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this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
We don't acknowledge enough that the anti-woke/c-suite MAGA coalition Weiss leads is a conspiracy movement, every bit as febrile as 9/11 Truth. Weiss' NYT resignation was premised on the idea that all her colleagues, and the entire non-Fox information economy, were malevolently arrayed against her.
I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
We don't acknowledge enough that the anti-woke/c-suite MAGA coalition Weiss leads is a conspiracy movement, every bit as febrile as 9/11 Truth. Weiss' NYT resignation was premised on the idea that all her colleagues, and the entire non-Fox information economy, were malevolently arrayed against her.
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This is what happens when journalists decide their role is to police some imagined middle zone that exists halfway between the right's and left's arguments.
Katy Tur to Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty: "Why don't you trust the FBI to do this on their own?"
January 12, 2026 at 8:27 PM
This is what happens when journalists decide their role is to police some imagined middle zone that exists halfway between the right's and left's arguments.
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Folks, I need a favor. My Twitter account appears to have disappeared. And I'm not sure why. If any of you can be bothered to say something about that on Twitter, I'd appreciate it.
Handle is/was @gregtsargent ... thanks in advance
Handle is/was @gregtsargent ... thanks in advance
January 12, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Folks, I need a favor. My Twitter account appears to have disappeared. And I'm not sure why. If any of you can be bothered to say something about that on Twitter, I'd appreciate it.
Handle is/was @gregtsargent ... thanks in advance
Handle is/was @gregtsargent ... thanks in advance
"He is an aching tooth in the national jaw, a screeching infant in a crowded lecture room; and there can be no peace nor comfort until he is out." Greeley's New-York Tribune in 1867, denouncing Johnson after he illegally dismissed civil servants without congressional approval.
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"He is an aching tooth in the national jaw, a screeching infant in a crowded lecture room; and there can be no peace nor comfort until he is out." Greeley's New-York Tribune in 1867, denouncing Johnson after he illegally dismissed civil servants without congressional approval.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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not only is this remarkably kind about my work, it also takes aim at that mediaite column about nuzzi, which has been mentioned in the same breath as mine but was quite different.
Marisa Kabas is the alternative to wallowing in Olivia Nuzzi’s tale of dysfunction and deceit
Colby Hall’s Mediaite commentary about Olivia Nuzzi is winning a lot of praise. The redoubtable Jay Rosen goes so far as to call it “the best thing I have read about her.” Sign up…
dankennedy.net
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
not only is this remarkably kind about my work, it also takes aim at that mediaite column about nuzzi, which has been mentioned in the same breath as mine but was quite different.
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We are now quickly moving to the point where states will have to assume their rightly ability, in extremis, to judge the actual meaning of the constitution regardless of what Republicans on the Supreme Court claim.
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We are now quickly moving to the point where states will have to assume their rightly ability, in extremis, to judge the actual meaning of the constitution regardless of what Republicans on the Supreme Court claim.
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The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.
October 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.
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The only people we'll admire from this time are the ones who said "Hell, no."
It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.
NEWS: Sinclair says its ending its pre-emption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
September 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The only people we'll admire from this time are the ones who said "Hell, no."
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This is Trump’s fault but it’s also Democrats’ fault: when the initial wave of resignations happened after the Adams quid pro quo, the next logical step in the ladder of escalation was for the opposition to rain fire and brimstone down on the corrupt admin.
Instead… nothing happened. Silence.
Instead… nothing happened. Silence.
They're going to use the Comey case to break the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, just like they used the Adams case to break the office in the Southern District of New York.
September 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is Trump’s fault but it’s also Democrats’ fault: when the initial wave of resignations happened after the Adams quid pro quo, the next logical step in the ladder of escalation was for the opposition to rain fire and brimstone down on the corrupt admin.
Instead… nothing happened. Silence.
Instead… nothing happened. Silence.
As with all of his depravities, but this *is* different in kind.
September 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
As with all of his depravities, but this *is* different in kind.
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September 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Straight up assault.
Holy fuck. One gets inured to insanely brutal ice videos. But this one stands out. He just throws this woman into the wall basically
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Straight up assault.
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My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
September 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
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I just find this appalling. Dem Senators acted responsibly, closely analyzed bombing of "drug boat" and legal issues around it, laid out basic questions for the admin, and asked Rs to join them.
None would. As we discuss on the pod, this gives Trump a green light to continue extrajudicial killings.
None would. As we discuss on the pod, this gives Trump a green light to continue extrajudicial killings.
Awful: Sen Tim Kaine reached out to numerous GOP Senators to ask them to join his letter laying out basic questions for Trump about drug boat bombing, Senate staffer tells me. Zero Rs agreed.
On the pod we discuss this & deeper legal issues w/ @sranderson.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2003...
On the pod we discuss this & deeper legal issues w/ @sranderson.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2003...
Trump Drug Boat Bombing Takes Darker Turn as Damning New Info Emerges
As Trump’s decision to kill 11 drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea suddenly starts looking even worse, a legal expert explains how brazenly Trump is stretching the law—and why it’s so unnerving.
newrepublic.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I just find this appalling. Dem Senators acted responsibly, closely analyzed bombing of "drug boat" and legal issues around it, laid out basic questions for the admin, and asked Rs to join them.
None would. As we discuss on the pod, this gives Trump a green light to continue extrajudicial killings.
None would. As we discuss on the pod, this gives Trump a green light to continue extrajudicial killings.
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I can explain it. It’s dynamic social expectations. They all perceive that “being praiseful of Kirk” as a kind of savvy, difficult position that will produce a reward, so they’re competing with each other to do it most extravagantly.
Same thing happened after the election with “Trump is king now.”
Same thing happened after the election with “Trump is king now.”
the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life
September 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I can explain it. It’s dynamic social expectations. They all perceive that “being praiseful of Kirk” as a kind of savvy, difficult position that will produce a reward, so they’re competing with each other to do it most extravagantly.
Same thing happened after the election with “Trump is king now.”
Same thing happened after the election with “Trump is king now.”
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Does he think no one in other countries has mental health issues?
Why do these mass shootings at schools only happen in the U.S.?
Why do these mass shootings at schools only happen in the U.S.?
Speaker Mike Johnson on the Minnesota shooting: "At the end of the day the problem is not guns. Ok, Jen Psaki? The problem is the human heart. It's mental health."
August 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Does he think no one in other countries has mental health issues?
Why do these mass shootings at schools only happen in the U.S.?
Why do these mass shootings at schools only happen in the U.S.?
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3/ I'm curious. Did the @nytimes.com find out whether there has been an increase in the number of criminal referrals for mortgage fraud beside these three people: James, Schiff and Cook?
August 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
3/ I'm curious. Did the @nytimes.com find out whether there has been an increase in the number of criminal referrals for mortgage fraud beside these three people: James, Schiff and Cook?
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This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
August 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
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When we interviewed provincial Communist Party officials in remote parts of China, they had same whipped-dog "whatever the Big Boss says, is right" tone as this... US State Dept spox!
The only people better prepared for today's US than China correspondents, are those w experience in North Korea.
The only people better prepared for today's US than China correspondents, are those w experience in North Korea.
July 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
When we interviewed provincial Communist Party officials in remote parts of China, they had same whipped-dog "whatever the Big Boss says, is right" tone as this... US State Dept spox!
The only people better prepared for today's US than China correspondents, are those w experience in North Korea.
The only people better prepared for today's US than China correspondents, are those w experience in North Korea.