This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

JD Vance: "Nobody is talking about doing immigration enforcement without a warrant. We're talking about different types of warrants that exist in our system. Typically in the immigration system, those are handled by administrative law judges. So we're talking about getting warrants from them."

New Mayor, same monthly FOIL extension auto-response (going on three years) @mayor.nyc.gov

There are just so many of these stories now, and they all follow the same pattern. But that doesn't make any of them less gutting to read. www.propublica.org/article/nort...

A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.

In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.

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"Too much money fucked us, basically." FANTASTIC feature from @issielapowsky.bsky.social on how Tiger Global flooded the startup market with capital, and the wreckage it left behind. Great data viz from @hazelgandhi.bsky.social & stunning art from Nicolas Ortega restofworld.org/2025/tiger-g...

The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Tiger Global helped usher in that era of fast money. Will the AI boom be a repeat? Read @issielapowsky.bsky.social feature in @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/tiger-g...

Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning

The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?

restofworld.org

"And it puts more competitors at risk of disruption, partly due to venture-backed startups’ ability to dramatically undercut pricing. All this often comes before the startups can even prove that their business fundamentals actually work."

issielapowsky.bsky.social@issielapowsky.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The fast-money pandemic era created a glut of unicorns around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. For @restofworld.org, I wrote about the role that Tiger Global played in fueling this hype cycle and what it can teach us about the current AI boom. restofworld.org/2025/tiger-g...

The fast-money pandemic era created a glut of unicorns around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. For @restofworld.org, I wrote about the role that Tiger Global played in fueling this hype cycle and what it can teach us about the current AI boom. restofworld.org/2025/tiger-g...

Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning

The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?

restofworld.org

Uh whoa? "Meta won an arbitration ruling against Wynn-Williams that bars her from promoting her tell-all memoir or saying anything 'disparaging, critical or otherwise detrimental' about Meta, **including in private remarks to her husband or children**..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

She blew the whistle at Meta. Then her career fell apart.

After exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poor job prospects and isolation in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets.

washingtonpost.com

A totally fascinating deep dive by my pal @davey.bsky.social and her talented Bloomberg colleagues on the rising economy of MAGA-coded brands advertising on right-wing YouTube channels www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

YouTube’s Right-Wing Stars Fuel Boom in Politically Charged Ads

YouTube’s MAGA stars aren’t just talking politics—they’re selling it

bloomberg.com

Our brand new survey of immigrants in partnership with @nytimes.com explores immigrants views and experiences under the second Trump administration. It finds increased fear, health and economic challenges amid immigration enforcement, but a remarkable resilience as well www.kff.org/kff-nytimes-...

KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants | KFF

KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants The 2025 Survey of Immigrants, a partnership between KFF and The New York Times, takes an in-depth look at the experiences of immigrants during the first y...

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Oh dear just discovered that the White House's LinkedIn pic is now a photo of Trump, so for anyone who's ever listed the White House as their place of work, it shows up like this.

(somehow missed this when 1st out!) Behind the scenes look at the problem I've named "Pollingism" in practice - data & testing are very useful, but you must know you can't wield a thermometer to change a tire. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

weekendreading.net

issielapowsky.bsky.social@issielapowsky.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: One complaint I heard the most in 2024 was that Democrats were ceding too much control to "the quants," letting ad testing and cost-per-vote analyses guide strategy. Here's my deep dive into what that meant in practice — and how one Super PAC is pushing back. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Philly never fails to Philly www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...

According to Priorities USA post-election polling, "Between 2020 and 2024, people who consumed at least three hours of YouTube a day had moved 10 points toward Trump — a bigger swing than Black voters, Black men, young voters and a slew of other categories that were dominating headlines."

