He said “their behavior” and not “our behavior”? Hmm…

"We’ve been parents of an autistic child for less than five years. But what we want, more than treatment or speculation about causes or if-I-were-you advice, is accompaniment. We want people to walk with us and support us as we walk with and support our son." www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

It's getting to be a moral failing to be allowed into the United States.

State Dept's revoking visa of Colombia's president because he said in Spanish "That's why from here, from New York I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

"$750,000...came from Ronald Lauder, the on-again, off-again ally of President Trump who helped spark his interest in Greenland. A cosmetics heir, Mr. Lauder has donated millions of dollars to elect Republicans and defeat progressive measures statewide." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer. I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World. 1/11

Please repost one thing at a time and then take a break. I'm not crazy about anyone trying to monopolize my Bluesky feed by sharing every post in someone else's thread.

"Unlike the more Protestant-influenced New England town common, which often features restrictive signage and controlled activities, the piazza embodies a Catholic understanding that humans are inherently social beings, created for communion." www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

They’re literally giving prosecutors the names of people and organizations, and telling them to go find crimes. It’s clear from the NYT that the directive came from Trump. This is a direct consequence of Roberts explicitly immunizing weaponization of DOJ in Trump v. US.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I'm enough of an elitist that whenever I see those New York Times illustrations of people in voter focus groups, I think, "Here comes stupidity."

5-year-old Chief Executive watch: politicalwire.com/2025/09/24/t...

I wonder if the White House regrets not putting its own candidate in the Republican primary just to have a more malleable nominee. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/24/c...

It's nice to have preaching-to-the-choir media outlets (I read a lot of them!), but they don't really solve the problem of Americans living in different realities.

The odd thing about this theological argument: As you can imagine, there are others who literally make the *exact opposite argument.*

"Justin Driver, a Yale Law professor and the author of The Fall of Affirmative Action, told me that he expects any elite college that doesn’t start enrolling fewer Black students to be accused by the Trump administration of breaking the law." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police. This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this. “Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

Finally reading the full Gold Card EO and wow is it wild. The order says that any person who pays $1 million is, by definition, a person of "exceptional business ability" and therefore qualified for an EB-2 visa. Does anything better sum up the Trump ethos than "all rich people are exceptional."?

NIMBYism is a huge cultural problem. It's been empowered for years where it becomes normalized into law, and the default of what we're used to. We need to end this culture of thinking we have the right to say what happens on other people's property, and who gets to live in our neighbourhood.

New at Media Nation: Jimmy Kimmel's return is a rare success for boycotts — but there are still several shoes to drop. dankennedy.net/2025/09/23/j...

This isn’t totally wrong, but too many on the left go from here to telling voters, “So stop worrying about culture issues and let us take care of them.” Not very democratic and not effective.

Leominster PD had to be called to rescue the child. This family has legal status to be in the US. They came back to arrest the father two days later and he is being illegally held at an ICE facility in Plymouth.

For the past 53 hours we have been trying to identify the man who was racially-profiled and abducted by ICE agents in East Somerville this past Saturday — his family and co-workers have now come forward to identify him as Magdaleno Pineda Avelar. More here: www.cambridgeday.com/2025/09/20/s...

It’s always negroni season!

I know Nate Silver is unpopular on here, but he's telling me that Trump's approval ratings have been steady for months, while Bluesky keeps telling me anew that his approval rating has plunged, to a point where it must be below 0 by now. I think I believe Silver. www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...

"Real Americans might be Christians, but real Christianity, with its Golden Rule, was for chumps. Social reality was irreducibly tribal (i.e., racial), and “equality” was just a pretty word for dispossession. St. Augustine would call it a philosophy for gangsters."

Today, we’re running an essential story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social about Sonoma County residents taking action to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE raids. The new program, Adopt a Corner, is activism as a simple act of neighborly solidarity.

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

In a functioning democracy, this would backfire when the opposition party wins the White House and retaliates, but this is one more sign that the Trump administration is confident of holding power for a long time. time.com/7319201/dona...

Editing peeve: Don't say that something is "increasingly true" or "increasingly unpopular" unless you have data showing a recent change. You can just say that someone or something "is unpopular" without overselling things to imply a free fall.

ICE treats you like a “living ghost,” one woman said from detention. “They don’t care if you die.” Inside the “psychological torture” regime targeting migrants who can’t be sent home.

“I have talked more about Jesus Christ in the past two weeks than I have my entire time in public life,” Vice President JD Vance said. Yet I don't think I've ever perceived more of a difference between Catholicism and US-style Christianity than I do now. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

At America magazine: www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

U.S. citizen and lawyer Leslie Perlera Gonzalez has been living in fear for her undocumented husband. This week her fear came true, with ICE abducting her husband after ramming their car into his, smashing the car window, and pointing a stun gun at his head. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/m...

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Writing this story was illegal, and so is publishing it, sharing it, and liking it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

"the lionization of Travis—like the real-life praise showered on Bernhard Goetz, Kyle Rittenhouse and others— shows that in America, the response to violence changes depending on its victims." www.americamagazine.org/catholic-mov...

<The Roxbury plan’s ostensible “inclusion of EV [electric vehicle] charging infrastructure” meant that it “no longer aligns with DOT priorities,” and, as such, wouldn’t receive funding, according to the letter.>

So many men seem nostalgic for when they were bullied in high school.

<“Oh, we just confused you with somebody else, but look at the bright side, like, you’re going to have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school,” the agents reportedly told him.>

Build or die

"the company meticulously tracked the output of its medical directors on a monthly dashboard.... Day and two other former medical directors said the dashboard sent a message loud and clear: Cigna valued speed."

Good news? I needed something to distract me from drinking on my lunch hour.

He's essentially giving a pass to every Democratic voter who refused to vote for Harris last year, which is kind of odd for a Democratic state chair. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Ron Howard didn't say it any more than the pope did. For some reason, this old fake is all over Facebook again. www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

There's a lot of "he won't be around forever" thinking that entirely misses what is happening.

the posts will get more arcane until morale improves

"In dictatorships, the government has to spend taxpayers’ money on state media. Here in America, the land of free speech and the free market, people volunteer to be Baghdad Bob." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...