Indeed

Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles

About the same time the NYT sat on a scoop tying Trump to Epstein, Maggie Haberman was downright giddy (y'all) about NYT promoting an anti-Hillary Clinton book.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Here’s what is interesting about this answer: It is not a “no.” bsky.app/profile/just...

He really wants to lose the midterms.

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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Bovino, on resistance to their operations in Chicago: “I didn’t have any reason to think it would be this bad, but it’s far worse than I ever thought.”

For the most part, they’ve been met by whistles, insults, and the occasional person blocking a vehicle.

“It’s hard imagining that Gatsby & those who partied at his house every night would’ve missed out on the kind of get-rich-quick schemes of the crypto & AI booms had they existed back then. It’s just as hard to imagine that our current Roaring ’20s is going to end any better than theirs did in 1929.”

Brilliant.

What a lying piece of shit the vice president of the United States is. Wow.

Americans agree: Trump's management of the US economy is the worst by any American president in history.

A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says The man, Roberto Mosquera del Peral, was among a group of migrants sent to Eswatini in mid-July as part of the Trump administration's expanding third-country deportation program. The program has been ...

A Cuban man deported by the United States to Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program. https://to.pbs.org/4hnLSwE

First we wish any legitimate journalist well on their journey to cover the news. But “your” government announcement of a next gen press corps is shall we say beyond odd. The Pentagon press corps still is working every day no matter how afraid of it you all seem to be. “Self deport”? Naw. Too busy working!

Barbara Starr, who covered the Pentagon for decades, says the announcement is "beyond odd" and that the preexisting press corps "still is working every day no matter how afraid of it you all seem to be"

Attorney General James Launches Portal to Collect Photos and Videos of ICE Activity in New York NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James is encouraging New Yorkers to submit videos or other documentation of federal immigration enforcement actions in New York following yesterday’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on Canal Street in New York City. “Every New Yorker has the right to live without fear or intimidation,” said Attorney General James. “If you witnessed and documented ICE activity yesterday, I urge you to share that footage with my office. We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law. No one should be subject to unlawful questioning, detention, or intimidation.” Attorney General James is asking New Yorkers to share photos or videos of federal government actions using the Office of the Attorney General’s new online portal.

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity.

"We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes.

Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Congressional Republicans are letting all of this happen…

For a cavernous building that would be used only a few times a year. At least the royal palaces that have ballrooms were actualy built in a time when they held many balls. This is just a testament to bad taste and ostentatious waste.

Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.

Wild.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

*clears throat*: time to re-post the kavanaugh concurrence again!

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass U.S. Cities Should Be Military ‘Training Grounds’

Hey Republicans. This is on you. As a reminder, you have the power to impeach and remove

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Trump to a room of generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent before. Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud."

What Pete Hegseth is preaching is not old-school values. The values he wants are values that were rejected by generations of military commanders for creating an army that was brittle, inflexible and ineffective. But he hates women and Black people, and that matters more to him.

Imagine being a general or an admiral, responsible for thousands of people and billions of dollars, and being ordered to fly halfway around the globe to listen to this.

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

He should probably read up on what Jesus actually taught.

Pete Hegseth’s lecture to our military just now: “History teaches us that the only people who deserve peace are those who are willing to wage war to defend it.”

Huh, that’s not what Jesus taught…

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