This video arose from a very brief written op-ed piece that was published today, in even more succinct edited form, in Semafor (link below). But I'm including the full, unedited version of my original thoughts here in the attached image. www.semafor.com/arti...

the portland chicken explains

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

this should be a much bigger story

Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”

if you’re wondering why it’s time to start wondering about electricity prices, may I recommend:

- my piece for @heatmap.news heatmap.news/politics/ele...

- @jessedjenkins.com‘s and my recent shift key episode heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.

It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza.

No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel.

That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.

Trump just imposed, by executive order, the single largest tax increase on consumers in American history.

Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

Here’s some dished-up truth for your Sunday brunch. Bottom line: the White House is lying about USAID. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump just ordered 2 dams opened up in California in an unprecedented move that risks depleting the reservoirs ahead of the dry summer months.

And the kicker? The water from the dams doesn't even flow to Los Angeles.

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”

— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

After Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, Israel severely rolled back protections for civilians in Gaza, putting more lives at risk in its bombing campaign with an order that had no precedent in Israeli military history. Here are key takeaways from our investigation.