This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

How to Join ICE theonion.com/how-to-join-...

I've watched this 12,000 times. These are the new lyrics as far as I'm concerned

Times Square

“Apple made similar claims in 2019 when it removed HKMap, an app that allowed Hong Kong protesters to trace the movements of law enforcement … At the time, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle spoke out against ‘Apple’s censorship of apps.’”

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000! To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell. NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA. 🧪🔭 www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

I wrote a new Substack about Kim-Xi-Putin vibes in Beijing, and to my surprise it ended up being mostly about hands. Shoutouts @vanjackson.bsky.social @sheenagreitens.bsky.social @victordcha.bsky.social @colinzwirko.bsky.social @josephtorigian.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

I don't know how, but somehow I managed to get into a pick-up session and took control of a robot in Beijing in a boxing match. I got to knock out my opponent. This may be the most Bay Area Friday night activity I've ever done.

Life on Mars? "China’s Tianwen-3 mission aims to launch in 2028 and return samples by 2031. If China succeeds first, it will claim the greatest scientific discovery of all time." spacenews.com/a-double-sta...

It is time to Abolish ICE. It is an ongoing violation and shame to the US and its values.

China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.

"In the nine months to July, 28.6m people took a train ride, a 6% increase on the same period last year. That puts the firm comfortably on track this financial year to record the most journeys in its 54-year history. Its fare revenue grew by 11% in the year to June."

Federal agents clashed with protesters and threw a congressional candidate to the ground Friday morning during a protest outside a Chicago-area ICE detention facility.

Pair of 🇨🇳 PLA Strategic Support Force missile tracking ships Yuan Wang 6 and Yuan Wang 7 heading out into the middle of the Pacific. Perhaps in prep for some kind of missile test.

An Israeli strike near a hospital in Gaza City killed four Al Jazeera journalists. Anas al-Sharif, a well-known correspondent, was among those killed. Israel said it had targeted al-Sharif, claiming he worked for Hamas.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.

Me three months ago:

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Kudos to the Chinese deep diving submersible Fendouzhe and team (which have also been to Challenger Deep where we didn't see anything like these creatures)! www.bbc.com/news/article... 🌊 🦑

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

New post by Dave Busiek: A study released this month details a shocking decline in the number of journalists covering local news today. (Iowa's decline is bad but it's even worse in many other states) #media #journalism www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/07/19/w...

ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...

The leap from this to the systems Chinese police use for social engineering in Xinjiang and Tibet is exceedingly small

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"

The dissonance between the fear-mongering about Chinese ascendence and the willingness to completely cede just about every field in order to pay for massively regressive tax cuts is breathtaking.

I encourage everyone to read this letter. Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Orbitviewer App New 3D, interactive visualization of planets and minor planets in our Solar System lets you explore Rubin discoveries in real time. 🧪🔭 @vrubinobs.bsky.social ☑️ noirlab.edu/public/annou... ☑️ orbitviewer.app

The administration's cuts to the NWS are inexplicable and unforgiveable. BUT, in this case it does not appear the cuts played a role in the Texas tragedy. Important read: open.substack.com/pub/theeyewa...

This 👇 is going to fundamentally change America. An internal security force with ever expanding powers impacting citizens and non-citizens. With a mission that already expands far beyond what Americans voted for in November 2024.

Donald Trump is throwing a party at the White House today as he signs his Big, Ugly Bill into law. He’ll be surrounded by Republican politicians and their billionaire donors, and he's going to lie A LOT about what this bill does. So let's go through it:

Hands down first noticeable effects will be the immigration money. This is **so much money.** It will make ICE the US's largest jailer. It will militarize the border and immigration operations even more. You thought mass deportations were intense now? Hoo boy. Buckle up.

Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true. Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that. It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.

BREAKING: Congress just gave final approval on a budget bill that guts Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, and supercharges funding for ICE. We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

Here’s Abrego Garcia’s amended complaint. It alleges that Abrego Garcia “was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture..” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

JUST IN: At Senate appropriations hearing, AG Pam Bondi says she was previously unaware that law enforcement are covering their faces during immigration enforcement. Sen. Gary Peters says people might resist unidentified individuals putting them in a van.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.