The Atlantic’s November issue is a real keepsake. Subscribers receive tomorrow. On newsstands Oct. 14. Stories are now rolling out online at this landing page: www.theatlantic.com/category/unf...

"October is the month of painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting." Thoreau in The Atlantic in 1862: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“…soon, top U.S.-military commanders may have to decide whether they will refuse such orders from the commander in chief. The greatest crisis of American civil-military relations in modern history is now under way.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Monica Hesse is back. wapo.st/47c9rFe

“You have a son who is going into media, a father who is close to Trump and acquiring the most addictive social platform we’ve ever seen. These are very smart people, and none of this is accidental.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Second viewing of “One Battle after Another,” hoping PTA would get the ending right this time.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

“If this was a beef Swift wanted to win, why is she whining over such a dumpy Weezer riff?” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”

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Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

CHICAGO — “We’re being invaded by our own military.” abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Agents dragged out residents without clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers.

“It was heartbreaking to watch. Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

In three straight elections, more people voted for someone else.

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
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When Trump tried to remove FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, SCOTUS set the case for arguments—but kept Slaughter fired in the meantime.

When Trump tried to remove the Fed's Lisa Cook, SCOTUS set the case for argument—but *let Cook keep serving* in the meantime.

That difference says a lot.

“The injections Suza needed had traveled thousands of miles to the Central African nation, USAID and other records show, only to be stranded in a regional distribution warehouse in the same city where she was gasping for air.” wapo.st/489jGvd

“…today, both the man who can order the use of nuclear arms and the man who would likely verify such an order gave disgraceful and unnerving performances in Quantico.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“Phantom Thread” is a great movie.

Quite the double bill today: Hegseth at Quantico, Sean Penn in “One Battle after Another.”

"...one woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the dead men said that her husband was a fisherman with four children who left one day for work and never came back." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...