NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.

I spent Halloween chasing ghosts. Not kids in costumes, or jumpscares in a haunted house. I spent Halloween chasing ghosts of a different kind: careening from one ICE spotting to another. I wrote an essay about it, and about other ghosts we’re chasing. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

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“We can’t police that whole thing,” Common Crawl said. “It’s not our job. We’re just a bunch of dusty bookshelves.” Meanwhile, CC has accepted hundreds of thousands in donations from AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. And it expressed open antagonism toward the media:

Just in: USCIS says in news release that election officials have run more than 46 million queries to check voters' citizenship in expanded SAVE tool, and more than half of states have signed up to use the tool or are in the process. Background:

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

How did @propublica.org reporter @ericumansky.bsky.social learn that the Trump administration had just gone ahead and made it significantly harder for male vets with breast cancer to get coverage? This crucial info was not made public. Read his 🧵 for the details👇

“Our diversity is our strength, but it can also be a weakness” Former Governor and NYC Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo stresses the need for a united NYC and says diversity can cause problems when there’s “antipathy between groups”.

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

Andrew Cuomo interview this morning on MSNBC and he… -said diversity could be a weakness -continued to repeatedly mispronounce “Mamdami” -CONFUSED TWO BLACK ANCHORS WITH EACH OTHER

My question would be what is the salience of the issue set? Congestion pricing polled terribly. Yet, its salience was low.

This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

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The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended

ADL used to rightfully and regularly boast that it was one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the country. www.jta.org/2025/10/29/u...

Full ass MTA meltdown between Manhattan and Brooklyn

WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

The U.S. Justice Department placed two prosecutors on leave on Wednesday, hours after they referred to Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as "a mob of rioters" in a sentencing memo, said four people familiar with the matter.

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August. A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

Nazis openly organize on Elon Musk’s X platform and the Nazi fundraising outfit GiveSendGo to bail out a Nazi in Georgia who donned an SS uniform and assaulted a woman with a glass pitcher. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...

SCOOP The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” I got the memo laying it all out www.propublica.org/article/vete...

NEW: About 100 male veterans a year get diagnosed w/ breast cancer. It’s usually due to a toxic exposure. Now the Trump Admin is making it harder for them to get their treatment covered. The reason? Basically: Real men don’t get it. www.propublica.org/article/vete...

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

These shots were fired by a Homeland Security officer at an unarmed Black man in DC. Officers saw tinted windows, lack of front license plate, and said he was trying to flee. Judge dismissed all charges. “Miraculously, every shot missed," says his lawyer. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Stunning video of the enormous eye at the center of hurricane Melissa. Taken by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron “Hurricane Hunters” just before they had to abandon their mission. Melissa is extremely dangerous, the strongest Atlantic hurricane to occur this late in the season.

Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino arrives at the Federal Building in Chicago's Loop this morning. #OnAssignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social

In the first half of this year, the income of President Trump's family business soared 17-fold to $864 million, based almost entirely on new crypto ventures that have been a magnet for overseas cash, a Reuters investigation found. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Just about spit out my coffee when I saw this in my morning newspaper @theonion.com

A Homeland Security Investigations agent shot at an unarmed Black man during a traffic stop on Oct. 17. But a @dcpolicedept.bsky.social officer omitted any mention of the shooting from his reports, apparently under instruction from a "team leader." washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7732...

BREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit decided that it will be rehearing the case over West Texas A&M's effort to ban a charity drag show from campus. The panel, on a 2-1 vote, sided with the student group. The Fifth Circuit decided to go en banc even after the school didn't seek en banc review.

Joe Rogan is confusing measles with chicken pox

once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways

As we reported earlier this month, many food banks are already reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of 94 million pounds of deliveries that were already scheduled: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Everybody wants swing voters to have some kind of consistent political ideology and at every turn they refuse

And former chief counsel for nominations to Grassley on Judiciary. This was someone who came to where he is at now right through the middle of the “traditional” GOP elites’ path.

As we reported earlier this month, many food banks are already reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of 94 million pounds of deliveries that were already scheduled: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

A great passage from a great novel. The Oppermanns, 1933.

Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

It's like a Birdwatcher's Guide to Dystopia

Ok Lily Allen!!!

COLLINS: Today you pardoned the founded of Binance. Can you explain why you did that? TRUMP: Which one was that? COLLINS: The founder of Binance TRUMP: I believe we're talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people. I don't know. He was recommended by a lot of people.

What on Orwell’s green earth is a “figurative” bounty?

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime. While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...

This photo. @sfstandard.com #SFO sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/b...