Diana B. Henriques
@dianabhenriques.bsky.social
Six books include "Taming the Street," on FDR's historic financial reforms, and NYT bestseller 'The Wizard of Lies,' on Madoff's historic fraud, now an HBO movie. A half-century of writing and reading. Loves life, really loves puppies.
I just became a p aid subscriber. If you can, please join me. Consider it lighting a candle rather than cursing the darkness...in which democracy dies.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:27 PM
I just became a p aid subscriber. If you can, please join me. Consider it lighting a candle rather than cursing the darkness...in which democracy dies.
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6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup
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February 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Before Trump 2.0, this was one of my biggest fears. With everything that's happened in the last year, it may seem like small news -- just another stream in the constant firehose of institutional destruction. But it's not. Effectively losing the professional federal civil service is a very bad thing.
Final Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
February 6, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Before Trump 2.0, this was one of my biggest fears. With everything that's happened in the last year, it may seem like small news -- just another stream in the constant firehose of institutional destruction. But it's not. Effectively losing the professional federal civil service is a very bad thing.
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The CEO of every company that funds the GOP should be asked why they fund a party that promotes gutter racism.
February 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
The CEO of every company that funds the GOP should be asked why they fund a party that promotes gutter racism.
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That was a truly amazing transcript. Check my feed some of the choice exchanges.
February 5, 2026 at 11:25 PM
That was a truly amazing transcript. Check my feed some of the choice exchanges.
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EXCLUSIVE: on Jan 22 we rolled up on a raid happening in South Minneapolis. we had no idea who they were taking. turns out it was a *two year old girl* and her dad on the way back from buying fruit. he had no criminal record. this is their story. youtu.be/yaeXlxJOAXU?...
A Toddler Detained: A 2-Year-Old Girl and Trump’s New Immigration Era
YouTube video by MS NOW
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February 5, 2026 at 8:34 PM
EXCLUSIVE: on Jan 22 we rolled up on a raid happening in South Minneapolis. we had no idea who they were taking. turns out it was a *two year old girl* and her dad on the way back from buying fruit. he had no criminal record. this is their story. youtu.be/yaeXlxJOAXU?...
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NEW: Mobile Fortify is not designed to "verify" identity, as DHS claims, and it was only approved after DHS rewrote its privacy review rules, records reviewed by @wired.com show. @dell.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social w/scoops. No paywall. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
NEW: Mobile Fortify is not designed to "verify" identity, as DHS claims, and it was only approved after DHS rewrote its privacy review rules, records reviewed by @wired.com show. @dell.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social w/scoops. No paywall. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...
Remind me: Wasn't AG Kobach once ordered by Federal Judge Julie Robinson to get additional legal training to address his ignorance of federal rules and process? Is being his top deputy actually a plus on one's resume??
The nomination of Dan Burrows to run DOJ's Office of Legal Policy is coming to a vote next week.
Burrows works in the White House Staff Secretary's Office currently and was the top deputy in the Kansas AG Kris Kobach's office before that.
The OLP role is currently vacant, per DOJ's website.
Burrows works in the White House Staff Secretary's Office currently and was the top deputy in the Kansas AG Kris Kobach's office before that.
The OLP role is currently vacant, per DOJ's website.
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Remind me: Wasn't AG Kobach once ordered by Federal Judge Julie Robinson to get additional legal training to address his ignorance of federal rules and process? Is being his top deputy actually a plus on one's resume??
Brilliant - as is most of what @vermontgmg.bsky.social has to say about ICE/CBP, a subject he knows down the the molecular level. His recent Illinois testimony is required reading!
The problem of ICE/CBP reform is we have a monster rampaging through our democracy and are trying to restrict *which* cities it can pillage and *how many* civilians it can eat. The problem isn’t the restrictions on the monster; the problem is the monster. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...
Six Ways to Reform ICE and CBP
And why congressional "reform" isn't actually the real problem....
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 5, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Brilliant - as is most of what @vermontgmg.bsky.social has to say about ICE/CBP, a subject he knows down the the molecular level. His recent Illinois testimony is required reading!
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation. After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer”
“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer”
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
www.propublica.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation. After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer”
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My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
I really think it's simpler than this, as these guys have been impervious to shame for decades and therefore can largely ignore what a free press writes about oligarchs.
