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President Donald Trump said Friday night that he's "immediately" terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota. The state has the nation's largest Somali community. n.pr/43La07b

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

Green or not, the only time in which a DCA to LGA/JFK/EWR flight is a better choice than an Amtrak NE regional is one where flight deck controllers are fully staffed and overhead power on the NE corridor is completely down.

"Here in Washington, our proximity to the federal government makes protest art something like a birthright" washingtonian.com/2025/11/20/h...

Two recent shootings by federal agents in D.C. have highlighted the big gaps in training, transparency, and accountability that exist between them and D.C.'s local police officers. MPD has one set of rules, federal agents another: 51st.news/federal-poli...

"The roughly six months that have made up November this year have—it’s fair to say—not been a high point for women, journalism, women in journalism, women with jobs, or anyone following the news." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

California's (and Newsom's) climate record is complicated but the state is operating on a basic level that is very, very different than any other state

"Recently, Clifford “Buzz” Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online reached only 16 mph and wasn’t cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore."

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Trying to save lives out here with the power of the internet and you're not helping, Keith.

The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:

As a process nerd and a secret product person Defector's annual report is a must read for me every year.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

The same thing that happened to Teen Vogue also happened to Vibe (h/t @leximcmenamin.com ) gofund.me/a8a29c09b

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As a three-year-old, I banished my Teddy Ruxpin to the garage. I feel vindicated.

Hot damn.

NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

Putting a bunch of local papers in a network/company to pool resources on national stories can be great -- but also you get shit like this.

“My whole career, I’ve worn a bandana or sometimes a facial shroud, which was standard practice. But fires are burning thousands of homes, the contents of the homes and vehicles, and you’re sitting in that smoke for weeks at a time.” www.kqed.org/science/1999... via @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social

One of the people said Feds United is subcontracting for SOSi, a big gov contractor that just got a contract for these sorts of services. “I do not comment on current projects where I am not the prime vendor,” Brown told me www.404media.co/contractor-p...

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Love this feature on lunch ladies, an underappreciated bedrock of K-12 education.

Grateful to @oregonian.com and @oregoncapitalchronicle.com for sharing our story about Fox News' misleading coverage of Portland before Trump ordered the National Guard. ICYMI: www.propublica.org/article/port...

Jesus Christ.

NEW: Trump likes to claim that his pardons are about undoing supposed Biden DOJ overreach, but @propublica.org found at least a dozen instances where Trump has granted clemency in criminal cases that originated during the first Trump term. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

Ahead of Saturday’s game, @maustermuhle.bsky.social spoke with @washingtonspirit.com captain and goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury ⚽ 🥅

Enviros are asking Georgia utility regulators to push off a key vote on Georgia Power's request to meet a 10,000MW need with mostly gas-fueled power plants until January, when two new regulators are seated. It's an uphill battle. From my colleague, Drew Kann www.ajc.com/business/202...

Flooding at the COP30 venue...that's not too on the nose, or anything...

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An absolute powerhouse of a @propublica.org team has done what U.S. officials refuse to do: identify the men and women swept up in that midnight raid in Chicago. Life in the building was not perfect, but reporters found little evidence to back up government claims: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

If Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files were real, he would just be, like, inviting random Pro Publica reporters to his Signal groups by accident, then writing shit like, "THE ALIEN INVASION BEGINS TOMORROW. SICK, MY BROTHERS."

I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...

Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg

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Aabria Iyengar interviewed (also, very good).

slightly demoralizing as a writer to see people reacting to the headline of this piece questioning the premises of the "masculinity crisis" because they think only read the headline and so think it is affirming them

What up New Jersey DEP (the one remaining state regulator with a say in this)

thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin

I hated reading this combination of words this but I had to know which pipeline it was. Full @truth.bsky.social investigation here (also Hunterbrook got "Truth" @ bsky? geez) hntrbrk.com/sable-2/

It's about to get very cold in parts of the east coast early next week... (via @themainemonitor.org ) www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

I liked @grantblank.bsky.social 's Georgia PSC video so much, I wrote about it (and other, related thoughts) buttondown.com/theplanetyou...

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

Gracie, a 23-year-old student and parent in Maryland, stressed that many peers are dealing with not being able to feed themselves or their children due to delays to SNAP benefits. She said uncertainty over SNAP delays “builds this anxiety of, ‘Well, if this is going to be taken away, what else is?'