Camp Mystic will not open in 2026.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Finally read Bottom's Up And the Devil Laughs by @kerryhowley.bsky.social. Can't think of a time when I've read nonfiction writing so smart and inventive that even events/people I had thought I'd read about before, even ones I've reported and written about myself, felt 100% new. Incredible book.

Love seeing conservatives argue for separation between church and state but only when religious doctrine conflicts with blowing people up

This is a really important piece. Detroit has been coddled for decades through bipartisan protectionism. The US should let China sell affordable EVs, get them to invest by building EV manufacturing here, and let Detroit complete. And if Detroit can't complete, they don't deserve to be in business.

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

This is a goddamn delight

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

what is a newspaper

This is NOT what I signed up for

devastating piece, by one of my very favorite nonfiction writers

This is quite a read, full of anger and bewilderment. Beautiful work.

"The parents of dead children are a problem. They stand opposed to our most basic and necessary illusions." An absolutely haunting story by @kerryhowley.bsky.social that resist all such illusions. A story of Camp Mystic, and the 27 girls who died there unnecessarily, that I never knew.

Horrific & sensitively reported story by the peerless @kerryhowley.bsky.social. Seeing the delusion on display here I can't help but think about climate change, whose effects (eg torrential rain & floods) will also be treated as acts of God, when they are the work of people nymag.com/intelligence...

This is an excellent, brutal, cuttingly angry feature.

I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway. nymag.com/intelligence...

ultimately i like getting extremely worked up about something that doesn‘t affect me very much and then forgetting about it promptly

Pete Hegseth came to national prominence and to Trump’s attention specifically for his defense of men accused of war crimes by their fellow American soldiers.

The number of organs available for donation has risen massively in the past five years. It seems to be the result of technological advances in preserving organs after circulatory death. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

One day in the future, this is going to hang on the wall of a museum exhibit people visit in silence.

I’m teaching a weeklong creative nonfiction seminar in Paris this coming spring. More info here : www.wice-paris.org/paris-writer...

congrats to @ilyasomin.bsky.social , long my single counterexample to “there are no consistent libertarians”

The season of self-sabotage

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

thinking about the bit in BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS, in which @kerryhowley.bsky.social writes that surveillance is made of dogs

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up. TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no. It's not that hard to just say no.

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

I’m looking forward to teaching a weeklong workshop in creative nonfiction this spring in Paris. Registration just opened. More here: wice-paris.org/paris-writer...

What is the narrative exactly ? A white house staffer who has unfettered access to the president’s account with no safeguards was casually watching videos in which the obamas are portrayed as apes, and then accidentally hit post?

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

This is the business in Uptown that got randomly tear-gassed by ICE a few weeks ago. Guess they didn’t like it

The fact that competent people have too much dignity to do this work gives me as much hope as anything

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Midwestern earnestness carries with it a real intransigence.

Eight great reads (and one listen) about the miracle of Minneapolis: www.headsupnews.org/p/people-pow... includes @adamserwer.bsky.social @erikhane.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @kerryhowley.bsky.social @mollycoleman.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @pkrugman.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net

A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

I mean it’s true that there are “paid agitators” in Minneapolis. There are 3000 of them and they’ve assassinated two people.

Normal cops would have been furious at the first shooter just for opening fire into a fucking dogpile of cops.

the way they used to go on about federalism …

i don’t know what i thought i would be doing right now two weeks ago, but it definitely wasn’t worrying about Will Stancil

the video i just saw from minneapolis is a public execution, full stop.

In the Other Place the distinction between the phrase “white woman” and “race traitor” has basically been erased

It absolutely hurts to be outside. I don’t know how you quantify motivation like this.

Superb reportage on Minneapolis from one of the all time greats.

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

"it’s unclear when or whether Liam will be able to return for his stuffed turtle, his hat, and his W worksheet" sahanjournal.com/education/ic...