While doing research on corruption across the US last year, one thing that struck me was how frequently CBP officers get arrested for allegedly taking bribes.

Homan's face is absolutely timeless, in the sense that it could belong to an SS commandant overseeing a "work camp," a Confederate captain gleefully selling free Black people into slavery, or a Roman centurion about to nail a guy named Jesus to a cross

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

yeah some dudes in Tampa need to get perp walked in January 2029

If they want to slow down the Trump administration, Democrats should begin promising this *now*

Another day where you have to wonder whether the Canadian and Mexican governments have prepared contingency plans to handle any regional fallout from serious civil disorder in the United States

one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

Can’t express how spectacularly shameful it is to see my home state just… letting this happen.

Batshit crazy

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

The plan to defeat tyranny cannot be just "win every election" but every win sure helps

Trump is almost certainly going to attempt to stay in office after the end of his term, and the question we have to answer is: who’s going to physically force him out? A USSS that reports to Noem? Patel’s FBI? Will Mike Johnson march over with the House Sergeant-At-Arms to escort him out?

You can always trust the dumbest guy in the Senate to say the quiet part out loud. Republicans want to throw away the Constitution and institute autocracy.

I would say there are many reasons www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

"Trump’s views on China have a remarkably consistent thread running through them: He’s often the contrarian in the room pushing back against advisers urging him to crack down on an existential rival." My @bloomberg.com Weekend Essay on why Trump's no China hawk. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I think that the next step in the civil resistance campaign to Trump should be inflicting punishment on elites and institutions who cave. They need to understand that there are costs to compliance

Fascinating report, one of the most comprehensive analyses I’ve read of how the Ukraine war is being fought at the tactical level

Huh, so *that’s* why stormtroopers are such bad shots

If we want diversity, it also means people who change, who go through phases and hard times, who aren't perfect, who have prejudices (as all of us do, but some hide better than others), and who are not prepping for public office from the day they're elected president of their third grade class.

There may be good reasons to worry about an increase in far-left political violence. But as Michael Jensen and Amy Cooter explain, the data consistently show that the threat from far-right extremists is much greater.

No Kings in DC was great. Momentum is building for exactly the kind of NVCR movement the US needs. Quoted here. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Roberts Court has found a minority to protect—not a racial or religious one, but a political party whose power will endure without electoral majority support. Louisiana v. Callais could hand Republicans a dozen House seats and make that imbalance permanent. This is autocratic legalism in action.

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

Might feel like an inversion of the Civil War, but less than you might think. The federal government was thoroughly in the hands of the Slave Power in the 1850s. States resisted the Fugitive Slave Act; Dred Scott was SCOTUS. Secession happened b/c they wouldn't accept losing that control in 1860.

This 100%

US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right - the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it

Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.

You know what wins real wars against peer opponents? Warehouses full of bombs and bullets and tourniquets, maintenance crew to service the vehicles that move them and "warriors" to where they need to go, and boring spreadsheets to tell you how much of everything you have. Logistics! Logistics!

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard. The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.

If the 250-year-old American experiment does end up collapsing under the weight of Trump, the fact that we spent the last two years abetting this atrocity will be a particularly shameful coda

Very interesting. To my admittedly non-expert eye, this looks like the sort of thing a military serious about incorporating lessons learned from Ukraine should be experimenting with. I like the idea of putting it in a cav unit.

youtu.be/OVohl7wLiHM 🇫🇷 New video on a Hunter-Killer Drone or "Drone de Chasse" Squadron the French Marine Cavalry (1er RIMa) are testing. It goes in-depth with their current and planned equipped, structure, and employment during a recent exercise in Estonia.

Liberals should go out of their way to join the military. If libs joined the army en-masse, the military would become heavily liberal because liberals would easily outcompete conservatives.

A baby step forward, but at least a step.

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The GOP is reviving forms of racism not seen in America since approximately 1952

New at The Watch: radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-police...

I do think there is a crown in the gutter waiting for the first major metropolitan police force to stand up to ICE, just massive amounts of public goodwill up for grabs

An Axis of Authoritarianism, one might say

This oddly gives me hope Trump is *maybe* just trying to steal all he can and break the system enough that it doesn’t come after him and his family after he leaves office, as opposed to ruling an authoritarian kleptocracy till he dies www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

"The limit to Trump family profiteering does not exist," wrote the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-m...

Aggression is aggression and it’s bad no matter who does it.