Minneapolis.

New York Times: "Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, said at a news conference that the agent who fired his weapon has been treated at a hospital and released. He can be seen in videos of the shooting walking around the scene after firing his weapon, with no apparent injuries."

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

Holy shit

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

Trump is approaching his sixth year as president and still doesn’t know what the Department of Energy does.

thrilled to say i dunno who this particular man is but ive found in general that people who talk like this in public tend to be people who are like incapable of doing their laundry on their own

Some good news to end the year!

Absolutely fucking grotesque

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

Socialism sucks

Instant all-timer here:

I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR

Reported by David Goodhue, Miami Herald. "She can be heard screaming as agents attempted to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. “'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

So this ends with them making out, right?

Virginia ABC system finally has a fully satisfied customer

How it started / How it's going

Life comes at you fast

reason.com/2025/11/14/t... @reason.com @ericboehm87.bsky.social

NEW: How ICE mistakenly deported Alejandro Juarez to Mexico. Alejandro was detained in NYC, put on the wrong ICE plane and sent to Mexico. He never saw a judge, no deportation order - a likely violation of law. W/ @haleaziz.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

😑 DOGE for the win! 'Despite the high-profile efforts of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the 2025 federal fiscal year ended with the federal government having spent more money than it did in the previous fiscal year' - via @ericboehm87.bsky.social reason.com/2025/10/10/a...

It's wild how you can just say "no" when the would-be authoritarians tell you to do weird, illegal things This should become a trend

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives believed participation trophies were a bad idea

The Trump administration said Americans would fill farm jobs vacated by undocumented workers. That's not happening, the Department of Labor now admits.

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

DHS: Where was this lead pencil made? ME: State of Washington, mines in South America, Malaya, and other places I don't even know about, by thousands of people who don't speak the same language, practice different religions, and might hate each other if they ever met DHS: denied

If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Independent media!

reason.com/2025/09/05/m... @reason.com @ericboehm87.bsky.social

Who won the Battle of Thermopylae

Absolutely love to see it. And I hope this trend catches on in other circumstances too.

🚨BREAKING: Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips

What if we just let people peacefully exchange goods and services? What's the downside to that idea?

Seems bad!

If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics

Reporting outside the Baltimore ICE field office for @statesnewsroom.com where hundreds are gathered to protest the potential deportation of Kilmer Abrego Garcia to Uganda.

We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.

Yup

Right, because the people doing the public executions in the Bible were the good guys? Someone might need to re-read the gospels a few times

A mediocre life sounds a lot better than whatever the hell this is

The president ordering federal agents onto the street is not how routine policing should work, even in the nation's capital.

So the trade deals don't actually exist, then? If a business owner wants to understand the rules for importing/exporting, what exactly should he or she do?

In most cases, Trump's tariffs are significantly higher than the tariffs charged by other countries on American goods. So much for reciprocity and fairness. reason.com/2025/08/18/t...