There’s never been a “robust norm.” Our immigration laws have been a deliberate joke for decades, with the goal of having millions of people live here as second class citizens, doing necessary labor for our economy. Nativism has been metastasizing and it’s not the left’s fault.

I also had a beast basketball game last night and I am also the same age as Lebron so I'm assuming we're both feeling exactly the same type of way this morning, no further questions, comments have been locked.

Domicile

Very hard as a dad of young kids who realistically can't ever go to the movies to not type in "Project Hail Mary plot spoilers" into my search bar right now. Like, I'm guessing he dies at the end, right?

Happy Shamrock Shake day for everyone who observes. 8 years and counting.

The Senate is going all-in on the Save America Act today, even though they don't have the votes. Why? I'm filling in for @maryharris.bsky.social on the podcast today, talking with @ariberman.bsky.social about the GOP trying to take over elections ahead of the midterms. Listen to What Next @slate.com

Me: 95% of my social feeds in the last 24 hours:

Secrets of the fox. Ancient mystery. Will we ever know? Somewhere deep in the woods. What are you hiding? What is your sound? Will always be a mystery. You’re my guardian angel, I know you’re hiding. Will we ever know? I want to. I want to. I want to know.

US takes Canada’s hockey. Italy takes US’s baseball. Italy’s bocce ball is officially up for grabs.

Can’t wait for NYC’s 2026 record winter of way too much dogshit on every sidewalk and also bags of dogshit tied up and then left on every sidewalk and also left on top of everyone’s recycling and empty unlined garbage cans to be over.

Remember those Biden stickers they put on the gas pumps lol

Wow can’t wait to see what other weapons we fire off that we haven’t used since WWII.

If a black hole swallows the earth before 2027 I am going to be rich as hell.

So you’re telling me this warn is going to pay for itself?

Once they put troops on the ground, how fast does the conversation snap back to, “well we gotta support our troops!”

George W Bush declared mission accomplished in Iraq after 6 weeks of war.

Went to the corner deli, picked up sodas for the kids as a treat. My son is like, this tastes different. I look closer and it turns out it’s a version of Sprite from … Iraq? Then I tasted it and it tasted way different, like an xmas wreath and cumin. Anyway glad their export soda biz is doing well.

Minnesota Wild cursed for 100 years, watch. bsky.app/profile/atru...

He’s not bruised, it’s a frequent handshaking side effect.

Gift link: "The account by Ryan Schwank, a former ICE lawyer who worked at the ... government’s law enforcement training academy, coincided with the release by Senate Democrats of several dozen pages of internal ICE records that suggest the Trump [admin] has curtailed the agency’s basic training."

Gotta read @alexkirshner.com on the men's team post-gold locker-room talk with Kash Patel and Trump at the expense of the women's team. "A particular bummer here was the visible, bent-over laughter of overtime hero Jack Hughes, whose mom literally works for the women’s team."

DHS caught straight up lying, again. An agent in Chicago rammed into a car with his gun already in hand, claimed he was the one hit, and then shot the driver five times. They accuse her of being a domestic terrorist. Then he gets congratulated by DHS leaders, and possibly the president. Watch:

Bill O’Reilly, Tom Suozzi, also one of the Village People, also one of the guys from the band Wheatus.

Fort Bliss is within the air space the FAA briefly tried to ban all flights from for 10 days.

Are we the baddies?

Unacceptable.

There is so much dog shit on these snowcapped NYC sidewalks. What do you think is the percentage of dog owners who just DGAF? Gotta be like 60-75%. This is no way to live.

Typographically super impressive. His pee-writing is neater than my handwriting.

Gift link: Britt tries hard to frame herself as a lowkey moderating force on the worst instincts of this administration. Disapproving of Trump through private backchannels, but voting with him 100% while being publicly sympathetic to the viral horrors that cut through culture war, like this 5yo boy.

I think pro sports would be more interesting if, in addition to the trade deadline, there was a league-wide cap on how many trades could be made in one season, forcing all teams to really hustle to pull that trigger.

Pour one out for Brad Karp, resigning today as the head of Paul Weiss, after it turns out he was an Epstein buddy. You might remember him from being one of the first big law firm heads to bow down to Trump after the election. Bad guy!

Headline should be “Homan to keep 2000 immigration officers in Minneapolis.” bsky.app/profile/jben...

Gift link: No, it’s ok, my relationship with the sex offender was purely a business one.

Gift link: After Trump sent Tom Homan to Minneapolis with vague talk about dialing it back, ICE empowered its officers to sweep up even more people in warrantless arrests.

I got to sit in the guest chair for this week's What Next Plus from @slate.com. I talked with @maryharris.bsky.social about why it's a good thing Greg Bovino got sent home in disgrace. But with little evidence things are actually changing in Minneapolis, it's a moment of cold comfort. Listen:

Embrace this weather. Love the slush piles at the corner of every street. Breath the polar air as far back as your lungs will take it. This is like one of a handful-of-times-in-a-lifetime winters we have here in NY right now. It's so much better than a heat wave.

So will we get any clarity about the two women charged with biting a federal officer’s finger off? Or will it turn out that Noem made it up and pushed out an AI pic of a finger in a jar moments after they killed Alex Pretti? CBS says the bite was through a glove and the tip was found severed inside?

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Watching my 5th and 3rd graders do remote school. Please someone give these teachers a giant raise. Sounds like a very very hard job.

"The military occupation did little to subdue the rising anger between Boston colonists and British power. Instead of controlling the population, British military presence only exacerbated the issue." - National Park Service web site. www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Very disappointed the NHL didn’t postpone all hockey games today, especially the Panthers v Minnesota Wild in the Twin Cities. All teams should have protested, like the Timberwolves did in the NBA. This shit is unacceptable and will only stop when the public makes it crystal clear we demand it now.

TIL they’re calling DHS’s operation in Maine “Catch of the Day.” This dehumanizing language tells you all you need to know. It’s a big joke to them.

Most democratic politicians are bending over backwards to insist they don’t want to abolish ice.

I think this lets Trump off the hook. He campaigned on mass deportation now. Just because he has thugs running point, it doesn’t mean Trump doesn’t want this. He wants this. He just lies when confronted and is happy to let others look like the bad guy.

They're going all in on the Bret Stephens "I'm gonna tell your boss" playbook.

I’m your manifest density

I don’t buy this for a second. Typical Trump mob boss behavior, they are throwing her under the bus because it’s unpopular with his rich friends. But he’s been vocal about wanting to fire Powell, and he’s gone public telling Bondi to go after his enemies. But this is Pirro going rogue? Ok sure.

"Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that’s all I need to know about you.” -Brad Meltzer

This insta reel points out that Ross, while taking this video, passes the phone from his right hand to his left midway through, after he talks to Good’s wife, as if he’s getting ready to draw his gun.