Leavitt refused to say whether Tom Homan had returned the alleged cash bribe received from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives. trib.al/lVszzfi

Fun fact: @propublica.org's Nonprofit Explorer tool tracks the most-viewed nonprofits in its database of millions of organizations. Here are the orgs trending this week on the site: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/?...

this is hell www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...

you know what doesn't happen in other countries?

Looks the Crimson was yet again the first to print some big news: the NIH has restored funding to Harvard, sending over $46 million today. Fighting works. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

My colleague @vernalcoleman.bsky.social is a diligent, careful reporter (and a great human!). He's been doing an excellent job holding the Department of Veterans Affairs to account. Do you have a tip to share? Reach out to him directly: [email protected] or on Signal at vcoleman91.99

this is almost always true!

for no particular reason

I'm sorry, in what universe does a reporter even entertain this request for long enough to go back to the original source?? Unless I need someone to respond directly to something someone said, I tell flacks, "You can read it tomorrow in the Daily News"

DOJ's Inspector General says a former FBI Assistant Director "went on a government paid, 13-day international trip to two countries for the purpose of visiting two of the Assistant Director’s persona 'bucket list' countries," including "4 days at a beach resort, at government expense."

At one point Vicky Pebsworth asked what ramifications their votes had because she did not know what ACIP actually does.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Crazy to watch in real time as Nancy Mace transforms into the villainous mother-in-law of a 90s rom-com

NEW: Criminals are using "SMS blasters"—a version of cell-site simulators used by police to surveil phones in a certain area—to flood people nearby the devices with scam texts. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/sms-bl...

Sinclair a month ago signaled it wanted to sell its TV stations and guess who has to approve those license transfers... oh no... oh no... [KOOL AID MAN MEME] OH YEA -- www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/s...

I would say that nobody said all of this would be so exhausting except everyone who has ever lived through this before did.

I imagine quite a few historians' inboxes and phones are...busy right now.

ah, well

Just been staring at this

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Both our elevator and the nearby LinkNYC kiosks are all wishing Modi a happy birthday

List of Trump DOJ’s demands of UCLA

i know that nothing matters anymore but it would be cool if it did

unrelated but would read an entire magazine article on MAGA suiting.

ICYMI: our data analysis on the rise in sepsis rates in Texas after the abortion ban won an ONA award 🏆 @andreasuozzo.com

i wrote this in *2017.* since then the right wing media has grown extensively. and yet it looks like no lessons learned. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/char...

soy is only the *checks notes* second largest crop in the US after corn.

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

This might be the starkest generational divide in having half a clue we've seen in a good long while.

“.. The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

"The logical endpoint of 21st-century America: An influencer shot to death at a school in front of a crowd of smartphones." Ryan is very good at his job. An excellent summary and analysis of the last 24 hours.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

serious question, who still has (or ever had) a gaming desk at a national mainstream outlet

The tougher questions we're apparently unprepared for--what if the shooter was trans? What if he was Black or undocumented? Would that really justify whatever group punishment Trump wants to unleash? Is such a proposal even thinkable when the shooter is a white man?

And in a way he engraved that stuff so it would be solemnly read at a presser like that. Maybe there’s something to the argument going back to Columbine days to try to largely ignore self mythology from violent killers and mass shooters etc

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

Don't sleep on the chance that the Ellisons could, in a year or two, own CBS, CNN, HBO, *and* TikTok. That'd be *literally* unprecedented media concentration in U.S. history — and all that's needed is enough Trump ass-kissing to ensure he doesn't get mad and sic Brendan Carr on him.

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Horrors all the way down.

BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind. “How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families. W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Some of the highest paid charter superintendents in Texas — including one who we revealed to make over $800,000 — run schools that are failing. One of the schools is on track to be shut down. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Important accountability story: These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing. By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill w/ @texastribune.org