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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2h

One reason I don't think Stephen Miller is the "shadow president," no matter how much baleful influence he has, is that they didn't invoke the Insurrection Act months ago.

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 4h

"This might not sound all that notable. Americans support the 1st Amendment and the 6th Commandment: big whoop. That should be the bare minimum, right? But I do think these findings are noteworthy in light of the hordes of people who are telling us the opposite."

Two Things Americans Agree On

Murder bad. Speech good.

www.wakeuptopolitics.com

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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 7h

RAWIllumination.net: Jesse Walker on 'Shadow Ticket,' the new Pynchon @notjessewalker.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2025/10/jess...

Jesse Walker on 'Shadow Ticket,' the new Pynchon

At Reason magazine, Jesse Walker reviews Shadow Ticket : "There is often a scent of madness around Thomas Pynchon's fan base, and I say tha...

www.rawillumination.net

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 6h

Gore Vidal at 100

The Eternal Gore Vidal

At 100, the ultimate man of letters still looms

rosselliotbarkan.com

Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 7h

hahahahahahaha (catches breath) hahahahahah...

On Twitter, Rand Paul criticizes the strike against alleged drug smugglers & someone replies, "Correct me if I'm wrong, were you in the Senate when Obama was droning everyone?"

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 9h

Nozick's framework for utopia (seniors edition): "niche retirement communities...for specific individuals and interests like horse lovers, film buffs and even retired postal workers"

Margs, Stars and Classic Cars: Surprising Retirement Communities

www.nytimes.com

Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 10h

But is it really enough to protect immigration agents from anti-ICE hate speech? Shouldn't they be represented in every boardroom too?

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 14h

Volunteers patrol their neighborhood, keeping an eye out for an out-of-town gang that's been assaulting people in the area

Volunteers on ICE patrol in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, looking for agents

Elias Cepeda and his team want to warn people in Pilsen, where many Mexican immigrants live, if they see federal agents. They plan to document every interaction.

www.wbez.org

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 14h

"I have a fascination with depth, with the illusion of depth. The screen has a certain 2-D ambiguity. Things can be where you think they are, and then they're somewhere else. You can create irrational spaces."

Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92

www.nytimes.com

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 16h

Your morning image (via x.com/arithmoquine...)

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 23h

Stephen Miller watches video, hurriedly composes tweet declaring "Yakety Sax" a form of terrorism

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 1d

Noem and influencers on roof of ICE facility in Portland, ostensibly looking at a very calm city block on a hot Tuesday afternoon….

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 1d

George Santos and Joe Exotic: the crossover I've been awaiting for years without realizing it

George Santos tweet: "I’m moved beyond words. Thank you, @joe_exotic, for standing up for me and speaking out against the cruelty of solitary confinement.

No one deserves to be forgotten. You remind me that even behind bars, compassion can roar.

Hear Joe's interview in the @SSPNewsroom podcast:"

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds promising: "an open-source, repairable inkjet printer designed for makers, artists, and anyone tired of throwaway hardware"

Open source printer aims to disrupt the inkjet printer ecosystem

Open Printer is an open-source inkjet printer for makers and other creative types.

boingboing.net

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 1d

"the rosters that emerged...were little more than a laundry list of nonprofits, liberal institutions, donors, and nonviolent groups that Trump apparatchiks like Miller had wanted to obliterate for years"

'They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent

Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration are waging a furious crackdown on dissent following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

www.rollingstone.com

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 1d

Today is publication day for Pynchon's SHADOW TICKET, so I'll reup my review of it

Lindy-hopping Nazis and golems with guns: The return of Thomas Pynchon

Pynchon's latest novel is about a strikebreaker turned detective who gets hired to track down a cheese heiress—but that bare-bones summary hardly does the book justice.

reason.com

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 1d

Your morning image (via x.com/tintamarre7/...)

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2d

"I left the courthouse on Friday thinking about the distinction between fictional narratives and reality, about how far some journalists, including those I'd previously respected, seemed willing to go to distort the narrative"

Trump’s troops return to a city that moved on: Dispatch from Portland

Five years after the city’s fiery 2020 protests, Portland is mostly calm. That hasn’t stopped Trump from reviving old battles.

reason.com

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2d

"Little is normal about the lawsuit Baltimore County filed against a former employee that resulted in the county paying him $100,000..."

$100K question: Why was the Baltimore County inspector general case sealed?

The suit stemmed from a disagreement over what Patrick Murray told Kelly Madigan over breakfast at a Towson coffeehouse.

www.thebanner.com

Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2d

Credit where it's due: It's genuinely impressive that this guy managed to rise so far while exuding all the charisma of a typhus epidemic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: You called the judge's ruling 'legal insurrection.' Are you recommending the president take action against judges who rule against him?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. It's simply a factually accurate statement

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2d

Trumponomics: when the government eases its regulations on businesses and instead starts buying chunks of them

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration just took yet another equity stake in yet another private company, this time 10% in Alaskan miner Trilogy Metals. Sheesh. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2d

"We're a news organization, so I'll get right to it," she says...at the beginning of the second paragraph.

The Future of The Free Press

The Free Press is joining Paramount.

www.thefp.com

Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: Virtually all "generation"-based trend stories are bullshit. The people in this article are as typical of "Gen Z" (if we must use that dumb phrase) as a Weather Underground "Smash Monogamy" wedding cake was typical of the baby boom.

What Does Gen Z Divorce Look Like?

www.nytimes.com

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2d

"They can't tolerate deescalation, only more power and new enemies. The front lines of the culture war will only shift, never shrink....That may be a way to win an election or two, but it's a long-term recipe for either a national breakdown or a complete surrender to a police state."

Texas and Florida have become national models for using the police state to wage culture war battles

From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.

reason.com

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 2d

Your morning image

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 3d

This dude is dropping a half-dozen "We finally beat Medicare"s a day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I said one year before to Pete Hegseth, I said, one year before -- where's Pete? In the book I wrote -- whatever the hell the title, I can't tell you -- but I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn't like it."

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