Good book on it www.barnesandnoble.com/w/killing-th...

That was before we knew about the health violations and organized crime.

Beautiful day in the Wrigley bleachers

As one Vermont college finishes its last semester, a new projection shows that 442 more are at similar risk A new and previously unreported estimate projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities, with a combined 670,000 students, are at risk of closing or hav...

This timing is perfect but sad: Hampshire College announced that this would be its last year. My colleague Jon Marcus just wrote about tiny Sterling College in Vermont, which is also closing at the end of this semester: hechingerreport.org/more-than-a-...

The Long Beach Airport terminal has more birds than any forest I've been in.

I recently learned someone is posing as me, trying to work people for info.

So I did some reporting of my own on what appears to be the latest evolution of online deception...

www.propublica.org/article/impe...

This is also a fake image. The details of the capsule are entirely wrong.

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.

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice. Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

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 Organization wants to trademark president’s name with America’s 250th birthday Designs for potential logos submitted to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office find President Donald Trump seeking to put himself front and center of summer anniversary celebrations

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.

Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

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...

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

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

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

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...

Brandon Straka: I’m at the Pentagon this morning for a briefing with @SecWar @PeteHegseth on the Iran strikes. Session starts in 10 minutes.

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.

I dunno, I kinda wanted the cannibal aliens to eat those people.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.

"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

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...

The FBI not knowing where Wisconsin is, apparently?

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: