By Lily Hautau, CNN

(CNN) — Benjamin Chipman has met with his friend Nikita Suri every Tuesday since July, usually over a grilled chicken sandwich, fries and a beer.

With a killer happy hour deal, Wi-Fi and outlets at a neighborhood pub, Chipman — an actor and content creator in New York City — began his version of “admin night” working on a screenplay, picking up an idea first planted in college. Meanwhile, Suri split her time between personal development tasks — such as improving her technology skills — and administrative ones like cleaning out her inbox and updating her résumé.

“I’ll do it later,” is a line we all probably have said countless times. That’s because being an adult is hard, and it’s not just the big stuff — choosing your career, where you’ll live, whether you’ll have a partner (and who that could be). Those sometimes small, often tedious tasks can feel impossible to do yet they still need to get done.

Many people are turning to group admin nights to finally check administrative tasks off their to-do lists.

And it’s not just for Gen Xers like San Francisco-based journalist Chris Colin, who coined the term and wrote about his hack for The Wall Street Journal. Everyone can benefit from an admin night, and some are even putting a spin on it to realize long-held personal goals.

What is ‘admin night’?

Admin nights regularly bring people together for the purpose of completing those pesky tasks while holding one another accountable.

Admin night is an evening “where you and friends, whether it’s one friend or multiple friends, gather to do your back-burner tasks,” said Chipman, who shared in a TikTok post that it has been life-changing.

The get-togethers can be for scheduling appointments, canceling subscriptions, collecting the 1099s to file your taxes or even starting that screenplay.

“The idea is to reclaim weeknights from being home alone,” Colin said, adding that you should focus on whatever is calling to you, but try not to sneak in work.

Make your own admin night

If you want to plan your own admin night, consider starting with one or two people, said clinical psychologist Dr. Debra Kissen, founder and CEO of Light On Anxiety Treatment Centers in Illinois. Having fewer people reduces distractions and pressures of too much small talk. It’s also good to know how your friends operate, Kissen said with emphasis.

Suri agrees that the right partner makes all the difference. “The person you choose to do admin night with matters a ton, because that’s your accountability partner,” she said. “I love the social aspect — it makes these boring tasks feel lighter and more fun.”

How to find the right place? Make sure the table is big enough and look for an environment that can accommodate different needs with minimal distractions, Kissen said. Come prepared and bring whatever you need. And whether you prefer wine or snacks, it’s important that “you’re also enjoying yourself,” she added.

For Suri, that enjoyment is a chocolate chip cookie. “It’s my treat to myself every time we go,” she said.

Schedule time for fun

Chipman and Suri start their admin night by catching up for 10 to 15 minutes.

Next, they’ll wrap up their chat and ask each other, “What are you working on?” Chipman said. Varying needs and demands for creative projects or “I’m behind on life” tasks give a reason to check in on the agenda, he added.

Then, it’s time to establish the ground rules. When setting the rules, “Make sure there’s not a lot of gray or wiggle room,” said executive coach Robin Nordmeyer, founder and managing director of the Center for Living Well with ADHD. Even creating gentle nudges helps you a

By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — Around 6:15 a.m. on Monday, “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade pitched a solution to President Trump’s growing political problem in Minnesota. “What I would do is just bring Tom Homan in,” he said.

Kilmeade, a Trump booster who knows the president often watches the morning show, volunteered the idea again at 7:15 and once more at 8:10. Homan, the border czar and a former Fox commentator, would “settle things down” and help Trump, Kilmeade said.

Maybe Trump was watching, maybe he wasn’t — but either way, he said, “I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight,” 20 minutes after Kilmeade suggested it a third time.

Kilmeade’s friendly advice for Trump reflects MAGA media’s view that the administration’s handling of Saturday’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti is damaging a just and important immigration enforcement crackdown.

Many pro-Trump TV shows, podcasters and commentators are defaulting to a defense of law enforcement — but fretting about how the wider public is reacting to the violent imagery from Minnesota.

“It’s time to de-escalate in Minneapolis,” because the current enforcement tactics “are backfiring,” the New York Post editorial board said in an editorial directed to “Mr. President” Monday morning.

The Post’s conservative editors claimed the left “wants a civil war” and Trump needs to provide “calm leadership” in response.

Both the Post and Fox News are part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, and Kilmeade read directly from the editorial on Monday’s “Fox & Friends.”

“The bottom line is, these images are not the ones that are going to help you keep the majorities,” Kilmeade said on air.

In other words, the dominant conservative critique has been about so-called optics. It’s been about narrative discipline — and how badly the administration is losing control of the visuals.

MAGA-aligned media figures have argued that even hardliners like top White House aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have worsened the situation by branding Pretti a “domestic terrorist,” inflaming the public and distracting from the deportations.

MAGA media backlash over ‘optics’

In the immediate aftermath of Pretti’s death on Saturday, Fox News shows and other staples of the MAGA media diet focused heavily on the Trump administration’s assertions that Pretti was a danger to the federal officers on the scene.

