An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne

The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.

And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.

You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

I'll be hosting Natalie's event in Manchester with @mcrlitfest.bsky.social, very much looking forward to it

@manilazic.bsky.social wrote this 3 years ago about influencers taking over the critic space, and the same thing has happened with interviews www.theguardian.com/film/2023/au...

thanks Ruth, glad to hear of it :)

We love Ibbotson, all her books! I think we still have those, somewhere, and they're definitely worth revisiting. They are so warm and wonderful. Between Two Fires sounds great too, glad it's back in print

These look fabulous too, especially the Attolia books. YA, not YA, we don't care. A great book is a great book at any age. Thank you, this has really helped me a lot :)

I know none of these writers, how fabulous (for both of us, I'm gonna have to read all of them too.)

@kellylink.bsky.social could you point me at books for my soon to be 18-yr-old daughter (her current obsession: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet; her perennial fave: Cynthia Voigt's A Solitary Blue). She loves good writing and is partial to a graphic novel too. I need some inspiration!

This was a really good one, helped me understand why things are so hard. The social contract is broke and we are too.

Here's a conversation with a listener in Scotland about why so many of us feel ashamed of our financial lives in todays economy. It is a reaction to recent class episodes from @vermontpublic.org, and I ask dumb questions for the sake of all people like me. www.rumblestripvermont.com/episodes/a-s...

What I love about the NYT is that to them, everything is possible. Maybe AI is alive. Maybe Republicans aren't racist. Maybe the new war in the middle east is good actually. Maybe a FEMA agent teleported (magically OR WITH SCIENCE, haters) to a waffle house. We don't know! Facts aren't real things!

Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile For nearly seventy years, he captured the lives of modern artists for The New Yorker.

What a legend. Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile
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This is horrifying. As someone who lives in Greater Manchester, I'd love to know what school this was?

One of the many ways in which AI, no matter how “good,” will always fall short of humans at being human. From Another Way Of Telling, by John Berger & Jean Mohr, 1982

‘We live in this paradox, and it has a deep contradiction. You’re creating big cities, creating great images for the young Arab people, creating an environment that they’d love to live in – but you don’t want to give them freedom.’ 
– #AhmedMansoor #UAE

The whole "it's here, accept it, it's already in your life, you can't stop it, it's happening & actually you being unable to remove it (bc we designed it like that) is proof you want ir" techbro chat is pure & utter rape script. Nothing but.

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal
must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA:

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I'm about to start reading this too! Just finished 'Hold Still'

This is how enjambment can work in a poem. Bridge 77 on the Macclesfield Canal allows a horse to cross the canal without having to untie it from the canal boat.

Virginia Woolf Diary Tuesday 30 December What it wants is presumably unity; but it is I think rather good (I am talking to myself over the fire about The Waves). Suppose I could run all the scenes together more? - by rhythm, chiefly. So as to avoid those cuts; so as to make the blood run like a torrent from end to end - I dont want the waste that the breaks give; I want to avoid chapters; that indeed is my achievement, if any here: a saturated, unchopped, completeness; changes of scene, of mood, of person, done without spilling a drop. Now if it cd. be worked over with heat & currency thats all it wants. And I am getting my blood up. (temp. 99) But all the same I went to Lewes, & the Keynes's came to tea; & having got astride my saddle the whole world falls into shape; it is this writing that gives me my proportions.

my proportions

Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930

DECEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is MATTHEW KINLIN!!! Theme: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico Burning House Press are excited to welcome Matthew Kinlin as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Matt will take over editorship of Burning House Pr…

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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

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Peach On The Beach by Kate Feld Isn’t every fruit soft, if you wait? In small bodies the time is softly passing. Peach had a twilight air. It wore a yellow curling-up sticker that read ‘gog de magog’ in black print (something fro…

Not only have I done it, I wrote an essay about doing it 💅burninghousepress.com/2018/04/07/peach-on-the-...

House Arab I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

Do you read the New Yorker? (Sure, I even got the tote bag!) Ahhh, you might wanna check this out... bidoun.org/articles/hou...

NOVEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is C.C. O’HANLON!!! THEME/S: JOURNEYS Burning House Press are excited to welcome C.C. O’HANLON as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today C.C. will take over editorship of Burning House Pre…

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Writers! Me & @mconley.bsky.social are teaming up for a writing workshop on the theme of 'attention.' Join us Sat Nov 29 at Saan.1 Gallery in Mcr to discuss poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Carl Phillips & Benjamin Zephaniah and then work on your own. Details here: katefeld.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...