“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time.

I wrote a substack about this on Friday!This isn’t an accident.

open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

“There are two types of people in the world: the visible." - Teju Cole

At least 6 vehicles racing through a quiet suburban neighborhood; multiple agents, all of them armed and masked.

the excessive response plus the violence against this 15 year old girl is outrageous.

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

Will never get over that after a once-in-a-century pandemic, we reelected someone who not only mishandled it poorly, but intended to dismantle readiness for the next pandemic. And he’s doing just that with that moronic crank, RFK.

Elevating today’s ICE arrest of a journalist and American citizen in Chicago

It's really sad how people struggling to free or defend their countries, like Zelensky and this woman, have to repeatedly debase themselves in front of this man because there is no longer any responsible leader of the Free World.

Maybe it's because I'm a parent, but avoidable harm to kids really gets to me. My kids can be difficult when they don't get an afternoon snack at the usual time. I'm sure various parents and teachers can say the same. Watching a kid starve to death? And the US govt did it on purpose?
Unconscionable.

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

If I may, I’d swap out “ambitious” with “authoritarian.”

Not that someone foreign-born needs to achieve a Nobel prize to be worthy of dignity and compassion, but in terms of the brain gain aspect, we mess with this at our peril. And it’s also a form of soft power, too.

His brain is mashed potatoes.

The worst, most petulant people.

This was great. Even beyond the Epstein material, anyone who has watched a lot of true crime — or The Last Dance — will appreciate what they did here.

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

I saw this on my FB feed. Apparently, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is at my old stomping grounds of Miami University - Hamilton just down the road from me. This quote is great:

“Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.”

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

Of course.

Love this. This guy is doing it right!

Again, Trump has crossed a Red Line no president has ever crossed: personally ordering the criminal prosecution of an American he doesn't like despite DOJ not finding evidence of any crime.

If Trump can do this to the powerful, he can do it to you. That's not freedom, and its not America.

He’s a damn moron, but I can’t help but reiterate that I need the next Democratic president to fix the oval office. It looks atrocious.

Brazenly bad.

To “make” the proof. Jesus.