We’re going to need a shitload of quicklime

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

Karpathy called AI-generated code "slop". It should be slop! It should be boring, unsurprising, predictable. Those are bad qualities in writing or art, but it's the ideal for code But wait! If it's only good for boilerplate, then work with that, make more boilerplate timkellogg.me/blog/2025/10...

Probably be good right now if the President and the Vice President weren't on the record "joking" about killing fishermen.

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GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump's FCC tried to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air...literally a month ago today! Do they think we are stupid?

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Increase a little bit? Who is he talking to?? Health care premiums are set to increase in Leader Thune's home state of South Dakota by TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE PERCENT (235%!!!) next year.

What the fuck are we doing?

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility. This is beyond cruel. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Kavanaugh stop

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers. But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law. A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections. We need to stand up together and speak up.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

History won’t praise Democrats for playing by the rules if it’s the reason we lose our country.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Activists in L.A. identified this CBP officer earlier this yr. Today, he choked, body slammed and detained a young man in Chicago. What's particularly fashy about this moment is that CBP officers get to commit crimes w/ impunity and people who tell you their identities are charged with felonies.

Yesterday I interviewed a 20yo from senegal whose parents were dead, best friend was killed in a protest & who spent a year running to safety only to arrive to this version of America. And it struck me that what this country is punishing his insistence on surviving. +

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate. Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

BREAKING: Reports of Federal agents assaulting and abducting peaceful protesters in Portland, Oregon open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

The FAA just issued an absolutely enormous drone flight restriction over Chicago for the next week for security reasons. This is in addition to a 0.5NM TFR over the Broadview ICE processing facility. tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Turns out it was pretty stupid of me to go to “law school” and pass the “bar” and practice “law”

She says this like we didn’t all see the post Trump deleted

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

I am strategist, not a doctor I know 1 company that stands to gain from reducing Tylenol use is Bayer Bayer was involved in Holocaust atrocities that led to war crimes in Germany in WW2 So would I trust anything from RFKjr? If it boosts sales at Bayer? encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

So they faked a sting on Homan and then just forgot to tell us, and then did an Epstein hoax too and forgot to put it out? man Biden really sucked at weaponizing the DOJ

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

not enough money to protect Ukraine's democracy but plenty to bail out this crypto dork after he tanked his economy

Four US citizens including 3 children have been killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Lebanese government says.

“The Watergate scandal was unfair to Nixon” is basically the ethos of the unitary executive theory.

this is a blockbuster

The journalism inside baseball here is what an amazing hire Carol Leonnig has been for MSNBC (part of the mass exodus from the Washington Post)

Aaaand this is why Bondi has dismantled the public corruption unit at DOJ. It’s now pay to play

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his "principal residence" at the same time, mortgage docs show — the same kind of contradictory pledges Trump has been using to try to oust Fed Governor Lisa Cook (there's no evidence Cook actually did that).

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."