That may explain why Hegseth is so angry. My grandfather was a happy falling-down drunk until my mom was about 12 years old, when he quit cold turkey. She said it took 2-3 years for him to stop being angry & mean.

Don’t drop the Homan bribe story. It could be the Rosetta Stone for figuring out billions of dollars of corrupt dealing for building out the national surveillance & incarceration system.

Yesterday at the ICE facility in Broadview outside of Chicago an ICE agent—essentially a sniper—shot the car of a CBS reporter with a pepper ball, which made her vomit for two hours. And ICE agents dressed in camo & combat gear are playing occupying force in downtown Chicago.

I'm currently picturing Hegseth as Gary Busey in that "Family Guy" cutaway:

Everything will be put right with Steiner’s attack…

More importantly, if your objective is regime consolidation over the military, then bringing together 800 irritated top officers is the worst possible idea. They wouldn’t normally conspire electronically, but stranding them together during a govt shutdown gives them time to talk & compare notes.🚨

Given that one of the bylines is former Daily Caller hack Shelby Talcot I think it would be wise to wait for addition confirmation on this.

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

This should be seen by people here as a bigger problem than Jeffries & Schumer having a meeting with Trump to try to stop healthcare cuts.

I just landed in DC, where we are ready to negotiate and prevent millions from losing health insurance next year. Meanwhile, most Republicans aren’t even in town. Mike Johnson doesn’t have House Republicans coming back this week. A sad state of affairs.

Why does the left get angry when they’re not taken seriously?

Mike Johnson. John Thune. Susan Collins. Lisa Murkowski. Total free passes. The GOP, as a political party, & the leaders in charge of Congress, amidst unprecedented corruption & fascist lawbreaking, don't even exist to the people on the NYT op-ed page. They literally are not actors in 🇺🇸 politics.

And to my knowledge the NYT still has never explained their repeated inside sources articles about how Harvard had decided to cave. @jfallows.bsky.social

They nearly drove me mad in Trump I. There are still some ninnies there, but yeah, in general they understand the politics better this time.

If you work for HHS and focus on autism, I would love to talk to you about how your job or research has been affected by RFK Jr. Message me on Signal at emgarcia.85.

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

Congratulations to @gauthamrao.bsky.social!! Some books just take their time. I am inspired that yours is out!

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

It wasn't a TV truck; the reporter was in her personal vehicle (a truck).

Yesterday ICE shot a pepper ball at a TV truck parked near the Broadview facility outside Chicago. There were no protestors at the time. The reporter said the chemicals in the round made her vomit for hours ICE doesn’t need to be protected from us. We need to be protected from ICE.

I think liberals need to be spending big on several efforts. But let’s be clear here that: A. Only 7 states are more Dem than Connecticut B. Murphy isn’t up until 2030 C. That’s roughly 1/1,000th what both Sherrod Brown & John Tester raised for their 2026 campaigns.

Incredible that in 3.5 years, with hundreds of thousands of Russians dead, Putin *still* hasn't managed to conquer even the Donbas. Just a spectacular, historic failure.

We can make them listen. These promises were starting to have legs over the past three election cycles. We didn’t quite get there (with the commitments or the election results) but we must keep putting it to Senate candidates in particular.

(I think along similar lines about the gas tax, which has been stuck in park relative to inflation since 1993:)

“’If you can’t rock on your own after 33 years, maybe that’s not a business that’s going places,’ [Energy Secretary] Wright said [about renewables] at a Wednesday press conference.” Alright, bet: when the next Dem trifecta comes, away go fossil-fuel credits and subsidies. Repeal every single one.

It works on so many levels…

Boyd was in New Orleans & wrote about Katrina & the aftermath. I understand it better—in particular the racial/class inequalities—after riding around the city with him explaining what happened (& why) to various neighborhoods.

ICE is shooting at journalists Reporter for the local CBS affiliate was sitting in her station’s truck w the windows down outside the ICE facility in Broadview near Chicago. There were no protesters, it was quiet, but ICE agent shot their truck w a pepper ball blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/29/i...

"In this country, I have had a lot of opportunity because I have dedicated myself to working in the fields and doing well," Ana said. "We are good people." #WeFeedYou

Farmworker Ana says she has no choice but to go to work amid deportation threats. “I look at my children and I say, 'I don't know if I'm going to come back,’” she says when she leaves home. "And I always tell them that I love them very much." www.context.news/socioeconomi... #WeFeedYou

Currently pretending I’m president.

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Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

Another way of say this is “Ezra is a nincompoop” In Ezra’s politics there’s no blood. There are no bruises or broken bones, nobody is immiserated, nobody loses, nobody’s life is shrunken or their life chances taken away. It’s all about performative discourse. It’s elitist.

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint. I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone. Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.

Another way of say this is “Ezra is a nincompoop” In Ezra’s politics there’s no blood. There are no bruises or broken bones, nobody is immiserated, nobody loses, nobody’s life is shrunken or their life chances taken away. It’s all about performative discourse. It’s elitist.

I was calling Noah Smith an idiot and an asshole over ten years ago #hipster

Fun fact: A decade ago I was occasionally referred to as the “Nate Silver of Obamacare.” At the time I took it as a compliment. I haven’t in quite some time now.

Why take advantage of your … *checks notes* … Presidential Daily Brief from one of the best intelligence gathering agencies in the world when you can just mainline Fox News instead.

Two KFF findings Republicans might want to consider when deciding how much they care about the looming 100+% premium spike: More than 1/4 of farmers and ranchers are marketplace enrollees. Almost 1/2 of enrollees are small business owners or work for them.

[Turns on MSNBC] “The Democrats problem with their messaging…” [Turns off MSNBC] 95% of discussions about “messaging” are stupid, & often by people who themselves undermine Democrats’ attempts to communicate with voters without paying for ads/mail/canvassers/etc.

It’s funny these ICE agents are so brazen considering they’re all about to be indicted in three years

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

50/50 odds Grandpa Trump thought the medbeds were real.

If this is legit (& it appears to be), & reports are correct that the shooter is a 40 y/o man from Burton (another overwhelmingly white suburb of Flint) it’s _highly_ likely that if he had any discernible politics that they tilt to the right.

Based on a lot of the responses to this apparently a lot of people have not pondered the possibility (imo the likelihood) that what’s been going on with Jeffries & Mamdani has really been more about Jeffries & Adams & Black voters in Brooklyn.

Good overview of the friction between federal agencies & state/local government at the ICE facility in Broadview outside of Chicago.

So the President, the civilian Pentagon leadership, and all the top brass in the military are all meeting at the same time at the same place. This sounds like the premise of a bad Cold War-era suspense novel.

Southport is a delightful little tourist town.