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.

Gift link: the NYTimes in this report does not mention the officer calling Good a “fucking bitch,” which I think is some pretty important context to ignore and leave out.

Even after everything, it’s always eye opening to see how violent and tyrannical the secret police behaves against unarmed civilians in residential neighborhoods. This video shows them operating on pure aggression and escalation. This is not sustainable.

SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News

“We are tired of the darkness in our lives” Joe Jackson band coming in clutch today.

As I was saying.

I mean, what took place prior to the shooting is: a paramilitary secret police went out to terrorize a residential community, got stuck in the snow, and couldn’t retreat fast enough to avoid whistles and snowballs. And then they panicked and shot a civilian dead.

We’re murdering random people at sea. We’re murdering random people in Venezuela and Nigeria and so many other countries. We’re murdering random people here at home. Every one of these killings is a choice that nobody was forced to make and did not have to happen. We don’t need to be doing this.

Multiple videos of the shooting suggest this guy did not fear for his life, and was the aggressor in the situation. Pure escalation.

Gift link: What are we doing here? Abrams is not a reliable narrator at all. He glosses over and justifies the US-backed 1980s era human rights abuses in Latin America because they "thought they were fighting communism." Says Venezuela is different because current regime are "just criminals."

New York Islanders fans doing the wave! Up 6-0! Against the Devils! I love the wave, it’s the ultimate sports experience.

It’s gotta be the sandwiches

It’s like praising the efficiency and craftsmanship of an AR-15 after a school shooting.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Gift 🔗: “[Maduro’s] followers, longstanding Chavistas or armed opportunists, could very well mount a prolonged insurgency — the type of war in which the population is held hostage, regardless of political preferences. It is very easy to create chaos / when the formal institutions are already broken”

The scariest part of @jamellebouie.net’s latest reel on Venezuela is at the end, where he points out that Trump demonstrates a real pleasure in sending the military to blow people up around the world. Who’s he going to blow up next? What can be done to at least try to stop it from happening again?

Zohran Mamdani setting an example for how all democratic officeholders nationwide could be responding at this moment. Loudly, visibly, clearly, unwavering in message, unafraid in tone.

Are we all ok with this seemingly new era of larger countries violently and unilaterally taking over their smaller neighbors and looting their natural resources while cracking down on civil rights at home? This is nuts.

Wars that pay for themselves, this sounds so familiar, it’s on the tip of my tongue hear.

Everybody feel ok about being part of a country with a giant military that just violently takes over smaller countries and steals their natural resources?

Gift link: read this whole thing and then got to the part at the end where it says Jane Gross, who has the only byline on this obituary, died back in 2022. This is a crazy story about something I’d never heard of before.

Imagine Hillary Clinton won and then also won reelection and then this guy was her vp the whole time and then ran for president and got elected and this guy would be president of the United States right now.

There are super racist nazi sympathetic people all around us, they’re at Harvard, and they’re in the White House. Stephen miller was exactly this kind of young Republican, sharing articles he read on vdare and other white nationalist sites. These guys shouldn’t be close to power at all.

Avatar 3 is incredible. I am so back on the 3D hype train. These movies are meant to be seen once, in a theater, and then never again. That’s how I’ve done it, 3 times in a row now. Each time, I walk out, I totally get why people use words like “cinema.”

Gift link: this Wisconsin judge could face years in prison after she was convicted of obstructing federal agents after ICE started staking out courthouse hallways.

Gift link: worth reading the entire piece.

Very sick of hearing parents complain about spirit week at school. You can just have your kids wear regular clothes if shopping for red sequined shirt day is going to spiral your life into crisis and I promise it’s not going to be a big deal. Do the best you can and stop raging about your stress.

Santacon is good

No!

Diamond Card: $10 million: everything in the Platinum card plus you get to drive 10mph over any speed limit and run all red lights. Rare Earth Card: $15 million: you get to punch any 5 people in the face every day. Vibranium Card: $20 million: if someone doesn't call you "sir" they go to jail.

Our son Harry, top left in the below photo with the "ice sucks" sign, goes to PS 166Q, where a 6-year-old student was detained and separated from his dad at a scheduled ice check-in.

Gift link: this country can pay for anything it wants to pay for, zero limits, we could be paying for every socialist’s wildest dreams and we’d still have money in the bank.

We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊

Gift link: so if this ultimately has to clear a Trump veto, does this end with the public release of the files or no? That question has not been an obvious part of this whole story until now. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

This sums up the last 10 years