This is really important context missing from everyone’s posting about the tanker the Navy seized near Venezuela today.

1. This is not how anyone talks to an O-10. 2. This is certainly not how a 40 year-old ex-O-4 talks to an O-10. 3. This is the most dumbshit company grade officer crap imaginable. No competent commander tells a senior officer not to ask questions. 4. He may as well have called Holsey "boy."

EXCLUSIVE | ‘America, uh... First!’: ICE to buy $7.2 million worth of Canadian armored personnel carriers

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It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him

Let's put these 2 headlines from this afternoon together. They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean. But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.

Just posted this on Monday. As the sirens and helicopters sound off in the distance, I'm thinking about the young part-time soldiers I was just talking to. We must continue to insist—even more forcefully today—that this is absolutely not an appropriate mission for U.S. military personnel.

The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

A 20-year-old Florida man was arrested after allegedly planning a livestreamed attack and threatening children. Federal authorities found an array of neo-Nazi paraphernalia at his home, including a flag associated with Atomwaffen Division. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

SATURDAY NIGHT!

"The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika … as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month. Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Who needs cameras in the courtroom when you’ve got THIS

i like that there are both armenian and romanian surnames that mean "maker of pastrami" (basturmajian and pastramagiu, respectively)

There were lots of stories late last week on the text messages by Border Patrol agent Charlie Exum who shot a woman five times in Chicago last month I haven't seen anyone post the text messages themselves Here they are: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

In all of the bad press today, don't miss that Emmanuel Class's excuse for why the federal government indicted him for betting and coordinating with other betters on what pitch he would throw at certain times was that he was *actually* talking about his cock fighting operation, not gambling.

A transgender TSA officer, who has identified and presented as a woman since her first day, is no longer allowed to pat down travelers thanks to a Trump executive order issued that, with a stroke of the pen, wrongfully reclassified her as a man. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

One of the first stories I ever wrote for money was for a trade magazine called Dermatology Business Management. It was a feature on FSA/HSA back when they were new. Every public health person I talked to was like "bad idea, also badly designed." That was like 20 years ago.

My narcissism recovery is going so well we made a TV show about it

“If you’re conscious of the need to protect classified information, you’ll remember what the rules are.”’ - John Bolton on Hillary Clinton Fascinating new details here (Bolton has a SCIF in his house, for one) from the great @josepagliery.bsky.social www.notus.org/courts/john-...

Still reconciling myself to the fact that George Santos celebrated his prison release by partying at the hibachi place in the Poconos (Desaki) where I've taken my girls at least annually for over a decade and they make balloon animals and yes I've caught the zucchini and they make onion volcanoes.

this little fool really makes my day

A whole bunch going on here... "A lovesick MAGA fan in Central Florida is facing federal charges after he allegedly threatened to torch the White House and assassinate ICE agents after he was unable to get a live person on the phone at a government immigration office."

Alice does not suffer fools

Fun fact: Mellon is known to be fixated with Amelia Earhart — so if you’ve wondered why Trump has talked about her seemingly out of nowhere, that’s probably a big clue! www.wyomingnewsnow.tv/news/federal...

Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.

So the admiral in charge of all U.S. forces in Latin America just quit rather than, it seems, continue blowing up boats. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Oh my.

Alice is not quite sure yet about her Halloween costume

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Crazy: Sen. Ron Wyden’s wife owns the famous Strand bookstore. She’s accusing her assistant of embezzling $100Ks and stealing & selling family heirlooms. But he killed himself, and now his husband blames her family with wild claims @justinrohrlich.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This has to be one of the craziest stories I've ever read! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

NEW from me: Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

looks like oversight dot gov is down for the count

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Just learned that my cousin was summarily fired from his job as Prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. Apparently, someone discovered a blog post of his that was critical of Trump from 2017(!) when he was still in private practice. THIS IS FUCKING INSANE.

So, about that team of public integrity prosecutors who investigated Tom Homan, the guy who accepted a $50k bribe in a sting operation last year... The Trump DOJ has cut it down to 2 lawyers: a boss who oversees a single attorney. @notus.com exclusive: www.notus.org/courts/doj-p...

oh the summertime fun Walmart manager Marco Polo must have in the pool

finding 450 qualified technicians and engineers in the Spring Hill, TN area who have specialized knowledge of a very specific line of South Korean-made factory production equipment should be no problem

Naval Station Great Lakes does not have enough bathrooms to accommodate all the federal agents headed to the Chicago area

My brother fatally overdosed during the pandemic, and I still support due process rather than murdering people.

I was wondering about this. Will also mean new everything else, from stationery to ID badges to pens, pencils, vehicle and aircraft livery to you name it…

Alice doesn’t judge. But she sees and hears all.

the best criminal masterminds always keep detailed receipts of their crimes

‘Great Lakes police had to be called bc one locked his keys in his car.’

This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.

Mark Knoller, who was a cherished colleague at AP Broadcast and CBS Radio, has died at the age of 73. Mark was the ultimate statistician on the White House beat and it was an honor to interview him for my book about the relationship between presidents and the press.