I Like Em Dashes and I Cannot Lie

This is what crowd out looks like.

This is being done in the name of keeping Americans "safe." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Has anyone heard from Mitch McConnell lately?

Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...

Who's going to buy into the gigantic IPOs of companies with no profits and questionable paths to profitability, such as SpaceX and OpenAI? You will, through your employer's retirement plan, writes @jmackin2.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Dear NYt: the word is “Demagogue”, not “populist” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

Trump has shown throughout his career that he only has one strategy: escalate until things fall apart then leave someone else holding the bag

This Weekend at Bernie’s / Back to the Future 3 crossover is terrible

We first unmasked (or not—Donahue never actually covers his face) two CBP agents in November at great personal risk as two reporters who have been repeatedly targeted by the feds, including with assaults and arrest. Since then, more and more outlets have felt comfortable naming agents:

This is about escorting people through a narrow body of water so really it should be Operation Ford Escort

Shocked shocked shocked that the first one to go is a woman

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Trump: “People are saying that Chuck Schumer had a Martian brain implant” MAGA faithful: Chuck Schumer has a Martian brain! Epstein Files: “Trump, Trump, Trump, Trumpity Trump Trump Trump” MAGA: “It’s a media hoax!” Now tell me who really has “Trump Derangement Syndrome?”

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Grateful to @geneweingarten.bsky.social for bringing up a story of a murder in the Civil Rights era that I had never heard of, one that has particular relevance right now. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...

Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

To declare that a 90-year-old precedent is unconstitutional is to declare that is has been unconstitutional for all of those 90 years and three generations of judges were just too ignorant to understand the truth. This is the height of arrogance.

Trump's secret police vandalize houses and cars, assault citizens, fire potential lethal weapons for the hell of it, and assault children, often as sexual predators... and claim impunity for all of this. CATO proposes the fix. In the meantime it's essential to document all these crimes rigorously.

The #eagles defense is RIDICULOUS The #eagles offense is…ridiculous

Right now ChatGPT is working overtime summarizing someone’s emails

Updating my LEGO White House

Hurts > Lamar

A Nietzschean cookbook called "Cumin, All Too Cumin"

A web browser plug in that uses AI to insert a proper noun in any headline that says “this”

The brain worm is winning the battle at the RFK hearing.

"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

On 9/9-9/10, the Small Business Technology Council is hosting a fly-in to encourage Congress to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. NSC members are invited to attend. RSVP here: nsba.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?...

This winter someone needs to perform Springtime for Hitler on the rink at the National Mall and call it ICE Capades

If you want unruly teenagers to go to bed at a decent hour having a police helicopter circle overhead at 11pm every night is one way not to accomplish that. #lifeintheDCoccupation

Radiochin

New DC Police Chief just announced

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

Israel should be an exemplar of righteousness, not of wanton death and destruction. Netanyahu — and the Israelis who support him — have squandered the gift given to them by their forebears. And Jews everywhere are now facing a reckoning.

What Putin is doing to Ukrainian children they’ve abducted… www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

We now have overwhelming evidence that the White House is actively arguing for ignoring the Laken Riley Act and demanding ICE not focus on criminals.

The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]

In a disgusting display of authoritarian abuse, ICE violently detains an Iranian-born American doctor, even breaking his car window, as he dropped his child off at daycare.

Horror stories already beginning to come out. “We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”

The science office “is the heart and brain of the E.P.A.,” said Justin Chen, president of A.F.G.E. Council 238. “Without it, we don’t have the means to assess impacts upon human health and the environment. Its destruction will devastate public health in our country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