"Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching a national database of automated license plate reader data, including from school cameras, for immigration-related investigations." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

another @thiccreese.bsky.social banger www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

"To Catch A Fascist" is finally here! @letsgomathias.bsky.social has spent the last three years immersed in the underground world of contemporary militant antifascism. There's thrills, espionage, and more. Get your copy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

2016: obama era optimism, doing shots on a weeknight until 3 am and being able to go to work just fine 2026: getting a buzz on at home after the baby has gone to bed, messaging people on Facebook marketplace en masse to inquire if their item is “still available”

I just read this article and was wondering what you were doing, and now I know. Stay safe.

Since ICE arrived in Minneapolis over a month ago, people have mobilized across the city to a stunning degree to track agents and monitor their activities. @wsj.com went there to understand what this looks like in practice. www.youtube.com/watch?si=A3t...

nightmare being in Minneapolis reporting and having to constantly clarify whether you’re talking about ICE the federal agents or the ice all over the sidewalks

How was this 5 years ago? Feels so much more recent, perhaps because the dust never fully settled since, and because this country is still fighting for control of the narrative of that day

damn all I did was listen to one Coldplay album

Great piece that does a lot to explain one of the most curious characters of the MAGA world…

This is like Ticketmaster shit. Amazing.

If you’re in the Epstein line, stay in the Epstein line

Nick Fuentes and the groypers have their first candidate: Florida governor candidate James Fishback. And yes, he has some age of consent allegations. My latest newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-f...

the scammers are refining their art of seduction

big scoop from reuters: pardoned j6-ers are.... advising DOJ officials" "weaponization working group" on whether to bring charges against prosecutors who worked on j6 cases. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

This is an absolutely riveting portrait of Katie Miller, and answers some of the questions I had about how she ended up married to Stephen. Fantastic reporting and storytelling by @tessowen.bsky.social.

The last story I did as a freelancer is finally out! For @slate.com I took a deep dive into the world of Katie Miller as she sheds her image as government attack dog and rebrands herself "trad-wife-in-chief" for her new podcast slate.com/news-and-pol...

One of the more disturbing, dystopian stories I’ve read in some time: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/m...

very interested to learn more about the plot. turtle island liberation front has been characterized as leftist. if they were planning to target civilians —rather than property or government assets— that would mark a significant shift for leftist terrorism

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

happy Hanukkah to all my dear friends who celebrate, and im so very sorry that this year’s festivities are beginning with so much pain.

Some news: today is my first day at @wsj.com as a senior video correspondent! I’m so excited about joining this incredible team and I can’t wait to dive in

Completely baffled by this. What a fumble. Brittany is an incredible journalist (and an icon) and knows music and pop culture better than anyone. So excited to see what she ends up doing next. Frankly, I think RS needed her a lot more than she needed RS.

Wrote a whole chapter on Van Dyke in my Proud Boys book — described him as the physical manifestation of a human hand grenade. Should be an interesting campaign. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...

so how does the “anarchist” characterization come into play? or was that misleading information that was given out as a way to muddy the narrative around this

i am withering away after seeing this comment on one of those “hipster millennial nostalgia” videos

Per FBI: the suspected j6 pipe bomber seemingly started experimenting with building explosives as early as 2019, when he purchased the same components that were later used in the devices found on j6 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WOW

growing increasingly concerned that we are all hapless pawns in some sort of elaborate sex game between journalists who have a lot of z’s in their names

BIG NEWS! So excited to announce my new role as senior enterprise editor @ms.now, where I’ll work alongside @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social to build on our incredible coverage at the intersection of politics, extremism and culture. This is a dream team, I can’t wait to get started. Watch this space!

filing under the (surprisingly large category) of : once-good journalists absolutely losing the fucking plot

many potentially disastrous Thanksgiving dinners salvaged

Mamdanis charisma needs to be bottled and studied in a lab

Laura loomer is crashing out

seems like the mamdani-trump meeting went extremely well, and there’s a wide consensus that mamdani emerged looking brilliant. unfortunately the moment Trump reads that analysis, it’s absolutely over for their relationship

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help): Last week I read a really lovely WIRED story by Tess Owen about people who desperately want to deprogram their MAGA-pilled family members and hope to use books to do so. They want to start a meaningful conversation… #CraftandCriticism #Features

what?

ITV unmasks a neo-Nazi activist in Britain who gave Buckingham Palace tours by day and organized within international fascist movements by night. “When confronted by ITV News on a suburban street in west London, Gravill froze. ‘Oh f***,’ he muttered.” www.itv.com/news/2025-11...

This lede by antonia hitchens is utterly perfect www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I am so grateful for every week I get to work in this terrible profession and I also feel constant heartburn about what a mess it is. Strong statement from the News Guild on the absurd firings at Conde: www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

Forgot to post this spooky story I wrote for Slate on Friday amid the Halloween shuffle: The mainstream right makes a little room at the table for Nick Fuentes slate.com/news-and-pol...

at this point no one can convince me that he wasn’t born in the suit-and-tie

we voted !

Elon Musk using his own platform to stoke hatred and division in a country that he has a tenuous link to at best

Travis Frey, a former captain at an ICE detention facility who was identified as an Iron March user in 2019 by @tessowen.bsky.social, submitted an article draft to the Rope Culture email address, called “The Greater Holy War,” and listed his Iron March username: “In Hoc Signo Vinces.”

DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators

once again: believe these people when they tell you what they want to do www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...

SNAP benefits expire in one week.