Eddie Kay

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

Wow this is huge. Rhode Island's Governor just became the first (I believe?) in the nation to call for a moratorium on installation of Flock cameras and other ALPRs www.wpri.com/news/politic...

When you remember you might be at least partially responsible for the Muppet Episode of SNW

Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

New State Department report on foreign "subversion" is a virtual government blacklist that names 43 Americans + domestic orgs, including: - Mamdani - DSA - Hasan Piker - Amy Goodman Full list: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli...

I wrote about the back-to-back murders committed by ICE agents, which are part of a sickening pattern that the Supreme Court has allowed to fester ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

“… the CDC lab that responds to outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora was downsized from 11 people to just 3”

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

/ A BIT YELLOW OUTSIDE OVER BOSTON / ISNT IT? / THATS NOT JUST YELLOW CREAMY DELITE / THATS JUST SMOKE / FROM THE FIRES / IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA & CANADA / ARRIVING A BIT EARLY / U CULD EXPECT THIS SMOKE 2 GET WORSE WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY / PERHAPS V UNHEALTHILY SO / U NEED 2 REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS

A dangerous and potentially historic wildfire smoke event is headed toward the Great Lakes and Northeast. Yesterday, record 100° heat, very dry fuels, and strong winds worsened wildfires near the Minnesota/Ontario border. Their smoke will affect MN, WI, MI, OH, NY, NJ, and PA on Wed-Thu. (1/8)

“The project offers a stark reminder of how scientific institutions are often the first victims of dictatorships: ‘We must be aware of what these totalitarian processes entail, and that no society is safe from the possibility of these things happening.’” www.science.org/content/arti...

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

RESPECT Every politician should be doing this. Mayor Coffman has spent every Friday night since February sleeping at Aurora, Colorado’s homeless center, serving breakfast in the morning, and learning firsthand what works and what doesn’t.

Three major egg companies worked together to manufacture the sky-high egg prices that working people suffered from. Their punishment? .001% of last year’s profits. Disgusting.

For @theguardian.com I write that ending TPS is the single largest assault on immigrant lives in contemporary US & part of a playbook that couples expanded enforcement with canceling legal status. “Legal” & “illegal” are decisions about whose life is valued. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As the former President of South Korea serves a life sentence for his role in a failed insurrection, his wife just got sentenced to 7 years in prison for bribery. The US could learn a lot from South Korea what accountability looks like for power-hungry, corrupt grifters. youtu.be/nAUksLhLSKs?...

🚨BREAKING: In a MAJOR VICTORY, the 6th Circuit REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to access Michigan's voter file. The first appeals court to rule on an appeal in DOJ's 9 defeats. I am proud of the Elias Law Group team for this critical win! www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.

Mamdani: When I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region. And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept.

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

NEWS: The Senate just passed the biggest housing bill in 30 years! With the median age of first-time homebuyers at a record high, our bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act would: — Build more homes — Lower housing costs — Stop Wall Street from buying up homes Next up, the House.

new take™ www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFi...

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS! The #birdBuddy caught the #BostonBoom! #birds

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

You might have heard about the legal case involving the DOJ sending subpoenas to blue state hospitals for private medical records of trans children. For my newsletter, I went long on the Texas judge enabling this fuckery. www.burnsnotice.com/this-federal...

“‘What’s happening right now is probably the swiftest disenfranchisement of Black folks since Reconstruction, due to disenfranchisement by racist gerrymandering. And they will lie and say that it’s for political purposes,’ said Democratic state representative Justin Pearson of Tennessee…”

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

yet another reason to leave substack (before they make it even harder to leave):