The more accurate observation for ICE and Border Patrol is not that they're military wannabes who couldn't hack it in the service, it's that they're military short-timers. Usually guys with low ambition and drive who didn't advance, and with an MOS that doesn't prepare them well for civilian jobs.

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

WANTED FOR KIDNAPPING / ASSAULT - Michael B. Sveum of Las Cruces, NM: BORTAC agent with Customs and Border Protection. He is in Minneapolis now and he was in Los Angeles in June and July. Insignia "EZ-2" and "BTC". Witness to the murder of Renee Nicole Good. #OneOfOursAllOfYours #ICEList #UnmaskICE

🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”

These politicians do not understand what is happening in Minneapolis. We are under attack. They’re EVERYWHERE, they’re not making any pretense of doing genuine immigration enforcement. They’re smashing up our neighborhoods. They’re a criminal gang! Training criminals just means better criminals!

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Without ECB yield caps in 2022, Italy would have gone into a debt crisis. Italy repays the favor with minimal aid for Ukraine and undermines Germany on seizing Russian reserves. The Euro is a bad marriage. Divorce is scary, but better than the alternative... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/what-the-e...

Yes, it’s really hard to capture the full scale of the federal assault on the Twin Cities. At any given point dozens of locations being harassed, across Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the 185 suburbs. Hundreds of roaming cars, highway checkpoints, heavily armed convoys. We are under attack

Happy tenth anniversary to photographer Joel Goodman’s classic image which by rights should be hanging in the Louvre.

The flood of German transshipments to Russia continues unabated. It's been over three years of this now and this stuff is just deeply shameful. The new government needs to make a decisive break from the past and shut these transshipments down. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today. No more excuses...

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen. fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into... (First 3/4ths before paywall.)

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

“The United States, according to the New York Times, has a Maginot Line problem. The problem is that Monsieur Maginot’s infamous namesake fortification has little to do with what really happened in 1940.” Me in Foreign Policy (gift link) foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/18/f...

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

There is so much going on in this picture

ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones. not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.

"If you put a kid on the cover, you’re telling buyers it’s a kid game. If you put adults on the cover, you’re telling kids it’s a gateway to adulthood. This is basic aspirational psychology. They’ll feel like tiny professors. Or tiny villains. Both sell."

This observant and respectful behavior is quite a contrast with the proud xenophobia we constantly hear from the loudest promoters of masculinity today, like techbros who may fetishize Japanese culture while they whine about interracial relationships and being oppressed by DEI

Hollow Men goes so insanely hard We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass

This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.

Talked to @justinwolfers.bsky.social youtu.be/GpA7Ap5adPo?...

"Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself"

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

he's fighting for his life in this meeting

Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.

if The US Military keeps this up, people are gonna think it’s the sort of military that would do something like My Lai, bombing Hospitals, or torturing prisoners

The My Lai Massacre revisited. He landed his helicopter between American troops and Vietnamese civilians. Then he ordered his crew: if the soldiers keep shooting, open fire on them.

Proof that brining is the province of the forces of darkness, while stuffing leads to enlightenment. 🤣

Beat you to the punch by one year. -OS lbjvantagepoint.com/%22the-texas...

stolen squalor?

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

This lonely, terrible death haunts me. ICE thugs tied him up, and I feel sure that-because he was foreign and isolated-they jeered and bullied him. Justice needs to be done.

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

Read this 2020 story by the Guardian and you'll understand why the focus on Epstein scares Trump so much. Trump is a sex predator with a history of appalling behavior toward teenage girls.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the… braddelong.substack.com/p/bidenomics...

This photo encapsulates Trump better than the combined word count of every article ever written about him.

We *really* need some simit stands