The Super PAC Trying to Free Democrats From the Cult of the Quants

Danielle Butterfield thinks her party’s data obsession paralyzed it in 2024. Now she’s betting that a little chaos — and a lot of risk — might be what saves it.

politico.com

NEW: One complaint I heard the most in 2024 was that Democrats were ceding too much control to "the quants," letting ad testing and cost-per-vote analyses guide strategy. Here's my deep dive into what that meant in practice — and how one Super PAC is pushing back. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The Super PAC Trying to Free Democrats From the Cult of the Quants

Danielle Butterfield thinks her party’s data obsession paralyzed it in 2024. Now she’s betting that a little chaos — and a lot of risk — might be what saves it.

politico.com

"Even as Democrats rally around ActBlue in the face of attacks from the right, they are sharply divided over whether the organization is equipped to handle these blows." @issielapowsky.bsky.social reports on Democratic fundraising giant, which is under siege. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...

Inside the storm surrounding ActBlue

Under attack by Republicans and shaken by internal rifts, the Democrats’ fundraising engine faces its toughest test yet.

fastcompany.com

NEW: Trump gave the DOJ 180 days to report on supposed fraud at ActBlue. The deadline passed. No report. I spoke with sources about the tumultuous last year inside ActBlue—turnover under its CEO, GOP attacks, and the group's growing ambitions despite it all. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...

Inside the storm surrounding ActBlue

Under attack by Republicans and shaken by internal rifts, the Democrats’ fundraising engine faces its toughest test yet.

fastcompany.com

I spoke with @issielapowsky.bsky.social at the @nytimes.com about an important experiment in post-disaster housing happening Maui. Ka La‘i Ola will provide transitional housing for hundreds of wildfire survivors, then convert to permanent housing and infrastructure. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/h...

Hawaii’s Tiny Homes Offer a New Model of Disaster Recovery

nytimes.com

Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You

As of today, there are even more ways to enjoy WIRED’s journalism, including premium newsletters and livestream Q&As. Join us.

wired.com

I have a story out today in the NYTimes that's been bouncing around my brain for years. Backstory: I was a new mom when COVID started. I was working from home, switching off and on w/my husband, who was also home, every few hours. It was hard, yes, but I also really loved the time with my kid...1/x

Every single part of this entire interview is nonsensical. As in the words, strung together as sentences, in the form of questions and answers make no sense. Two men who think they sound smarter if they never admit they don’t know wtf the other one just said or meant. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...

Elon keeps stiffing people. She keeps suing him. Really fun interview with Shannon Liss-Riordan, the renowned labor lawyer, on how she's carving out a subspecialty in "billionaire justice." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...

Elon Musk Keeps Stiffing People. She Keeps Suing Him

Shannon Liss-Riordan is one of the country’s most renowned labor lawyers. Lately, she’s also developed a specialty in “billionaire justice.”

vanityfair.com

NEW: In 2018, California became the first state to let DAs revisit old prison sentences that seemed unjust. Another 5 states have since passed similar policies. But of the 1,000+ people resentenced, almost none are women. I wrote about an effort to change that. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/h...

Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In.

nytimes.com

“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream @issielapowsky.bsky.social talks to @greenwell.bsky.social about her new book, "Bad Company" www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream

In her new book, ‘Bad Company,’ journalist Megan Greenwell shows how the secretive industry has insinuated itself into average Americans’ lives.

vanityfair.com

Wisdom of the crowd: My kid got a basketball net for his birthday. He plays no earlier than 10am and no later than 7pm. We found an anonymous note on our fence asking us to "respect the neighborhood" because the ball bouncing is too loud, including "during dinnertime." What is the right response?

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

notus.org

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

wired.com

It says something about the tenor of the reader emails I've been getting lately that I immediately assumed this subject line was a troll.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Had a fascinating chat with @patrickmcgee.bsky.social about his book, Apple in China. It flips what we know about Apple and China on its head. It's not just that China built Apple. He argues that through massive investments in the country, Apple built China, too. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

The Dark History of How China Captured Apple

In his new book, Apple in China, Patrick McGee examines how Tim Cook unwittingly led Apple right into the heart of Trump’s trade war.

vanityfair.com