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.

My cover band can play a diverse array of musical genres. One day we might do a Dave Matthews song, and the next day we might do something by Blues Traveler or the Spin Doctors.

Nothing like a guy who hosted a reality show from a fake boardroom for years being puzzled that TV distorts reality.

Kind of amazed that so many people seem to think nothing’s wrong when we have masked secret police kidnapping people on the streets of America and sending them to foreign torture prisons.

I have assumed this for some time, but we are seeing it play out in real time.

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."

'out of the three mass shootings today'

On the rediscovery of Michaelina Wautier

One of the most haunting aspects of Squid Game was that the contestants could leave at any point if they wanted to but volunteered to be tortured to death because they were so desperate for money. Anyways...

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You are praising a conman in your own party while simultaneously saying you will fight the conman in The White House. The former is why no one believes you on the later.

so @chatterton.bsky.social turned off replies and quote posts so i can't reply to him, but eagle eyes will notice that all of the posts he says are about bluesky's reaction to today's interview were posted between 16 and 120 hours ago

2025 Panopticon shit. This is one of many reasons I don’t have any devices like a ring door bell or amazon home. I could do more, and might have to soon, but that’s my start.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Every day, I do things. And yet, without fail, the following day, I am expected to do additional things. This is some bullshit

The same scenario is playing out in the Portland invasion. Weird silence from the Dem leadership.

What also baffles me is that Democratic Party is ~30 points underwater in favorability & Zohran Mamdani is ~16 points above water in favorability. The Dem Party establishment, who is responsible for the abysmal rating, is too arrogant to support the guy ~50 points ahead of them. Incredible.

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

It's kind of insane how the two most important political events of the 21st century are a terrorist group flying two planes into the tallest buildings on Earth in the middle of New York City and a gaming website giving a good review to a boring video game about depression

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

Ezra Klein has been speaking a lot on red states and rural Democrats and here’s the thing…he shouldn’t. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

This only happens to you once

Basically, you can get fired as a government employee for doing what Jerry Jones and Jaime Dimon did in 2020

In this Ohio diner, Corey still means Feldman or Haim, not Lewandowski. But they do know this: migrants who fled goonies in Venezuela should be deported to South Sudan if the HHS secretary’s married boyfriend feels like sending them there.

As soon as the governor signs this illegal bill, Missouri will be sued. I don't bluff and I usually win.

NEW: Jeremy Carl, a top Trump nominee, deleted 1000s of social media posts, many w/inflammatory commentary — including incendiary posts about race, claiming “peaceful coexistence” w/Democrats is impossible - even a call for a political opponent to face the death penalty. www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

It looked like Walters was going to beat the porn rap, no pun intended. The racy visuals were determined to be from a Bruce Lee movie rather than a porno. So I'm dying to know what looming scandal is actually driving him out of office.

Ryan Walters bolts after announcing on cable news (in our studio) he will be stepping down as Superintendent to become CEO of Teacher Freedom Alliance to “destroy the teacher unions”.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

This is not complicating it for me; I can appreciate that Biden acted to defend democracy abroad using tools available (good!) and also failed to secure it at home (bad, imo.)

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

the eye of sauron's baleful gaze has settled on ... tylenol

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

At this point it’s pretty clear that the Democratic Party ain’t gonna be what saves democracy in the US, if anything does. They’re still bickering about Zohran Mamdani while Trump’s military takes over US cities.

Please do this if you did not long ago. Delete everything. Agree to nothing. The people who run this going concern despise academics, are likely very illiquid right now, & will show now compunction about selling all your data, as their revised user agreement makes clear.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

It’s the aristocracy, it takes different forms depending on is social context, but it’s always the aristocracy, and you must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.

Imagine living in a time of historic ideological polarization, ascendant fascism and political violence, and this is the guy who's supposed to lead you out of it

A Black teen named Kalief Browder was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. He spent 3 years tortured at Rikers & died by suicide A wealthy white man named Tom Homan was caught by FBI accepting bribes. He was promoted to a powerful law enforcement position This is what white supremacy looks like

When you lay it all out like that...

I am so glad that @jimmykimmel.com is getting the attention and outrage he deserves, but where was this support for @matthewjdowd.bsky.social last week? His MSNBC colleagues said nothing everyone is standing up for Jimmy Kimmel and Dowd’s colleagues said nothing. So can we lift him up too?

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

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

Personalist regime tries to set up another mechanism of control. Silicon Valley firms will be subject to the whims of the mad king.

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.

I can't do millennial complaints, but my most GenX complaint is that cynicism should not be an excuse to roll over or tell others to quit. It's the armor you need to continue to fight when you know you won't be the one to benefit from it. Yeah, we're fucked. Now get your hands dirty.

Cultivate the skill of being as punctual as you can be. Time is every persons most precious resource, and the more you keep your appointments and treat other people’s with respect, the more they’ll appreciate you.