I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

The first thing I and many others thought of was the slave ship diagram. But as this thread points out, there are so many more horrible parallels.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Oh well. Was hoping for the game-winner to be from Sidney Crosby, coming out of the trainers’ room to fill in the depleted Canada ranks in the 9th overtime.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

last one, I promise: Hilarious yet also infuriating to see "strict constructionists" Alito and Thomas tap-dance their way around Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, as well as James Madison in The Federalist papers. But hey, I'm sure they know Madison's intent better than Madison.

Now, let's do Trump's wars not authorized by Article I, section 8 of the Constitution.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the Oval today as Trump gets a double dose of bad economic news *and* sees the Supreme Court -- including two of his nominees -- slap him down on his signature (basically, only) economic policy. And to see stock prices soar with Court ruling, no less.

Traveling back in time 250 years and asking folks in the Revolution to guess which country ends up with a king and untouchable royals.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this family’s struggle at Dilley. They’ve been locked up for 130+ days. I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Worth noting that the $75 million cost of the Melania movie would pay the salaries and benefits of 300 journalists for about two years.

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."

Also what they taught my seven-year-old boys in Cub Scouts on the BB gun target range.

This guest column by @crampell.bsky.social and published in her long-ago newspaper (gift link, I think) is a crystal-clear explainer and masterful takedown of Kevin Warsh and why he is Trump's Trojan Horse for the Fed. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

this week’s cover by Till Lauer

They should give next year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the people of the Twin Cities.

We asked my brother in law, who did two tours of duty in the Middle East with the Army, if he had seen yesterday’s video and he said “If I had done that in Afghanistan it would have literally and legally been a war crime.”

ICE is lying. Alex Pretti had a camera in one hand and nothing in the other. ICE agents wrestled him to the ground. Then they yelled "Gun." Then they disarmed him. Then they repeatedly shot an unarmed man. According to two forensic video analysis teams. Here's one: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

A long time ago I reported on police training. This is why training matters, and hiring stable people matters. From those videos, it sure looks like they first overreacted to a man with a camera, then once they had him down, someone saw a gun, panicked and shot him.

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

Wow Minneapolis today

Harrowing NY Times expose of the FBI, with some operational details of Minneapolis investigations & comments from ex-agents on the current federal occupation. The FBI is more fucked than you expect, which makes them less effective AND more dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link)

Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there. When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...

Amazing to watch GOP politicians continue to back Trump out of fear that he'll sink their careers, when continuing to back him is going to torpedo the entire party at midterms. To say nothing of wrecking the country, but it's already clear they don't give a rat's ass about that.

Not the point at all but he also looks like he's Jeremy Renner rebooting The Shield. bsky.app/profile/gayk...

nicely put.

The latest Duke CFO survey shows that the vast majority of CFOs are seeing no impact from AI on labor productivity, decision-making speed, customer satisfaction, or time spent on high-value-added tasks Torsten at Apollo

So the president says if you show disrespect to law enforcement, they're entitled to kill you. Because they shouldn't have to put up with that. Unreal.

The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

A dozen years ago I read this Jon Lee Anderson piece in the New Yorker (free link below) and it has stayed with me. I don't know how anyone who has read it or has any level of knowledge of Venezuela thinks a US occupation or sponsored govt will succeed. pscourses.ucsd.edu/ps200b/Ander...

President Zelenskyy on Maduro: What can I say here? If this can be done to dictators, like that, then the United States of America know what they should do next.

All righty -- this year's writerly resolution is live, should you care to read it. The tl;dr is it's actually quite an optimistic read, so hopefully it'll give you some juice to kick open the new year and put words to stories that need to be told.

a plus of moving to a new state with little of my stuff is rediscovering reading books. In the past 5 weeks: The Man Who Came Uptown (Pelecanos); Legs (Kennedy); Dune (Herbert), For Whom the Bell Tolls (EH); The Burn Palace (Dobyns); finishing the year with The Big Short, which is kinda terrifying.

Writing that closing graf was always the hardest part for me. Your closer on this piece -- that's how it's done.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

this is good work.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

damn. I know they've been hinting at it since the winter meetings but I still did not expect the Rays to trade Brandon Lowe. Plus Shane Baz. Nice set of prospects but still, the fire sale is heartbreaking. #TampaBayRays #firesale #downer

Just got back from picking up my kid at Brown. When he was accepted, I thought, this is one place that will never have a shooting. Today, I saw so many parents hugging their kids and just not letting go, as if it might protect them. It can’t, of course, and our leaders won’t take actions that might.

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.

at this point, paper towels are a better use of paper than the Washington Post.

somehow two stick figures are making my heart ache. xkcd.com/3172/