Tony Dokoupil recently criticized the old CBS, saying it "put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites & not enough on you [ie, regular Americans]." This explains why CBS just hired Niall Ferguson, who's British, a professor at Stanford & a hedge fund consultant.

In terms of approximating the right strategic choice for Dems on issue emphasis in the midterms campaign, might be worth taking into account which issues Trump is more scared of (from NPR home page)

Next case: “there haven’t been enough cases of rough rides in *suburban* streets so that ….” Next case: “there haven’t been enough cases of rough rides in suburban streets *named after trees* so that ….” Next case: … Abolish QI.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

Ouch. I’ve dealt with Tricia going back to her days on the Vivek campaign, and this is not what she normally sounds like. She sounds nervous. Her initial statement on the Renee Good killing is also something she has not been held accountable for, but I don’t think she expected this to happen on Fox

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

With fire in my soul and the facts on my side, I’ve raised hell about the injustice of denying DC the same rights given to residents of the states for 35 years.   Now, with pride in our accomplishments, gratitude to DC, and confidence in the future, I announced I'll retire at the end of this term.

it would get them out of Minneapolis (but not Minnesota) but pretty much nowhere else they've been causing harm — 2/3 of all Americans live within the border zone

The U.N. Security Council presumably had no idea, when it approved in November the creation of the Board of Peace, that it was bringing into existence a potential competitor to the United Nations itself. wapo.st/46dUKAF

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

Jack Evans running for DC Council chair. archive.is/202601271559...

I missed that one justification for adding Donald's name to the Kennedy Center was that "it gave America’s unofficial national arts center a 'bipartisan' moniker". Does that mean that everything named after a Republican should also get a Democratic hyphenated name? Obviously not.

kayfabe

It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

And JD Vance retweeted this one. I see no reason why Bovino's posts are worse than this. In fact they're not as bad.

One of Pope Leo XIV’s top U.S. allies, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, is calling for the defunding of ICE. Echoing the pope’s moral warnings, Tobin says the “lawless organization” is perpetuating a “machinery of death.” www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leos-...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Watching the DC Bike Walk and Bus PAC Ward 1 candidate forum and one thing is clear so far: candidate Terry Lynch (off camera) is wrong on every issue.

quotes & replies are disabled, but this has hundreds of reposts and it is just not true. it's so sloppy it doesn't even have the right wrong information. the CURRENT governor of mississippi is tate reeves. she's thinking of the last governor, phil bryant, who is also not carolyn bryant's nephew.

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🔥 GOV. @abigailspanberger.com on VA’s redistricting amendment: “This is a response to what we’re seeing in other states, where extreme measures undermine democratic norms… and for those who may oppose, I call on you to make your opposition to what is happening in other states clear.”

I’m also breaking a little news here. Avelo ending its ICE flights isn’t as great as you might’ve thought. (Sorry.) They sold the planes to the company DHS hired to stand up their own deportation fleet. 5/

I 💯 support our obligation to clear our sidewalks, but the fact that snowplows clearing the road double or triple the work is very Car Culture at work.

When @mayorbowser.dc.gov starts clearing sidewalks, we'll start walking on them....

So are we collecting Cava bags to mail to Minnesotans now for their use in protesting?

At some point, you gotta admit that putting it on the some guy who lives next to it to maintain accessible public space doesn’t work

I am all amazement (that it took so long.)

It's a fascinating exercise, thinking about the mythical reader that the Trib believes this dreck will appeal to

Marimar Martinez is asking the body camera showing what really happened when a CBP goon shot her on October 4 be released, in part bc Tricia McLaughlin continues to lie about her, in part bc Sam Alito believes those lies. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Interesting: In a new court filing, Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White's attorney is pushing back on federal prosecutors' motion to prohibit White from claiming entrapment in his upcoming bribery trial. White's attorney calls the man that allegedly bribed White a "prodigious criminal fraudster."

Trump trying to distance himself from the Trump administration

JUDGE: “It concerns me that Attorney General Bondi’s letter cites three things that are the subject of pending litigation before this court,” referring to the District of Minnesota. "Is the executive trying to achieve a goal through force that it can't achieve through the Courts?"

I think it is *incredibly* irresponsible for someone like @stonekettle.bsky.social, with a huge following, to claim that Signal is just as insecure as texts or other public social media. This is a classic “making perfect the enemy of the good” error.

DOJ lawyer taking lessons from Mike Johnson on pretending ignorance of Trump.

Just as in the aftermath of the Renee Good shooting a couple of weeks ago, a lot of people on here (and elsewhere) are sharing baseless claims about the identity of one of the Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti over the weekend. Please don't do this, it makes a terrible situation worse

I talked with the Minnesota legal observer whose Global Entry status’s was revoked three days after a confrontation with a CBP agent. Here’s what she wants you to know.

Rep. Tom Suozzi(D-NY), getting raked over the coals for his vote for more ICE funding, says in a campaign email that he didn’t understand what he was doing

Hard to overstate the scale of the sea change in Fox’s coverage from Saturday, when they were lined up saying that Pretti deserved his fate and the feds did nothing wrong.

One year ago, the Trump administration was using AI to reduce enormously the number of regulations. Now they're planning to use AI to "flood the zone" with huge numbers of regulations. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

John Fetterman’s wife Gisele posted this in response to last week’s killing by federal agents in Minneapolis. Incredibly, the senator himself has not yet said anything publicly or issued any statements.

I'm old enough to remember that this is how Tea Party protesters showed up to rallies

Thank you, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. A true warrior on the Hill who spent decades fighting for a city denied its voice. You carried DC’s fight with courage, grit, and unwavering love for this city. Your legacy lives on in every step toward full representation. Video credit: 51 for 51

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.