”D.H.S. has not identified the officers.” Former police commander: “This didn’t have to happen the way that it did.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Genius. Note presumed doomsday clock on right.

Agents held a 5 year old autistic girl to lure her father out. "They took my daughter, she's 5 years old. She has autism spectrum," ‘ mom says in video of incident. "Give me my daughter back.” Btw, dad was in US for 22 years. He’s now in detention. on.nbcboston.com/Dae1NNu

Now this is a good headline.

Check out the chyron. "Text Merch to 71776 to Receive a Link to the official TPUSA Merch Store."

So Trump has also gutted the DOJ’s elite Public Integrity unit. The office — created after Watergate— has gone from 30 prosecutors to “fewer than five.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

No, it doesn’t “teeter.”

The Pentagon’s new rulebook for the press states these 2 sentences, consecutively: “DoW remains committed to transparency to promote accountability.” And “DoW information must be approved for public release … before it is released, even if it is unclassified.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

DHS tweeted an homage to a Nazi. As an ad for agents. "You don't usually see white supremacist propaganda on government websites,” said one expert. “But that's what this really is.” www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

So the guy who heads the CDC panel that just voted to restrict COVID vaccines… -he called the shots the “most failing medical product in the history of medical products” -he’s not a medical doctor www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/h...

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

New York Times: "Trump Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b... AP: “Trump’s moves against the media mirror approaches by authoritarian leaders to silence dissent.” apnews.com/article/trum...

Immigrants with aneurysms and other dire conditions are being taken from hospitals & shipped abroad “They told me that they could send her back to my country,” said husband of one patient–even without his consent. “At that moment, she was missing a piece of her skull." apnews.com/article/immi...

So Israel estimates that Hamas still has nearly half its forces, about 15,000 fighters. Meanwhile, Israel has killed at least 65,000 Gazans. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...

What Kamala Harris wishes she had said. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is by Karl Rove.

It's not just ABC and Disney that caved. Nextstar, one of the country's largest TV station operators, said earlier tonight that they're kicking Kimmel off-air. As it happens, they a big merger deal pending administration approval. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Patel actually says, "I'm sorry, Dylan Ruth?"

Israel is arming and paying Gazan gangsters, who in turn are charging residents for the right to set up tents. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Those South Korean workers we detained? We made them lick water. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

If you have experience with what's going on at the VA -- either as a vet or insider -- please get in touch. My contact info is [email protected] and Signal Ericumansky.04. Contact info below for my reporting colleagues @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social.

Washington DC: 42% Black Washington Post Opinion: Now 0% full-time Black columnists

In May 2025, Trump ended federal oversight of the Memphis police department to stop "handcuffing local leaders." Four months later, Trump is sending the National Guard into Memphis to "fix" the "troubled city." I can't keep track. Does Memphis need the feds to oversee law enforcement, or not?

Musk told tens of thousands of far-right protestors that the left is “the party of murder” and that the protestors need to “fight back.”

It's still happening: Here's a chart of children in Gaza treated for malnourishment. They need enriched milk -- but doctors have had to ration it. "In terms of the quality or quantity of what’s available, it’s not enough,” said one doc. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A video shows ICE shooting and killing a man who was just driving away. The video doesn‘t show what ICE has claimed, that the man dragged an agent.

Things Charlie Kirk said. Gift link to @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

The heads of the IDF and Mossad opposed Israel's airstrikes in Qatar. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

This citizen and vet was grabbed by immigration agents--and held for three days He wasn't allowed to contact anyone, not his lawyer, not his family "No one told me what I was there for. I thought I was gonna just disappear and never see my fucking kids again" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

So the Supreme Court just allowed ICE agents to racially profile **in an order that was “unsigned and gave no reasons.” **

"critics say" should really be *experts say.* www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

This is my sister. She just saw an elderly woman thwarted in her attempt to get vaccinated.

At a Park Slope pharmacy, an elderly woman came in, asked for a Covid booster. “I can give it to you,” the pharmacist said, “but without a prescription, it’ll be $200.” The woman nodded, and walked out.

So I’m pretty sure my neighbor is playing the Love Boat theme song. On a tuba. Tell me I’m wrong.

If you want to understand how non-speaking autistics feel about the violence (much of it by police) directed against them in incidents like this one, read this piece by my son, who has non-speaking autism and types to communicate. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Officers in Idaho killed a non-verbal teen, disabled who was holding a knife *and standing behind a fence.* The officers "didn’t even ask what’s going on,” the boy's aunt said. Idaho's Republican AG just decided not to indict them. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The spectacle is the policy.

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

A previously healthy 17-year-old Palestinian died in Israeli jail while suffering severe malnutrition. That was in March. Five months later, Israel still won't give the boy's family the body back. Here's what happened when Haaretz tried to get answers. www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Among those fighting Bibi and his war march: The head of the IDF The head of the Mossad Bibi's foreign minister Bibi's National Security Advisor www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...

The Trump admin is opening up ICE detention inside infamous Angola prison, which a watchdog one called "medieval, squalid and horrifying." The place will be called Camp 47. In honor of the president. They're hiring right now. www.instagram.com/p/DN8X29ODcgw/

Ben Smith.

Is it really only “some” legal experts who say this? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

“They are signing death warrants.” -one policing expert summing up federal agents’ approach here.

Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

CHAOS

I ran into RFK’s Harley.

The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...