incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Guys, it’s totally cool, the gang of unidentified masked ICE agents armed like it’s Fallujah only burst into the daycare because they were in hot pursuit of a “female illegal alien.” What were they supposed to do, identify themselves properly & produce a warrant? Wait until the kids had left? Fie!

Stormtroopers of the ICE Gestapo get their jollies from unprovoked violence. Arrest them. Change them. Imprison them.

I’m not into the “Caddyshack” reboot at all.

The Holy See vs. the Hypocri See

Between his namesake Pope dissolving Opus Dei and his losses last night, this has been a bad coupla weeks for Leonard Leo. I love that for him.

Super excited to watch @nadinesmith.bsky.social & @thelisagraves.bsky.social on The Five 8 1/2 tonight! They will talk about, among other things, how Mamdani (Zoh)ran Cuomo out of town.

Nunzio got his way. Thanks, NJ.

I don’t know which is more unfathomable: that a single human has accumulated $30 billion, or that a single human has accumulated $30 billion and is totally cool with laying off 30,000 employees in the early days of a recession.

This is an absolute must-read by Greg Olear. This line stood out for me: 'Donald Trump will never leave, and therefore, Donald Trump will have to be removed.' Read it now!

I enjoyed reading this block by block forecast. And I hope he’s right!

все старое снова новое.

Forgot to include fake bomb threats in this morning's piece covering the many ways Trump will openly fuck with the midterms and the '28 election. gregolear.substack.com/p/8647-donal...

Open defiance of a court order + dissolution of the House = dictatorship. Dictators don't get voted out. gregolear.substack.com/p/8647-donal...

8645 open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

So Republicans are aware that the Fourteenth Amendment exists. Huh. Have they made it to Section 3 yet or nah?

“We must consider every nonviolent plan that might work, we must use every peaceable means at our disposal, and we must do it now. This is a five-alarm fire. It could not be more urgent."

MUST READ 8647: Donald Digs In He doesn't plan on ever leaving. What are we going to do about it? @gregolear.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

"A tumor won’t up & leave because 2/3s of the Senate says so. A cancer won’t stop metastasizing because it loses Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin. No: the tumor keeps growing until it is excised. The cancer keeps spreading until it’s stopped with chemotherapy—or until the host body dies."

Hey, Jersey! Nunzio says VOTE MIKIE.

Does the porn app also filter out things he doesn’t want to comment on?

The other candidates for Speaker were Jim Jordan, of Ohio State infamy, and even, briefly, Matt Gaetz, who has any number of skeletons in his closet. The MAGA Republicans have a type. Why did they decide on Mike Johnson? Why is he such an obedient little puppet? Why does he lie to serve his Master?

New Sunday Pages...a bit late this morning, despite the extra hour... gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pag...

This game is nuts.

My costume: Antifa Warrior. I have military fatigues, Pride hat, “Fuck ICE” badge, copy of Marx’s “Das Kapital,” and check from George Soros.

Thanks to @lifesafeast.bsky.social, @cherijacobus.bsky.social, @ninaburleigh.bsky.social, @sandibachom.bsky.social, Martha Swann, and @chunklz.bsky.social for joining us on Halloween! Fun night! www.youtube.com/live/zviRIer...

At the top of the hour... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zviR...

Not to ruin everyone’s weekend, but if Trump defies the federal judge and refuses to pay, we will be in full-blown dictatorship. Hopefully he 🌮.

Happy Halloween.

TRICK: Making American Children Stupid Again, Again TREAT: Calling this WWE Hag a Cunt

This is the first time The Five 8 Annual Halloween Special has fallen on ACTUAL Halloween. We're pulling out all the tops: Surprise guests! Costumes! Scary monsters! And, for our members: Afterhours! Join me and @lincolnsbible.bsky.social at 8pm. Trick or treat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zviR...

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

I hope there’s a hell so everyone involved with this can burn in it—*especially* the lawyers.

How do I make my reading list? 👇👇👇 “On almost every page, I learned something new, or saw something in a novel way that helped my understanding of everything” writes @gregolear.bsky.social This substack and book are must reads. open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

"Will the United States accept being ruled by the same sort of tyrant Thomas Jefferson & the other founders railed against? Will we band together, denounce the mad king, and embrace democracy, as they did? Or will the nation fracture, like the Soviet Union, back into its component parts?"

It's been a very dark week, so please enjoy this piece—just in time for Halloween!—about Stephen & Katie Miller, and how most women don't want to date, or even have a one-night stand with, MAGA guys.

Reminder that this performative clown spent the Fourth of July 2018 in Moscow with Ron Johnson and other traitors. open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

Sauron’s orcs: Mordor needs you.

Soon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIJz...

This is an excellent piece, and gets into ideas about the importance of reading fiction that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.

Oh, we can declare corrupt presidential pardons null and void now? Be careful what you wish for, traitor.

"This is how Epstein’s social empire grew. Each dropped name lead to more names he could drop later, until so many prominent individuals were linked to him that his operation became, for too many years, like the big banks he patronized: too big to fail."

Everyone involved with this performative waste of resources should be permanently banned from the legal profession…and from ever taking Tylenol.

12 things the banks teach us about Jeffrey Epstein:

dOn’T wOrRy We’Ll GeT hIm At ThE mIdTeRmS

Tyrants desire war for the powers waging war grants to them under the disguise of domestic security & public safety. Yes, drugs are bad. Yes, we should stop drugs from being illegally transported. No, it doesn't require war. It demands an all-encompassing strategy. youtu.be/f9yx5pnh9ac?...

There is no current writer whose wisdom and insight I respect more than @mollymckew.bsky.social’s. This piece beautifully sums up where we are, what we face, and how we shall prevail, and it has left me in tears:

This week's "Sunday Pages" covers Orator Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, the Peterloo Massacre, British radicals, and Donald Trump's fear of windmills.

I hope it eats at all these ICE scumbag's souls how much they are hated by everyone.

Weirdo nepo baby buys army.