Got to see where the filmed “Killers of the Flower Moon” and write this update on a story I started covering a little over a year to go. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Pastor Mark Vega, a former Yankees chaplain, received reports of sex abuse in his church in 2019 and 2022. But rather than go to police, Vega came up with a plan to handle it internally by "restoring" the alleged perpetrators. Lates in our ongoing investigation into abuses in the Assemblies of God

Seems like a big missed opportunity, given the eclectic collection of newsroom characters I’ve known over the years, that “The Paper” cast includes three accountants but just one newspaper reporter

No suckers this year. Jamie Raskin is giving kids copies of the Constitution at the Kensington Labor Day Parade. “It’s got the Impeachment Clause in there!”

Captain Maryland and his crab mallet. Happy Labor Day

ChatGPT to a suicidal teen: “It's okay – and honestly wise – to avoid opening up to your mom about this kind of pain … Let's make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”

Always read these kinds of comments in historical context

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

For months, we had been talking with Carmen, Lina and Doris about the void their sons' detention in #ElSalvador had left. They wondered whether they were eating, if they were cold. Were they alive? Following the men's release, these families sat with us to talk about what they lived through.

This is the history Hegseth is brining back to Arlington: a racist myth romanticizing human trafficking, rape and bondage

Donald Trump is demanding that Republicans be granted more seats in Congress without having to win more votes. To make it happen, the governor of Texas is seeking to remove a democratically elected political opponent from office in order to replace him with someone of his choosing.

The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents

Assemblies of God leaders knew that Daniel Savala was a convicted sex offender. But for years, pastors kept bringing teenage boys to learn from “the holiest man alive” in his backyard sauna. Here’s the latest from our series investigating sex abuse in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.

NOTABLY the Paxton opinion that Abbott cites doesn’t actually say lawmakers who break quorum are removable — in fact it says this is a fact-specific question only resolvable by a court. The opinion also does not say it’s unconstitutional to break quorum. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

Is it harassing to tell a coworker they are going to burn in hell for all eternity?

“This is the only religious text that will be permitted to be displayed in Frisco ISD classrooms”

Israeli authorities are restricting the entry of aid, including formula, and babies are starving: “At 11 months old, Sela should weigh around 20 pounds, but weighs only 8. Her thin limbs wiggled listlessly, and her small hand could barely grasp the finger of the nurse tending to her.”

Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

My overwhelming memory from Hebrew school is being young and seeing images of ancestors starving in the camps. “Never again” was our religion. Here is the paper of record today. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

When in Texas

Bring back the Furniture Makers

Hearst conquered Texas www.houstonchronicle.com/business/art...

Charlie Kirk had to look to a city three hours east of the flooding to find a Black man to blame for the catastrophe in Kerr County. You can read the rest of his racist screed here: www.chron.com/politics/art...

Idaho Attorney General: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools because they are “part of an ideological/social movement.” www.idahoednews.org/top-news/att...

A year ago, I got a tip from a source: there was an influential child abuse pediatrician in Minneapolis whose judgment on diagnoses of child abuse had been called into question: Dr. Nancy Harper. So I started digging… 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/chil...

NY Times obit writer took a swing on this one

“She’s very black and white, right and wrong, no gray area,” he said, “which is not the way to do medicine.” An important @propublica.org story showing how a false sense of certainty by child abuse pediatricians leads CPS to take children from parents based on shaky and oftentimes disputed evidence

Sotomayor: "The result will be chaos for this nation's public schools … Given the great diversity of religious beliefs in this country, countless interactions that occur every day in public schools might expose children to messages that conflict with a parents' beliefs.”

“I just find it fascinating that this student can write [a racist] article, a series of [racist] articles that are essentially manifestoes, and that’s free speech,” Ms. Chatman said, “but my class can’t be called ‘Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality.’”

ICE lured the spouse of an active duty Army solider out of her workplace near Houston by lying and saying her car had been damaged, then snatched her up and detained her for three months before deporting her to Honduras without her husband and young child thewarhorse.org/military-fam...

ICE officer justifying the arrest of an undocumented immigrant with no criminal record: “Although … he hasn’t committed a crime, that doesn’t mean he can’t potentially commit a crime.”

Peter Stager assaulted an officer with a flagpole. Daniel “D.J.” Rodriguez, drove a stun gun into the neck of a Capitol Police officer. Julian Khater, pepper-sprayed Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in the face. Sicknick later died. Trump pardoned them all.

“I love the songs,” he said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

“Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by Military.com reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance.” www.military.com/daily-news/2...

The Trump admin has detained a woman who fled Vietnam for America as a refugee at age 10, apparently over a crime she was convicted of and punished for more than 20 years ago www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

[1] Big news: Republicans in Tarrant County - a bellwether for Texas politics that has steadily trended purple after years as a GOP stronghold - just approved new maps, via a group leading “the GOP’s 50-state redistricting effort," that give them a likely 4-1 majority on the county's governing board

Coming soon to every Texas kindergarten classroom: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Not me virtue signaling on TikTok

In a new filing, disgraced pastor Robert Morris provides evidence that the elders of Gateway Church knew years ago that he’d sexually abused a child in the 1980s — although his lawyers are still referring to the abuse as an “inappropriate relationship” www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2...

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Springsteen is such a loser, here is an ode to his many hit songs

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