For 2 yrs, I've been looking into Border Patrol's rescue program. For Type Investigations and High Country News I wrote about what it means for missing and in-distress migrants when the same agency that chases you is responsible for saving you. hcn.org/issues/56-9/th…

For GQ Magazine, I had a long chat with Sagar Radia about Rishi's crash out on this week's #IndustryHBO: bit.ly/3yPFTze

Sat down for a chat with The Cut ❤️ #IndustryHBO thecut.com/article/sagar-…

How China extended its repression into an American city through pro-CCP diaspora group leaders and PRC officials. A deep look at the violence surrounding Xi's visit to San Francisco during APEC last November. wapo.st/4e8r4qd

Harris, Trump and Biden are in various stages of planning likely visits to the WTC site to commemorate 9/11 next week. ⁦Katie Rogers⁩ me nytimes.com/2024/09/04/us/…

My Grok AI-curated “stories for you” featured a topic called “Musk Endorses Holocaust Revisionism” with a photo of Musk in a Nazi uniform. So I clicked in to see what it was about and the first post was from Musk hyping up how good Grok AI is.

I will never forget when my eldest was 4. She came home from pre-k and told us how they learned to hide and stay quiet in case "an animal got into the school." So they wouldn't "scare the animal" before teachers could remove it. "We have to remember our hiding place" she said.

Updated article on the Justice Department's actions against Russian election influence operations: nytimes.com/2024/09/04/us/…

A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee. There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...

49ers fans talking to their therapists

Barnes & Noble has Ryan Mac 🙃 and my book for 25 percent off for their members! Please grab a copy if you don't already have one on the way Barnes & Noble barnesandnoble.com/w/character-li…

NEW: A federal court judge in Texas extended an order temporarily blocking a Biden administration policy allowing undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens to gain protection from deportation and a pathway to a green card. The order is now in place until Sep. 23.

Football tonight. We’ve made it.

"The repercussions of a weakened media reverberate throughout society, masking corruption, obscuring risks to public health and safety, restricting minority rights and distorting the electoral process." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

A follow up up to Saturday's scuffle at the Trump rally in PA: the man who climbed the press riser wasn't there to attack the press --- he was there to protest Trump and was trying to get his attention thebulwark.com/p/liz-cheney-c…

What Does a Couple Do When One Partner Is Deported? from Christina Morales nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/…

A thoughtful, reasoned, nuanced, researched-based argument for why *every* American, Republican or Democrat, should want an independent press, not one that abandons its ideals no matter how great the political pressure, by the NYT’s A.G. Sulzberger: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

"Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex" apnews.com/article/venezu…