I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Trump makes Nixon look like Gandhi. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Sounds like a plan.

A Trumpist infestation at Penn Station. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/24/a...

They’re beginning to get the hang of this headline writing thing..

There seems to be a sleeper cell of aimless young men: few friends, scant prospects, no obvious political beliefs… “He has at least two Reddit accounts, where he talked about video games, cars, South Park and marijuana.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

I hadn’t realized the “message” on the bullet was literally “anti-ICE.” That is extremely funny.

Little fires everywhere…

Is there a Nobel Prize for Utter Douchebaggery?

Hey, lets check in on the NYC mayor’s race: - Republican Curtis Sliwa says Cuomo tried to bribe him to leave the race, challenges him to a polygraph. - Cuomo calls Sliwa a liar who faked crimes for attention. - Mayor Adams calls Sliwa a “clown” in a red beret. - Fox poll finds Mamdani up 18 points.

At least he isn’t going to bomb someone. Or is he?

“This isn’t normally a problem prosecutors face, as they start with a crime, then figure out whodunnit, rather than starting with a person and only then deciding whathedun. But Trump wants Comey charged and is convinced he’s guilty of something, and it’s your job now to figure out what.”

Donald Trump wants to lend $20 billion of our money to bail out a political ally and his global investors before an election. Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs. “America First.”

From invaluable @calmatters.org, funding update for Calif Prop 50. "Support" lets CA gerrymander to offset TX -"Support" has 100x more "small-dollar" money -Nearly all "oppose" money comes from one person: Charles Munger Jr, like DJT a princeling heir Vote YES calmatters.org/california-v...

He’s right about one thing. D.C. is the crime capital of America. Just not in the way he means.

“Can he consolidate power before he loses his aura of inevitability? Will those who run major institutions …understand…that by accommodating Trump they have more to lose than by standing up to him? “To put it bluntly, is the Jimmy Kimmel affair the harbinger of a failed Trumpian putsch?”

“The diversity in symptoms, the severity of symptoms and the range of biological contributors are simply too large to be reduced to one uniform disorder. The neurobiology is too complex for easy explanations.” Some guys, however, don’t get complexity and live for easy answers.

Why? Maybe Zelensky was the last person to speak to him before he made the statement. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

“Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars.” Gives away the game, doesn’t it? (Also, someone should tell him that when you use the funny looking S, you don’t need to add the word “dollars.”)

Thanks to Trump, Kimmel — who rose to prominence on The Man Show — is now the wokest guy on network television.

First Amendment Cliffs Notes:

Newsom gets it.

Trump at the UN: “Many years ago, a very successful real estate developer in New York, known as Donald J. Trump, I bid on the renovation and rebuilding of this very United Nations complex. “I remember it so well. I said at the time that I would do it for $500 million, rebuilding everything…”

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Trump decides to own shutdown by canceling meeting with Dems he'd just agreed to. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-b...

i finished the profile a few weeks ago, so couldn't include anything about what's gone down at the ICE protests in chicagoland, but she wrote about it at the new republic: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

The advice Trump offers to pregnant women in pain to “just tough it out” seems hugely irresponsible. And it it makes me think for the 10,000th time that a society that wants higher birthrates isn’t going to get them by torturing women.

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

you look at all of this and it tells a very clear and unmistakable story no matter what the conservative justices say at conferences or in interviews or whatever they tell themselves

“‘It’s too much liquid, too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number,’ Mr. Trump said.” Another scientific breakthrough from Dr. Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

l’d somehow failed to realize that this was his schtick.

If acetaminophen caused autism, wouldn’t everyone have autism?

Glad to hear it.

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-...

Holy shit

Least anyone forgets‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

The magic of state sponsored terrorism…

I had no idea that the same songwriter was responsible for “I Fought the Law” and the Mary Tyler Moore show’s theme. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/a...

The jokes write themselves. This story is further evidence that Trump has no concept of how manufacturing— or anything else — works in an integrated global economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

I’m hugely enthusiastic about the idea of reclaiming urban rivers for swimming. And the thing I’ve always loved about Chicago is that you can swim right downtown, in Lake Michigan. The ability to swim in the heart of a city is a mark of civilization. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/09...

Good that Hochul is addressing housing, but upstate communities, even rural ones, also need rental housing. Businesses have a hard time hiring because there’s no place for workers to live. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

“…current and former employees of HUD’s fair housing office said that the Trump political appointees had made it nearly impossible for them to do their jobs. HUD, no surprise, has been hollowed out because fair housing is D.E.I. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

WWDJTD?!? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

The only thing Tish James is guilty of is successfully prosecuting Donald Trump.

Just like St. Paul

Huh. And how about opinion editors and columnists?

According to the Columbia Journalism Review: “The difference between ‘grift’ and ‘graft’ may come down to whether the person committing it is taking advantage of an official position.” So if a grifter is elected to public office, he becomes a grafter. www.cjr.org/language_cor...

So many countries. Hard to keep them straight…

There are moments — many of them— when I believe that the whole business of securing the border, rounding up undocumented immigrants and imprisoning them is a way of funneling money to the admin’s besties; from unemployed Proud Boys to giant prison conglomerates, it’s all about the Benjamins.