Charlie Savage

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows An annex to the Durham special counsel report was the latest in a series of disclosures about the Russia inquiry, as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Epstein files gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

In response to @freedom.press FOIA request, ODNI declassified & released an intel memo contradicting a key claim Trump made to invoke the Alien Enemies Act Confirms reporting the Trump admin characterized as false & used to justify weakening limits on leak inquiries www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Jupiter and Venus

I also am a lifetime m dash writer and am befuddled by what to do about their sudden “AI slop” connotations stigma. If everyone changes, too, would not AI writing gradually change with us and we would just be setting off on a new version of the euphemism treadmill?

Third option: A commuter tax in disguise.

PSA Fake evite email phishing is out of control right now. Don’t click without checking with the purported sender.

Joe Maddon: These are the 3 best leaders I managed in MLB www.nytimes.com/athletic/725... 2016 Cubs x2

Years ago I started a @tumblr.com project of books from the Guantanamo detainee library, which @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social and @jasonleopold.bsky.social, among others, helped fill out. I thought Tumblr had deleted it, but it still exists with a changed URL gitmobooks-blog.tumblr.com

Congress Passes Another Short-Term Extension of Expiring Surveillance Law Senator Ron Wyden secured an agreement to seek the declassification of a recent intelligence court ruling about the FISA Section 702 program. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

House GOP leadership's new stab at FISA 702. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee... On 1st scan: 3 year extension. Adds ODNI review of FBI queries for US person info; criminalizes bad ones; & makes it so only FBI lawyers (not supervisors) can approve them. Seems like a tough sell to Freedom Caucus types.

U.S. Settles Carter Page Wiretap Lawsuit for $1.25 Million www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

U.S. Abruptly Rescinds Subpoenas It Had Just Issued in John Brennan Inquiry www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...