The first show I loved as an adult. The standard by which I still judge other shows.

Reminder that in the Trump immunity ruling, the Supreme Court ruled specifically that the president has total immunity when it comes to his communications with Justice Department officials:

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

We're only 9 days out from a potential government shutdown, and OMB *still* doesn't have its agency contingency plans up (this is the central hub for how every agency plans to operate under a shutdown).

MSNBC’s report didn’t cite the case by name, but it sure looks like Biden DOJ officials thought SCOTUS’s ruling in McDonnell would prevent them from prosecuting Homen unless he committed an “official act” after taking/related to the alleged bribe.

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

Miller’s Crossing is 35. Albert Finney had such a good time making Miller’s Crossing that he turned up on his day off to appear in drag when Gabriel Byrne bursts into the ladies room.

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

Put this photo up next to the one of the veteran holding the flag in the cloud of tear gas.

"At the helm of federal power and without the need for Senate confirmation...." Suddenly a little suspicious that Trump didn't nominate Homan for a position that required Senate confirmation, no? As if the administration was aware of the bribery investigation. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

The reporter who was offered cash in a Sour Cream & Onion potato chip bag by a Mayor Adams stooge:

If you would like to point to one major problem that led to why we are here, it is this. And what people tend to pay for more and more is opinions from people who are on the same page, and who utilize reporting from the last few outlets that do much.

Trying to read my book on the terrace and there’s a very loud helicopter hanging right overhead and it’s hard not to feel a little Goodfellas-y.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

We haven’t had one of these in a while.

Portugal has officially recognised Palestine as a state, becoming the 4th country to do so today (after the UK, Australia & Canada) and the 151st overall. More are expected to follow suit in the coming days, including France, Luxembourg, Andorra, Malta & possibly Belgium, San Marino & New Zealand.

Get. Off. Twitter.

There's huge news today-- Trump demanding his AG prosecute his enemies in public, Holman's possible bribe, allies recognizing Palestinian state-- and the WaPo and WSJ are currently leading with the memorial service for someone the WH is deliberately and carefully making into a martyr.

Horst Wessel's funeral was a big production number, too.

More good news I missed: the two Metro bus drivers who’d been fired for speculating about how they’d resist ICE have been *reinstated* after public outcry.

It’s actually only a minor part of the outrageousness of this appointment that she is an insurance lawyer who has never been a prosecutor being put in charge of an important prosecutor’s office.

Somebody over on The Hellsite asked me which institutions are still standing in the face of Trump's blitzkrieg. Here's my partial answer, please LMK if I'm missing anything:

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

they don't want you to joke about a man's death but then they're out there saying things like this

The US attorney in Maryland, Kelly Hayes, is now telling people she's bracing for pressure to bring charges against Adam Schiff. But she also won't do so if the facts don't warrant it, NYT reports. More evidence that Trump's corruption is running into deep institutional resistance (see below).

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.

I don’t know whether I should laugh or cry, but this really pisses me off.

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

Finally

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

Thread.

I miss this guy. youtu.be/kPwG6L73-VU

I’d never seen this one.

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

Good point.

Cool who paid for the trip?

I have submitted a FOIA to the FBI for all video evidence & docs created in the investigation of Border Czar Tom Homan & his acceptance of $50K in bribes for favorable government contracts. I'll be publishing updates soon on my human rights newsletter. No paywall: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

California Bars ICE Agents From Wearing Masks in the State (09/20/2025) f the nyt

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this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*

Her stylist clearly hates her. Not only is the dress not white-tie-and-tails formal, but it doesn't fit.

I knew I had seen this picture before

Amazing even by his standards

Plot twist!

Trump posts a DM to his AG that she needs to prosecute his political enemies. Trump’s Border Czar took a $50k bribe from the FBI, Trump’s DOJ to shut it down. Trump issued a $100k afee for H1B visas, restricting immigrants into US unless company pays This is just the last 24 hrs. Sheesh.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Lindsey Halligan is a 2013 law grad, an insurance lawyer, who acted as Trump's personal lawyer for several years and is now tasked with bringing the Smithsonian into ideological compliance. In the context of the Trump Administration this makes her well qualified to be US Attorney.