David Patterson
@monogramdp.bsky.social
Literary Agent. Recommendation Engine. Paid for with words/and tended with love. 🇵🇷
Please read this thread and call Governor Hochul this morning to demand the release for and sustained asylum of Guan Heng.
Ph: (212) 681-4580
His hearing is TODAY, Monday, December 15th.
Ph: (212) 681-4580
His hearing is TODAY, Monday, December 15th.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Please read this thread and call Governor Hochul this morning to demand the release for and sustained asylum of Guan Heng.
Ph: (212) 681-4580
His hearing is TODAY, Monday, December 15th.
Ph: (212) 681-4580
His hearing is TODAY, Monday, December 15th.
I feel like we are all going to miss Rob Reiner.
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I feel like we are all going to miss Rob Reiner.
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Words, I don’t have any more tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Words, I don’t have any more tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Dick Van Dyke’s 100 birthday, to all who celebrate.
Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
ALT: a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Happy Dick Van Dyke’s 100 birthday, to all who celebrate.
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@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is hosting more than 120 community-led events across NYC this weekend to ensure their neighbors have whistles and know their rights, all to protect from escalating ICE abductions.
This. Is. The. Way.
If you're in New York, you can find events near you at HandsOffNYC.com.
This. Is. The. Way.
If you're in New York, you can find events near you at HandsOffNYC.com.
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is hosting more than 120 community-led events across NYC this weekend to ensure their neighbors have whistles and know their rights, all to protect from escalating ICE abductions.
This. Is. The. Way.
If you're in New York, you can find events near you at HandsOffNYC.com.
This. Is. The. Way.
If you're in New York, you can find events near you at HandsOffNYC.com.
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If you want to learn more about the Donbas – before and after Russia's invasion, about its people, culture, towns, mines and even sparkling wine – check out my book, The War Came To Us. It moves from Bakhmut, where I lived in 2010, through the end of the first year of the full-scale war 2022.
December 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you want to learn more about the Donbas – before and after Russia's invasion, about its people, culture, towns, mines and even sparkling wine – check out my book, The War Came To Us. It moves from Bakhmut, where I lived in 2010, through the end of the first year of the full-scale war 2022.
Been thinking of Ken’s book, Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal, a lot lately.
In a dramatic turnabout, the Justice Dept asked to dismiss its case against two defendants convicted in the FIFA corruption case (Hernan Lopez & Full Play Group)
DOJ gave no explanation other than it was in the "interests of justice."
My story with Santul Nerkar
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
DOJ gave no explanation other than it was in the "interests of justice."
My story with Santul Nerkar
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Been thinking of Ken’s book, Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal, a lot lately.
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Help keep us safe
This weekend (12/12 - 12/14), we’re launching a citywide community effort to canvass as many businesses and hand out as many whistles as possible, all to protect our neighborhoods from ICE.
Come join us by finding or hosting an event near you. Sign up at HandsOffNYC.com
This weekend (12/12 - 12/14), we’re launching a citywide community effort to canvass as many businesses and hand out as many whistles as possible, all to protect our neighborhoods from ICE.
Come join us by finding or hosting an event near you. Sign up at HandsOffNYC.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Help keep us safe
This weekend (12/12 - 12/14), we’re launching a citywide community effort to canvass as many businesses and hand out as many whistles as possible, all to protect our neighborhoods from ICE.
Come join us by finding or hosting an event near you. Sign up at HandsOffNYC.com
This weekend (12/12 - 12/14), we’re launching a citywide community effort to canvass as many businesses and hand out as many whistles as possible, all to protect our neighborhoods from ICE.
Come join us by finding or hosting an event near you. Sign up at HandsOffNYC.com
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📢 Urgent Action: CALL NOW BEFORE ICE MOVES TO DEPORT YUANXIN AND FEI
2 weeks ago, ICE abducted 6-year-old Yuanxin & his father Fei, separating them & refusing to disclose the 1st grader's location.
YOU CAN HELP. Call ICE. Tell your reps to call ICE.
Now more than ever, pressure is essential.
2 weeks ago, ICE abducted 6-year-old Yuanxin & his father Fei, separating them & refusing to disclose the 1st grader's location.
YOU CAN HELP. Call ICE. Tell your reps to call ICE.
Now more than ever, pressure is essential.
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
📢 Urgent Action: CALL NOW BEFORE ICE MOVES TO DEPORT YUANXIN AND FEI
2 weeks ago, ICE abducted 6-year-old Yuanxin & his father Fei, separating them & refusing to disclose the 1st grader's location.
YOU CAN HELP. Call ICE. Tell your reps to call ICE.
Now more than ever, pressure is essential.
2 weeks ago, ICE abducted 6-year-old Yuanxin & his father Fei, separating them & refusing to disclose the 1st grader's location.
YOU CAN HELP. Call ICE. Tell your reps to call ICE.
Now more than ever, pressure is essential.
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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I sent out my second 'Advice For Men' newsletter on Monday. I'll link to it here -- it's about intimacy, and addiction, and the 1999 bro song “Higher” by Creed, "a greasy pop-rock band that sounds the way a long road trip smells." johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...
Advice For Men: Never cry in a strip club
"You don't belong here."
johndevore.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I sent out my second 'Advice For Men' newsletter on Monday. I'll link to it here -- it's about intimacy, and addiction, and the 1999 bro song “Higher” by Creed, "a greasy pop-rock band that sounds the way a long road trip smells." johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...
