This barred owl is watching you to ensure that you do not buy Starbucks coffee during the strike. Owls have excellent hearing, so it'll know if you cross the picket line. And they fly nearly silently. You'll never know what hit you.

Feel like we're a couple weeks from a NYT Opinions column explaining they didn't want to go fash, but people were mean to them online, so you see, they had no choice.

(I learned this only very recently! I had assumed he was just very successful at hedge fund but it kinda sounds more like he was very successful at various frauds and the people being defrauded couldn’t report it because of what he had on them!)

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr posted a screenshot of Trump’s post demanding that Seth Meyers be fired.

Remember this party with just Trump where they were doing professional things

Good morning. This is your reminder to get to the gym so that you can beat up racists if you have to.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

Not that I believe really anything Nuzzi writes, given her record, but the far bigger scandal here is her claim that RFK Jr. was still actively using psychedelics last year, then became HHS secretary in an admin that is killing people for smuggling recreational drugs.

I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

A former career DOJ guy told me a few weeks ago that prior to Trump, the FBI was the varsity team, DHI and ICE were junior varsity, and Border Patrol were like a drunken office softball team. And under Trump, the drunk softball guys are now in charge.

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable

Epstein’s War

Agree. Summers engaging in friendly gossipy 100% sexist emails with underage-girls-sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, long *after* Epstein had been indicted, shows remarkably poor judgement and hubris. Professional economists should openly question people and institutions that honor Summers.

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

It's been a political masterclass from Pope Leo, frankly. I think he was tired of Trump and MAGA co-opting Christianity and said let's get in there and make it an us vs them situation. Make the administration be versus the church. It's smart.

beyond just being wrong on the merits, the thing that bugs me about people dismissing actors and athletes as labor is that, historically, they’ve been at the forefront of a lot of labor victories that have helped labor more broadly

Hey Charlotte, NC, regional area. ICE is here and looking to rumble. Do Not give them a reason. Stay safe, protect your communities, and film everything! We will not be intimidated into silence.

During the Revolutionary War, Charlotte became known as a "Hornets' nest of rebellion" for resisting British General Cornwallis' attempts to occupy the city, forcing him to retreat. The NBA's Charlotte Hornets get their nickname from our history. I hope we live up to it against ICE/CBP. #CLT #ncpol

I hope you all are starting to arm yourself with CPB’s greatest fear: Whistles Someone sees CPB, the blow their whistle, vulnerable people know to hide. I hope that takes off around Charlotte like it did around Chicago.

This is what they did here in Chicago for 2 months. It’s all CBP knows how to do, to drive in SUV’s looking for people to grab. And their best shot at hitting quotas will be in middle class neighborhoods where people hire a service to do their yard.

The other thing I hope starts to happen is people hiring landscapers understand that they’re asking the workers to risk arrest & possible deportation. Over time people began to make it clear to the workers that if they were unsafe they could run in to their house to keep away from CBP

Charlotte and NC folks: The ACLU of NC has an app called Mobile Justice NC that allows you to record and report police interactions in real time.

ICE today deployed its agents in Charlotte. The decision follows years of retaliation from federal authorities and North Carolina Republicans—ever since voters elected a sheriff who opposed assisting ICE in 2018. Bolts reported on this dynamic in 2023:

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper

Charlotte's black sheriff, who was elected in 2018 and who has not cooperated with ICE, is one of the black sheriffs being targeted by the GOP in North Carolina. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

ICE kidnapped a US citizen in Charlotte after he provided proof of citizenship. Of course, they made sure to smash his vehicle window for dramatic effect.

Charlotte, NC just happens to be a rapidly growing Democratic city that, with its population growth, could tip the swingish state of North Carolina into Democratic territory.

ICE (more likely CBP but unclear) snatched a man from a Charlotte church today. His wife and child were there and they opened a closed gate to trespass on the property. Reporting from @charlotteobserver.com www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Writing “Adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation” to make yourself seem legitimate is like saying you were a student manager at Bishop Sycamore, not even good enough for coaching staff.

With an estimated $2 billion price tag, Trump's "Dept. of War" rebrand is a boondoggle that a majority of Americans oppose. It's broadly unpopular, even among Republicans, and a majority (54%) say the asinine change won't make the U.S. safer.

Also this part- let’s focus on, the abuse (and address it!), not giggle at the idea of two dudes hypothetically engaged in consensual sexy fun times.

This part.

Conservatives: well we’ll just highlight all the democrats in the Epstein files! Liberals: yes. Good. Let’s hold everyone accountable. Conservatives: even Bill Clinton and Bill Gates!!! Liberals: that’s a good start! But go after Trump just as hard. Conservatives: …

There are a lot of ways Mark Epstein could have responded to this query, including saying nothing at all, and “Bubba is not Bill Clinton” is absolutely not the one I expected.

Just saw a guy here insist that, compared to Donald Trump, Bill Clinton is a saint. What? Compared to a toddler, I am a football player but you still wouldn’t want me as quarterback. Partisan politics makes people so foolish 🫤

I want boring government that works! I want policies that ensure everyone has the same chances I had, allowing you to succeed or fail on your own merits, and if you fail, you’re not abandoned on the streets, but you get to brush yourself off and try again! I want the American dream for everyone.

You want to know why young people don’t give a fuck about our system? It’s because this pedophile piece of shit has never been held accountable despite being the antithesis of everything this country was founded on. We have to give people a reason to vote and care, and the current system ain’t it.

As someone who has had multiple MRIs, you absolutely know what the techs are imaging before they put you in the machine, because if there is any sort of metal in the target area you *really* need to let them know beforehand since cleaning bloodstains out of the tube is NOT a good time

Who needs all that shit anyway.

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

"When I launched the campaign, I said that phrases like ‘sex scandal’ and ‘child porn’ conceal the six crimes typically hidden underneath: rape, torture, murder, abduction, trafficking, and blackmail." #opdeatheaters #3E #Epstein #Maxwell

US media from all political corners are frantically trying to avoid this particular Epstein email.