A 20-year-old freshman at Babson College in Massachusetts said she would remain in Honduras on Friday, the deadline that a judge had given the Trump administration for facilitating her return to the US after it violated a court order by mistakenly deporting her. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

🚨SCOOP: Perhaps you’re familiar with Changpeng Zhao, aka CZ, co-founder of Binance, Trump pardon recipient, crypto’s 60-billion-dollar man? Here’s what’s in his unpublished memoir… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

NEW: Any Lucia López Belloza, a freshman at Babson College, was deported by mistake, in violation of a judicial order. A judge ordered her return by Friday. Now the Trump administration has said it will deport her again if she comes back. Free gift link >>> www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

miss this guy ... it's been too long

A Trump-aligned legal team, which includes attorneys from Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, has been filing lawsuits against DEI efforts in Philly. After challenging diversity in city contracting and school admissions, their latest is about police promotions. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

And here's the @nytimes.com story by John Yoon, free gift link -- www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

The daughter of Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, has sued the Trump admin. She claims that an EO imposing sanctions on people connected to the International Criminal Court violates amendments 1, 4, and 5. Complaint >> storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEWS: Matthew Isihara, the first DOJ attorney to be held in contempt of court for years, is now appealing that ruling to Eighth Circuit. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

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Since 2022, Matthieu Aikins and I have been investigating the CIA’s Afghan surrogate commandos, known in Afg as the Zero Units but officially called the CTPTs by the CIA. These units’ existence has been publicly known since 2010, but their relationship with the CIA is still an official secret...

If it’s too snowy for school, there should not be laptop school This is not a pandemic

Federal judges have ordered the Trump administration at least 35 times since August to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases, according to a New York Times review of federal dockets.

At least 35 times since August, federal judges have ordered the administration to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases. @schwartzesque.bsky.social and co from NYT (Philly-based reporters get h/t priority) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

“'I want to just stress that an adverse decision from a judge is not a reason to stop doing what you know to be right,' Mr. Singh (an associate deputy attorney general) said. 'We are the ones charged with keeping America safe.'” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

Where we are: Associate Deputy Atty General tells assembled US federal prosecutors: “I want to just stress that an adverse decision from a judge is not a reason to stop doing what you know to be right.” That. statement. is. not. consistent. with. the. rule. of. law.

🚨SCOOP: One judge found a Trump official in contempt. Dozens have gotten close. That's the backdrop. Now check this out. Here's what Main DOJ is saying in private: "An adverse decision from a judge is not a reason to stop doing what you know to be right." gift >> www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

With ICE conducting warrantless arrests and shuttling detainees around the country too chaotically for DOJ to keep up, judges are increasingly looking to the penalty box. Minnesota may have been the tipping point, but judges in CA, NY and TX aren’t far behind. w/ @schwartzesque.bsky.social

this is so ... Edith Wharton

NEW: "Terror against noncitizens" ... "unlawful, wanton acts" ... "shameless" claims by the government A barnburner of a ruling on detaining immigrants without bond, and executive-branch defiance, from Judge Sunshine S. Sykes, C.D. Ca. Free gift link ... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

This is the first civil contempt ruling, according to two experts. The attorney in question is a special assistant US attorney who was brought in to help the Minnesota USAO with the unprecedented amount of habeas petitions

🚨DOJ Lawyer is Found in Contempt by Federal Judge 🚨 A long fuse on this one ... Boasberg, Xinis, Schiltz, and now Provinzino Free gift link ... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

NEW: Returning to office, Trump sought massive budget cuts and the total elimination of some federal agencies and programs. In the end, Congress quietly rejected that vision over a series of deals in recent months, our analysis shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January.

After a Border Patrol agent shot a Chicago woman five times in October, Gregory Bovino reached out to the agent via email to offer his praise, newly released evidence shows.

Bovino reached out to praise a Border Patrol agent who shot a 30-year-old Chicago woman five times last October, new documents show. "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" @schwartzesque.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Wow the polar bears work for Pepsi now … so much for the unipolar world order

In 1979, the “New York Times” asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

‪Latest: I’m now hearing they’re being held in a detention site in Mississippi. No word back on when they might be deported. ‬

A high-ranking federal appeals judge dismissed an ethics complaint filed by the Justice Department against Judge James Boasberg, whose rulings repeatedly raised questions about the Trump administration’s respect for the rule of law.

NEW: "The rule of law be damned." This opinion by Judge Fred Biery ordering the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is one of the most incendiary judicial takes on the Trump administration I've seen. Read the full document and our story here: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

🔥SCOOP: Internal docs show that the Trump admin has ordered up FURTHER changes to Independence National Historical Park. ALSO: today's hearing w/ Judge Rufe was a fascinating moment for the judiciary, and historical reckoning. tysm @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

“remote learning” … what an all-timer, as far as oxymorons go

“many people are saying” also happens to be the invisible caveat before any answer that AI provides

"She along with hundreds of other recruiters around the country, had been offering something else: protection from the government she served." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Appeals court judges chosen by President Trump in his first term have voted overwhelmingly in his favor when his administration’s actions have been challenged in court in his current term, clearing the way for his policies, a New York Times analysis shows.

NEW: Federal prosecutors have opened up a criminal investigation into Fed chair Powell over the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters and whether Powell lied to Congress about the scope of the project www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u... @nytimes.com

NEW: Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. 🎁 > www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

The higher the court, the likelier Trump was to win rulings in 2025: District courts: 25% Appeals courts: 51% Supreme Court: 88%

I had an anecdotal sense that Trump’s appellate court nominees were backing him up, but I didn’t realize it was so extreme.

Big article by @schwartzesque.bsky.social out in the Times this morning . . .

Trump's appellate judges have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. How often they ruled for him in 2025: Trump appointees: 92% Other Republican appointees: 68% Democratic appointees: 27% @schwartzesque.bsky.social Emma Schartz www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

Latest: We’ve updated our tracker with more dead from the Dec. 30 boat strikes in the Eastern Pacific. The U.S. military has acknowledged that 8 people were seen jumping overboard during the attack, and are presumed dead following an unsuccessful Coast Guard search. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ten years since David Bowie died, and the algo has served up the tribute I wrote at the time (headline very much not mine) mostly about 12/13 year old me buying a reissue of Ziggy Stardust ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

my X feed has been completely taken over by Stoic Dude Life Tips

say what you will about the Internet, but there are some very interesting piano-based covers of My Bloody Valentine's "Only Shallow" out there

With all that is going on in the world, it might be easy to overlook that the D.C. Circuit appears to have changed its Special Panel (aka Motions Panel) so that it's no longer in place for a month. I think this change is both really important and really good. (A quick courts 🧵 . . . )

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A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...