Injecting this into my veins. I deeply love New York. I love it.

“Besotted” is my 2026 word of the year according to @merriam-webster.com. As I’m expecting my first grandchild this year, it makes sense. I’m already besotted!

Our third-most-read piece of 2025 is for ALL THE MOMS. buff.ly/MQHDeAB

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This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

Your daily reminder from the oligarch currently buying all the media for more minority control. Because intimidation as well as manipulation is how fascism delivers it. bsky.app/profile/404m...

Well that's fascinating innit

tbt

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

“We’re entering a new era,” said Dr. Maximilian Konig, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins University who’s studying some of the possible new treatments. They offer “the chance to control disease in a way we’ve never seen before.” https://to.pbs.org/4oNrmJ6

Psychology of changemaking： “For decades，cities around the world have said they’re too spread out，too cold，too hilly，too car-dependent to make cycling mainstream．Paris proves that narrative wrong．In the end，the French capital didn’t just build bike lanes—it built（the）belief（that change’s possible).”

No, you're crying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...

In the heavily redacted filing, Abrego Garcia's attorney reveal for the first time some of the very limited discovery the Trump DOJ has produced and argue that it blows up the admin's previous claims in court, some under oath, that the prosecution wasn't being pushed by higher-ups at Main Justice:

You know Tommy Tuberville is bad. If you want see just how far we have fallen, take a look at the words of this former Alabama GOP governor. Not so long ago. www.al.com/news/2025/12...

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

Comfort viewing is the plan for tonight. It’s cold, I’m tired, it’s been a tragic week, and I’m not sure I’ll ever confidently speak Chinese. If you need me, I’ll be rewatching Do You Like Brahms and listening to Traumerei on a loop. But first, Chinese class with my ever-patient 老师。祝我好运。

"It’s a hard morning in the world today, a morning that follows a series of hard mornings. I feel like we are being inundated with surplus suffering, that our world is carrying so much pain. But as much as we would like to look away, it’s not what this moment calls for."

"Rachel Friedberg, a Brown economics professor, said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course. She said she learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. Friedberg herself was not present."

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.

I’ve been listening to NPR for a half hour with no coverage of the mass shooting at Brown. Nothing. I love the Samba Train coverage, but what is happening at Brown??? @npr.org

Oh my god, what a tragedy. I’m sick.

Oh no ….

Army-Navy Game, Baltimore.

When the streets start telling the truth, it’s because the institutions won’t. What’s become painfully obvious is that ICE agents aren’t trained to make us safer. They’re just recruits who thirst for power, violence, and cruelty. [street art from around the country]

"The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."~Hubert Humphrey

XPN fam, let us introduce your no. 1 song on the 885 Greatest Cover Songs... "All Along the Watchtower" by the late-great Jimi Hendrix!!! #XPNCountdown

From Georgia to Virginia, the 2025 elections revealed a data center backlash. 40% of centers are in the South, with many more on the way, straining land, water & energy resources. My by-the-numbers look for @southernstudies.bsky.social at the growing opposition: www.facingsouth.org/2025/11/inst...

"By Wednesday morning, eight rivers in Western Washington had already reached major flood stage...Nearly 20 more rivers were poised to reach that stage before the end of the weekend..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...

We anticipate potentially 100,000 Washingtonians facing evacuation orders. The situation is fluid and changing all the time. We expect rivers to hit historic levels as early as 4 a.m. tomorrow, lasting into Friday morning.

Not in New York, so this isn't my race but I think if Democrats take one thing from Mamdani, it probably ought to be what Lander here seems to have done: you answer the cynicism and hypocrisy of the moment with sincerity, not knowing-cleverness. 'Sincere Dork' is a good political brand.

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

The US border is now just one big blinking warning sign: "FASCISM HAZARD - DO NOT APPROACH". World Cup, Olympics, scientific conference, holiday, shopping. None of those are worth obeying in advance.

Criminals are ‘poisoning’ the web with bogus customer service numbers for major businesses, tricking search engines into helping with phone scams ⬇️

The son of Cuban immigrants, Malo and his band blended country, rock and roll, folk, jump blues, Latin music and Cajun rhythms into a distinct sound anchored by his unmistakable voice. n.pr/44NlYxm

This is worth your time. Wow.

“Every life, born and unborn, is worthy of protection. And every child is made in the image of God, and especially, especially the most vulnerable deserve the fullest love and every effort to protect them.” —Senator Tom Cotton, “Tom Cotton Defends The Right To Life”, June 30, 2021

Tom Jones is Burning Down the House! #XPNCountdown @wxpnfm.bsky.social

16/ Woven throughout the series is our managing editor and reporter @gingerthompson.bsky.social's pursuit of one question: If Anthony Parker couldn’t get good care at Phoebe, then who could? Read the rest of the story, starting here 👇

Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management. They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

The constitutional right to birthright citizenship is core to who we are as a country. We refuse to let President Trump do away with that right.

I wrote about Heated Rivalry's unlikely journey to global phenomenon for the @washingtonpost -- and how Rachel Reid plans to write more about the characters Shane and Ilya, who have much of North America captivated. Here's a gift link: wapo.st/44fVZ1w

Waymo to issue recall over self-driving vehicles driving past stopped school buses reut.rs/4pNBXUb

“There’s been no drop within the 21st century of the number of kids a woman has once she reaches 44 years old.”

We are such world-historical losers right now.