New Bari Weiss & CBS leadership note to staff—
“…Americans say they do not trust the press…To win back their trust, we have to work hard.”
“Sometimes it means telling unexpected stories…sometimes it means holding a piece about an important subject to make sure it is comprehensive and fair.”
Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when
Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
I think it's fucking crazy that trump was in office for *four years* and now he owns a third of the ninth circuit. the NINTH circuit!!!!
Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately.
DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...
Paging @laurenleharper.bsky.social on a US Attorney using an 8-hour auto-delete on Signal as she conducts PR for her office.
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
A truly extraordinary dissent from a judge who basically never writes like this. bsky.app/profile/stev...
Speaker Lucille Bluth.
Chicago-area modified temporary estraining Order (Northern District of Illinois) -- Oct. 17, 2025 As each DHS subsidiary agency provided their own cover sheet to personnel, it may be useful to print each of the following: Federal Protective Service Cover Sheet Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cover Sheet Customs and Border Patrol Cover Sheet Department of Justice Cover Sheet
📣 Reporters covering #NoKings protests in Chicago over the weekend may want to print this latest temporary restraining order that prohibits federal agents from using excessive force against journalists and peaceful protesters.
🖨️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
We at @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @aclupa.org filed this motion to protect people exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out anonymously. These summonses are intolerable abuses of power by DHS.
The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
EXCLUSIVE: Two Survivors of Caribbean Boat Strike Are Held by U.S. Navy
They are being held on a warship and are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups.
theintercept.com/2025/10/17/c...
A couple years ago, I pitched this hybrid role to a few different outlets. Some thought it sounded interesting, most gave me only blank stares or asked if I'd ever seen it done before. Only The Intercept took it seriously — and I'm so grateful we showed this is a viable model.
Some utterly non-historic news amid the constitutional dumpster fires: Today is my last day at The Intercept — and my last day doing my own reporting, at least for awhile. I can't thank my @theintercept.com colleagues enough for the chance to road test this hybrid lawyer/reporter newsroom role.
This my official (late) announcement that I'm thrilled to share the podcast series I've been working on with a dream team over the last few years. Collateral Damage is a gutting examination of the half century long war on drugs that has built a massive war machine aimed at the public.
Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson.
This is what we documented.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Lately, DHS agents have been using a different variant of administrative subpoena to target anonymous accounts that share info about ICE raids and agents. Those subpoenas are also being challenged in court theintercept.com/2025/09/24/c...
In 2022, Senator Wyden found that ICE/HSI used customs summonses to suck up data about millions of global wire transfers (which was then fed into the TRAC database). The agent who did it later got a White House award theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
A few years back, @sarahjeong.bsky.social and I wrote a bit about the history and dubious uses of the customs summons (aka "1509 summons," for its legal citation: 19 USC 1509) www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/15...
I've been watching for signs ICE/HSI was still abusing customs summonses, one of their go-to tools — despite a 2018 DHS inspector general report that determined this species of administrative subpoena is basically only good for merchandise inspections theintercept.com/2018/05/07/c...
Last night ACLU NorCal and ACLU PA filed a motion to quash another Homeland Security Investigations administrative subpoena aimed at unmasking online accounts: this time it's a "customs summons" for the "MontCo Community Watch” Facebook and Instagram accounts www.courtlistener.com/docket/71672...
WYD @mayor.lacity.gov ? 🤔
Kavanaugh stops, quantified.
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
This is an excellent brief in the Stanford Daily's lawsuit against Marco Rubio. The Trump administration insists there's no chilling effect whatsoever from targeted detentions. This brief shares the stories of student reporters and editors who fear being the next Rumeysa Ozturk or Mahmoud Khalil.
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.
Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.
theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...
The perfect coda to this story: after publication, the State Department's press office responded to my questions about the legal basis for revoking visas based on speech. Their response, in full (we were NOT off-record).
