Israel Eguaogie left Nigeria at 17 and now lives in in Belfast. He worries that the communities who once battled one another are now finding common ground opposing immigrants. But he also sees community support—a reason for hope. From "The Troubles," John Noltner's Northern Ireland interview series.

This is the most fascinating, and most propulsive, political profile I've read in maybe ever.

For years, Alamance County NC sheriff Terry Johnson—a Republican who claimed immigrants were "raping our citizens"—held ICE detainees at his jail in return for millions of federal dollars. Then, in November, he ended the agreement with ICE. @jacobbiba.bsky.social @theassemblync.bsky.social #ncpol

The Federal Trade Commission's assault on media bias is itself clearly rife with bias, writes Duke's Philip M. Napoli. But more important — and more concerning — are the ways in which these actions are exploring a range of regulatory rationales to circumvent the First Amendment, he says.

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

At the BAFTAs, a man with Tourette syndrome yelled a racial slur with Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan on stage. A few years ago, @barryyeoman.com tackled a similar issue when a professor with Tourette syndrome made some students feel sexually violated. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Elliott Woods spent more than two years reporting on the 53 migrant workers who suffocated in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas in 2022. His two articles have now won the Polk Award—a well-deserved honor for brave and searing work. @thefern.org @texasmonthly.bsky.social Here's one. (1/2)

The TikTok account "Sex Ed for Guys" was started by athletes at Colby College in Maine. Their videos promote emotional vulnerability and openness, strong male friendships, safe sex and consent. Death, Sex & Money's @annasale.bsky.social talked with three of those athletes and their faculty mentor.

imagine how many reporters you could employ for their entire career with just the tax savings from this year.

The Australian podcast Snowball is fabulous. It follows journalist Ollie Wards as he unravels the story of how his family was taken down by a charming American con artist who married his brother. Tracking her from New Zealand to California, Wards tries to find out how she scammed them and why.

My friend @johnhendrickson.bsky.social has written an honest, beautiful Esquire profile of journalist Tom Junod, whom you might know for his stories about Mister Rogers or the 9/11 Falling Man. The article explores masculinity, secrets, and betrayal, and it's told with John's big open heart.

In 2024, Republican Michelle Morrow garnered 49% in the race for North Carolina's schools chief—despite her calls for the execution of Hillary Clinton, Roy Cooper, and Anthony Fauci. Now running for US Senate, she's barely polling at all. @carlibrosseau.bsky.social @theassemblync.bsky.social #ncpol

“This is something that governments in Iran and Syria and East Germany and maybe military regimes back in the day in Argentina and Brazil would do, but in the United States? That’s just crazy.” @emmawhitford.bsky.social #ncpol

A 79-year-old Cuban asylum seeker with worsening dementia, who uses a wheelchair, has been detained in Eloy, AZ for nine months, despite her family's pleas to let them care for her. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...

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...

Chris Rose's newspaper columns after Hurricane Katrina helped channel all of New Orleans' grief and rage. Carrying a city's collective trauma broke him; he slid into addiction and lives in the woods with end-stage cirrhosis. This year he's back in Louisiana for one last Mardi Gras. archive.ph/jD6cz.

As @postguild.bsky.social assesses the damage from last week’s layoffs, it turns out between 44% and 47.5% of the newsroom has been axed. It “may have been the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/09/a...

The antidote to People Magazine's unfortunate headline, "Bad Bunny's Halftime Show Mostly Avoids Politics." A deep decoding rom a journalist who spent years covering the Caribbean.

Our 2010 radio documentary series "Still Singing the Blues" will be resurrected this month by @kmuw.bsky.social. The series, about Louisiana's blues traditions, brought Richard Ziglar and me into back-of-town bars and rural honkytonks from Pigeon Town to the Old Breaux Bridge Highway. Details below.

My colleague @frankabruni.bsky.social on U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina: "The liberation of a conscience does wonders for a man." #ncpol www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o... Also, here's the X post that helped spark the column.

