NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

Judging by the responses to this DHS post, its goal seems to be to mock the physical appearance of a (presumably) American protester. I wonder if we can think of another political movement in history that was obsessed with the physical appearance of its citizens

Slow news day for the right-wing grievance machine

I will say that there is no better moment for all the journalists on the extremely niche crossover beat: "antifascism x sandwiches": @andybcampbell.bsky.social and @swordsjew.bsky.social its your time to shine

When I reached out to DHS for comment, they remarked "what a silly little story." The White House, in their response, said they wouldn't apologize for "posting banger memes"

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

This one is so clearly on the museum. Don't display your priceless chair in a prime seating location unless you want me to take a load off, simple as that. I stand with the man who sat down. www.cbsnews.com/news/tourist...

Gut-wrenching investigation here in which @mattshuham.bsky.social and @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social tell the human stories behind Trump's aggressive deportation campaign — hundreds of detentions without charge, trial or sentencing www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

In some sermons that we reviewed, Vance Boelter can be heard railing against the LGBTQ community and abortion www.wired.com/story/shooti... story with @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social

Trump and his allies turned to a familiar script over the weekend, casting the sprawling city of Los Angeles in shades of fire and brimstone, a hub of dangerous lawlessness that required urgent military intervention in order to be contained. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WSJ Edit Page tonight: “It’s fanciful to think that raiding restaurants to snatch busboys, or Home Depot to grab stock clerks, won’t inspire a backlash. All the more so when ICE acts in heavy-handed fashion” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Guess he was watching tonight

Newsom saying a military force, for which he is the commander in chief, was deployed without his consent. (NG units require a declaration of national emergency or actual threat of rebellion to be federalized.) Newsom says legal action is coming tomorrow.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department. mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...

For the folks finger-wagging at protesters about “violence,” a history lesson: The 2020 BLM protests were peaceful, the right cast them as war zones, and Trump sent feds in to attack and disappear protesters. Calls for leftist “peace” confirm a false narrative and justify Trump’s violent response.

This industry loves to wax poetic about free speech and holding truth to power, right up until someone in power gets upset

JUST IN: Proud Boys leaders granted clemency by Trump are suing the federal government for $100 million. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Maybe I’ll just take a quick peek at the Twitter TL during parental leave— ahhh nope nope nope nope I’m good

Some personal news: I’ve had a baby. Arguably my most ambitious piece of content yet. So I’ll be taking time away from this hell news cycle for a little bit.

Editors: I’ll be looking for work - permanent , freelance , part-time, all of it, in a couple of months. Keep me in mind. Hope the rest of you hang in there!

My first double byline with Tess!And I couldn’t be happier. Though to be clear, she did the overwhelming majority of the work and deserves the Pulitzer.

Some fed employees have been advised to download their Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) because they're hearing OPM is planning to cut off access tomorrow. The folder includes all personal identifying info, performance reviews, benefits selections, raises. Unclear why they'd do this.

In all the bleakness, one promising sign: Trump's education EOs show he and his Project 2025 goons don't know who they're dealing with. The orders are legally weak. But in trying to take away real education, they risk backlash from ordinary parents. www.salon.com/2025/02/03/m...

here’s a thing!

Anti-Trump demonstrators in Los Angeles have taken over the 101 freeway to protest ICE deportation raids. 🎥 ktla

“The Trump administration has quietly dissolved the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, part of a flurry of executive orders aimed at rolling back the previous administration’s policies on art, culture and historical commemoration.”

New — US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights staff who were on the Equity committee were all placed on paid administrative leave last night because of the DEIA executive order. They received this email, a source in the dept. tells me:

Well this is an awkward list to be on

The true purpose of the "DEI" culture war issue on display — it's not about hiring practices/jobs, it's a systematic erasure of civil rights history and progress, and the rights themselves are in danger. Expect to see this affect schools (more than already, anyway). www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

I wrote about this erasure when Biden invited historians to the white house to talk about rising fascism ... and at least in the public narrative, missed the blueprint we've made here: www.npr.org/2022/09/04/1...

“The January 6th rioters’ grievances, which are tethered to an alternate reality of deep-state operatives and political persecution, are the same that have shaped Patel’s through-the-looking-glass version of events of the past ten years. That’s the perspective he wants to bring to the F.B.I.”

Kash Patel, who co-produced the track "Justice for All" featuring the "J6 Prison Choir" claimed he has no idea who actually sang on the track

New from me in the @newyorker.com: How Kash Patel hitched his deep state fantasies to the political persecution narrative that was used to rehabilitate January 6ers www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In the sense that the right has turned another culture war issue into job cuts and mismanagement across government, yes DEI plays a role in this type of thing.

I spent four years investigating these sorts of claims. Children aren’t being taught they’re inherently victims or oppressors. Teachers aren’t leading kids to change genders. Instead these claims are used as a pretext to sanitize history curricula and impose conservative Christian ideas in schools

Imagine moving to the land of the free, engaging in constitutionally protected civic democracy, and then getting your door kicked down by ICE agents for it www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Father Calvin Robinson finished his remarks at the National Pro-Life Summit by throwing an Elon Musk salute, much to the delight of the crowd.

Hearing from federal employees tonight who are getting messages via their agency’s emergency notification system, which is usually reserved for snow-related office closures, that’s like DO NOT RESPOND TO THAT EMAIL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, WE HAVE NO IDEA IF ANY OF THOSE PROMISES ARE REAL

NEW: The Trump administration just reinstated Expedited Removal to a nationwide extent. Under this authority, ICE can rapidly deport any undocumented immigrant arrested inside the US who can't prove they have been here for more than 2 years. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-01720.pdf

From the guy who wrote the book

The Proud Boys were the face of political violence in America during Trump's first term. Yesterday he rewarded them for it. Trump's pardons were a message to his followers: No consequences for political violence, so long as it's carried out in my name. My latest: www.huffpost.com/entry/proud-...

While fundraising for his pardoned Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes plays a song from the Aladdin musical that inspired the gang's name. Fun(?) fact from my book: Gavin first heard the song at his kids' recital, where he watched angrily as a child with brown skin sang it. His words: "Gayest fking song."

Dolly is a full-time investigative sleep reporter

Truly thought I'd be reporting on the *next iteration* of the Proud Boys during Trump's second term. Looks like it's just the Proud Boys again. Now with clemency!

Enrique Tarrio will be back in Miami by tomorrow afternoon. I asked his mother whether he's still involved with the Proud Boys. "That’s a question you need to ask him when he’s out," she responded.

Gavin McInnes is hosting a big party on his podcast in support of the Proud Boys, and things are going how you'd expect

Watching the Gavin McInnes show while my wife watches President Trump sign pardons for Jan. 6ers in the other room. Love a family holiday.