I think they are just bowing to the regime to secure their status with the autocrat.
I think they are just bowing to the regime to secure their status with the autocrat.
Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
February 5, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I really think it's simpler than this, as these guys have been impervious to shame for decades and therefore can largely ignore what a free press writes about oligarchs.
I think they are just bowing to the regime to secure their status with the autocrat.
I think they are just bowing to the regime to secure their status with the autocrat.
Another day, another systemic atrocity...
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
February 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Another day, another systemic atrocity...
I won't link to the lame-brained WashPost editorial on non-cooperation with the thugs at ICE. I will simply point out that it concedes in its kicker that it rests on zero evidence: "It isn’t clear how many of these criminals were handed over by law enforcement or captured in the streets..."
February 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I won't link to the lame-brained WashPost editorial on non-cooperation with the thugs at ICE. I will simply point out that it concedes in its kicker that it rests on zero evidence: "It isn’t clear how many of these criminals were handed over by law enforcement or captured in the streets..."
Look at that comparison. As a business reporter, I will never forget the horrifyingly fragility of January 2009. It felt like we'd barely survived the fall. Major banks, key industries, home mortgages, everything felt battered.
That's how bad the layoffs felt then. This is almost as bad??
That's how bad the layoffs felt then. This is almost as bad??
February 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Look at that comparison. As a business reporter, I will never forget the horrifyingly fragility of January 2009. It felt like we'd barely survived the fall. Major banks, key industries, home mortgages, everything felt battered.
That's how bad the layoffs felt then. This is almost as bad??
That's how bad the layoffs felt then. This is almost as bad??
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GOLDMAN DESK: “.. this is a simple basket of US software stocks. .. the cycle highs were as recent as September; in the time since, around $2tr of market cap has been erased.”
February 5, 2026 at 1:20 PM
GOLDMAN DESK: “.. this is a simple basket of US software stocks. .. the cycle highs were as recent as September; in the time since, around $2tr of market cap has been erased.”
Whatever else this is, it is one more glaring example of how Trump can torture any American business at his whim. So why on earth does American business remain silent and supine? Wake up, folks! It only gets worse from here!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Nike, Accused of Bias Against White Workers, Is Under Federal Investigation
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Whatever else this is, it is one more glaring example of how Trump can torture any American business at his whim. So why on earth does American business remain silent and supine? Wake up, folks! It only gets worse from here!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Drop some bombs on Iran — and then what?
Kidnap the leader of Venezuela — and then what?
Impose tariffs on everyone everywhere — and then what?
Kidnap the leader of Venezuela — and then what?
Impose tariffs on everyone everywhere — and then what?
February 4, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Drop some bombs on Iran — and then what?
Kidnap the leader of Venezuela — and then what?
Impose tariffs on everyone everywhere — and then what?
Kidnap the leader of Venezuela — and then what?
Impose tariffs on everyone everywhere — and then what?
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DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting.
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’
Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 AM
DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
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Good to see attention to the possible ethnic cleansing of Springfield, Ohio, and the people who are coming together to fight against it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
Opinion | In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Good to see attention to the possible ethnic cleansing of Springfield, Ohio, and the people who are coming together to fight against it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
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If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
February 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
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“We have created a monster rampaging through the heart of our democracy and are trying to define and restrict which cities it can pillage and how many civilians it can eat. The problem isn’t the restrictions on the Frankensteinian monster … the problem is the monster.”
Congress has a real chance right now to influence and change the trajectory of immigration enforcement in the US and arrest the use of ICE and CBP as a fascist secret presidential interior police.
Here's my research on what would make a difference: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...
Here's my research on what would make a difference: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...
Six Ways to Reform ICE and CBP
And why congressional "reform" isn't actually the real problem....
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
“We have created a monster rampaging through the heart of our democracy and are trying to define and restrict which cities it can pillage and how many civilians it can eat. The problem isn’t the restrictions on the Frankensteinian monster … the problem is the monster.”
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Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars.
And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump accused of ‘corruption, plain and simple’ after UAE invested in family firm
White House says president is not involved in running his businesses. Ethics experts remain concerned
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars.
And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Yes, the GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would also disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my one-page summary below. Tell your Senators “NO on SAVE!” 5/
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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