Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

Republicans control the House. Republicans control the Senate. Republicans control the White House. This is their government shutdown.

Literally anyone I am remotely related to I refer to my “aunt,” “uncle,” or “cousin,” (and any older Indian person I actually call “auntie” and “uncle”) and I’m pretty sure that’s quite common among South Asians

Okay so I went and found the actual article, and yeah, I guess if you conflate "AI" to mean "basically anything done by a computer" as the article does, then yes, it's pretty hard to avoid. Avoiding genAI, on the other hand, is incredibly easy.

Did you all know that at the end of last week, Rep Prayapal led a "shadow hearing" on Trump's immigration policies here in Chicago? www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

We live in an episode of Veep

"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.

My two takeaways on this: 1. CNN's CEO is utterly craven. No surprise there. 2. The White House is getting very nervous about how poorly the demolition of the East Wing is going over with most Americans. Good.

Nice work by the New York Post for making every single person in the nation find a way to relate to Zohran Mamdani, who has tons of unofficial "aunts" and "uncles" just like the rest of us.

Because we're going to see a rush of people donating to food banks, this is important: private charity IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY. 'FOR EVERY MEAL A FOOD BANK PROVIDES, THE SNAP PROGRAM PROVIDES NINE' bsky.app/profile/arid...

Only 32 states allow the termination of parental rights of rapists who conceive a child, writes Teresa Shonda in an op-ed. “I often think about the judge who told me to ‘get over’ my rape. How can I? I am one of untold numbers of women who have to communicate with their rapist on a daily basis.”

the fundamental confusion between 'democratic party policies' and 'things said by people on twitter, most of whom hated the democratic party' strikes again

‘I went to university at 64 to write a book inspired by the oral historian George Ewart Evans. At 69, I was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. You’re never too old to start again.’ Robert Ashton tells of his success...

Do Republicans not understand that social services are a load-bearing part of the economy? I know they don’t care but do they even *know*?

in like ten thousand years some future archaeologist is going to find this deep underground in the Vatican archives next to the Holy Grail and the shin bone of Saint Paul

The unifying theme here is “amoral vacuums paid for being closely attentive to the whims and desires of the powerful, then bullshitting the public about them”. It looks like they haven’t thought at all about what they are saying beyond the top lines, because *they haven’t*.

You have my attention. "I’ve read more smut at work than you can possibly imagine, all of it while working at OpenAI." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

New substack: Al-Generated US Congressman Fuels False Claims of Somaliland Recognition A number of fake accounts and suspicious news outlets including MiddleEast 24 are pushing the narrative that recognition of Somaliland is inevitable in November open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

Since we mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living, I’m bumping my thread about how from my perspective as a former Junior Olympic level track runner, this “fairness” transphobia is fucking bullshit blacksky.community/profile/did:...

As an educator, as a fellow woman in science, I’m fucking horrified that Lia Smith who was just a year from graduation felt her only option was to take her own life. I lay her death at the feet of all the people hounding trans women athletes like her, you fucking monsters

I wrote this about CBP almost a decade ago

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

from this interview:

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

Really, really sorry this wasn't a Wendy's parking lot. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

THIS is the reason why I have consistently tried to emphasize that Border Patrol and ICE are different agencies with different duties and different leadership and different styles. Border Patrol are the aggro cowboys compared to ICE. Now they're going to be the ones running the show.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Other outlets are now reporting. First to report tonight was Anna Giaritelli at the Washington Examiner, whose story if anything missed how big the purge was. It's not just five cities; ICE Field Office Directors are being fired in at least a dozen cities, and will be replaced by CBP people instead.

Just checking: the republicans that attacked and sent marshals to arrest Texas dems for not showing up to work (in an effort to protect voting rights, btw) are the same republicans that are not showing up to work, yeah?

Other countries have safety nets. The US has women. Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net. Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Can't remember how I came across Hirsch's comics, but they're brilliant. Now I assign her "The Language of Trauma" in The Florida Review to nonfiction students. So I just ordered her new book from this small press (a bonus), and maybe you want to, too.

Oh no.

Gaines wants a debate, AOC wants universal healthcare, and I just want to know who’s dressing Mark Meadows for these segments.

Can someone please ask him how the GOP changed the 60 vote threshold twice in the last two months to approve 150+ trump appointees in one go? Cuz they are in charge and can change the rules to open the government. And they know it. They WANT the shutdown.

🔥 @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “No one can confirm we’ve actually been taking out drug traffickers… the admiral in charge resigned… all these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime… the government’s story is not adding up.”

I really want someone to give Jon Tester and some other people a lot of $$ to go recruit in areas like this.

And he’s mad over Reagan’s own words about tariffs!

Racists are putting out AI videos of Black women threatening to be violent if the prospect of them losing their SNAP benefits next week. It's rage bait and it's racist and it's fake

Relatedly, this is a great piece by @donmoyn.bsky.social using Trump's paying of troops as a window into why Republicans should not be okay with Trump completely sidelining their power: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-risks-...

@maiamindel.bsky.social noted the other day that if he’s talking about a black or latino person he will without fail use the phrase “low IQ”

ICE's hiring surge is turning out to be an entirely predictable disaster. It turns out if you’re hiring for a pariah agency using nakedly fascist and racist messaging, America’s best, brightest, and most fit don’t apply. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-hiri...

Many Americans don't understand that SNAP and the School Food Programs are actually support programs for US farmers. That's why they are housed in the Department of Agriculture.

Democratic erosion but for public health. They are slowly grinding the infrastructure into bits. So dangerous. Children will literally die.

I think political writers actually should have an opinion about a guy in his 40s having a Nazi tattoo. The decision to keep it on their body may tell us more than their website.

support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard… The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign

This is the most insane response to a normal post I've ever seen