Brilliant piece: “America does not know how to exist in a world it does not control. Since its inception, America has assured itself it was simply too big, too far away and too richly endowed to suffer any serious consequences for its actions. But there will be no escaping the cataclysm in Iran.”

I wrote about the price of the illusion of American omnipotence that’s driving this reckless war in Iran, and so much else. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

My review of Project Hail Mary: what if Walter White had been a nice guy?

NEW @politico.com: Longevity influencer Peter Attia had a deeper relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than he publicly acknowledged last month. - He asked Epstein for patient referrals - He met a foreign-born model through Epstein, whom he interviewed for a job www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Haitian immigrant last seen in ICE custody—found dead on the street 3 days later. Agents drove her 1 hour away from home for processing—then released without notifying her family. Her body was found near a bus stop.

Amazing how quickly "We're fighting this war for freedom of the Iranian people" becomes "The Iranian people are at fault for not rising up."

My latest on the cover of Sunday @nytopinion.nytimes.com: the fantasy and terrifying reality of Trump’s reckless war in Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival. Targeting a civilian object is a war crime. Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime. NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Investors are not ready for a true shock ft.trib.al/tWMyNkv | opinion

I wrote about Trump's fantasy of omnipotence and invulnerability crashing against the material reality of a interdependent world. This insane, heedless war will ruin us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

There's nothing wrong with polling these questions, I guess, but I do wonder how much it really matters. Americans think a lot of things! For example, large majorities favor restrictions on guns and yet the GOP holds a governing trifecta.

Multiple things can be true. Many people are uncomfortable with transgender visibility in America, worry about edge cases like sports and medical care for adolescents and some (mostly men it seems?) worry about bathrooms. And voters can still trust Democrats more on trans issues.

Anyway here's a good nonfiction piece about the horror of measles fs.blog/roald-dahl-l...

A thought experiment: what if the Atlantic had done this with another extremely rare phenomenon: a trans youth who regretted medical transition. Instead of finding an actual person this happened to, they interviewed doctors and invented a narrative with the most horrific possible outcome.

I was really troubled by this Atlantic piece. It was presented as reporting, but it seems more accurate to describe it as speculative fiction based on reporting. It seems like a bizarre choice for a journalistic institution to make. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

Great piece. I had the same misplaced optimism about Bezos, with the accompanying lament that media has so come to rely on the munificence and whims of billionaires. On trust in media, I commend this essay that Lydia cites by Michael Schudson, esp this passage direct.mit.edu/daed/article...

I didn’t end up including it, but one thing very much on my mind when I wrote it was the incredible scene in the Mad Men series premiere where Don Draper comes up with the “It’s Toasted” tagline for Lucky Strike. People just want to be told that whatever they are doing, they are ok.

This NYT column by @polgreen.bsky.social is the truest thing I've ever seen about the REAL reason public trust in the media collapsed

There is so much fretting about trust in news these days. Maybe there shouldn’t be. My latest, on how Bezos won my misplaced trust the same way the media often did: by telling me what I wanted to hear. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...

Both Democrats and Republicans helped create the infrastructure for ideological surveillance at the US border—but the Trump administration is deploying it in the service of a radically partisan and censorial agenda. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

Wow, should probably fire the publisher responsible for missing out on the opportunities.

Doesn’t look like ICE is drawing back.

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Had a great conversation with my friends Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell on Know Your Enemy about the madness in Minneapolis, the imperial boomerang and incredible organizing behind the resistance. Patreon subscribers only, but worth it! www.patreon.com/posts/on-gro...

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

SOON: Join CPJ CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, New York Times columnist @polgreen.bsky.social + photographer John Abernathy for a flash briefing on press freedom in Minneapolis — including the arrest of journalists Don Lemon + Georgia Fort. 🗓️ 1/30 | 12pm Register👇 cpj-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I wrote about how, as Hegel theorized, who we are is how we are seen, and this week exposed some awful truths about America. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...

This week forced us all to ask: what kind of American are you? My latest: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.

No ICE agent looks tougher than Illhan Omar did when she stepped into the face of the man who assaulted her like she was going to clock him

The other thing I will say about this interview: Anderson Cooper does a phenomenal job. He knows this is a huge yet, doesn't grandstand, just quietly asks simple questions and lets this woman tell her extraordinary story.

Incredible interview. In awe of this woman's bravery. A true patriot. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld … welcome to the resistance.

I voted against the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and I was pleased to speak with Ta-Nehisi Coates @VanityFair about the mood surrounding that debate. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.

One small thing you can do today: ICE is ramping up in Maine. Food For All is delivering meals to 300 families that can't leave their homes. They need $7k a day to continue operations. The Culture Study community is raising enough to cover a day—join us? Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A or

The people of color on this list are (of course) well-known for having leaned into "BLM went too far," "wokeness ran amok" style arguments.

Bari Weiss is presenting her plans to the CBS staff today. Weiss quite famously live tweeted a contentious internal meeting at the Times in 2020. I wonder if she thinks her employees are entitled to do the same thing now?

The Bari Weiss plan is for CBS News to employ fewer reporters charged with finding things out and more (right-skewing) commentators charged with telling them what to think. Same playbook Wash Post is using. www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

When they tell you "CBP stays at the border," this is what they mean:

This devastating video analysis of the execution of Alex Pretti makes it clear: a CPB coward shot an unarmed man in the back. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

This was a common frustration point for ICE public affairs, per the internal chat messages we obtained, given they were also trying to sloganeer the idea they were targeting the "Worst of the Worst." They scrambled to find ways to insinuate the detainees were bad people anyway wapo.st/49JTkjQ