@petridishes.bsky.social: “One thing I always think about the Super Bowl halftime show is, This could be indoors.”

“Lewis, who has already earned a reputation for showing up late to work when he showed up at all, did not join the Zoom.”

With the last significant nuclear-arms-control treaty about to expire, "the world is about to get a little more dangerous this week," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/azdk6Duu

“In 2017, Attia appears to have spent time with Epstein in New York—rebuffing his wife’s pleas for him to return home to California—while his infant son was having a medical emergency.”

Per @matteowong.bsky.social, Anthropic “now says that Claude writes a good chunk—and in some instances all—of its own code.”

@galbeckerman.bsky.social: “To be a dissident in this moment means moving beyond scoring points and underscoring differences, and on to recognizing what we are all losing—and blowing a whistle in order to prevent that loss.”

am once again super excited to go to Maryland Deathfest and see.......................um.................these bands whose logos I can totally read

@galbeckerman.bsky.social on Josh Shapiro’s new memoir: theatln.tc/greBidiy

“The group of more than two dozen volunteers stretches out in a line along the road, where ICE agents have been seen driving by on previous days. It's a wall of down jackets, yarmulkes, and brightly colored clergy stoles that blocks the view of the door behind them.”

“Behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest,” Robert Worth reports from the city. Read more: theatln.tc/gomWktOS

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, sources tell Nick Miroff.

Breaking:

"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/xr56xSUj

Jonathan Chait: “The phone, not the gun, is the weapon the administration fears.”

“At times, Minneapolis reminded me of what I saw during the Arab Spring in 2011, a series of street clashes between protesters and police that quickly swelled into a much larger struggle against autocracy.”

”A growing number of Republicans are pressing for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics in Minnesota ... a sign that the accounting of events by President Donald Trump’s administration may face bipartisan scrutiny.”

Been in Minneapolis the past week ish. Here are some photos I took while I was here.

@cwarzel.bsky.social: ”Minneapolis residents are risking their lives to document what is happening to their city. In Pretti’s case, doing so cost him everything. We should believe what we can see with our own eyes.”

Minneapolis residents are risking their lives so that the world can see what is actually happening to their city, Charlie Warzel reports.

"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse."

Jonathan Rauch: “Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse.”

“If you exercise your constitutionally protected right to bear arms, masked federal agents can murder you in cold blood, simply because an American citizen exercising their Second Amendment rights scares them.”

@nickmiroff.bsky.social: “‘These are people who have no business setting foot into our office,’ one senior ICE official told me, describing new recruits who appeared physically unfit for the job.”

Thomas Wright: Europe might finally be learning how to handle Trump—but the president is too fickle of a negotiator for Europe’s leaders to take comfort in his reversal on Greenland.

After Trump disparaged Denmark’s contributions to NATO, one Danish soldier who served in Afghanistan told @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social: “We were on the front lines, the same as the Americans. That was our job.”

“To intimidate me, Maher would blow smoke in my face, but because he was using an e-cigarette, all I got was a gust of strawberry-smelling vape ... Later, he tried the ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine on me but undermined the effect by playing both characters himself.”

@skornhaber.bsky.social: “The president’s aesthetics are wackily fascist—but American culture, for now, remains peskily democratic.”

@dgraham.bsky.social: “Trump delivered a classic mafioso threat to take Greenland by force, saying that U.S. military might was irresistible, before adding nonchalantly that he would not do such a thing. This was not as reassuring as some headlines might lead readers to believe.“

What a lede from @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social: “Milk is mundane in most contexts, but you can’t help noticing when it is smeared across the upper lips of America’s government officials.”

Terrific profile charting the rise of Pam Bondi from a Florida prosecutor who seemed to be without any strong political opinions—to Trump's attorney general:

@saahildesai.bsky.social: “A billionaire congressional candidate can’t just send a check to Quinnipiac University and suddenly find himself as the polling front-runner, but he can place enormous Polymarket bets on himself that move the odds in his favor.”

In his new book, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro discusses the strange questions he received during vice-presidential vetting—and settles some scores, Toluse Olorunnipa reports:

@galbeckerman.bsky.social: ”In my conversations with these Iranian exiles, I heard deep frustration ... The Iranian protesters stepping fearlessly into the sights of government snipers are being seen by the American left with more suspicion than sympathy.”

@yair-rosenberg.bsky.social: “Trumpism is not neo-isolationist or neoconservative, pro-restraint or pro-intervention. It is not pro-worker or pro-billionaire. It is whatever Trump says it is.“

@jonlemire.bsky.social: “Trump, though never restrained, is now pure id, acting on impulse and goaded on by advisers who see an opportunity to further expand executive power.”

“One of the reasons that you can argue with Wiener—or shout at him, if your politics dictate that approach—is that he has strong beliefs and argues them bravely, even when they are unpopular. He fights, he loses, and he fights again until he wins.“

”Even as the administration says it needs Greenland to advance U.S. security interests in the Arctic, it has closed the office set up to advance U.S. security interests in the Arctic.”

“There is no objective standard of conduct that could possibly explain why beating police officers is peaceful but attempting to flee from them is terrorism.”

“ChatGPT is a cheap date.”

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social: “Trump’s pursuit of an illusory sphere of influence is unlikely to bring us peace or prosperity—any more than the invasion of Ukraine brought peace and prosperity to Russians.”

“Most presidents would not go out and say, ‘I’m not afraid to put boots on the ground,’ because their base would go, ‘Wait a minute,’” person close to Trump told @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and Missy Ryan. “But Trump is willing to be misunderstood in the short term to get what he wants.”

In an interview with @michaelscherer.bsky.social , Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland.

Even some of Trump’s closest allies are questioning why he wants to run Venezuela, Atlantic staff writers report:

Is glitter toxic? Asking for a dad who's trying to mix Manhattans in a house that has fully become a five year old's craft studio.

The release of the Epstein files left many of his victims disappointed with how the Justice Department handled it, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. “America is getting a look tonight into how we have all felt for years,” one survivor said.

“As individuals who received their vaccines up to six decades ago reach old age, they’re becoming the unwitting subjects of a natural experiment: Researchers are nervously watching to see just how long their immunity might last. “

NEW: Donald Trump is considering announcing onetime bonus checks of $1,776 for many military members, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @nancyayoussef.bsky.social report.

“Inside the agency, officials describe Bhattacharya as a largely ineffectual figurehead, often absent from leadership meetings, unresponsive to colleagues, and fixated more on cultivating his media image than on engaging with the turmoil at his own agency.”

We've lost Ely and Todd Snider in under a month.