Michael Powell's beat both at the NYT and Atlantic was campus free speech...right up until Trump was elected. At a time when student free speech is being literally persecuted, with student protesters being deported and imprisoned, he now writes nothing, focusing almost exclusively on the mayor.
Pretty sure I’m buying this after the latest ep of into the aether.
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.
And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.
At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
Folks, the government didn't kill PBS. It's still here even after funding has been cut. You can donate $5 or more and get access to a ton of their stuff on streaming too, including lots of local shows. It's a good deal.
www.pbs.org/explore/pass...
Also, thank you for propagating the beastie boys/tewksbury mythos. Although I always heard it was a flaming couch rather than a mattress.
Thank you for taking a critical eye toward Bard’s lack of social services. When I was a freshman, a friend of mine was killed in a very public and violent way and it only occurred to me after listening that no one from the school ever approached me about basic counseling services.
I first thought "there aren't words" when I first saw this story. but there are
Also, showed this to my wife who attended Oberlin and she replied, “That tracks.”
Huge run on American spirits at the bookstore
I got it was fiction, mostly because I understand the author has literary ambitions. This is a piece that Liz Bruenig could write, but not one she could report. I find her writing here to be lyrical and heartrending; the fact that she didn’t do the work of reporting this story does cheapen it.
Maybe I’m not savvy. Maybe I am scared. These people kill with impunity.
A subscription starts a $10 a month. We can do this.
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
Nah this bit was a good bit.
Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones
The courage of Minnesotans is contagious.
Yo bud, I love your work. You are the biggest reason I subscribe to the NYT. But on here, there are times where you get stuck in the mud about dumb replies you don’t like, and it gives very Matt Taibbi vibes. Just ignore them. I wouldn’t even see them if you didn’t surface them.
Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
The largest union of nurses in the US calls for the abolition of ICE::
MGP is way too concerned about being able to legally fix her own washing machine and her “right to repair” aesthetic to care if her vote on ICE funding has any consequences. She thinks being willfully inane is a sign of authenticity when it is actually evidence of cowardice.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
I am myself a 38 year old nurse who was also issued a nursing license in 2021. I have felt incensed at ICE actions. If they come to New York, and I cross their path, what will be my fate?
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
