Here’s a story for every national news outlet: In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property. “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

It’s hard to even know where to begin with this. Professor Falk is in his 90s and one of the world’s most prominent international legal scholars. It beggars belief that he could even remotely be considered a threat to Canada.

“(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)” man talk about end of days… www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/tech/re...

This good Michael Woolf / bad Michael Wolff thing feels like an Aesop’s fable

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Harvard faculty on Larry Summers: “The cozy friendship between Epstein and Summers is disgraceful." "Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.” “This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Wrote about data from last week's elections that brought some good news about zoomer guys who broke for Trump in 2024. The data includes some disappointing numbers about my fellow millennial men. badfaithtimes.com/zoomer-men-s...

Seems suboptimal: In key FBI field offices like NY & SF, "statistics show that as much as 40 percent of all agents are now working immigration—an issue not normally on the FBI’s radar at all. Chasing terrorists and spies are normally the FBI’s highest priority" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here's an Epstein email for the China crowd: Epstein telling Joi Ito in 2015 that Obama should give US tech to China for a supercollider and propose it be called the Obama-Xi collider, arguing "his legazy would be great in scinece." Obviously hare-brained but Ito responds: "Good idea"

I should've stopped reading at "The right has also embraced cancel culture, a progressive trend it recently despised" and then I should've stopped reading at equating Floyd protesters "who assaulted police officers" with Jan 6 rioters, and then... you get the idea www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Centrist Democratic strategists have probably done more to prime voters to think of the Party as a vehicle for wokeism than anyone other than Trump or Fox News. And on very thin data that's not causal or predictive out of sample. The extent of the self-own is remarkable substack.com/@gelliottmor...

Larry Summers’ wife…

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

The very last quote.

The Harvard Crimson — which Summers has called for an investigation of over Israel coverage he doesn’t like — has the goods on Summers’ chummy emails with Epstein

lol this is right and I will never be able to think of this movie any other way

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Another insight of Larry’s that would have been better off not shared

I am still laughing at DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

Just remember to be specific about your Epsteins ok?

This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class. New piece laying this out: newrepublic.com/article/2030...

Yes, and: There are lots of reporting jobs at startup nonprofit local news organizations doing really important work outside of corporate ownership, for any journalists willing to consider living outside of the nation's three largest cities!

ICE still being very quiet about this guy www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...

This episode of Know Your Enemy pod with @peterbeinart.bsky.social was a refreshing and sanity-restoring listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/z...

An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

NEW COLUMN: My priors have been confirmed yet again

For @forward.com, I wrote about the right’s bad bet on antisemitism and why acting as though mainstream right wing antisemitism started last week is deeply misguided forward.com/opinion/7820...

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

No lies detected

Saw @ositanwanevu.com post this on the other place, what an inspired way to start a campaign right after Trump’s win last year. Dems will learn from this www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"

Wouldn’t be shocked if electoral results start having an effect on a couple justices’ thinking. Shouldn’t be that way ofc… but might happen

Also can report a happy local bodega owner

Oh Van Jones did not like Mamdani’s speech? Van “Trump became president tonight” Jones? That Van Jones?

What is this feeling that isn’t cynicism and despair?

That was a banger of a speech

Key point here. Gerrymandering will backfire if your party can’t hold onto the narrower margins it creates

I don’t recall ever seeing a concession speech as ungracious as Cuomo’s just now

Worth the click, I assure you

The race to credit a few transphobic ads for Trump winning narrowly in an extremely incumbent-hostile environment was an absolutely classic pundit’s fallacy

Co-sign this, Elliott is putting out the best material on polling and elections

SCOOP : I got hold of the death threats, doxes and attacks teachers in Arizona are facing after a TPUSA spokesperson inaccurately claimed they mocked Charlie Kirk during Halloween. "We’re coming for you. Literally driving to Tucson as we speak You fucking wait.” www.wired.com/story/arizon...

I don't know why people are mad at the pull-quote here, it's descriptive not prescriptive and is accurate: nobody ever asks Democratic leadership to condemn anti-Muslim sentiment publicly. A Democratic senator of NY called Mamdani a jihadist and wasn't condemned by any of her peers publicly.

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

They don’t even know who they’re killing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

Imagine having the phrase “over-feminated progressives” rattling around inside your skull. What a way to go through life