This is really demonstrative of the fundamental systemic failures at play in our current situation.

Everything old is new again

This week, a man in ICE custody bravely went on the record telling me he witnessed guards choking another detainee to death -- an account supported by medical examiner findings. Now, DHS is trying to deport him and another one of my sources. Gift link: wapo.st/4qR1T1U

Two of Trump's confidantes are shareholders in a business that stands to gain from U.S. involvement in Greenland, newest from me and Kevin Hall @occrp.org www.occrp.org/en/scoop/as-...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

It's perhaps a bit much, but finding a lot of relevant symbolism in this show for the current moment. In particular, this guy...

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

For no particular reason...

This is the kind of thing an authoritarian regime does. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

C'est une première "historique" selon Gérald Darmanin. Dubaï a accepté de saisir, à la demande du parquet de Marseille 33 biens immobiliers appartenant à des trafiquants marseillais (et non 82 comme annoncé par le ministre). Le détail, les coulisses et les enjeux de cette victoire inédite ⬇️

Scavengers Reign is a staggeringly imaginative and entertaining show with really haunting music.

Proud to take on a new role as director of investigations for PPLAAF and Climate Whistleblowers.  Both organizations protect whistleblowers and investigate their disclosures in the public interest.  2026 will be a year of new revelations. #Staytuned

I've been thinking a lot about this Carl Sandburg poem I first read years ago. Its meaning is more resonant at a moment of collective forgetfulness about the horrors we have caused and endured as humans.

My new year wish is for peace and solidarity.

Our whole society is based on car ownership. Is it even possible to change that?

"We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"

New from Thad Moore @ajc.com, a fascinating story about our messed up sanctions program and how it can affect the house next door. With @johdellosso.bsky.social www.ajc.com/news/2025/12...

Where do DC mayoral hopefuls stand on firing jacked up trucks into outer space?

2026 will be the year of the bollard.

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...

Someone needs a little visit from Establishment Claus.

Too many people have way more money and power than anyone should, and it leads to antisocial, anti-community behavior. Philanthropy, as generally practiced, can't make up for it. We really do need to tax excessive wealth.

The spot in the middle makes a great filipino box-spring hog.

Lack of regulations are the reason cars are so big, heavy, expensive and dangerous, not the regulations themselves. buff.ly/MjSJjst

🎶 Ain't no party like a related party 🎶

As progress on climate goals falters, it is time for state transportation leaders to come to terms with an inconvenient truth: climate goals are not feasible without a swift and methodical reallocation of road space away from cars.

The Americans, season 7. The FBI reassigns Stan to arrest farm workers in Iowa. Philip and Elizabeth are redeployed to DC and have regular access to cabinet officials. The KGB relocates Martha to Europe to set up a publicly traded payment processor.

Vision Zero

BREAKING: Gag order lifted! Open Secrets victory in interdict filed by Integrated Convoy Protection READ THE MEDIA STATEMENT HERE: https://www.opensecrets.org.za/press-release-gag-order-lifted-open-secrets-victory-in-urgent-interdict-filed-by-armoured-vehicle-company-integrated-convoy-protection/

Literally, figuratively... www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7WQ...

DC politics today.

It true.

A haunting song, and fitting for a bout of bronchitis.

💥💥💥 honored that our @postandcourier.bsky.social, @ajc.com and @istories.bsky.social pieces on sanctioned Russian bankers and their US property investments were featured in The Sunday Long Read (@thesundaylongread.bsky.social) newsletter! cc @tbartelme.bsky.social

A joint investigation between Russian and American journalists has discovered how a Russian banker's $6-million mansion traded hands just before U.S. sanctions early in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

What’s the price for protecting the world’s best hope against climate change? For Kim Rebholz, who was hired to monitor the DRC’s rainforest, it was his family’s safety Today we’re exposing the environmental crimes he witnessed – which he says go back to the former president

1/ #DRC 🇨🇩: BREAKING -- Joint investigation by @pplaaf.bsky.social and @tbij.bsky.social exposes large-scale destruction of the Mangrove Marine Park.

US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds reut.rs/4p5bX6x

There is a special place in hell reserved for people who throw dog shit in streetside residential garbage cans where the city only picks up whatever is in an actual garbage bag.

Using MuckRock's crowdsourcing platform and Amazon Textract, CCIJ extracted and verified vote counts during Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election, collecting and analyzing over 160,000 polling unit results. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

If I weren't a po' boy, Ya ha deedle deedle bubba bubba deedle deedle dum

a+ pun

The coldest cut is the deepest.

Big day for sandwiches.

Whenever someone noteworthy dies, I think of this.

Hello Bluesky I’m out of my depth on a question to do with correspondent banks, how they work, and, particularly, how to determine which specific U.S. correspondent bank would’ve served which specific foreign bank at a certain period of time. Anyone have any ideas for good people to talk to? 🏦 💵 🏦