Matt Lavine

A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this

Hooray! Huzzah! ⚡️💥⚡️💥⚡️💕😜🖖🙌🥳

If i understand that NPR news update right, it sounds like Rump is basically in contempt of court, not releasing the emergency funds - So - Holding all the hungry Americans hostage? He also endorsed Cuomo, threatening to cut our funds if Z wins. Can the Northeast become a new province of Canada?

Judge again bars Trump administration from deploying troops to Portland A federal judge in Oregon has once again barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon until at least Friday.

Now This is the kind of story that renews my hope, great argument counterpoints in here - why reading old school free news is still helpful: apnews.com/article/oreg...

So I'm on ep 07 of The Lowdown, and it is diabolical brilliant so good, Sterlin Harjo is an effin' genius... but in also like: How am I friends with people who didn't watch and engage with 'Reservation Dogs'?

What Everyone’s Saying About Those Housing Ballot Proposals Not sure what to think? Here’s what Lincoln Restler, Kathy Hochul, and Brad Lander want you to do.

If you're like me, you prob looked up the BrooklynLID and the League of Women Voters NY and called your DSA friend to get their take on the ballot props. And realized everything is in confusion. Finally seeing a succinct summary of the stances on those here: www.curbed.com/article/elec...

Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow it to fire head of US Copyright Office The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to let fire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office.

Mmm. apnews.com/article/supr...

For some reason, finding myself wishing that The Roepers spin-off had involved them moving in/near The White House. Like, Mr. Roeper became the vice-president? I know Maude ended in that direction with her becoming a congressperson.

Has anyone checked on Lupin?
Or, i suppose, George Clooney and his band of thieves?

Drew Struzan, who did some of the most beautiful and impactful movie posters ever, has passed away.

Board’s ballot bungle: Board of Elections messed up with both Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo While early voting for the next mayor doesn’t start until Oct. 25, New Yorkers who vote by mail are already receiving their ballots and every one those ballots is flawed and every ballot to b…

Note: per this NY Daily News piece, Mamdani was improperly slotted into the Working Families column - Unclear in article if those will be counted?
www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/12/b...

How the hell is there NOT a Cagney & Lacey tv movie coming out every year? These two older retired detective broads, pulling it together to solve one more procedural mystery?

Did ICE Really Zip-Tie Children in a Chicago Apartment Raid? The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is aggressively escalating.

Know you've read about the attack on Chicago already. But this piece does the best job at summing-up the horror, and the # of citizens and children citizens zip-tied. you don't need more horror. But this is stark, simple. Good one if you know any clueless people. www.thecut.com/article/ice-...

I thought it meant pushes us to ask the question (in casual usage) and ‘really begs the’ would be the ha-ha this is so obvious variant

It doesn’t mean: forces us to ask the question?

Judge temp-blocked Tp from sicking Oregon Nat Guard on Portland - SO NOW Tp is sending the California Nat Guard to invade instead... Kinda begs the Q: What would happen if the Gov of OR deploys their State Guard to block the invading California Guard?
Setting aside Civ War - it would reframe sitch.

Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from deploying troops in Portland, Oregon A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland. U.S.

The first 3 grafs of this AP is terrific. Really something when EVEN Rumpster's own Judge appointees say that this harms states' sovereignty, and that “This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”

apnews.com/article/depl...

Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken do...

On the one hand, even in the late 90s it seemed plainly obvious/self-evident that you can't expect these digital companies to be great defenders of humanity, free speech or civil rights. On the other? What the F? apnews.com/article/appl...

Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as "training grounds" After President Trump suggested Chicago should be used as "training grounds for our military," Gov Pritzker said the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove the president from office, saying "there...

Once again, sorta envious of Chicago and its gusto: www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Bernie Sanders: It Is Genocide Senator Bernie Sanders writes in The Nation: "Many experts have now concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. I agree."

open.substack.com/pub/thenatio...

It's really 100% true. Really spearheaded the whole TP's okay, they're all the same

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

Even Freakin' Reagan-Appointed Judges know that it's VERY VERY ILLEGAL, per the Constitution, to punish people for their words or ideas.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

I think it's going to be worse. My biggest fear is that it's a set-up for a false-flag attack on military, tipping the scales into fascism for the foreseeable future.

Want to stress here the way power and authority rise above the law. This is an assault. But undoubtedly NYPD would say: he was telling her to go, she wasn't leaving. You sees many demographics accept the idea that people must obey. This is horror. www.instagram.com/p/DPCtiT1DR_...

**THAT** will be game-over for civility... That would be the optimum way to get all the military being attacked, more easily switching to full Fascism, probably all under Homeland Security or ICE

6 - may be pushing harder for hiring more mercenaries, ala ICE.
7 - This is a grand setup for a FALSE FLAG op: If the pentagon is attacked during this grand no-reason-given meaning? Whether by shoebox bomb or two kids shooting pistols?

Oh shoot #6: may be pushing harder for hiring more mercenaries, ala ICE

4 - Paranoid campaign focused on firing more women and people who aren't white, and esp more people suspected of being LGBTQ per what did at the topmost level. Landing even-harder on anti free-speech
- Wait - there's a 5th: many soldiers aren't citizens. May try to round them up.