🧵 (1) SIX ICE DEATHS IN TEXAS IN SIX WEEKS; 3 at a Fort Bliss camp holding +3K immigrants. A homicide involving staff. That’s after the deadliest year in ICE detention in decades as Trump seeks to expand it. Lawyers call it an ‘unfolding humanitarian crisis.’ www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/i...

The migration is complete: On Montlake has a new home. Come check it out: www.onmontlake.com/on-montlake-...

They have a habit of doing this.

Shout out to the engineers at KEXP. The sound for their live performances is invariably excellent.

Absolutely insane band. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

F this guy.

Two sick kids at home today, so I decided to bring out the big guns and show them The Great Muppet Caper. It was an excellent parenting decision.

Couldn’t be happier for Bobby. Good dude.

Evergreen. RIP Wess.

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

This is making me queasy.

After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

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.

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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein scouted women for New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, emails show. www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

'He is Mariners, through and through': Rick Rizzs, ever-faithful voice of Seattle baseball, will retire after one more pennant chase www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

It kind of sucks to be living through a situation that is both Orwellian AND Kafkaesque.

Why?

There are some great reporting jobs here for @theathletic.com's rapid-response investigative unit. jobs.lever.co/theathletic/...

Ricardo Lockett will have his revenge.

Federal immigration agents arrested and detained a Gresham, Oregon family, including a 7-year-old child, outside a Portland hospital last week as the girl’s parents sought emergency medical care for her. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Wow, Keon caught a stray. At least he caught it.

Failing up!

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Essential reading

I think the word this bootlicker is looking for is “courage.”

That should maybe cost LaFleur his job.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

Broken system.

John Harbaugh faced more Jan 6 consequences than Donald Trump ever did.

“Any organization objecting to such a law should probably rethink their tactics and mission if they’re worried about falling out of compliance with such a basic concept as ‘don’t do fraud.’”

More like Unlikely.

Tirico’s vocal inflections are on point tonight.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

hey you guys remember when the US Supreme Court said Donald Trump gets to avoid justice for crimes in the United States because he did them while living in a palace in Washington DC

Katie is the best.

Byeeeeeeeee

The Trump administration is prosecuting journalist Tim Burke for exposing Tucker Carlson's whitewashing of antisemite Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. Use our action center to tell lawmakers to speak up against @bubbaprog.xyz's prosecution.

God bless Rick Steves.

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

I’m sure it was just a coincidence.

The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE. www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...

Who is this for?