My talk from @TEDxFoggyBottom about the parallels between hostage-taking and human trafficking. Share if you think it's worthwhile; I can also deliver an expanded version of it at universities, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHF...

Since everyone’s reading Pynchon again it’s worth pointing out that the slangy, jangling tone that so many people hate in Vineland is not different in principle from his 17th c. voice in Mason & Dixon or, I’ll guess, his 1930s narration in the new novel.

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police. Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

Tom Zoellner on his new book THE ROAD WAS FULL OF THORNS and the bizarre legal theory that forced Lincoln's hand during the Civil War. Episode 20 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/019-tom-zo...

My talk from @TEDxFoggyBottom about the parallels between hostage-taking and human trafficking. Share if you think it's worthwhile; I can also deliver an expanded version of it at universities, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHF...

"When people fight back and they win, like Jimmy Kimmel did recently, I feel like it actually has a good effect." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social to @weissmann.substack.com

Bravo to New Mexico on two fronts: 📌 Universal Childcare for every family 📌 Special Session next week to address Medicaid cuts and exploding insurance premiums caused by Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and to take on the corporate hospital crisis This should be nationwide!

Sonia Kennebeck on her film REALITY WINNER, and the unfashionable topic of interference in the 2016 election. Episode 18 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/018-sonia-...

An archaeological dig on the Greek island of Naxos is overturning our assumptions about what it is to be human, writes Sophie Holloway for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/a-gre...

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Sonia Kennebeck on her film REALITY WINNER, and the unfashionable topic of interference in the 2016 election. Episode 18 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/018-sonia-...

Sorry, folks. Sounds like the civil war has been postponed due to white shooter

Trump’s FBI Director, Kash Patel, is under fire for spreading misinformation about the Charlie Kirk case, undermining confidence in the bureau, forcing out the counterterrorism agent in Utah with expertise in these types of investigations, and cursing out agents for his own failures.

For Episode 17 of Radio Free Mike I talked to Roger Carstens about the still-mysterious case of Austin Tice, the journalist kidnapped in Syria thirteen years ago. When the prisons opened in December, he paid a visit on behalf of the US government. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/017-roger-...

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“The #Russian government knows about where I am, why I’m here. If I will be deported, they will be waiting for me & will be in prison …” Krasnov said. “I hope that #Canada will accept us, because all the world is going crazy, and I hope that Canada won’t be.” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

I encourage anyone in the area to post footage

Fascism is an aesthetic movement for people with no sense of aesthetics.

“No one I interviewed could think of an example of American law enforcement masking. Jules Epstein, a law professor at Temple University, said that in his more than 45 years of practice, he had never seen the police wear masks, including in high-profile gang cases.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

For Episode 17 of Radio Free Mike I talked to Roger Carstens about the still-mysterious case of Austin Tice, the journalist kidnapped in Syria thirteen years ago. When the prisons opened in December, he paid a visit on behalf of the US government. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/017-roger-...

Judge rules Trump illegally deployed National Guard to L.A. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This plus a suicidal tendency

Absolutely right: Radley Balko is the interview subject & you should listen to him

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

Saumya Roy’s fascinating book on the waste-pickers of Mumbai, CASTAWAY MOUNTAIN, is the topic of Episode 16 of Radio Free Mike. She tells me about the economy of trash that has grown up around the mountainous landfill of Deonar: open.substack.com/pub/michaels...

Masked immigration raids don’t protect us. They hide abuse and strip away our dignity. Stand with me in demanding transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition.

I’m still honestly flabbergasted that more of us aren’t urging against military occupation of American cities.

Love this photo of Monarch Butterflies in Ontario Canada probably Point Peel National that i went to yearly in Sept in my twenties as they gathered to cross Lake erie migrating south waited for the wind to change

The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.

They gaslit you all throughout the election.

It’s almost like the government doesn’t decide what news is. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08...

Almost all of the smartest liberal and left wing writers and reporters I know have basically been reduced to doing that work as a mostly-unpaid hobby in addition to their actual job (if they have a job). Just a few rich Democrats could put their money where their mouth is and fix this.

Saumya Roy’s fascinating book on the waste-pickers of Mumbai, CASTAWAY MOUNTAIN, is the topic of Episode 16 of Radio Free Mike. She tells me about the economy of trash that has grown up around the mountainous landfill of Deonar: open.substack.com/pub/michaels...

If Trump is trying to see what he can get away with by ordering armed military to take over Washington DC, he’s learning he can definitely get away with that.

I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally

In other words: They lied.

This is what I mean that the capitulations aren’t a demonstration of the effectiveness of the power, they are the power itself, delivered voluntarily by the capitulators. A law firm says “we won’t fight you, please take the time and energy you would have taken on us to fight those guys instead.”

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My Bloomberg Businessweek piece about “roving patrols” in California: the DHS is chafing under 2 successful injunctions against racial & other kinds of profiling, which suggests that’s precisely what you’ve been watching in those videos of arrests in farm fields and at Home Depot shorturl.at/nEhjO

Illegal in every case

Fifty-one years ago today.

There's something so profoundly dystopian about the fact that there have been ongoing anti-ICE protests in LA and Portland, but the only way they've been able to be disseminated has been by calling them "LA 24/7 Music Festival" on TikTok???

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I am not at all sure that AI won’t “go on strike.”

ICE GOON forcefully grab activists filming outside the immigration court and forcefully knock her phone out of her hand.

The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX

I talked to Mark Sarvas about his excellent, weird, short novel *@UGMan* for Episode 15 of Radio Free Mike. It makes free allusions to *Notes from Underground* and evokes pre-Musk Twitter. Complete with an exploded bird on the cover . . . michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/015-mark-s...