hello I mustache you about the Grand Old Party anyway, where was I? the gentleman pictured below is Myron T. Herrick (1854-1929) is perhaps a That Guy to the "youth" of this or indeed any other era - but he is an interesting fellow.

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

This is a really, really good idea.

“We are going to gain the support of the people by purposefully attempting to bring down in their densely-populated urban areas a massive flying Cuisinart that has under ideal conditions the stability and disposition of a nervous horse. Also it might actually be a CareFlight.”

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

The actual process of how you replace ICE is an interesting one because the obvious answer is more or less recreate legacy INS while hitting the ERO dudes with the Camden model *but* that runs the risk that eventually the new ERO dudes take over the culture/agency

“The American government is so evil it cannot enter a church without bursting into flame” is a spicy take, but I’ve got to accept the man’s professional opinion on the matter.

“ICE cited a ‘legacy deportation order’ dating back to the 1980s [and an intent to distribute plea]. … Subu, who was born in India but arrived in the United States when he was 9 months old, was never deported because he was serving a life sentence.” (*drums fingers, stares at wall*)

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

“Which way, Western man,” when the wrong answer is “sizzling plate of skirt steak and vegetables on a tortilla” and the right answer is “one raw egg.”

I see we’re at the “disappearing news media” stage of things already.

Both NY senators voting for this, a measure designed entirely to put the onus on House Democrats, is emblematic of party fecklessness at the highest levels.

At this point they’re working so hard to hide the files it’s reasonable to assume they’re very bad, that the political layer believes they can’t hide the damning evidence, and they think that once it comes out it’s going to dominate everything else and make it impossible to carry out Miller’s plans.

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Is it a concern that so many SV billionaires who abruptly pivoted into military and police/intelligence technology are also members of a heretical apocalyptic techno-religious cult that seeks to overthrow the secular world order? Maybe!

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists). They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source) www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

It’ll be interesting to see the WH response, since for anyone else this would be considered a huge win for them and a step on the road to legitimating any war of choice against Venezuela.

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The Very Stupid Domino to look for is some bright spark in Miller’s office telling Texas to deploy the National Guard under state orders to Illinois, which is where we in a very literal sense enter a civil war. Probability is not zero, and probably higher than I’m comfortable with.

The indictment may relate to mortgage documents James co-signed to help her niece secure a loan for a property in Virginia. This @mollyroberts.bsky.social piece explains why it appears to be a pathetically weak case. (Fixed the link, sorry!) ⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

That's eighteen states that won't protest when a Democratic president sends blue state National Guard into their capitols, right? Right?

Y'know, nobody ever experiences a medical catastrophe that causes mental and emotional decompensation and then suddenly starts voting Democratic.

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The media — and, let’s be honest, all of us — give Trump a pass for saying stupid extreme things because he’s always saying stupid extreme things with little thought as to consequences, but this is a serious turn deeper into tyranny, and not saying so only enables more serious tyrants in the future.

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

"The invitation to the 'Future of Pharmaceuticals' summit prompted consternation among some drug-company representatives, who worried that the gathering signaled that the White House wants them to work with the little-known BlinkRx because of its ties to the president’s family"

Make Ada Great Again

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

I see they chose those operators capable of going low profile and blending in with the target population.

Fascinating inside baseball on BW at NYT here.

One point, made somewhat obliquely here, is that the media lacks deep sourcing within agencies due to a monomaniacal focus on the /politics/ of Washington rather than /policies/. It's a serious gap in national reporting.

The only ethnic group that almost 100% traces all their family histories back to before the founding are Black Americans, and /of course/ they don't count as "heritage Americans," just inheritable Americans.

Interesting that she’s confident enough to not even attempt to answer a particularly incriminating question — and was prepped to hit back — but not so confident as to actually lie under oath for Trump.

There is an escalation ladder here and he understands how that is the absolute last step, one you don't touch until all else has failed and you've done a lot of laying the groundwork. Things are bad, heading that way, it's deadly serious. But we're not there yet and he is right to not say it now.

The longer the GOP holds out, the weaker their hand will be when they have to play it.

Mordantly amusing that if you’re paying for Star Trek you’re now funding the Mirror Universe’s existence.

If we generously grant that TFP is a profitable entity, at a $150mm deal price, Ellison just overpaid (back of the envelope) by probably about 8x even with goodwill factored in.

This is just Abbott being the pusillanimous bootlicker to Trump that’s his natural level, he’s too cowardly to follow through on anything that actually requires him to take action.

We aren’t even in a war and they’re already doing war crimes against civilians, just to be clear about where this is going.

Starting to feel like the intent here is to “accelerate decentralization” by chasing everyone off the primary platform.

When you see a Trump-appointed judge flouting the tenets of the law to reach a politically-ordained choice, remember how extraordinarily extreme that is, and that most judges — including this Trump appointee — genuinely believe that the law means something.

The absolute Stasi-level shit coming out of ICE daily is astounding. The entire agency is irredeemable, they need to be shut down and their responsibilities transferred to agencies that have shown they understand we live according to a Constitution.

One of the future hard and fast rules the government needs to enforce is that Border Patrol stays on the fucking border.