Rick

Interesting (to me, at least) encounter yesterday with an axe-wielding killer:

Armed ICE agents are moving through Puerto Rican neighborhoods with assault rifles, threatening residents who film them with pepper spray. In Villa Capri, a restaurant owner refused agents entry when they tried to enter without a warrant. Watch and share everywhere!

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

A #butterfly and I hung out together this morning. #nature #butterfly #insect

A cool bug #nature #insects

Publicly traded private prison companies are one of the more disgusting symptoms of this current moment, and something that (hopefully) will look very bad to our children

Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

We need a more serious conversation about parity, like, how often do fans of the Dodgers or Yankees or Red Sox or etc have to face a decade of non-competitive baseball, when they know they will be awful for most of it and a .500 team only accidentally?

Katie Zacharia isn't an attorney but calls herself one. Not good. But I don't think it's great that this is the thing much of the legal profession and media are up in arms about. White House lawbreaking, lies, corruption? It depends. Couch your language. Inappropriate credentialism? How DARE she!

Katie Zacharia completed law school, got a law degree, but didn't pass the bar! And yet she calls herself a lawyer!!! She shouldn't do that. Russell Vought has a law degree, didn't pass the bar, and has done much worse than Zacharia. But he doesn't call himself a lawyer, so it gets less criticism.

Inflation ran at a rate of 3.7% last month. And that was despite the Fed raising interest rates. It’s been at least 3.4% every month since Trump attacked Iran. To put that in perspective: In the supposedly horrific year of 2024, monthly inflation averaged 2.9% and was trending down rather than up.

States that require (or have a lower standard for) arrests in DV cases are more likely to arrest the victim -- usually both parties -- because they don't want to sort out the issue. www.propublica.org/article/dome...

Just a personal anecdote, but working on a VAWA application was the most disheartening thing I did as a pro bono lawyer. It required an incredible amount of "evidence" only to put a woman and her children in the spotlight of law enforcement.

As an aside, when the police come and mess up your house (break down the door, destroy your stuff) because they are coming to "help" a victim, they do not pay to help repair it. A few victims I spoke with didn't have front doors because they couldn't afford to fix it.

meanwhile a James Comer who was the same age as this James Comer's father, also named James Comer, was very happy about the existence of jury nullification in 1963

The Republican Party’s biggest donor.

A couple things: - I’m so glad both my kids have graduated high school. - It’s called Super Intelligence now! You need to get up to speed.

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

Feels like we're nearing the phase of a Trump administration where erstwhile lackeys start leaking scandals and—eventually flee the sinking ship to claim that they were always making a principled stand against MAGA etc etc.

It would be wild if Lindsey Graham’s prophecy about Republicans picking Trump and getting crushed came true in his sister’s senate bid in South Carolina

FYI @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

The African American Civil War Museum in DC is Now Open #CivilWarMemory #publichistory #museums #AfricanAmericanHistory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-africa...

Starting today many people granted humanitarian immigration protections, including refugees, people granted asylum, and survivors of trafficking, will no longer be able to access health care through federally funded Medicaid and CHIP programs. www.cbpp.org/research/imm...

Everyone losing health coverage is living in the U.S. lawfully.

#NationalParks

William Fucking Shakespeare!

“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social

The United States government killed another innocent person.👇

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

With so many copycats in MLB, let’s hope this is the next trend — a player who strives for base hits rather than selling out for home runs, which brings the inevitable avalanche of strikeouts. So much more fun to watch hitters get on base.  www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...

Depraved

I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac...

Yup.

I don’t even know what to say anymore jessica.substack.com/p/her-baby-h...

I really hope people understand that stories like this are not anomalies or “mistakes.” They’re not the result of hospitals misunderstanding the law or legislative growing pains. This is simply what happens when you allow the government to interfere in pregnancy.

Evidence tech leaders know AI business relies on theft and knowingly pursued it is most relevant for court. But the biggest detail to me is their worry that putting content creators out of business means AI will get worse. If it’s so much smarter and better than us, have it create its own content.

Arch Manning and a room full of journalists laughing about an AI video of Steve Sarkisian slapping Holly Rowe is a horrible look. awfulannouncing.com/college-foot...