As the three detainees arrested in a Jeffersonville immigration raid earlier this month face bond hearings and removal procedings, their lawyer was temporarily barred from visiting her clients in the Vermont prison in which they were held. www.vtcng.com/news_and_cit...

We sourced some surveillance footage that confirmed eyewitness report that the immigration police raid in the small village of Jeffersonville was violent and chaotic. www.vtcng.com/news_and_cit...

There was a massive immigration police raid at a gas station in Jeffersonville Wednesday morning, with employees saying 15-20 people were targeted by ICE and Border Patrol.

Nikola Jokic messes up Domantas Sabonis' hair with the laser assist to Gordon

I love exploring place-name genealogy, so it was fun to learn and write about the origins of Moscow village, a tiny clustering of homes that grew up around a long-gone sawmill in Stowe. www.vtcng.com/stowe_report...

I tune into postseason baseball purely so I can learn that the Yankees have a guy named Shitler.

I've reported a lot on the imminent closure of our local birthing center, so last week I wrote about another maternity health crisis that hit 75 years ago and how one doctor tried to make things better. www.vtcng.com/news_and_cit...

Watching the Iowa/ ISU game in adherence to Tradition (derogatory)

What does this guy know

Absolutely devastating.

Been listening to a lot of Velvet Underground like some kind of teenager.

After over 150 years, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of the year

Various Vermont news outlets have been covering the potential closure of the birthing center at Morrisville’s Copley Hospital, but the News & Citizen has been covering the issue closest, like with this week’s article on rising tensions between hospital staff and administration. t.co/0oSvOsM8qm

Rilke, Duino Elegy 8

got a close-up look at the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth, an influential community of Buddhists that just happens to be located in our backyard, along with their enigmatic guru leader. t.co/pURrbhfn3i

This week I wrote a long feature on the community of parents fighting to save a small but uniquely special birthing center in rural Vermont. www.vtcng.com/news_and_cit...

Willing spring into existence with my first cold brew lemonade of the season.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — 20-year-old gunman at Florida State University was sheriff's deputy's son and service weapon found at scene, police say.

CPJ has issued a safety advisory for journalists traveling to or entering the US: cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...

It’s for ledes like this that I was named New England journalist of the year.

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it: www.404media.co/this-college...

My comfort Dylan songs rn are “Girl from the North Country” (Nashville skyline version) and “Just Like A Woman” (London 1966 version).

Not now children, daddy’s listening to his emergency podcast.

Suddenly I’m 33 years old and I have no jeans big enough for the current fashion.

My anxiety around the Super Bowl as an event can be rooted in both my childhood and contemporary culture at large, it doesn’t have to be either/or.

My short, short story “Catherine the Traveler” has joined some excellent company in Black Fork Review Issue 11, which, as manager editor Carly Wheelehan said, is centered around “fault lines, crags, splits and separations.” blackforkreview.com/aaron-calvin

*driving in the middle of an ice storm* “This is just like that movie, The Ice Storm.”

A really shocking scoop from me this week: After a senior Stowe police officer was demoted and retired, an investigation conducted into his behavior revealed that his infatuation with a much younger woman on the force threw the dept into chaos. t.co/JZdalo7ifX

if you wanna read why this election was kind of like getting diagnosed with cancer 🫠 lenabruncaj.substack.com/p/a-short-no...

Phil Elverum you crazy bastard you’ve done it again.

I have a new short story published by the good folks at the literary journal @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

The Charlotte Hornets and the Indiana Pacers are a good matchup because they both represent two of America’s most cursed cities.

My hearing aid tech thought I was in high school. I’m always getting hard carded at the gas station. I am and have always been and old man and I demand to be treated like one.

I was so mad at the cheapness of the plot twist in Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies that I have and never will read anything by her again.

Can you describe some sensory element in writing that you know can be perceived by others but you yourself can’t perceive? I do it all the time.

I worked on a short story last night even though I didn’t feel like it.

Hard to describe the satisfaction of making an edit that you see needs to be made and looking back at the marked-up print out of the manuscript you’re making edits off of and seeing that your past self had also seen where that edit needed to be made.

Reactivated my dormant food newsletter for some reflections on disaster journalism, which has been on my mind as I’ve reported on the aftermath on the flooding in northern Vermont. https://aaroncalvin.substack.com/p/mac-and-cheese-with-chicken?utm_medium=reader2

I love long short stories and I will never stop reading and writing them even though they have never been more unfashionable.

Watched The Perfect Storm (2000) for the first time last night. All the dudes on that boat seemed to be having a great time bonding until they all died.

You said F major but we all know you meant D minor.

I am no longer being sued over a public records request and we actually won the case in the first go around, so that’s pretty chill 😎

Paige made some delicious mochi brownies.