ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Yep, we're seeing the same thing. Young men actually really hate what Trump has done to the crypto market but think the Dem message is basically "shame on you for wanting to get rich." A clear area for us to be the party of strong regulation, laws, and prosperity. open.substack.com/pub/youngmen...

"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks."

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

They expect you to die www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/they...

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster. The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

This decision means SNAP participants who live in areas where jobs are scarce in CA, CT, DC, GU, IL, KY, MI, MT, MN, ND, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OR, RI, VI, and WA will be at risk of being cut off SNAP by the program's harsh & ineffective work requirement even earlier than anticipated.

rightist plutocrats are doing politics. liberal plutocrats are doing charity. it’s an entirely different mindset.

it has a lot to do with incentives. to rightwing plutocrats, a D admin is an intolerable threat to their wealth & power, so writing blank checks for agitprop makes sense and is in fact honorable self-defense. to their lib counterparts such a thing would be gauche, a social capital-negative

Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Reminder that there is a government shutdown right now while these guys focus on the important stuff

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum: "Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

Business Insider wrote up a story on how some of their past investigative work led to a new California law. The story is strangely unbylined. The reason perhaps? The publication recently laid off the reporter behind that investigation, Matt Drange. www.businessinsider.com/california-e...

Goddammit.

I am under 35. All of my higher-ed teaching experience was within grad school so fairly recent. I am not some crusty boomer. And I have seen this. It has gotten worse! Far worse!

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

The political divide on which states are facing recession or not seems important!

The latest at YMRI: Think sports gambling is bad? Wait until you see how political prediction markets are targeting young men - and eroding trust in civic participation youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/political-...

Particularly at the local level, I think we don't discuss the fundamental tension between journalists' conception of themselves as "the Fourth Estate" and most of their workplaces either being a business in pursuit of profit and/or reliant on the noblesse oblige of an extraordinarily wealthy owner.

Hard not to see parallels of attacks on public institutions and the traditional media. Both have limitations but served an essential function. Take Weiss at CBS now. She railed against MSM, created an outlet that absolutely failed to match it's quality, and will now be paid to degrade it.

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure. We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

I genuinely don't understand how Labour keeps this up looking at these numbers.

President Petro accuses US of killing Colombians in attacks on ‘narco-boats’

Pleasantly surprised that Tennessee isn't on here. But yeah, if Biden had tried to federalize the NG to go after a Cliven Bundy-type group, all of these hypocrites would be talking about civil war.

Seems to me the least American people in these interactions are the ICE agents and Trump administration ignoring basic American rights.

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Maybe beginning to feel news coverage that either ignores this sort of blather or balances it with a polite “Some experts disagree with the assessment that Portland is a burned-out hellscape under the rule of Antifa warlords” doesn’t really cut it.

This is absolutely enraging. They can and will beat and detain US citizens for the crime of being Hispanic and then they’ll dump them unceremoniously hours later with no recompense.

Michigan Avenue right now.

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

A recurrent attempt to blame people for corporate action (this news gets repeated every few years). HFAs in inhalers = ~2.4million tons a year. Total CO2 last year was 37.8 GIGAtons. Inhalers are less than a rounding error.

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.