Amanda Mull
@amandamull.bsky.social
Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
I love a good boat story
Here's how this 64-foot tugboat is keeping your home warm during NYC's cold spell.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/n...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/n...
February 1, 2026 at 12:09 AM
I love a good boat story
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Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
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Lag. The federal judiciary is catching up — this is a remarkable order, it's only three pages. I recommend reading it. I have, in all of my time practicing law, never seen a judge do anything like this:
January 31, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Lag. The federal judiciary is catching up — this is a remarkable order, it's only three pages. I recommend reading it. I have, in all of my time practicing law, never seen a judge do anything like this:
Different country, obv, but there’s a bar near Barclays Center where this *always happens* when there’s an event at Barclays that draws a critical mass of people into Brooklyn from the suburbs, and they’re always irritated when other people who know how to act in a bar just walk up and get served
One of the realy interesting post-pandemic trends are 'people doing a thing that they clearly can't possibly be enjoying and ignoring everyone else urging them not to'.
‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served
Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Different country, obv, but there’s a bar near Barclays Center where this *always happens* when there’s an event at Barclays that draws a critical mass of people into Brooklyn from the suburbs, and they’re always irritated when other people who know how to act in a bar just walk up and get served
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It’s so funny that Elon is the only person in any of the Epstein docs so far who keeps up the kayfabe of being a genius hypercompetent 80 hour weeks guy in private correspondence among elites
January 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM
It’s so funny that Elon is the only person in any of the Epstein docs so far who keeps up the kayfabe of being a genius hypercompetent 80 hour weeks guy in private correspondence among elites
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Recalling fondly last week when he complained about being called “gestapo” by leaning real heavily into the German “ge-shtah-po” pronunciation
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Recalling fondly last week when he complained about being called “gestapo” by leaning real heavily into the German “ge-shtah-po” pronunciation
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Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...
January 31, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...
Found my first set of these new gates yesterday at the Manhattan-bound entrance to the Nostrand A/C stop on the northeast corner of Fulton
January 31, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Found my first set of these new gates yesterday at the Manhattan-bound entrance to the Nostrand A/C stop on the northeast corner of Fulton
Man from an ideological cohort that calls Trump “daddy”: I think the libs are actually horny for Trump
I don’t know what I expected when I saw that Chris Rufo was taking on the “fascism canard” but lol
January 31, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Man from an ideological cohort that calls Trump “daddy”: I think the libs are actually horny for Trump
Midge Update: serene
January 31, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Midge Update: serene
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How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 4:19 AM
How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
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NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
www.wired.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:55 AM
NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
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Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
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a *South Carolina* Senator seeking to use criminal process to coerce state and local officials into enacting federal policy? sure, throw it on the pile over there
January 30, 2026 at 5:43 PM
a *South Carolina* Senator seeking to use criminal process to coerce state and local officials into enacting federal policy? sure, throw it on the pile over there
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Chilling how the government is snapping up logistics warehouses to create a network of detention mega-hubs. Great reporting here www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Chilling how the government is snapping up logistics warehouses to create a network of detention mega-hubs. Great reporting here www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Borders also keep you in
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Borders also keep you in
This is the kind of sweaty argument you reach for when you have admitted to yourself that you can’t defend an idea on the merits but you’re not yet willing to admit it to others
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
This is the kind of sweaty argument you reach for when you have admitted to yourself that you can’t defend an idea on the merits but you’re not yet willing to admit it to others
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Another day of ICE violently arresting civilians, smashing windows, kitted out in insane gear. And now, arresting journalists like Don Lemon. They are acting like a military force so WIRED found an active duty officer to evaluate how they are doing as one www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed
WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
www.wired.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Another day of ICE violently arresting civilians, smashing windows, kitted out in insane gear. And now, arresting journalists like Don Lemon. They are acting like a military force so WIRED found an active duty officer to evaluate how they are doing as one www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
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I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff.
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
Minneapolis’ Hotel Workers Are on Edge
Staff across the city told NOTUS how their lives have changed since the start of the federal immigration operation. “It's frightening,” one said.
www.notus.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff.
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
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"It is striking that the capital offense for which both Pretti and Renee Good... were summarily executed was the crime of witness... Both were engaged in the task that democracies assign to citizens: that of paying close attention to the workings of power."
The Crime of Witness | Fintan O’Toole
Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
www.nybooks.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:37 PM
"It is striking that the capital offense for which both Pretti and Renee Good... were summarily executed was the crime of witness... Both were engaged in the task that democracies assign to citizens: that of paying close attention to the workings of power."
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Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
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imagine: you're an Alcatraz seabird, maybe some sort of gull, looking at the shore. you don't have much to worry about in terms of predation on your nearly-inhospitable island home. tourists visit frequently still, dropping food. it's great. hey what's that brown fuzzy thing emerging from the water
January 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM
imagine: you're an Alcatraz seabird, maybe some sort of gull, looking at the shore. you don't have much to worry about in terms of predation on your nearly-inhospitable island home. tourists visit frequently still, dropping food. it's great. hey what's that brown fuzzy thing emerging from the water
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i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
January 29, 2026 at 4:50 PM
i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
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where are the poll guys now? surely the massive show of popular support will force them to shift position on this, yes?
New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support.
46% support
43% oppose
80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE.
Independents are +8 on the question.
46% support
43% oppose
80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE.
Independents are +8 on the question.
January 29, 2026 at 4:35 PM
where are the poll guys now? surely the massive show of popular support will force them to shift position on this, yes?
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The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
What is Nick Shirley?
Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...