real heads know

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

Awful to kick off the season with that nonsense.

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Scared the crap out of my pets!

“.. Google Searches for ‘Help With Mortgage’ have soared to the highest level in history, surpassing even the peak of the Global Financial Crisis.” (via @barchart.com)

How you can verify that someone is a @propublica.org reporter.

Just a quick reminder that we should never normalize a public agency refusing to answer questions about public business. Keep an eye on this space for my upcoming story on a Chicago agency that has done just that.

Man, fuck these guys. Absolute babies. The US team was a stain on what was otherwise a sublime baseball tournament.

Dave was such an Oakland legend.

Trump has filed to trademark America’s 250th anniversary celebration with his name—opening the door for Trump and his family to personally profit off a national holiday.

A. This is awful and no one, wherever you stand on the death penalty, should be okay with it B. This is a good headline that refuses to equivocate www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Updating: The woman is Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, a current resident of Skokie who was born in Evanston

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

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."

U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s Home The Justice Dept. did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

From the Epstein documents: The FBI having to Google where Wisconsin is???

One of the "overt acts" of the conspiracy was Don Lemon and Georgia Fort interviewing the pastor of the church:

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

The @nytimes.com getting it right. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

I've said this before, but as bad as things are, this is the sort of thing that most journalists I know got into the business to cover. I am not surprised that we are seeing them rise to the occasion.

INBOX: Air Force One (tail number 29000), which was carrying President Trump from Washington, D.C. to Davos, Switzerland, appears to be turning back. (h/t @PollTracker2024/X) globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=adfdf9

Drunk Bears Fan Grating Ram

Oglala Lakota president Frank Star Comes Out said when the tribe requested more information, leaders were told the tribe would need to enter into an immigration agreement with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

intimidation

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

Sheeeeeeeeeeit

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

I can report that every single Albuquerque resident is coughing up a lung.

The year is 2167. We have cured cancer and stopped using fossil fuels. But we are no closer to figuring out how to print over Wi-Fi.

I'm also hearing through the grapevine that she fired a bunch of people today.

No winter is complete without a visit to the Dodger House in my hometown.

Are big newsrooms getting better at crediting independent journalists? @jasonkoebler.bsky.social compares notes with @marisakabas.bsky.social, founder of thehandbasket.co, on landing huge scoops as indie journalists and dealing with mainstream media. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e73s...

Redacted Fayette, AL

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

She was first in her family to go to college. She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven. They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving. They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

@nhlwild.bsky.social Ojibwe language broadcast of Wild game Nov 28

Interesting take for a Prius driver.

In a city full of cool people, Dilla might be at the top of the list.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