Ryan Teague Beckwith
@ryanbeckwith.bsky.social
Newsletter editor at MS NOW. Part-time journalism teacher at
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
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“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
February 15, 2026 at 12:45 AM
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
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Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
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🚨 For-profit prison company:
“CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with ICE skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not detained as many immigrants as investors hoped.”
#Divest #$CXW
theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...
“CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with ICE skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not detained as many immigrants as investors hoped.”
#Divest #$CXW
theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...
Despite Increased Profits, Private Prison Companies Want to Cage Even More People
CoreCivic and GEO Group’s investors expressed frustration that ICE’s record immigration detention numbers aren’t high enough.
theappeal.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:32 PM
🚨 For-profit prison company:
“CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with ICE skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not detained as many immigrants as investors hoped.”
#Divest #$CXW
theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...
“CoreCivic’s revenue from contracts with ICE skyrocketed in 2025, but some participants on today’s quarterly earnings call expressed concerns that ICE had not detained as many immigrants as investors hoped.”
#Divest #$CXW
theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...
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Florida's opening argument in their appeal of the ruling that they cannot ban books from schools is that the government doesn't owe students public school library books at all.
February 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Florida's opening argument in their appeal of the ruling that they cannot ban books from schools is that the government doesn't owe students public school library books at all.
Exclamation points are the cocaine of grammar
RFK Jr was on a podcast saying he used to snort cocaine off toilet seats.
Meanwhile, I’m worried I don’t come across as professional enough if I use too many exclamation points in an email.
Meanwhile, I’m worried I don’t come across as professional enough if I use too many exclamation points in an email.
February 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Exclamation points are the cocaine of grammar
apropos of nothing in particular @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social is a great journalist and a wonderful colleague
February 12, 2026 at 6:59 PM
apropos of nothing in particular @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social is a great journalist and a wonderful colleague
can we all just agree that naming stuff "freedom dollars" and the like is embarrassing taskandpurpose.com/news/army-bi...
Soldiers will get 'freedom dollars' to spend at the Army's new dining halls
The Army said it's budgeting for soldiers to eat three meals a day plus snacks with its new campus-style dining plan.
taskandpurpose.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
can we all just agree that naming stuff "freedom dollars" and the like is embarrassing taskandpurpose.com/news/army-bi...
He said, sitting alone in a room
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM
He said, sitting alone in a room
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right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday
February 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday
More accurate: I went to buy a beer. The clerk asked if I had registered to buy beer before the deadline 45 days ago, then noted that I had not returned a postcard sent to my home since I had not bought beer the year before, so I would need to provide proof of my address, such as a utility bill but
Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."
February 12, 2026 at 3:54 PM
More accurate: I went to buy a beer. The clerk asked if I had registered to buy beer before the deadline 45 days ago, then noted that I had not returned a postcard sent to my home since I had not bought beer the year before, so I would need to provide proof of my address, such as a utility bill but
so wait, is the concern now that underage people are voting?
Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
so wait, is the concern now that underage people are voting?
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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
"Along with food, Parikh said he is concerned about soda and claimed he always mixes it with alcohol 'to sanitize it.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
Meet the ‘Cabal’-Hating ‘Special Government Employee’ Involved in the Fulton County FBI Raid
Clay Parikh unloaded in a nearly two hour conversation with TPM.
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:16 AM
"Along with food, Parikh said he is concerned about soda and claimed he always mixes it with alcohol 'to sanitize it.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
Super excited to be killed by one of these self-driving on Mad Max mode
With 1.2 Megawatts of charging power, the trucks can add enough energy to charge six Standard Range Model 3s in just 30 minutes.
We Finally Know How Fast The Tesla Semi Will Charge
The trucks can add roughly enough energy to charge six Standard Range Model 3s in 30 minutes. That's a crazy amount of power.
insideevs.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Super excited to be killed by one of these self-driving on Mad Max mode
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CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
suggested tabloid headline
BAD BONDI
BAD BONDI
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
suggested tabloid headline
BAD BONDI
BAD BONDI
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Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 11, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Have to confess, if you had asked me which institutions would prove to be formidable against the threat of fascism, I would not have guessed grand juries.
February 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Have to confess, if you had asked me which institutions would prove to be formidable against the threat of fascism, I would not have guessed grand juries.
Rotisserie chickens are famously cheaper than uncooked whole chickens
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Rotisserie chickens are famously cheaper than uncooked whole chickens
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Woke up to one of the weirdest TFRs I've ever seen. Shout if you know anything, AlexJamesFitz.58 on Signal. www.axios.com/2026/02/11/f...
Unusual FAA restriction closes El Paso airspace for 10 days
No public explanation has been given.
www.axios.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Woke up to one of the weirdest TFRs I've ever seen. Shout if you know anything, AlexJamesFitz.58 on Signal. www.axios.com/2026/02/11/f...
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Hey Bluesky! I'm a senior writer at WIRED and I'm shifting beats to cover the tech I'm most obsessed with right now—PREDICTION MARKETS.
Eager to hear tips on the industry at kate_knibbs@wired.com
Eager to hear tips on the industry at kate_knibbs@wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Hey Bluesky! I'm a senior writer at WIRED and I'm shifting beats to cover the tech I'm most obsessed with right now—PREDICTION MARKETS.
Eager to hear tips on the industry at kate_knibbs@wired.com
Eager to hear tips on the industry at kate_knibbs@wired.com
Toshi’s Teriyaki
While Buffalo wings are now a ubiquitous app all over the country, not every regional food goes national. What cuisine from YOUR region do you most want to share with the country/world?
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Toshi’s Teriyaki
Every social media addict’s dream: your post on a giant screen driving around the city
February 10, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Every social media addict’s dream: your post on a giant screen driving around the city