Fox correspondent Bill Melugin, who has covered immigration for the network for years and often gets promotional tips from Homeland Security officials, was quickly provided with a photo of the gun that Pretti was allegedly carrying. Melugin’s post on X about the gun helped to advance the pro-Trump narrative on Saturday.

Trump administration officials and allies swarmed the airwaves to blame Pretti for his own death remarkably quickly. Many of the claims, though, were at odds with the video evidence.

As the weekend proceeded, some prominent MAGA media writers and hosts pointed out the contradictions and added skepticism about the government’s claims.

This pushback was far from widespread, however. And some of the figures promoted easily disproven claims about the altercation. “It is not self-defense to run up on police and interfere with their operations and then draw a gun,” podcaster Jack Posobiec wrote on X on Saturday.

Users on X added corrections to the post explaining that Pretti did not “run up on police” or “draw a gun.”

On Sunday and into Monday, many Trump-aligned commentators and influencers underscored the hostility that federal agents face in Minneapolis, ignoring any underlying reasons for the community’s opposition.

“The media and other Democrats clearly oppose fe

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“Mami, elimina los chats”. “Hijo, eso queda grabado”. “Borra las conversaciones antes de salir”. Mensajes de este tipo se repiten en el grupo de Whatsapp de una familia venezolana, que pidió mantener su identidad en reserva por temor a represalias.

Se trata de conversaciones recientes, posteriores a la captura de Nicolás Maduro en un operativo militar de Estados Unidos en Caracas.

Si bien la revisión de celulares a ciudadanos por parte de agentes policiales y militares no es algo nuevo, varios testimonios recolectados por CNN muestran que, desde el 3 de enero, estas medidas han aumentado.

Los puestos de control son muchos y están en las rutas y calles, instalados en lugares estratégicos o alternos de Caracas y otras zonas del país. Algunos son fijos, por lo general cercanos a zonas de seguridad o instituciones públicas, pero otros son rotativos. Al girar o al llegar al final de un puente o de una esquina, efectivos policiales, militares o de inteligencia paran a los conductores, les preguntan a dónde se dirigen, revisan los vehículos y, cada vez con mayor frecuencia, sobre todo en el actual contexto de tensión política y bajo el argumento de reforzar la seguridad nacional, monitorean los celulares.

En el clima de incertidumbre que domina al país desde la captura de Maduro, los venezolanos vuelcan sus denuncias en las redes sociales para contar su experiencia de cómo una parada “de rutina” puede terminar en una hora de tensión, revisión de teléfonos incluida. Según testimonios obtenidos por CNN, los agentes buscan contenidos políticos o que puedan incriminar al conductor.

Las denuncias por casos de revisión de teléfonos y el temor a detenciones por difundir contenido político y, en especial, crítico con el Gobierno, se incrementaron tras la entrada en vigencia del decreto de conmoción externa como respuesta al ataque de EE.UU. en Caracas y la captura de Nicolás Maduro. Aunque dicho decreto faculta al poder ejecutivo a adoptar medidas extraordinarias, no detalla el alcance, los criterios o si limita los derechos y libertades de los ciudadanos como la protección a la privacidad en las comunicaciones.

El artículo 48 de la Constitución venezolana, en cambio, sí establece textualmente: “Se garantiza el secreto e inviolabilidad de las comunicaciones privadas en todas sus formas. No podrán ser interferidas sino por orden de un tribunal competente, con el cumplimiento de las disposiciones legales y preservándose el secreto de lo privado que no guarde relación con el correspondiente proceso”.

Sin embargo, CNN recibió varios testimonios de personas a las que les revisaron sus celulares en las últimas semanas. Por eso, muchos venezolanos hablan en clave, evitan nombrar a líderes políticos, borran constantemente el contenido de sus teléfonos y se rehúsan a opinar en grupos de WhatsApp.

Desde que Maduro fue trasladado a una prisión de Estados Unidos y, en su lugar, asumió como presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez, la situación para los venezolanos de a pie es de completa incertidumbre.

No está claro si habrá elecciones a la brevedad: si bien se ha liberado a presos políticos, no hay información oficial sobre cómo seguirá el proceso; la economía sigue en crisis y los precios de productos básicos cambian a diario.

Sin embargo, hay una certeza: los recaudos que ya se tomaban al circular por las calles siguen vigentes.

“Hoy a la tarde nos llegó un comunicado del consejo comunal del barrio y nos recomendaron que tengamos cuidado con lo que se habla por WhatsApp y por escrito”, se lee en uno de los mensajes de grupo a los que accedió CNN. Esta conversación ocurrió poco después del 3 de enero.

Otro de los mensajes es de un miembro de la familia que está fuera del país y menciona sus ganas de ir a Venezuela. Un familiar le responde que mejor no, que eso “ahorita está complicado”.

Ante la insistencia de o

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