Let a thousand @hellgatenyc.com s bloom.

For the past decade (at least), journalism has been a game of musical chairs where every year, the music stops, a quarter of the seats are pulled to never return.

Unbelievable

Do not love how this industry has been shredded and remade into a teetering heap of gig work Freelancers fighting each other for a dwindling number of scraps, generational talent falling out of the ecosystem entirely, former staffers struggling while billionaires stuff their pockets A fucking mess

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

This is legitimately the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in the New York Post, which is saying something. This makes their incessant astrological coverage seem studied and informative. nypost.com/2026/02/03/u...

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

The funniest thing I learned while diving into the Katie Uhlaender affair is that Elizabeth Swaney, the shitty snowboarder who exploited the point system for a berth in 2018 while representing Hungary, tried to do the same thing again but now while competing for Israel (and in skeleton).

Comrade Penny

I've loved the tuna melt long before I loved Heated Rivalry but it's not a quintessential New York sandwich. (Also, best one in the city is at B&H Dairy, this is not up for debate.)

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

HERE COMES THE OLYMPICS DISPLACEMENT MACHINE

You know things have been grim when you're celebrating temps in the high 20s.

Excited for stopantisemitism to tell off these holocaust survivors for being reminded

Sorry, y’all, it’s DEI Settlement now

SEE IT CAN HAPPEN

Here are a few of the emails from Casey Wasserman, current chair of LA28, to Ghislaine Maxwell in the latest Epstein files drop

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DOJ is Trump's personal law firm that we pay for. Free for him to use its unlimited resources to harass people like Lemon, Lisa Cook or Comey. We collectively pay the price both in our taxes and in losing a nonpartisan legal system. The individual victims must pay ruinous financial costs and stress.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

With the way things are going with RFK Jr. and MAHA, I'm expecting an announcement that the NIH is going to award a grant to the study of Morgellons disease any day now.

Buddy. You’re intimidated by consultants and poll numbers. You’re not really the vanguard of freedom and democracy you try to project. Be aggressive and then we can use big statements

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

PhillyMag put together a nice collection of Dan's work as well. www.phillymag.com/news/2026/01...

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF

BREAKING: recently murdered guy did something dope as hell a couple weeks prior

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

Initially CAS ruled in favor of Ana Maria Bărbosu saying Chiles improperly submitted her challenge by doing so 4 seconds late. Chiles and USA gymnastics argued that they had evidence to show CAS did not consider delays in between the challenge and its submission. From @dvorameyers.bsky.social and I:

Woah big update from a #Paris2024 controversy: Swiss Federal Tribunal says that CAS must hear new evidence presented by Jordan Chiles and USA Gymnastics that led to CAS overturning the successful score challenge that originally gave Chiles the bronze medal in the women's Floor Exercise Final.

Dan was as great as they come and I'll never forget how he once made a nervous new york transplant from maryland feel welcome in a media office when he talked about the jordans he was wearing defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

buying bootleg merch has the dual purpose of honoring dan and protesting Fanatics™

Man what a lovely tribute leading Defector right now

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

With all due respect to the Boss, this is my preferred anti-ICE anthem. parentpatrol.bandcamp.com/track/if-you...

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Time to get my favorite Yiddish curses ready.

What is the point of decades of Holocaust education if the only permissible takeaway is that it was a singular event that stands outside of time from which no parallels can ever be drawn?

“I’m really mad so thank you for letting me vent. Abolish ICE. We keep us safe.” @seandoolittle.bsky.social and other athletes opened up to us about the DHS murders and the campaign of state terror being waged in Minneapolis and beyond. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

It's really hard to focus on writing about figure skating with everything else that's going on.

This from the woman who live-tweeted an internal New York Times staff meeting in which she referred to her colleagues as “the wokes.” God I despise these people and their brazen mendacity

Here's hoping that Sam Altman continues praising Donald Trump, that his remarks are widely disseminated, and that all those using or considering using ChatGPT hear them.

just limitless depravity

Never let anyone tell you this was unforeseeable. I was a teenager when DHS was created and I remember the memes (though we didn’t call them that yet) about “homeland security” being a Nazi term. Plenty of people knew at the time that DHS was a bad, dangerous, and unamerican idea.

To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.