Laura Conaway

In other news, i walked 10 miles yesterday from my home in Brooklyn to Jackson Heights to have Nepali food and I saw so many beautiful things and people along the way. I love New York.

Lovely writing, funny and wise, from @trjackson.bsky.social: "Homecoming isn’t a time to prove we can still party like a college student. It’s a time to celebrate returning to the places that shaped us without needing to be the people we were back then."

HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ohio Haitian immigrants and their supporters embarked on a four-day pilgrimage to Columbus last week with a list of demands related to what they've been through since the start of President Donald Trump's second term. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/26/o...

Starred review at Kirkus for Department of Fate (!) www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

“It’s 11 days from Election Day, and this is just not in line with regular precedents,” she said.

NEW: GOP operative Scott Presler built his reputation registering Republicans and accusing Dems of voter fraud. But a review by The Bulwark found GOP operatives from other states voting from his home—and evidence raising questions about their residency. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-operat...

www.mississippifreepress.org/senatobia-po...

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

The reviews are in on White House vs Elections, Alaska Edition: >>the federal argument “is laughably bad, almost to the point of sanctionably frivolous. Watching MAGA on the ropes like this in court up here is a sad and scary sight.”

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

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The gopher tortoise in our time: "At least 300 other species, including Mississippi’s endangered dusky gopher frog and threatened black pinesnake, depend on deep burrows gopher tortoises dig for shade and shelter in what’s left of their sandy pine forests." www.clarionledger.com/story/opinio...

Good stuff from my co-host on the Déjà News podcast, the great Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social ... www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!

Alarming drop in immigrant kids in Texas schools, like something out of the Great Depression. "You have parents being detained, and older students having to drop out of school to start working.” www.texastribune.org/2026/09/30/i...

"By the time she was released from a Louisiana immigrant detention center, a Nashville mother of two could no longer breastfeed her young daughters. Her milk had dried up." tennesseelookout.com/2026/10/01/n...

Here is @iamstevenhale.bsky.social, who I directed you all to be following earlier and was a witness tonight, reporting on what Tennessee did tonight. Just absolutely horrifying.

No Going Back, the Trump PAC, just reported to the FEC another huge ad buy in this R+15 district in Kentucky. They’ve now spent over $1M on ads to hold onto a seat that Republicans won by 27 points (!) just two years ago. #ky06

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Great lede, from the @missouriindependent.com, about the secretary of state overseeing the Missouri election. missouriindependent.com/2026/09/28/d...

Ma'Kesha Adams is the granddaughter of one of the plaintiffs who sued to integrate the Rankin County School District nearly 50 years ago. She remembers her grandfather, John Quincy Adams, encouraging her family to remain vigilant and ensure the court's order stayed in place. buff.ly/uNJEfwo

It’s up! Our new film “Kill.Bury.Print” is streaming now on Peacock #KillBuryPrint trailer here: youtu.be/ZLfo4At-stg?... and here’s a clip:

>>Three organizations representing thousands of ranchers in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas issued a joint statement Friday warning operations by ICE are disrupting the agricultural community and will make beef prices spike again. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/25/i...

Shared with me by @jjindc.bsky.social, in the Denver Post. Dana Miller, you rock. Flight attendants know what’s up.

The story about Sen. Susan Collins deserves reading, all the way to the very, very, very end. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

very excited and grateful for this! “Kill. Bury. Print.” premieres this Sunday Sept 27 on Peacock! trailer here: youtu.be/ZLfo4At-stg variety.com/2026/tv/news...

The lawsuit argues Denny Hoskins deliberately delayed ruling on the referendum challenging Missouri’s 2025 congressional map until it was too late to prevent the disputed districts from being used in the Aug. 4 primary. #moleg #mogov

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg

GOP’s Ty Masterson bows out of two TV debates, Democrat Cindy Holscher accuses rival of ‘hiding’ | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg

Nearly 3,000 acres of Ohio’s only national forest were leased this week for more than $11 million by the Bureau of Land Management to out-of-state companies for fracking. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/18/2...

Got 2 minutes and 44 seconds to spare? Our new doc comes out on Peacock, Sunday Sept 27 -- bit of a true crime thriller, which is not my usual genre, I know! But watch the trailer and you'll see why I am crazy for this story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLfo...

Kansas AG Kris Kobach not seeking Trump’s endorsement: ‘I don’t think it’s necessary’ | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg

Advice someone gave me that proved to be true: It's OK if you don't know what you want to do with your life in your 20s and early 30s. You just need to fall in love with something by the time you're 37. (For me, this hit at exactly 37. I presume mileage may vary and still get you there.)

If you do anything today, read this critical story that my colleague @bethhawkins.bsky.social has worked on for months about how applied behavior analysis turns huge profits for providers at kids' expense: www.the74million.org/article/priv...

From the Kansas Reflector: >>Moments later, a protester interrupted his remarks about Marshall. >>“He sued his patients,” the man yelled, before being pushed out by security. kansasreflector.com/2026/09/14/v...

"We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work" say leading mathematicians mathandai.org

Terence Tao says AI companies are harming mathematics by dropping new results without engaging with academia. “These companies are dumping carcasses of raw meat onto our table and saying ‘here you go, I solved your food problem’ and then they just leave." www.newscientist.com/article/2588...

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

From the Missouri Independent: The Secretary of State in Missouri was found to have been in contempt today for telling local officials to use an illegal congressional map, until he reversed his directive. ❗Note: He is in charge of the election in November.❗ missouriindependent.com/2026/09/10/m...

Afghan man taken by ICE in Missouri. His wife asks the paper not to name him because of threats for helping the U.S. in Afghanistan. "Estrada went Wednesday to U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s office in Kansas City to seek assistance but said the office wasn’t helpful." www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Kilgore Flares Company, a defense contractor, is laying off 127 workers in tiny Toone, Tennessee, a unincorporated town of less than 300 people in Hardeman County. @cstephenson.bsky.social reports.