Extra, Extra
No Place Like Home: “The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.” The New Yorker: Disappeared to a Foreign Prison.
+ Ven Diagram: NYT: “The nation’s top military officer on Monday will visit Puerto Rico and one of the several Navy warships dispatched to the Caribbean Sea to combat drug trafficking as the Trump administration weighs the possibility of a broader military campaign against Venezuela.”
+ Gov at First Sight: “It was a break-the-internet moment if there ever was one. Unpredictable, at times perplexing and rich, with the kinds of surreal moments social media feeds on.” Mamdani’s Meeting With Trump Scrambled the MAGA-Sphere. (It’s what happens when you tell a bully to, “Say it to my face.”) So in MAGA World, MTG is out and Mamdani is in. Shit’s so weird, you can’t even predict things after the fact.
+ Didn’t Account For This: “A rational response to all of this would be for people to log off.” Charlie Warzel on what a new location feature on X told us about a whole lot of supposedly patriotic, American accounts. Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors.
+ Six Figure: A headline for the time capsule: Pardoned Capitol rioter tried to bribe child sex victim with promise of Jan. 6 payout.
+ The Harder They Fall: “Mr. Cliff won two Grammy Awards over his decades-long career: best reggae recording in 1986 for ‘Cliff Hanger’ and best reggae album in 2013 for ‘Rebirth.’ But his breakthrough in the United States came when he starred as an actor in ‘The Harder They Come,’ a 1972 movie about a struggling Jamaican musician who turns to crime.” Jimmy Cliff, Singer Who Helped Bring Reggae to Global Audience, Dies at 81.
+ More Cheddar for Cheese: “The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium has revealed that United Talent Agency has signed the governing body for ‘the king of cheeses’ to get the supermarket staple placement in films, TV shows and streaming projects around the globe.” (Maybe they can re-use the old Have You Had Your Sprinkle Today slogan?)
