Philip Gourevitch
@pgourevitch.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
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We have been rightly afraid of the threat of bad actors using AI to create disinformation.
It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:37 PM
We have been rightly afraid of the threat of bad actors using AI to create disinformation.
It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
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Not that anyone is likely to forget, but this is why we are fighting them in MN.
The ICE deaths we're not talking about
Trump's biggest concentration camp in Texas is rocked by 3 deaths in 33 days - one deemed 'homicide' after a violent encounter with guards. The ICE detention death rate is 10X (!!) Biden's final year
My new column on a crisis www.inquirer.com/opinion/deat...
Trump's biggest concentration camp in Texas is rocked by 3 deaths in 33 days - one deemed 'homicide' after a violent encounter with guards. The ICE detention death rate is 10X (!!) Biden's final year
My new column on a crisis www.inquirer.com/opinion/deat...
People are dying in Trump’s squalid concentration camps | Will Bunch
People are dying in ICE detention facilities at nearly 10 times the rate of the Biden years. It will likely get worse.
www.inquirer.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Not that anyone is likely to forget, but this is why we are fighting them in MN.
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This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
January 22, 2026 at 8:05 PM
This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
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"American Jews cherish our own families’ immigration stories.
"We recall that we or our ancestors came to this country to escape oppression and find opportunity.
"We grieve an American promise that seems to be no more."
-- Joint statement by 7 rabbinical groups, asking Trump & Noem to back off
"We recall that we or our ancestors came to this country to escape oppression and find opportunity.
"We grieve an American promise that seems to be no more."
-- Joint statement by 7 rabbinical groups, asking Trump & Noem to back off
January 22, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"American Jews cherish our own families’ immigration stories.
"We recall that we or our ancestors came to this country to escape oppression and find opportunity.
"We grieve an American promise that seems to be no more."
-- Joint statement by 7 rabbinical groups, asking Trump & Noem to back off
"We recall that we or our ancestors came to this country to escape oppression and find opportunity.
"We grieve an American promise that seems to be no more."
-- Joint statement by 7 rabbinical groups, asking Trump & Noem to back off
“We got good reviews of that speech,” Trump told a Davos room full of fawning and applauding collaborationist American CEOs whom he’d kept waiting on their feet for over an hour. “Usually they say he’s a horrible dictator type person. But sometimes you need a dictator.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Wine, Water and No Chairs: Inside Trump’s Private Reception With CEOs in Davos
Apple’s Tim Cook, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and dozens more CEOs stood and waited for over an hour for a meet and greet with the president.
www.wsj.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:32 PM
“We got good reviews of that speech,” Trump told a Davos room full of fawning and applauding collaborationist American CEOs whom he’d kept waiting on their feet for over an hour. “Usually they say he’s a horrible dictator type person. But sometimes you need a dictator.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Well, this is really something. A majority of *working class whites* disapprove of ICE, per new NYT poll.
Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below).
(cc @gelliottmorris.com )
Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below).
(cc @gelliottmorris.com )
Quinnipiac gave me unpublished data from new poll and it finds huge, huge, huge percentages of young and working class voters have seen video of Minneapolis shooting.
Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Well, this is really something. A majority of *working class whites* disapprove of ICE, per new NYT poll.
Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below).
(cc @gelliottmorris.com )
Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below).
(cc @gelliottmorris.com )
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Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
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It has always been government by the Terminally Online who think the federal government is fake. It'll be a miracle if we survive without a major law enforcement breakdown in this country.
Here's a gift link to this article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here's a gift link to this article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 22, 2026 at 4:37 PM
It has always been government by the Terminally Online who think the federal government is fake. It'll be a miracle if we survive without a major law enforcement breakdown in this country.
Here's a gift link to this article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here's a gift link to this article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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they're trying to get him to midterms like an old Civic dropping parts and smoking two miles from the nearest exit
January 22, 2026 at 4:01 PM
they're trying to get him to midterms like an old Civic dropping parts and smoking two miles from the nearest exit
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“My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in this country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. But, the rule of law is not self-executing — it depends on our collective commitment to apply it.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jack Smith testimony will warn Americans not to take the rule of law 'for granted'
The former special counsel will say his investigation developed proof that Trump engaged in a "criminal scheme" to overturn his 2020 election loss, according to prepared remarks obtained by NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:42 PM
“My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in this country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. But, the rule of law is not self-executing — it depends on our collective commitment to apply it.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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News Analysis: President Trump used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.
China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy
The president used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.
nyti.ms
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 PM
News Analysis: President Trump used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.
This guy - everything he says amounts to: shut up, lie back and take it
Bessent: "Everyone take a deep breath. Do not escalate. Do not escalate. President Trump has a strategy here. Hear him out and then everything will be fine."
January 22, 2026 at 12:46 PM
This guy - everything he says amounts to: shut up, lie back and take it
The only possible good thing that might come from Trump’s grotesque Greenland fiasco is if it alienates European voters from the far right leaders who fawningly sucked up to the man who kicks Europe in the teeth just to humiliate it.
January 22, 2026 at 12:33 PM
The only possible good thing that might come from Trump’s grotesque Greenland fiasco is if it alienates European voters from the far right leaders who fawningly sucked up to the man who kicks Europe in the teeth just to humiliate it.
the Access of Evil
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
January 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
the Access of Evil
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
ewww
January 22, 2026 at 11:45 AM
ewww
Trump’s first choice for attorney general:
January 22, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Trump’s first choice for attorney general:
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The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.
January 22, 2026 at 3:45 AM
The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.
Yes to the age limit - and absolutely not to Rahm Emanuel for President
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Rahm Emanuel Calls for Age Limit of 75 for President, Congress and Judges
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Yes to the age limit - and absolutely not to Rahm Emanuel for President
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
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A stain on the conscience never goes away. That’s how it’s a stain.
To quote one source:
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:58 AM
A stain on the conscience never goes away. That’s how it’s a stain.
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My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day).
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
January 21, 2026 at 11:51 PM
My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day).
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
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BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...
Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee detained at Los Angeles International Airport
San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport, his agent Scott Boras told the Chronicle.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...