Am charmed by the commentators characterizing a potential win for Inter Miami in the MLS Cup as a final cap for Messi’s glorious career.
This is not the wholesale fraudulence of Trump’s FIFA Prize for Peace.
It is a tiny wheatgrass shot of chutzpah.
This is not the wholesale fraudulence of Trump’s FIFA Prize for Peace.
It is a tiny wheatgrass shot of chutzpah.
December 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Am charmed by the commentators characterizing a potential win for Inter Miami in the MLS Cup as a final cap for Messi’s glorious career.
This is not the wholesale fraudulence of Trump’s FIFA Prize for Peace.
It is a tiny wheatgrass shot of chutzpah.
This is not the wholesale fraudulence of Trump’s FIFA Prize for Peace.
It is a tiny wheatgrass shot of chutzpah.
I hope you all got your “FIFA-Peace-Prize-Football-Unites-the World-Peace-Price.”
But you can’t have this one.
This one is mine.
But you can’t have this one.
This one is mine.
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I hope you all got your “FIFA-Peace-Prize-Football-Unites-the World-Peace-Price.”
But you can’t have this one.
This one is mine.
But you can’t have this one.
This one is mine.
Stay in line, Tennessee’s 7th.
Vote Aftyn Behn, and make your vote count.
You can do this, Music City USA.
Vote Aftyn Behn, and make your vote count.
You can do this, Music City USA.
THE STATS ARE IN
To all the volunteers - THANK YOU!!!!
Polls are open TODAY until 7 PM. You can knock on doors, phone bank, and still get involved if able.
{LINK IN BIO}
Let's get this done, y'all.
To all the volunteers - THANK YOU!!!!
Polls are open TODAY until 7 PM. You can knock on doors, phone bank, and still get involved if able.
{LINK IN BIO}
Let's get this done, y'all.
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Stay in line, Tennessee’s 7th.
Vote Aftyn Behn, and make your vote count.
You can do this, Music City USA.
Vote Aftyn Behn, and make your vote count.
You can do this, Music City USA.
“Our new slogan will be ‘platform.’”
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“Our new slogan will be ‘platform.’”
There’s a special election in Tennessee’s 7th District this Tues, Dec 2nd, includes part of Nashville and west of.
And a Zoom GOTV rally on Mon evening. Wouldn’t you like to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social , a former @indivisible.org organizer, win this seat?!
www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
And a Zoom GOTV rally on Mon evening. Wouldn’t you like to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social , a former @indivisible.org organizer, win this seat?!
www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There’s a special election in Tennessee’s 7th District this Tues, Dec 2nd, includes part of Nashville and west of.
And a Zoom GOTV rally on Mon evening. Wouldn’t you like to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social , a former @indivisible.org organizer, win this seat?!
www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
And a Zoom GOTV rally on Mon evening. Wouldn’t you like to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social , a former @indivisible.org organizer, win this seat?!
www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
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NYPD agents arrested more than a dozen people and unleashed clouds of pepper spray on a spontaneous protest formed around a SoHo parking garage where masked agents had gathered inside.
NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation
Dozens of masked federal agents were staging inside a parking lot when a spontaneous group of protesters got word of their presence. The NYPD helped clear a path for the federal agents to leave the…
www.thecity.nyc
November 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
NYPD agents arrested more than a dozen people and unleashed clouds of pepper spray on a spontaneous protest formed around a SoHo parking garage where masked agents had gathered inside.
Why the big rush
November 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Why the big rush
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
The Atlantic calls @johnlingan.bsky.social ‘s Backbeats “Superb.”
Tune in this holiday season.
bookshop.org/p/books/back...
Tune in this holiday season.
bookshop.org/p/books/back...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Atlantic calls @johnlingan.bsky.social ‘s Backbeats “Superb.”
Tune in this holiday season.
bookshop.org/p/books/back...
Tune in this holiday season.
bookshop.org/p/books/back...
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Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
Senior Editor, Local Reporting Network
Remote, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
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For the next three weeks I’m going to share individual playlists for the 15 chapters in BACKBEATS.
First up, blues legend Sam Lay, who came to Chicago as part of the Great Migration and played with Walter, Wolf, Muddy, and at the “Dylan Goes Electric” concert. King of the “double shuffle.”
First up, blues legend Sam Lay, who came to Chicago as part of the Great Migration and played with Walter, Wolf, Muddy, and at the “Dylan Goes Electric” concert. King of the “double shuffle.”
Backbeats: Sam Lay by John Lingan on Apple Music
Playlist · 10 Songs
music.apple.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Please volunteer, Volunteers, and help win this imminent election in Tennessee.
www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Please volunteer, Volunteers, and help win this imminent election in Tennessee.
www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
www.mobilize.us/aftynforcong...
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So great to see Whitney over here! Give her a follow, she's a wonderful reporter whose work was indispensable in writing the latter portions of WITHOUT CONSENT.
The first trial of a man accused of raping his wife while living with her happened in Salem. A new book by @sarahweinman.com takes a look back at the case and its impact— paired with an expected twist 38 years after the initial trial.
www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/l...
www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/l...
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
So great to see Whitney over here! Give her a follow, she's a wonderful reporter whose work was indispensable in writing the latter portions of WITHOUT CONSENT.