Olivia Nuzzi on the Gavin Newsom beat. This should go well.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

RA reports that Ron Carroll has died

Mark Jacob likes to say that he's allowed to have an opinion now that he isn't working in newspapers. That said, this is an objective, factual and funny list.

A map inset in the article shows that the gun range is owned by the Katy, Texas police department. So we have a police gun range next to a recreational area, which in most other states would be a zoning issue. This story is peak Texas.

If Democrats want to expand the tent, stop trying to woo voters like the Baileys, Chuck Schumer's imaginary friends that he keeps running game theories in which they ... vote Republican. If Democrats are the party of the working class, as they claim, then cater to the working class.

President Camacho's entrances were more subtle.

In fairness, we've all seen photos of Charlie Kirk's head. That's a dense skull that requires dense neck bones to balance.

“It should not be overlooked that since Trump’s first term, all significant efforts to collectively prosecute social justice movements have failed.”

How many times does the football need to be pulled away from him as he’s about to kick it for Chuck Schumer to realize that the GOP caucus doesn’t want bipartisan negotiation? He’s been in Congress for over 30 years.

Bridgeport and McKinley Park Antifa is on the case.

He said into live mics during his first term that Covid cases would go down if we stopped tracking them. He doesn’t want any paper trails documenting his administration’s incompetence.

He’s famously a teetotaler. I would have chosen another of his known vices. “Syphilitic with power” slaps.

Taco Bell Doritos Locos Tacos shell holders.

Trump earned 49.8 percent of the popular vote in 2024. He won in a plurality. Or, if your media diet is exclusively conservative media, a "mandate."

The fish rots from the top down.

Galloway is on the right track. this needs to be coupled with a general strike, which we’ve needed since at least Newt Gingrich’s Contract With (“On”) America. /1

I guess editing Kirk’s sound bytes so that he could be presented as the “MLK Jr. of conservatism” proved to be a nigh-impossible task, even for Sinclair.

"On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources." Oh, to see that video.

Patel in that photo looks like he's staring into klieg lights like Diana Ross in The Wiz.

"How can they make such a big and sweeping change so easily and quickly?" Maybe Roger Goodell issued an executive order and the club owners stood aside and let him?

There is nothing in Political Punditry 101 that says one's opinions must align with reality.

“Never played Bridgeport before. This will be my first and last time.” Hannibal Buress played a packed Ramova Theatre tonight and weighed in on gambling, co-parenting and why he thinks Eminem is a better father than LeBron James. A great show.

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

This reminds me of Reuters' directive to its newsrooms on how to cover Trump during his first term — like a hostile state. Access is preferred, but not required. Any journo who takes the DOD's pledge is suspect.

Georgia-based Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara — a man with a U.S. work permit — was arrested while covering a No Kings protest on June 14 and immediately placed on an ICE hold. He's been in jail ever since. He shares his story in @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

There was a time that colleges commissioned statues of people if they were graduates of the college and notable achievers. KIrk's achievements are notable (not in a good way), but he barely made it through a semester at Harper College.

We are in full oligarchy now. Trump expresses something and his Cabinet rushes to make it happen. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/19/s...

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

A group of local tow truck drivers are offering to tow people's work vans to work sites without charge if they're afraid of being taken by ICE while driving, which is a neat spontaneous community response to all of this

Related, from Wired: www.wired.com/story/brenda...

Trump is Bobby Newport from Park and Rec, if he never met the ball of sunshine that it Leslie Knope.

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

Is it gold? Or is it fiberglass painted in gold leaf? A swing of a hammer will provide an answer.

The easiest form of protest would be to stop watching Nexstar TV or radio stations, even the non-ABC affiliates. (That means no WGN TV or WGN Radio in Chicago.)

Doubling down on Kirk ”doing politics the right way,” I see.

It only takes a couple moments to send an email.

If Charlie Kirk lived in Biblical times and was the 13th disciple, he would have betrayed Jesus before Judas and bragged about it.

Great news for Don Jr.

The "trust Lucy to not pull the football away" energy is off the charts.

This country is being terrorized by failed prison guards and part-time backyard wrestlers.

I was wondering when Ta-Nehisi Coates would weigh in on Charlie Kirk. It was worth the wait.

Is it, though?

I’m at a diabetes wellness check and my blood pressure is 92/70. If nothing else, there is that to carry into the day.

Is she gonna make a photo op at Johnnie’s Beef?

ICE arrested nearly 400 people in Chicago and nearby states in the days after Trump’s inauguration, records show. Block Club had to sue to get the data — and ICE still won’t say who exactly was arrested. Here’s why we’re fighting to know more: blockclubchi.co/4n5L01T

Rest in Power and be ready to stomp a mudhole into the Criterion Channel playlist of Redford movies that is coming.

Podcasting would be too much work, even for Vance. Encourage him to be an indoor flâneur, instead.

The Venn diagram overlap of callousness and cluelessness this man constantly displays is one circle.