I have said this a few times. Yes, it is corruption. That much is obvious. But scale, quantity, itself takes on a qualitative character beyond some point. This is a form of state *looting* and they are doing it everywhere. The warehouse contracts and sales are just one small slice of it.

Bertrand Russell said, when we say "A banana" - you're talking about any old banana. But "The Banana" makes three huge statements. 1. There's a banana. 2. There is only ONE banana in this context. 3. If we find anything that looks exactly like this banana, it must be the same one.

the degenerate trump ii regime had the gall to libel somali-americans with a welfare fraud conspiracy while systematically defrauding prospective legal immigrants who perfectly followed the rules racists project their own criminal predations and ideations onto others

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Lots of suspicious trades in oil/equities just ahead of Trump tweets backing off his ultimatum. Sure looks like somebody close to Trump knew he was about to TACO, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits From @pkrugman.bsky.social: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...

"People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets." Read @pkrugman.bsky.social on the latest incident of people making piles of cash using insider info about national security matters & how it could amount to treason. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What could possibly go wrong? fortune.com/2026/03/23/k...

The US Attorney's offices are filing doomed misdemeanor cases because it allows them to keep migrants detained for months, which fills up beds, which makes money for GEO Group and CoreCivic, which gets returned in the form of kickbacks to politicians and lobbyists. Simple as.

Here's another photo of the year candidate from Getty contributor Megan Varner:

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted

The normalcy bias in this fucking country is just unbelievable. You can watch people get murdered, witness the constitution getting shredded by the day, hear the tech fascists say, in no uncertain terms, what kind of dystopian hellscape they’re working to create, and be like, oh, I’m sure it’s fine.

Just heard a clip of Sam Alito talking about mail in ballots today and he sounds **indistinguishable** from a run of the mill YouTube conspiracy theorist. You can tell his mind is basting in right wing propaganda all day long.

It’s the biggest story. Dems forced Republicans to the table with a common sense solution. Fund TSA, FEMA, & the Coast Guard, then negotiate over ICE reforms. Trump said “no.” No deals with Democrats. Just like with the immigration bill in 2024. A disabled GOP in Congress is in Trump’s interest.

People waiting in line 4 hours at the airport offered complete ICE training during their wait. #Satire

this is a bad one. seems very much like today’s guy was straight up murdered & ICE called it a suicide. no criminal record, just got his work permit, getting his SSN, and then it sounds like they grabbed him at a Kavanaugh stop. even the nurses thought the suicide story ICE gave them was suspicious

1. HealthEquity, the nation's largest administrator of health savings accounts, just donated $1 MILLION to Trump's Super PAC. Previsouly, the company had never donated more than 5K to any political committee WTF is going on? 🧵

The State Department is actively instructing consular officers NOT to tell applicants they're banned, even as those applicants pay fees and attend interviews.

Sponsoring a spouse costs US citizens up to $2,675 in fees alone, $675 to petition, $1,440 to adjust status, $560 for a work permit. The government is cashing those checks and then doing nothing. That's fraud not delay.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

GOP Senator admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown, long airport lines: "The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. ... Thune submitted that to President Trump. The President said, 'No deals with the Democrats.' We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week."

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

Jared Kushner’s investment firm has $6.2 billion in assets under management. That's up $1.4 billion from 2024. 99%of its assets belong to non-US citizens Two of its funds use an Israeli bank as a custodian. He's heading US negotiations with Iran. @wendysiegelman.bsky.social for NewsTRACS

The featured photo from this excellent post on Defector: defector.com/ice-agents-d...

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

It is also not clear whether it is lawful to repurpose employees who have had their salaries appropriated by Congress to do the work of staff whose salaries Congress has not appropriated. That assumed, of course that ICE will be doing TSA work, rather than just scaring people

Trump gives the game away. He sees long TSA lines not as a problem to be solved, but as “fertile territory” for ICE to harass and detain people.

The weird thing about this is that SFO isn't on the list of airports where ICE was supposedly deployed. SFO uses private contractors to do security so it hasn't had a problem with TSA not showing up. Which means...these are just the assholes who were already there? And are now feeling emboldened?

"According to Flores and Velasquez, one of the deputies took a liking to a family kitten and offered to take it home with him." --> so, the Florida sheriffs who deported the parents liked the family's cat. The family's pastor had to take in their 4-month old baby and 8-year-old daughter.

"Park Service officials did not answer a single one of the questions — and now we know why...the Department of the Interior’s Public Affairs Office has blacklisted SFGATE." www.sfgate.com/national-par...

the president lying about high level peace talks taking place with the country were at war with, all to juice the stock market, is a gigantic scandal but also its just kinda another monday

"First: They say, 'President Trump is right.' Second: They defend some related point that isn’t the one Trump actually made." www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/p...

"The 119th Congress is breaking records for inaction and dysfunction, with lawmakers ignoring their powers in deference to the president." www.ms.now/news/dhs-shu...

less than three months out from the World Cup, Trump touts the presence of ICE agents at airports and says they're "very fertile territory" for arresting foreigners

This was, to put it mildly, quite misleading by Kavanaugh—suggesting that a professor made the OPPOSITE point that he actually made through selective quotation.

The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Poisoned Trekkers and Phantom Flights: Nepal Charges 32 in Massive Himalayan Rescue Scam www.occrp.org/en/news/pois...

I can confirm that people who are already exhausted and scared of going through TSA and flying right now, people who have just been told to wait in a line for 4+ hours, are absolutely furious to see ICE agents—a stark reminder of who exactly is to blame for this situation

Absolutely INSANE twilight aurora just now from my driveway in North Pole, Alaska. Incredible motion and color, one of the best of the season. Watch until the end, wow!

Damn, Gerry Baker. 👀

Their duty is to their investors and self, not US.

"YELLOW LIGHT PROTOCOLS are a contentious subject in these parts. Every Angeleno seems to abide by their own personal law...This is the specific L.A. phenomenon of left-turners...typically resulting in at least one or two cars going left on the red"

"If you want to stump Lindsey, just ask him to name a country he wouldn’t bomb" Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.)

The “goal” of the Iran war is now reportedly to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war began

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Every dystopian novel I started writing and put aside over the past 20 years because the scenarios were too outlandish is just "news" in 2026.

ICE Agents Stand Around Doing Nothing at Atlanta Hartsfield as Lines For TSA Checkpoints Hit Record Levels