnesota. A resettlement agency was getting calls from family members wondering where family was. A nursing mother was taken from her baby at her home and sent to Texas. Their churches are angry. www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/minn...

Reuters reports that Russ Vought is using $15m from USAID for his own security detail www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Meanwhile Mackenzie Scott has given away $26B since 2019 www.seattletimes.com/business/mac...

That Underground Railroad stop that was just discovered in NYC - a "generational find" - was owned and built by a fervent evangelical convert and abolitionist Joseph Brewster media.villagepreservation.org/wp-content/u...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Just read Frankenstein for the first time. So so good.

Amazing - MN fund to help immigrants with their rent has hit $275k. One of the organizers is a Christian I talked to. “A collective of three schools and five churches” www.gofundme.com/f/75ccxs-nei...

When the subtitle is actually the headline: “In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I'm still wrapping my head around the El Paso story. A city's airspace was shut down? Because Border Patrol shot a laser at a birthday balloon?

Chelsea is the greatest.

buyer beware: just got a tariff bill from fedex for some random online order I made five months ago