AnalOgic. RapiScan. Lord grant me the cojones of a TSA vendor.

Is there no way to just move times square to Hudson yards

One week til 2026 and the train station is still continuously looping a 2000 announcement to “cover your mouth and nose with a CLOTH mask” to reduce the spread of COVID.

This is a good week to remember that his first choice for attorney general was clearly a child rapist.

Acknowledging that the first quarters of most of the recent centuries have not been their best quarter, this one suuuuuuuuuuucked

Great @nytimes.com documentary on Border Patrol’s street thuggery and retributive violence against U.S. citizens they crash into with their reckless driving and roid-rage tactics. For as much shit as ICE gets, note who’s actually committing the crimes here. #HomelandSecurityActWasAMistake

I'm sorry, @rokhanna.bsky.social and Tom Massie masterminded the most crucial discharge petition in decades and they didn't put in an enforcement mechanism??

While I would have enjoyed having a full-time job this year, I neither have to give nor receive any year-end performance evaluations so I’m calling it a wash.

This anti-DEI thing is well composed but also dumb. I’m the theoretical Gen X white guy the author thinks had it easy. It isn’t. My career has bombed at every turn. That’s life, not birth cohort. https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

It is ever more critical that NOBODY visit the United States for the Olympics or World Cup. It is not safe for visitors, and I urge every other country to get some solidarity against these goons.

I don’t want to say the FBI is never going to find the guy at Brown, but there was a bombing at Yale Law School in 2003 that was never solved (though it was Stewart Rhodes, right? had to be).

The New York Times just published a bombshell in a story that we’ve been tracking and the implications of it go far beyond immigration enforcement. In short, the privacy of all Americans is at stake. @scottshuchart.bsky.social and @nschneidman.bsky.social explain why. https://protdem.org/3XSE8Ko

Seven conclusions about what we've learned about Trumpism and the resilience of American democracy across 2025 — the big one: Donald Trump is losing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/donald-tru...

The reason citizens don't just have an ID that DHS has to accept is that after 9/11, Republicans worried about the mark of the beast insisted we could never have a "national ID card," hence the Rube Goldberg fiasco of REAL ID.

This story by @haleaziz.bsky.social is a huge deal. @protectdemocracy.org has a helpful explainer of why this is happening and what can be done about it: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/ice-is-mon...

Seems bad?

We need to start seeing regular joint statements from all the Dem presidential contenders promising consequences. Also does Virginia have jurisdiction over murders committed at the pentagon?

Lost in the hubbub over yesterday's lawful-orders video is that Commodore Perry's "Don't Give Up the Ship" is a great motto and symbol for the honest opposition. www.military.com/history/how-...

In a just world, ED Va would refer Halligan and Blanche for disbarment and order Trump to personally pay 200% of Comey’s legal bills. A travesty from start to finish. And I fucking hate Comey.

Why doesn’t anyone suggest confiscating the money Trump gets bribed for pardons and using that for SNAP

How will we help future generations understand that before Trump, villains having their names on their ugly skyscraper headquarters was just a comic book thing?

Where were these Epstein emails 54 weeks ago? What’s that, in the Biden-Harris-Garland DOJ?

Hearing the Tom Waits original of “Downtown Train” (and not the Rod Stewart cover) in the Safeway is a dark omen.

The big swing in the off-year election is a good reminder that swing voters are ill-informed, stupid people.

Whomst could have guessed ICE dressing like criminals would lead to criminals dressing as ICE https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/

People born before 1960: please stop running for office. We’ve got it.

Days like this, it’s sad not believing in Hell.

It seems like eliminating SNAP is what you’d do if you actually wanted people eating the dogs and eating the cats

Analysts trying to understand how the Biden Admin (of which I was a part) did such a terrible job on border and immigration - a subject the senior WH staff had zero background in - would do well to ask why they also did a terrible job in Ukraine and Gaza, the subjects they were expertly attuned to.

Old enough to remember when even 9/11 was not enough to weaken Republican opposition to a “national ID card,” leading to the absurd RealID situation. And yet now DHS is just going to … put it all in a national ID database, without the offsetting benefit of sending you a card.

People worried that ICE could become the White House’s private army should maybe note that Border Patrol already is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/01/dhs-ice-border-patrol-chicago-tear-gas/

The Democratic Party should just have a mandatory retirement age.

The most realistic thing in all of cinema is Luke Skywalker abandoning the civilization he saved when it couldn’t keep the fascists away for even two generations.

Just in case you aren't following my LinkedIn, this is now happening:

What’s the Sniglet for the relief upon learning the new Pynchon novel is under 300pp? (See also: New Yorker double-week issue, relief upon receiving)

Asshole is back on duty. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-officer-pushed-woman-video-returns-to-duty/

Worth reposting

Stock market collapse in ’27 to V-J day was only 18 years. It’s now been 25 years since Bush v. Gore launched us into this dark timeline (or 24 since 9/11 if you prefer). How many more years do we have of this nightmare century?

It's nice that Comey is worried about law enforcement abuses. Imagine what would have happened if he followed the rules designed to stop those in 2016.

This is wildly unacceptable behavior for a LEO. On January 19th this DO would have face serious consequences from ICE OPR. Now???

Bear in mind there are already visas for athletes, directors, and others of great merit. This is for otherwise-worthless rich shitbags, like Luttnick and Trump themselves.

Ahh, democracy dies in late-nite specifically.

At this point it’s a little offensive nobody is trying to silence me.

When did "worthless pieces of shit shouldn't be murdered" become controversial?

Can #DoorDash / #Uber / #grubhub release data on how martial law is effecting delivery times and volumes in LA, DC, now Chicago vs control cities? @doordashhelp.bsky.social#DoorDash

Dude, we get it, you’re an evil fuck. You don’t have to keep tearing off masks. We got it.

Great Guardian piece yesterday in which I got to say things like "You don’t have to spend weeks teaching someone immigration law if you’ve decided the law just means the president gets to deport anyone he wants."

If Putin poisoned Trump, would he be able to admit it?