Dreeben is an interesting addition www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/17/j...

They did it, they were able to dodge the draft for over 2 years of war, and still keep their subsidies. Mazel

we're living through a time when no breaking headline is surprising

The teen’s lawsuit is the newest front in a wider attempt to crack down on AI-generated child sexual abuse materials and nonconsensual intimate images.

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

Trump has little to insulate him now. Vought is not some temporary White House employee who’s dabbling in the art of sabotaging the government before he returns to his “job” as the world’s richest man. According to the president himself, he is the Grim Reaper personified. trib.al/FBn9y4H

This is why I continuously correct people on Border Patrol vs. ICE. Two different agencies, both under the DHS umbrella, with the former being *significantly* more aggro than the latter.

He clearly wasn't able to learn from El Muskynutz' self immolation of shareholders' value.

Newsletter: Anatomy of a crypto meltdown October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward. www.citationneeded.news/anatomy-of-a...

UPDATE: Justice Amy Coney Barrett has ordered Illinois officials to respond by Monday at 5PM ET, BUT she did not order the immediate administrative stay the Trump admin asked for. More w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social @shiakapos.bsky.social

What is strafing the survivors in the ocean. Just another crime on a litany of crimes.

"I got to tell you,” said Scott, R-S.C. “Thank you, to all of y’all, for getting rid of Sherrod Brown,” the Ohio Dem who lost his Senate seat in 2024 to Repub Bernie Moreno. “Literally, the industry put Bernie Moreno in the Senate,” according to a video from the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium.

I suspect the Roberts Court will use the Shadow Docket to permit and protect Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to harass political enemies. Maybe without comment, maybe with something bizarre and otherworldly from Kavanaugh.

Christ, Trump just admitted he gave Zelensky nothing, but forced him to travel all the way to Washington to be told he needed to make concessions to Putin for "peace". He really just tortured the Ukrainian president because it makes him feel good.

He has talked to Putin recently so Bob’s your uncle

For the first time since 1995, a federal shutdown has come for the federal courts. By the terms of the Anti-Deficiency Act I'd argue enough staff should be kept on to ensure timely litigation of habeas petitions filed by ICE detainees, but not hopeful about that www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history 🚨🚨

Neat WSJ report on Wal-Mart's 2015 decision to raise wages and how it has driven years of faster revenue growth.

Trump's FCC tried to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air...literally a month ago today! Do they think we are stupid?

Pay attention folks. The nonsensical language Mike Johnson is intentionally, increasingly, repeatedly using to try smear the "No Kings" peaceful protests set for Saturday -- rallies protesting Trump's authoritarianism -- is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

Finally, Rep Adam Smith tells me defunding the illegal bombings and impeachment should/will be on the table if Dems win the House. He says the first step is soliciting sworn testimony from Alvin Holsey about why he resigned and whether it was due to bombings. newrepublic.com/article/2019...

I asked Rep Adam Smith, ranking Armed Services Committee Dem, if he's talked to Republicans about doing something to reign in Trump's unhinged extrajudicial murders. His answer is...unnerving. Republicans are all in with Trump's lawlessness. newrepublic.com/article/2019...

French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre knew what made fascists tick. badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...

Not sure how "whether a quid pro quo climate exists" is a question

We need to hear from these survivors.

Trump’s Department of Education actively collaborates w/ Moms for Liberty. Asked “what % of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told ProPublica: “‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” 1/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...

Important catch here. There's a strongly Caesarist vibe to this connection:

New in PN: How the Supreme Court taught Trump to rewrite history "If you’re wondering where Trump learned the trick of recasting American history as uniquely belonging to him, look no further than the current Supreme Court’s manipulation of the core legal principle of stare decisis."

This is the insouciance I was trying to shake liberal elites out of when I wrote this. www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

Hard to overstate how crucial it is to keep state troopers and local police on the right side of the law. We can’t afford ICE goons to mutate and expand.

Saudi Arabia expects to receive the same sort of NATO+ security guarantees that Qatar received. Note that all this flows through private discussions with the Trump family, who are getting something very secretive in exchange, and nothing is being presented at any point to Congress for approval.

Our best solution to this problem is encouraging random crushing

Treasury's Bessent confirms American taxpayer funds being used to buy troubled Argentine pesos, as administration bails out ideological ally during government shutdown: "Treasury has not disclosed how much it has spent purchasing pesos or whether it will do it on a schedule." Via Reuters

Well, airplane vapors (CO2) emissions are toxic, indirectly via global warming. Is that the argument that Massie et al want to make?

can't wait for the next Putin-Trump summit, Hungary is a historic place to settle Ukrainian security issues

Bannon, fresh out of jail, movin' on up...

“You can’t shoot ‘em in the head (with pepper balls),” the judge said. “You can’t deploy tear gas. You can’t use flash-bang grenades. You can’t drive a car through a crowd.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...

Saudi Arabia is negotiating with the U.S. to achieve a new defense pact; a pact designed based on the model of the US security agreement with Qatar.-FT

One thing about Trump’s first-term trade war with China: it fundamentally destroyed US soybean exports, as China found other sources — “namely Brazil, which is now the leading exporter.” “It is unrealistic to think there might be alternative buyers” to replace it. - @joebrusuelas.bsky.social

Hilarious

My kid and I were in the car on the way back from McDonald's hearing this play and we went fucking nuts and seeing the footage it's even crazier. Mookie is the best all around baseball player in the game right now. Maybe ever. Remember how he was "struggling" to learn how to play the infield? Lol

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

He’s just a young lad of 65 how could he possibly be expected to know anything about the Republican Party’s views on healthcare

The flip side of Callais: Blue states may soon be compelled to "unpack" their majority-minority districts drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act. That could net 12+ House seats for Dems if they're ruthless enough. But at the very real cost of congressional diversity. slate.com/news-and-pol...