bro are you fucking kidding me

Ellis: [Bovino] admitted that he lied about whether a rock hit him before he deployed tear gas in Little Village."

Border Patrol agent who shot a woman in Chicago: "I'm a firearms instructor and I take pride in my shooting skills." www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

"She enthusiastically complimented my bangs and I was later disturbed to discover that she’d been arrested in 2022 for breaking into the apartment building of a New York City councilmember and vandalizing his office building with homophobic messages." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

a great report from @schuylermitchell.bsky.social at the sliwa mayoral party www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

lmfao

Cuomo, the man who resigned in disgrace after a state attorney general’s report found that he had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women, was asked if he had any regrets. He said he regretted not being better at social media.

So, Jeff Yaas can actively donate millions in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race (which CBS needs to cover) and millions to Trump (which CBS news needs to cover) and then give millions to Bari Weiss' school (head of integrity or some shit) at CBS News www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

heres our report on this — both on the number 1 case of death among ICE agents (covid 19) and the legal cases against protesters that are falling apart www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Heroic work by the free press to make their article on Mamdani about pitching a profile of him well into 2025 once everyone already knew him.

Let’s see if this Denvir advice happens. I think it will. And I think the center/right backlash will lead to something we maybe have never seen: a political campaign-like atmosphere about local government as it works

In 2021, we published a series of portraits and interviews with people shot in the eye during the George Floyd protests. One of them, Soren Stevenson, just won his race for Minneapolis City Council. www.motherjones.com/anti-racism-...

put a stake in it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

usual tim murphy banger on Mamdani win "Soccer fans were the Mamdani Coalition in a nutshell: a young, diverse, polyglot group that united immigrant communities and yuppies." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Democrat Larry Krasner, a national figurehead for reform prosecutors, has won reelection as Philadelphia’s district attorney.

In 2021, @nlanard.bsky.social came back from a hunger strike of taxi drivers and told me that a politician who had just turned 30 might be the future of politics in NYC. Here's a look back at a pivotal moment in Mamdani's rise www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.

Nagging pet peeve for me: NYC has more "diverse" political takes than any purple place in the entire country. This just a way to say "I need 5 to 15 percent of white homwoners' vote that I assume are basically Republicans." Which is fine, but the phrasing here is just absurd

"A man pardoned by the sitting president after engaging in a riot on his behalf was apprehended a second time, for allegedly threatening to kill a leading Democrat — and this, according to the Speaker of the House, is the fault of leftists." nymag.com/intelligence...

This sentence applies to so many left policies: "What would effectively be a capital strike could then be construed as the effect of this progressive housing reform." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...

"The document closely resembles a plan reportedly circulated by a group of military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO and Trump ally Erik Prince." theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Totally disagree with this pan, but fun to read smart people being smart defector.com/one-battle-a...

Iran and now Venezuela www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

To retire, you need an AI chip company to win www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

saw flames and was afraid to admit it, I’m sure

The slow rolling out of thoughts, leading to this paragraph, is so disgustingly good in this piece on AI flak/doomer ed zitron www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...

This put words to the thing I keep coming back to: "Ducks, Newburyport" is the only novel that makes sense of this moment thebaffler.com/salvos/ameri...

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

complete wikipedia dominance

(one of the freaks to know) Jim Trusty was a former Trump lawyer. And (true freak stuff folks) he recently came up as the connection that affirmed it was truly Lindsey Halligan who texted @annabower.bsky.social about information in this wild story www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"He was 30 years old at the time"....... www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Tired of opening every app, website, etc, and there being a tiny TikTok section. It sucks www.axios.com/2025/10/21/n...

Ran across this in book on Bush presidency. Here's who we hired to "nation build" in Iraq. With DOGE, and a million other things, it feels like the war is coming home right now—as the right thinks of the 2nd Trump term as a war to tear down the old US and make a new one

"The United States has invaded our national territory, fired a missile to kill a humble fisherman, and destroyed his family, his children....they are murdering his children with bombs" www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...

WaPo editorial page just giving space for milquetoast decades-old "charters are good!" pieces...and with no mention of the controversy around the author www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"DHS has since admitted that only 8 of the 37 people arrested in the raid had a criminal record, and only one was a verified Tren de Aragua member" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

i think some shame would be a nice break from stuff like this!

partly this is just entering middle-age and parenthood but i just keep thinking we need to get morality back into politics. it's soul-rot everywhere you look.

as always, stunning stuff from helen andrews:

not great www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

AfD refugees... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Breaking: At least one US military strike in the Caribbean targeted Colombians on a boat leaving from Colombia, sources tell us. The deliberate targeting of Colombians suggests the US military’s campaign is wider than previously believed www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

yes www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Please note for the history books this point:

This is just such a wild, incredible piece of reporting www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'd missed this fantastic piece by Hanif Abdurraqib on one of the greatest albums (imo) of the 21st century so far longreads.com/2025/09/11/l...

no one will ever be like him. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6Z...

Glad we finally got this profile www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...