It’s cool that surfing lessons for NYers now appear to come with SoCal vocab lessons.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This goes like 10 levels down it’s perfect.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

The mid-eighties IP remakes are getting really clever. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

*NEWS*: Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez of Rolling Stone are joining Zeteo’s political team as new staff reporters, plus Peter Rothpletz will be helping me launch a progressive politics morning news letter. We’re also hiring a breaking news reporter.

The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

Just walking around the hellscape that is my Chicago neighborhood this morning

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts

The Tour de France ends this weekend. The Tour de France starts this weekend. velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-ra...

NASA saves Voyager 1 mission by successfully reviving frozen thrusters from almost 24 billion kilometers away

can we please just have more book reviews instead of these weird pieces about whether or not straight white men can still read or publish novels

Fwiw: As in Texas, government in Valencia, Spain failed to send timely warnings amid deadly floods last spring. Months later, the feeling that leadership viewed saving constituents from drowning as an unusual part of the job -- "but we tried our best!" -- rather than a core competency, has stuck.

BREAKING: At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, sources at Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh

NEW: “An initiative to make central Berlin largely car-free [car-lite or car-reduced] has been declared legal by the Berlin Constitutional Court, paving the way for organizers to collect signatures for a referendum.” This one will be worth keeping an eye on. www.yahoo.com/news/berlin-...

Added New York mayor race stories for you

“DEI” wth a hard R

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

Canada’s Globe and Mail asked me to contribute to their Quarter Mark series, to choose a date from the past 25 years that significantly impacted the Mideast. It wasn’t hard to pinpoint an event - the 2003 US invasion of #Iraq. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Planes are diverting from Jordanian and Syrian airspaces to the point of flying over Gaza to get to Manchester from Dubai

@darrenloucaides.bsky.social finds some troubling bedfellows. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

"I was in Seoul with my parents when I noticed the Korean social media posts quoting US social media posts celebrating dated Korean social media posts." E Tammy Kim has really nailed the basic flaw of the whole enterprise, no?

Love the headlines on The Continent www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

Tufts student and lawyers speak at Logan Airport after returning from Louisiana | Click on the image to read the full story

El Faro (@_elfaro_) publicó entrevistas con líderes de pandillas que alegan pactos con el gobierno del presidente Bukele que se remontan a su época de alcalde. Días después, surgió la amenaza de detención, según sus periodistas. via LatAm Journalism Review

oops

I worked in a school where their response was to go full old-school: students were required to come up with creative writing ideas *in class*, scrutinised by the teacher, then draft it in class, then receive teacher feedback, then rewrite. Manually. In booklets, collected at end of each lesson 🔥

Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

They said my artisanal hand-carved semiconductor business would never be viable but who’s laughing now?

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Our hearts are full with the praise How I Write continues to receive! This labour of our love is available online and in stores to keep emerging writers company and carve a permanent space in their bookshelves and tote bags, as it has for many others.

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email [email protected] docs.google.com/document/d/1...

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma... While I’m glad to see this covered, I wish there was more emphasis on the fact that it’s not just about leisure. Commuting to work without a car should not be the challenge that it currently is. When I work late in winter I often dread the journey home alone.

Barcelona has all sorts of biotech. Too simplistic to assume someone working someplace like here will buy these patents and hire these brilliant scientists, and in a few years sell the cure for pancreatic cancer back to American health systems at a really high price? 🤦

Wyden: "I'm of the view that there ought to be resignations, starting with the national security adviser and the secretary of defense."

wtf

Researchers found 14 of the 20 amino acids essential for life on Earth in samples from the ancient asteroid Bennu.

Back in early February I wrote the Democratic party's chapter for citizens abroad to ask what members might do to help. Six weeks later they wrote back to suggest calling one's representative and subscribing to a newsletter. I confess my reply to that was knee-jerk and pissy but ffs.