My dad after listening to half of an IDLES album: they sound so angry

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

That's what we call Domestic Conflict Reporting

ADAM CURTIS MENTIONED

"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were

My latest podcast series with @drmphillipsut.bsky.social brings a sort of "interesting and horrifying" vibe to the discussion of the death penalty that executioners dont really like

New @happenherepod w/ Dr. Michael Phillips & @stevanzetti.bsky.social 💉 The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

The last episode of a series on lethal injection I recorded w/ journalist @stevanzetti.bsky.social for "It Could Happen Here." In this episode we talk with the victim of a hate crime in Dallas who later fought to stop his assailant's execution. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

In this episode we hear from an eyewitness to the world’s first lethal injection and why such supposedly painless executions so often go so wrong.

The second episode of our series on the history of the lethal injection in the United States is out today! Join @drmphillipsut.bsky.social and I as we explore the shady business of state killing. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Got some nice personal news today. They say when it rains it pours but sometimes the sun shines for days!

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Pick-me anti-feminism is when women argue that other women are the problem because they have different political views, that they're one of the cool girls who doesn't even want the right to vote, and they're willing to take it away from other women because they have different political views.

In Part 2 of our mini-series on lethal injection for the podcast "It Could Happen Here," @stevanzetti.bsky.social and I talk to longtime reporter Dick J. Reavis who witnessed the world's first execution by that method & discuss why lethal injections often go wrong. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

The only surprising part about any of this is that a Mack truck didn't actually hit him

Tarrant County is a lynchpin in the Republican party's control over Texas, which is a cornerstone of Republican power nationally.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Leftists in red states looking at election results

Citizens of the Red Apple, can someone please send me a physical copy of this

A socialist has won the mayoral election in the financial capital of the world running as a Democrat. It's a remarkable achievement and will almost certainly be the bellwether for Democratic party politics in the foreseeable future.

New It Could Happen Here w/ Dr. Michael Phillips & @stevanzetti.bsky.social 💉 The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

One of my favorite recent journalism moments was when I sent a cropped photo of someone I'm writing about and asked if it was them. They confirmed it was. Then I asked if they met up with a certain political group on the day the photo was taken. They denied it. Then I sent the uncropped photo...

Dick Cheney dying on election day is sort of poetic

I joined up with @drmphillipsut.bsky.social for a three part series about the history of the death penalty and lethal injection in the United States for @coolzonemedia.bsky.social. The first episode is out today. Be advised, some of the content is disturbing. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Ticketmaster is going to give me a damn refund “I planned to show up toward the end of the opener because I’m a typical over-thirty concert goer who gets grumpy in crowds...I don’t know who was responsible for this, but it was a huge disappointment,” said Monacelli of the soured concert experience.

The Texas Dept of Public Safety carried out aerial surveillance of Austin's No Kings protest after Gov. Abbott suggested that "violence & destruction" were likely. Of course, the event was peaceful. Even the pilot, in video I obtained via FOIA, says: "Seems like it’s gonna be pretty peaceful, huh?"

When the initial draft was less than 5k words but the editor wanted more and now the draft is over 6k words but the word maximum is 5k

pleased as ever to have work from Luke O'Neil in the magazine. these three new stories are some of my all-time favorites, but having read We Had it Coming, i highly recommend the whole thing. "I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me."

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...

You can still snag a print edition of our most recent print edition—Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps. proteanmag.com/product/prot...

My favorite Halloween tradition is writing a spooky history essay for @proteanmag.com, and 2025’s is a good one. This time, we’re heading back to the graveyard. Bring a shovel. proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

I'm wheezing at this

Today we published the last of three articles investigating the exposed web server for the neo-Nazi magazine Rope Culture. We’re identifying several far-right figures involved, including a Canadian Nazi podcaster-turned-Orthodox priest, a Danish metal musician, and a notorious American pedophile.

A recent survey by the Texas Politics Project found that a small majority of Texans oppose the deployment of the Texas National Guard for law enforcement in cities out of state.

I don't feel so good

My new I'm becoming an old crank activity is reporting every AI assistant advertisement on Instagram for "false information"

I am going to live in a Buddhist monastery futurism.com/future-socie...

From @stevanzetti.bsky.social: In February, the Texas Observer confirmed that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an ICE assistant chief counsel in Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account. Now, ICE refuses to tell us, or members of Congress, if he's still employed.

Happy Halloween

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The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

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Living in Texas in the year of our Lord