What an utterly gruesome irony.
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's
@washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
497 likes is enough for the "so you hate waffles" replies to come in
Former race and ethnicity reporter Emmanuel Felton wrote, “I’m among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post. This comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn’t a financial decision, it was an ideological one.”
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.
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The destruction of Wapo by Bezos is a reminder that Russia's oligarchy consolidated power in the media, entrenching a dictatorship that became increasingly expansionist (industrial-sized looting) and totalitarian (you can't stop us). Dig in for the long haul.
the 10 lessons of Katharine Graham: The Washington Post
[Outliers] Katharine Graham: The Washington Post
This episode is full of practical lessons I learned reading her memoir, Personal History and watching Becoming Katharine Graham.
ICE watch has been life-changing: “I feel like our whole lives as Minnesotans...it’s always kind of like, ‘Don’t even start that kind of thing because you have to live around these people. I feel that’s gone in me personally — I don’t even care if I ruffle feathers.”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
I live in Florida, and I have a lot of Latino friends. They all speak English, put they are PISSED about this. 😡
I think Mackenzie Scott should start a newspaper.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
FOSTER: You agree it's a historic fact that during Republican presidencies without exception manufacturing employment dropped and the dollar got weaker?
BESSENT: I haven't seen the data
FOSTER: I presented it to you in a graph
BESSENT: I can't snap my fingers and create factories
I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing.
www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore.
bsky.app/profile/benm...New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else.
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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
Please speak up for Rodney. A year in an ICE camp is beyond comprehension.
Public pressure works.
If enough people speak up, a life may be saved.
Many of the deaths in ICE custody have been due to medical neglect… let’s make sure Rodney isn’t one of them.
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...1/ Killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies....
I saw a cartoon here recently titled "Schrodinger's Immigrant", showing a split screen with one pic calling immigrants leeches and entitlement junkies (can't recall the exact phrase), and the other blaring angrily that they're taking all the jobs. ...
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Participating in the framing of all community defense mobilizations as “protests” is probably something we should avoid.
“When we hadn’t counted all of the ballots it looked like one result and then once we counted all of the ballots it looked like another. This, to me, is fraud.”
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
New building trades statement, from SMART, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's union
www.instagram.com/p/DUBhipliUq1/who the f talks like this
Not only did the cybercrime unit in Paris raid the X offices.
They rubbed it in and posted on X that the X offices have been raided.
Then retired their Twitter account, so their final post is that they are raiding Musk.
Absolute legend.
Magnifique! 🇫🇷
🚨The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offenses including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.
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the "party of small government" is really out here being like "can you even imagine how inconvenient it would be if we had to adhere to the constitution"
imagine!!!!!
Mike Johnson speaks out against the use of judicial warrants in immigration cases:
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
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I post regularly here that a huge issue Dems should campaign on in the midterms - esp for Congress, but also for governor & state legislature bc of mid-decade redistricting attempts - is that if Dems control WH & Congress in '29, they can EXPAND the Supreme Ct, with bare House & Senate majorities.
Very good piece by
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com....
The US under Trump 2.0 has shifted towards authoritarianism as record speed but unlike other examples (e.g. Putin, Orban) it's happened by bypassing institutions rather than permanently corrupting them...
www.ft.com/content/b474...
How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding?
The erosion of established norms has been dramatic but institutions are holding up
An important point: The American people are not ambivalent. They may think they want a shooting war in MSP but they are not prepared for the level of backlash if they murder another observer.
it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it
They may smell some disciplinary issues coming on.
Breaking news: Top Justice Department officials have stripped Ed Martin of most of his expansive responsibilities, sidelining the staunch Trump ally from many of the controversial investigations he has championed.
Justice Dept. demotes Ed Martin, stripping Trump ally of most authority
Top Justice Department officials have stripped Ed Martin of the bulk of his expansive responsibilities.
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They said if I voted for Harris we'd see onerous gun control measures and they were right.
Trump ally Jeanine Pirro: Anyone bringing a gun into D.C. can "count on going to jail"
Many GOP members have shifted their tone on gun control after Alex Pretti's death.
Worth keeping an eye on this story: Heritage Foundation-linked group is trying to frame Netflix as being some super liberal company that puts out super liberal content (it's not).
Same strategy they successfully used against traditional media and social media.
deadline.com/2026/02/netf...
Project Netflix: MAGA’s Plan To Sandbag Warner Bros Deal; Streamer Called “Biggest Political & Ideology Messaging Machine In Human History”
Ted Sarandos' testimony tomorrow in front of the Senate could see MAGA forces try to blow up the streamer's plan to buy Warner Bros
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Judge: Evidence federal officers 'engaged in racial profiling,' excessive force in Minnesota
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Judge: Evidence federal officers 'engaged in racial profiling,' excessive force in Minnesota
A federal judge declined to end the DHS surge in Minnesota. The judge also said there is evidence federal officers "engaged in racial profiling" and excessive force. MS NOW Reporters Jillian Frankel a...
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5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is back in Minnesota after being sent to an immigration detention center in Texas. His school district canceled classes today over a credible bomb threat.
Jason Kuhlman, the principal of Liam's school, joins
@anacabrera.bsky.social to discuss.
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Principal of Liam Conejo Ramos' school speaks out on detainments in MN: 'It's like the wild west'
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is back in Minnesota after being sent to an immigration detention center in Texas. His school district canceled classes today over a credible bomb threat. Jason Kuhlman...
This is what happens when your MAHA policies interfere with your MAGA activities. Shameful all around.
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
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Globe and Mail cartoon
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“This ought to be the final nail in the coffin of congressional Republicans’ breathless efforts to gin up impeachment charges against a judge whose only actual sin, as it turns out, was to decline to roll over when the government defied one of his orders, and then lied about it.”
Me @ “One First”:
207. The Justice Department Beclowns Itself (Again)
The denouement of DOJ's misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg provides useful lessons relating to both the Department's continuing misbehavior and the emptiness of calls for impeachment.
Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll.
And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration.
This is digging deep into Trump's base.
We detail these numbers on today's pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Trump Tirade over Protests Goes Off Rails as Crushing Fox Poll Hits
As Trump grows more delusional about how hated his ICE raids have become, a longtime pro-immigrant organizer explains why this may be a watershed moment in terms of public opinion on the issue.
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If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.
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Bari Weiss darling CBS's Peter Attia skipped out on visiting his baby son in the ICU so he could meet with Jeffrey Epstein.
How many times are we going to discover something about someone in conservative circles and think, "That would never make it out of a writers' room. It's too over-the-top."
Niagara Falls has partially frozen due to extreme low temperatures and heavy snow.
The striking scenes at one of the world's most popular tourist destinations have attracted extra visitors who travelled to the US-Canada border in frigid conditions to witness the spectacle.
A man deported to Laos in October told me he was shackled for 73 hours after his Omni plane unexpectedly returned to Louisiana, which flight data confirms.
ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler
A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
