Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

"Why can't Trump murder civilians indiscriminately at home like he does abroad" - Ross Douthat

City payouts from LAPD traffic collisions top $90m since 2019, more than $57m in the last two years alone.

2025 is already almost $25m and the fiscal year (7/1-6/30) isn't even a third over.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Cybertruck is the *perfect* piece of evidence to show that Elon really isn't that smart, because *so many* design choices are entirely about "looking cool."

The steering wheel is a tiny hexagon. The turn signal is a button on the steering wheel. The display is a touch screen.

It's *insane.*

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

"Look how careless the Dwarves of Erebor were, just *letting* their riches flow out into Dale, and thence into the wider world! A truly wise ruler would lay upon their wealth, thus allowing its value to increase by its scarcity!"

... okay, that was *way* too easy.

It really demonstrates the major flaw with being super rich:

There's no longer anyone around you willing to tell you that you sound like a complete moron.

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

Essential point:

"Key to... Vought’s worldview is the idea that the constitutional order - and with it the “natural” order itself - has been destroyed: The revolution has already happened, “the Left” won. Therefore, conservatives categorically err when they try to preserve what is no more."

How exactly do things like "forcing rural hospitals to close" and "kicking people off of Medicare" qualify as "fixing" healthcare, Mike?

Am I "fixing" your car by punching holes in your tires and cutting the fuel line?

Columbus was a genocidal warlord and slaver who nearly got his own men killed before stumbling upon human societies that did not need discovering.

Never stepped foot in North America. Wasn't Italian.

He doesn't deserve a holiday.

Giuseppe Garibaldi on the other hand deserves one. And was Italian.

A related problem for Trump/GOP is: "how are those ICE raids working out for you?"

Sure, there are Stephen Millers who thrive on cruelty, but a typical Trump voter is more "I'm okay with cruelty to benefit me."

Y'all got better jobs yet? More food on your table?

Help them see the answer is "no."

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

I'm sure all the folks who had Very Serious Concerns about Hunter Biden will be speaking up about this any minute now.

Any minute now.

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

If you think its a coincidence that they are pushing BS autism causes while the DeptEd empties its special education division and ICE had an autistic child in dention without any of their family knowing, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

This is a purposeful attack on our most vulnerable.

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):

I think my favorite bit of lore about Quantum Leap was that Bellisario wrote the Lee Harvey Oswald two-parter because he saw "JFK" and got *really* mad about how much the movie got wrong.

Because Don Jr. and Eric turned out *so well.*

Just today, here's a story from the @chicago.suntimes.com -- not only are ICE/feds masking themselves constantly (and some local cops too, I've seen it), now they're driving around without license plates. More "laws for thee, whatever I wanna do for me" in action chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

"Exceptional" as in "exceptionally worse?"

Because that's the only logical conclusion one could reach, based on the objective facts.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.