North Carolina's state health insurance plan no longer covers gender-affirming care. As @j-still.bsky.social reports in @theassemblync.bsky.social, that has left some #transgender employees in limbo. #ncpol

I was fortunate to see this at @fullframefest.bsky.social last year, and it was one of the best documentaries I had seen in a long time. It manages to be suspenseful, haunting, and funny all at once—and above all, it's timely here in America. If you can see it, I encourage you to do so.

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not." Always read @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

A Duke bus driver who was a Honduran with TPS was forced to leave his job last year after 19 years of service. Under a new judicial ruling, he is allowed to come back, but Duke initially attempted to pay him as though he was a new employee www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

"The Post as it existed last week, has ceased to exist…This is a story about incompetent leadership that destroyed the paper’s economic viability. It’s a story of self-mutilation." @jvl.bsky.social on WaPo and Bezo's civic vandalism in The Triad @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washin...

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The Washington Post fired every one of its staff photographers yesterday.

"It’s almost like he’s treated it like Pets-dot-com," said @sallyjenx.bsky.social. But "it's not a business that just disappears into the muck of venture capitalism. It’s a business that is essential to the survival of the Republic, for Christ’s sake. So you don’t fuck around with it like that."

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Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

If you live in the DC area, you should definitely do this

Heartbroken and infuriated by today's bloodletting at the Washington Post.

My latest, on the secretive legal weapon Homeland Security is using to target Americans. Last fall, Jon, 67, emailed a DHS attorney, urging mercy for an asylum seeker. Hours later, DHS subpoenaed his Google account. Then it sent investigators to his home. wapo.st/4rtfCw8

"When our rivers, forests and sidewalks began to overflow with trash, environmentalists went straight to the source, demanding that corporations put a stop to single-use packaging. But companies ... created their own campaign: Keep America Beautiful, which placed the blame on the individual."

"The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers [and other] officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability."

Fonzie thought he was an Alabamian. He lived for football and his fiancee and a little too much fun. I followed him to Mexico when he was deported to a place he did not know or understand. This is his story. As it is with any deportation, it is not his story alone. www.al.com/news/2026/01...

In Minneapolis, photographer John Noltner set up a black-and-white portrait studio at churches, community centers, colleges, and singing vigils. He'll be projecting the images in public—"to stand in community and solidarity with our friends and neighbors. And to let them know they are not alone."

An article about this political moment, the role of journalism, and the very real dangers of state repression—told as a cheeky guide to buying a gas mask. I’ve been sending it to everyone; it both delights and horrifies me. Well done @sarahjeong.bsky.social www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Incredible story by @agreenberg.bsky.social, both on the scam compound operation and how he navigated a uniquely difficult and dangerous situation for his source. This one should be required reading for journalism ethics classes: www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Film critic @stephenwhitty.bsky.social watched it so you don't have to.

"Their voting records likely wouldn’t differ dramatically," writes Chase Pellegrini de Paur. Both support Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, codifying Roe v. Wade, and raising the federal minimum wage. But Allam is "a step more antiestablishment," with an "aggressively pro-worker message." #ncpol

"The testimony of each musician that Minnesota had inspired them stoked something more than our ordinary Midwestern need for validation. Efforts like ours feed off assurance that our actions are being seen, that they’re not submerged in the news-cycle churn or warped by algorithmic distortion."

“In Minnesota, we do not treat journalists like criminals for doing their jobs. No one should be arrested merely for holding a camera, asking hard questions, or telling the public what we have a right to know.”

Greg Bovino, who grew up in Blowing Rock NC, became the face of Trump’s immigration crackdown. "I think of him as the Liberace of the Border Patrol because he just cannot get enough press," said Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent turned critic. @jimmorrill.bsky.social @theassemblync.bsky.social

There's been so much important writing about Minneapolis recently. I have compiled some of the most stirring, informative, beautiful, and surprising. @kristenradtke.bsky.social @rubycramer.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social @chashomans.bsky.social @kellymcb.bsky.social @philipkennicott.bsky.social

For today's Unabridged newsletter, I've compiled some of the most stirring, most informative, best written, and most surprising articles about Minneapolis—some short, some long—that I’ve seen in recent days. Plus, the best song.

My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow. If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost