The real question isn't why Pizza Hut is closing, it's how it managed to stay open selling arguably the worst pizza of the big three (Dominos, Papa Johns and Pizza Hut). A generation of Book It! kids got stockholmed syndromed into thinking it was good

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

Been a hot minute since this was my main beat but an immediate and enduring lesson from writing this in the summer of 2020 is that many of the tools of policing have their origin & are in feedback loop with the tools of colonial riot control, across decades www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor

"Things are not getting better. They are getting worse" U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, made another oversight visit at Camp East Montana last week. During her visit she met with women detained in Minnesota, detailing how many were still in their snow boots. My story for the El Paso Times

the "personal life" section in Lindsey Vonn's wikipedia page really takes a turn (complimentary) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey...

@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who received donations from ICE profiteers GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management and Training Corporation. Look up your reps at @inthesetimes.com + @theappeal.org. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-....

Two competing pitmasters battle it out: Meated Rivalry

probably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"

Oh my god. She’s my senator and another constituent posted this response from her regarding the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

I met her back in 2018 when she became the first ever American to win a gold medal for cross-country skiing. She's also very vocal about the need to act on climate change, and also eating disorders in sports.

She picked 16 because it is the most common age of consent, in the US for her to position as not like a pedophile.

South Carolina measles outbreak is triggering dangerous brain swelling in some children www.scientificamerican.com/article/sout...

"this is how men behave" "locker room talk" etc etc

I'm so tired.

Stanley Richards, who did multiple stints on Rikers Island as a youth before going on to lead the city’s largest nonprofit assisting people who have been locked up, was announced on Saturday by Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the city’s Correction Department commissioner.

Team Haiti has one of the best winter Olympic fits and it's ironic given the country doesn't have snow

“The main feeling among [House Democrats] is a lack of trust in [Schumer’s] strength and ability to strike a hard bargain." This is “a House Democrat, speaking on the condition of anonymity to offer insights into private conversations among lawmakers” www.axios.com/2026/02/05/d...

Adams really was....

An interesting fact: D.C. has already received 18,000 individual tax returns and 300 corporate returns. The Republican resolution repealing the city's tax law passed the House today, and if it passes the Senate and is signed by the president, many of those returns will have to be redone.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Ascent in elite circles is typically a selection process for maintenance of some pretty fucked norms. this selection was disrupted, by demands for diversity, equity and inclusion and the inclusion of more marginalized people, and we are living through the backlash

We got a really sweet note about this episode, so I'm going to link to it. We did a story about non-burpers. People who cannot burp, how their living daily hell went unrecognized for decades, and the minimally invasive treatment that can fix it (hint it involves botox)

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

Does anyone remember an article or something that went around circa 2022 when WaPo started to lose money that broke down how they would have broke even if it wasn't for some weird tech investment or is this just my fever dream?

Looks like the deaf student protester in LA arrested by DHS has broken into the mainstream news circuit. (Good.) Here are some more stories about the intersection of disability and ICE, aka, eugenics.

I'm not clicking on that "we are all in the Epstein files" article. But if they mean that headline literally - well no we are not all in them. If they mean that metaphorically - no. And we all know the difference between the peripheral people who pop in the files and the people who supported him

“Where the GOP learned to lie as a matter of course is an interesting question, and I’m afraid I’ve had a front row seat. I think it’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional.” Read @billmckibben.bsky.social on how we reached this moment

Maura Healey is now the only Democratic governor in the whole country with a 287(g) agreement. It is shameful that she insists on collaborating with a rogue, fascist agency.

When POC rely on oral traditions they're backwards When white people do it they're enlightened

Again they took away your incredibly meager healthcare and gave your money to the child-snatching squad

This is actually kind of wild? Do you know how hard it is to SEE a snow leopard? They're kind of famously elusive.

🌡️ A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0... Lina Pérez-Angel (now at Brown U) & Julio Sepúlveda led the team.

the good news is that denmark saved over 90% of its jewish population from the holocaust

It's in Queens 💅🏾Down the block from both Socrates Sculpture Park AND COSTCO. Also across the street from Rainey Park where Mamdani shot a lot of his videos and a few blocks from a power plant and the Queensbridge Projects that birthed Nas. Queens has multitudes

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.

Honest question what the fuck did they think was the point of a pseudo-anonymous currency?

The targeting of Native Americans by ICE is so widespread, tribal governments all over are responding. To protect tribal citizens from ICE raids, tribes are holding events to help citizens get updated IDs and even speeding up the printing and processing times.

This isn't financial advice but As You Sow has resources on how to not invest your retirement accounts in private prisons prisonfreefunds.org

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

Friends at the Post say they have been asked to sign up for two hour times slots to come pick up their things after getting news of their jobs being gone

If you’re a federal worker or in law enforcement or tech and you want to talk to me about what you’re seeing, whether that’s immigration operations or something else, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82. We can speak anonymously

He's too young to be saying that stuff. Trump will be gone soon but he won't and this is no 1000 year Reich. I don't think any of them have any idea what is happening outside their echo chamber. Where's he gonna be able to live as a private citizen?

Survey data shows that most Americans do not want to rein in ICE. They want to abolish it.