As a Texan, I almost have to laugh at Abbott doing Jade Helm.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

Where are the commanding officers of those sailors in the background. How are they letting this happen?

There is no war in Portland. There just isn’t.

Trump-appointed judge: There isn’t.

Stephen Miller: This is treason! This is terrorism!

The “courts” are holding.

One court is not.

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

Wore my “don’t argue with anyone John Brown would’ve shot” T-shirt today

Bartender at a casual prominent DC bar

“Who’s John Brown?”

Reader, I despair.

Night of the Living Dead was released 57 years ago today🧟‍♂️

The judge who granted this restraining order was appointed to the bench by Trump.

Someone should write a spy novel about the fact--not even an exaggeration--that all you need to take out key NatSec officials in the US is to bribe one of 3 different rabid Xitter trolls to lie about them on Xitter.

Low-hanging policy fruit for the Carney government:

I love how laws merely “enshrine a tradition now”, as though the laws against murder are just non-binding suggestions that killing someone isn’t really the done thing.

Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

“It’s disguised as work requirements and term limits, but in reality it’s a way to strip families of their benefits,” said Deborah Thrope of the National Housing Law Project. “This is a huge departure from how the HUD programs have been run.”

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

The /most/ generous you can be is that this happens a lot more now because they even /can/ get emails on a mobile device that 20 years ago would simply not be available in a room where journalists with cameras can see it, but this is not the first admin of the smartphone era by a long shot

we are currently clean on opsec

The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.

“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.

Wasn’t sure how my non-military lib/progressive friends would like wargamming…they loved it, 10/10 recommend

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

the sad truth is it would take a quarter of the room doing this before it'd actually break through to the median voter

maybe there's benefits from an elite signaling perspective (I doubt it, the elites are more morally vacant than the incomprehensible mind of the median voter)

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

It's too long a story to explain how I know this, but I once found out that the FBI made challenge coins about how they tried to force Apple to break iPhone encryption. Challenge coins celebrating shitty behavior is deeply a part of FBI culture.

Why Russia’s micro-aggressions against Europe are proliferating It is hoping to sap support for Ukraine and highlight America’s ambivalence

And this is our cover briefing. "Western countries are conscious that China and Russia are testing them, but unsure or, in some cases, in outright disagreement about how to respond. That is presumably one of the aims of such actions."
www.economist.com/briefing/202...

This is the second official DHS social media post to include McDonalds’ Mac Tonight.

For Xers, it might seem like simple nostalgia, but it has become a well-documented far-right icon, similar to (but less famous than) Pepe the Frog.

That’s twice. That’s very bad.

Director of the Danish Defence Intelligence Service Thomas Ahrenkiel: “It is our assessment that Russia is currently waging a hybrid war against Denmark and the West.”

Which is the point.

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

The Blinding of American Grand Strategy One by one, the Trump administration is eliminating agencies devoted to long-term thinking.

I’m done atoning for my sins and am busy chronicling those of the Trump administration. To wit: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-blindi...

Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.