This is a very smart piece about the roots of Chinese overproduction. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

Cornelius Taylor, a homeless man in Atlanta, was killed when the city tried to clear his encampment. His death epitomizes the country's approach to homelessness: criminalize it and push it out of sight. Here's who he was and what he meant to those who loved him: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Raising prices right now would be a huge flex by Disney, should do it just to make a statement.

Jeez if they've lost The Times...

Their feelings are very delicate

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

it’s been a minute

It cannot be that Russia “accidently” violates three times in two weeks European air space. Russia is testing European borders and probing our resolve. It will continue to provoke as long as we allow it. Extract of my statement at the UN Security Council ↓

Absolutely wild that Mamdani has enough organic draw that this is more of a problem for the network than for his candidacy.

Hunger is too scary to measure?

So helping Chinese goods reach Europe, another win for the trade policy coherence team.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

STEPHEN MILLER: you have no idea what you have awakened. we will save the West. we will turn darkness into light. we will rise like a phoenix from the pit of fire and EVERYONE ELSE AT THE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS GAME TABLE: ROLL THE FUCKING DIE ALREADY

We spoke with @chicagoreader.com @thetriibe.com and @unraveledpress.com about the lessons and strategies they learned from media in L.A. and D.C. for their coverage. By @afroxander.bsky.social Find the story (sans paywall) here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

Gotta say I’m not a big fan of 2 Jim Crow 2 Furious

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

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.

this photo; every last detail

“They should accept it because they looked a little Mexican. It’s the price of a free society.” Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

I dunno who it will be (Pritzker? A resurfaced Harris? AOC?) but the Ds desperately need a central leadership figure yesterday.

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

Awkward headline. www.reuters.com/world/france...

Note to lawyers: Dying constitutions are never fundamentally revised or replaced according to the rules of the dying constitution. (See, e.g., replacement of Articles of Confederation, and also ratification of current constitution's Fourteenth Amendment).

Wie ich eure skeets usw

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

“Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs. He also told his daughters detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior.” These are the conditions at the site of yesterday’s protest.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

TIL that Philadelphia picks up trash from single-family houses and condos/co-ops for free, while charging rental properties for the same service, even though multifam collection is way more efficient codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/philad... (via @danieltrubman.bsky.social)

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

Reap, sow, etc., out in Silicon Valley today.

Is hostility to immigration something that people develop spontaneously based on their own experiences, or is it deliberately cultivated by politicians and the press? The authors of this FT don’t say so, but it’s hard not to see this figure as evidence for the latter. www.ft.com/content/43da...

The past week really mattered in a way that I’m not sure has been totally processed yet

Smart glasses could become the next tool for live-streamed extremist violence, writes Jordyn Abrams. But do they present novel policy challenges, and have tech firms considered how to curb their misuse before extremists turn them into tools for radicalization machines?

With Vance it's not so much a question of the authenticity of his extremist views, but rather his ability to impose them. People aren't afraid of him the way they are of Trump, Under Vance I can't see Jeffries and Schumer cowering the way they are today.

Playing a bit of devil's advocate here, I can see why they might not want to be found, but...

It's not a mistake: Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10, signal that its assassination campaign against reporters and newsrooms is an integral part of its military strategy.

The knowledge that a prosecutor might well get sacked if they don’t find incriminating evidence in matters deemed politically important by Trump really makes you wonder about the incriminating evidence in ongoing matters deemed politically important by Trump

Trump on sending the troops into American cities: "It's sort of like war. I hate to tell you."

In anti-ICE protest, Illinois Democrats tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed by federal agents reut.rs/3I4WLGQ

the H1-B thing seems unlikely to withstand a court challenge, but it's still deeply funny that it's basically a nuclear warhead aimed at businesses and executives who've been grandiosely and publicly kissing his fucking ass for nine months

Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social

Yep, she gets it.

"she's the Joan Didion of soliciting dick pics from people who want to outlaw rabies shots" is devastating, hang this shit in the Louvre

Say what you will, but these people were sending death threats "the right way."

Dolan has nothing to lose now.

Chicago Alder Andre Vasquez addresses the protest crowd, as the ICE facility blares a dispersal warning on a loudspeaker on repeat. It's been playing the warning for the last ~10 minutes.