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American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

🧊 Monday ICECAST – 26 Oct 26 ✈️ 8am — Houston, San Diego 🇲🇽, Jacksonville 🇲🇽 9am — Denver 10am – Boston/BED, Salt Lake City, Fort Benning GA 11am – Indianapolis, Tallahassee, Tampa 1pm — Punta Gorda FL 2pm — Memphis 4pm — Harrisburg PA Outbound: 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇭🇳🇩🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪

"Hurry along now, darling, the Cheesecake Factory reservation is in twenty minutes, and you know they won't hold it"

🧊✈️ COLOMBIA 😲⛓️ 👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N570TA) departs Louisiana, trafficking chained humans to Bogotá 🇨🇴

Pro-ICE conservative blogger Samuel Sey, a prominent figure on the evangelical right, has himself been arrested and held for potential ICE deportation.

A big fist bump between Signature Aviation's fueler and the Eastern Air Express captain flying yesterday's ICE Air flight at MSP. They took away 24 shackled migrants from their homes around the Twin Cities. If a loved one may have been aboard, full video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=1-xmZiNEhC4

@gillianbrockell.com Im trying to tip you but its not going through. Several attempts with different cards. Just an FYI, will try again tomorrow.

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@glendaleextremists.bsky.social this was just posted on twitter

Too late. The new law would be retroactive to January 1, 2026.

🧊 THEY LIED TO THE COURT ‼️ The Eastern 767 (N703KW) flight to Equatorial Guinea that ICE claimed in court was canceled – in order to avoid returning a wrongfully deported man – just landed in Malabo 👀

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Overnight this Talon Air ICE flight landed in Liberia, a known third-country removal “host,” though it is unclear if this was a TCR or a removal of Liberian nationals. Passengers onboard were shackled at the ankles and wrists attached to a waist chain for at least 14 hours.

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

Admirer of Orban how? Admire what, exactly? The corruption enriching himself, his family, and cronies? The state’s forced takeover of media? Getting rid of the country’s top ranked university? Anti-LGBT bigotry? Abusing power to render elections no longer free or fair? The pro-Putin foreign policy?

🧊✈️ SAN DIEGO: The first of THREE Wednesday ICE flights through this deportation hub arrives to SDIA. 👀 Five buses await GlobalX (N628VA) in "Sunrise Airways" livery, picking up chained humans for transport to Villahermosa, Mexico 🇲🇽

"Threat of Dissent" should be on everyone's reading list. 👇🏼

Recall JD Vance said if, in order to highlight an issue, he has to make up BS stories, he'll make up BS stories. And so Vance saying he doesn't care if Ramaswamy's ad is BS fits Vance's priors. Trump defends lies by insisting they're the truth. Vance defends lies by saying, "Fine, they're lies."

Deplorable.

Hymns, Hate, and ‘Holy Wars’: What I Saw Inside a Christian Nationalist Conference www.confrontthehate.com/p/hymns-hate...

Notable: 15 days would mean we'd get this information just before election day just saying

Karen Bass' campaign has made LA's Olympic preparation continuity into a major talking point, saying during last week's debate: "I believe that the city would be destabilized" if Nithya Raman was elected before 2028. Bass needs to project the vibes that the deal is under control (it is not)

the lady who interviewed Acton's mother did two years in prison for attempting to blow up an abortion clinic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_...

One year ago today, I launched CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES, a newsletter about climate and culture. Proud of everything I've accomplished and excited for Year 2! Highlights from Year 1 and notes on what's ahead. Very grateful to everyone supporting my work! www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ccg-turns-...

Occasional check in w/locally run (Dennis Prager reportedly lives in La Canada) propagandist PragerU’s fmr IDF intelligence agent head Marisa Streit wants u to talk w/ur kids abt “what’s happening in France.” Showing a book cover w/a Black figure Marisa says “diversity isn’t always our strength.”

Scores of women, teen workers were groped, grabbed at this restaurant chain, feds say

#BBCNews - Inside the shadowy world of anti-Putin sabotage from within Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On Saturday, US citizen Ricardo Gonzalez was reportedly hit by an unmarked federal vehicle, tased twice by ICE agents and then handcuffed while face down in the gutter screaming that his arm was broken. Read more from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/ice-assaulte...

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

Congress investigating Mark Zuckerberg for a 1A-protected action threatens free speech. But anyone interpreting this as a recommendation to do nothing is wrong. Break up Meta with antitrust. Charge Zuck and other executives with bribery for Trump’s ballroom and inauguration funds. More options too.

California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

This post includes links to the dockets for five lawsuits against xAI for Grok's nonconsensual porn, of which four involve pictures of minors -- including the school photographer in Arkansas who used those photos to make child sexual abuse material. emptywheel.net/2026/10/13/g...

President Zelenskyy: "Starlink shuts down at speeds above 161 km/h in Ukraine, but works at speeds exceeding 180 km/h in the EU" President Zelenskyy said Ukraine had conducted tests to determine whether SpaceX was experiencing technical issues or whether this was a "deliberate operation."

Voting is a right, not a privilege. We’re fighting for that right at No Kings early voting events across the nation. We won’t let politicians get in the way of our freedom to have a say in our democracy.

One of the Republican party's most prominent voter-registration activists has paid multiple people with criminal records to run get-out-the-vote operations in Pennsylvania since 2024. Want to meet them? ICYMI Brendan Hartnett:

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

The fight for Election Day Registration in Massachusetts has been going on since at least 2007, which means it's now old enough to be prevented from voting due to a clerical error that could be fixed with Election Day Registration. Vote YES on 4. #mapoli #Yeson4

. @mls1776.bsky.social, any thoughts you could share on Judge Cannon's "ban" on (ex-)Executive Branch employees providing a House of Congress with certain information about Jack Smith's investigation of Trump? Eg, does it trump whistleblower statutes? Congress' oversight power?

National Guard troops are still patrolling the streets of DC, more than a year after President Trump fabricated an "emergency" to deploy them. Every day these troops are in our communities is another day we risk normalizing their deployment.

Who does he think is buying this?  Make no mistake, this is completely divorced from reality at best and a shameless attempt to gaslight the American people at worst.

TREACHERY

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

I'm 93 years old & graduated Yale in '55. I had a long career with @nytimes.com, where I served as VP & GC & led the defense in landmark cases, including NYT v. Sullivan & the Pentagon papers. The rule in a dispute w/ Donald Trump has long been simple: Never settle. yaledailynews.com/articles/nev...