NEW: The Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed REI (yes, the outdoor retailer) for details on anyone who bought a specific green beanie in the Minneapolis area. It's one part of a larger, and very disturbing, effort to go after people protesting ICE:

ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

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Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

A staggering 55 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. But the agency's official death toll record-keeping doesn't account for people like Prisciliano, whose health deteriorated in detention but died shortly after the agency released him from custody to be hospitalized.

The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.

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Incredibly, Your House Will Be Pay made this list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st Century. It is probably the 50th bestselling book on there, and I’m grateful to everyone who included it in their ballots.

The 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century

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Big props to @stephcha.bsky.social for the well-deserved spot on this @nytimes.com list - she’s that rare combo of amazing artist & all-around great person. Read “Your House Will Pay” - you won’t regret it!

The 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century

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www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era

This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?

newyorker.com

Here's the full list of @NYT's top 50 thrillers.Congrats to buds @blacktopkid.bsky.social @jeanhanff.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @stephcha.bsky.social for making the list (and looking askance at some really deplorable picks) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century (Gift Article)

Hundreds of novelists, librarians, editors and other book lovers voted. See how their ballots stack up.

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luckily he chose a remote, seldom visited corner of the country to make shit up about

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump claims California has "brownouts and blackouts every weekend"

Dreamt that my son produced a novel and I posted it online, like “not bad for a three-year-old,” then got slammed because I’d failed to notice it was 100% AI slop.

This is an utter humiliation. Infuriating but also kind of satisfying, and I hope it’s watched by everyone in this man’s life, his kids, his friends, his doctors. I know these people have no shame, but imagine getting burned like this on television and having to go outside again. Hats off to Ossoff.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

This is an excellent read.

L.A. Material@lamaterial.com · 2mo ago

Where do L.A.'s illegal fireworks come from? L.A. Material's Jessica Garrison investigates how a ranch explosion revealed an alleged illegal fireworks hub — and a possible pipeline behind some of the city's nightly explosions. Read the full investigation: lamaterial.com/p/illegal-fi...

Obsessed with this line delivery

Sara Gran's Claire DeWitt series combines pure detection with a kind of visionary metaphysical fantasy.

Christina Orlando@cxorlando.bsky.social · 2mo ago

hey friends!! Tell me about your favorite GENRE-BENDING books! I'm looking for sci-fi mysteries, fantasy horrors, science-fantasy, literary specfic, and all that stuff that doesn't fit neatly into one category.

Please enjoy this thoughtful Colin Dickey takedown of the latest spasm of public-facing activity by the Sackler family.

Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · 2mo ago

I was interested in this film O Horizon, a movie about using AI to manage the grief of losing a loved one...but what I found when I started looking deeper into the film was a lot weirder than what I'd expected. My review for @newrepublic.com, on death, AI, addiction, and what we owe the dead.

All the Koreans in this bar chanting ¡MÉ-XI-CO!

Did the New York Times just BOTH SIDES Ken Paxton's sweetheart deal for a child sex predator. Yes, yes it did.

I am having Spencer Pratt send himself a Cameo congratulating him on his relocation out of Los Angeles.

Wow.. nerves of steel

NEW: One day after we revealed Meta was quietly building face recognition into its smart glasses, the latest version deletes it. Meta execs, who called our reporting "dishonest" and "misleading," continue to dodge our questions.

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

wired.com

I love how you do one thing wrong and suddenly you "made a mistake"

[whispering to crying baby] You have no idea

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The bigger problem, Lulu, frankly, is not any kind of political influence. The problem was the incompetence.." Scott Pelley talked to @lulugn.bsky.social about "the Bari Weiss era and his last days at 60 Minutes:" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE, by Jordan Harper: If you like horror/suspense/mystery, with a hanging that parallels the Jeffery Epstein "suicide," pick this barn-burner up now. The only book that equals it for sheer terror is THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

If by “using AI” you mean “dodging AI like it’s trying to drip squeegee water on my clean windshield” or perhaps “worrying about AI on a daily basis entirely against my will.”

Jonathan Bernstein@jonbern.bsky.social · 3mo ago

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

this is a masterpiece

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4mo ago

Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits ft.trib.al/ePJ9DiF

I switched to DuckDuckGo when I almost got scammed for hundreds in fees by a third party travel site posing as a direct hotel booking page by paying Google for higher placement than the hotel I searched for by name. Very happy with it. AI functions available, but not insistent and easy to disable.

Daniel José Older@djolder.bsky.social · 4mo ago

duckduckgo.com

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

Paul Gowder@gowder.io · 4mo ago

My 1999 self would weep at how totally broken the internet has become. AI slop, social media walled gardens that rot the brain, surveillance pricing and advertising, every single goddamn website has an endless cloudflare captcha loop before you get to read anything. Burn it all down.

I’ve been reading “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” which details how Google, in order to make money, evaded public scrutiny and democratic controls to use our data as raw material to reshape the world, all while assuring us the outcomes were both positive and inevitable. Bless these kids. 🥰🥰🥰

404 Media@404media.co · 4mo ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

TPUSA was promoting an anti-trans event on Juniper's campus when she was stabbed to death Sunday. I'm pretty well-informed + I only heard about this today on the "It Could Happen Here" podcast. Violence against trans and nonbinary people has skyrocketed in recent years. Media coverage is dismal.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4mo ago

Absolutely devastating read. www.them.us/story/slain-...