Michael Macher

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate.

I support proposals 2-4 on the NYC ballot, which would make it moderately easier adjust zoning for higher-density housing development. I have to say, seeing how controversial this is among people I know is giving me some new sympathy for the angry YIMBYs online.

i've seen enough. curtis sliwa is nyc's next mayor.

Niela Orr | Come closer D’Angelo, that Pentecostal preacher’s son, the man Robert Christgau called ‘R&B Jesus’, has died, and, with him...

"On ‘1000 Deaths’ he mumbles a hard-to-hear line and then says: ‘Y’all know what I’m saying?’ Yes. Maybe? But enunciation only does part of the work of communicating. Transmitting feeling is a different job."

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Philadelphia - Denver - El Paso - San Diego - Seattle/Portland - New Orleans Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed. Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino. ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations. I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: "ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?". Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results. Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio : "While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country." 7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2025 · 29.6K Views

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Cédric Durand, Neo-Schumpeterian — Sidecar On Philippe Aghion.

"...unlike his Austrian predecessor, who had a tragic understanding of economic history...Aghion has no theory of capitalism. Despite the sophistication of his models, his empirical data has led him to an intellectual impasse."

A protester holding a sign that reads: "eat this ass SCOTUS."

Circa 2022. Still not surpassed.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

this is how literally half the kids at my (texas) high school talked. it's always been this way - and this is the status quo they are fighting to preserve.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"Content marketing" is the editorial mood of fascism par excellence.

these quotes are from the 1880s!

China: we will fund a world-historic energy transition.

United States: our robots will find new ways to get you off.

Article text that reads: "till, they were raided once by police, who swarmed the production as they were filming in the Shahrak-e Gharb neighborhood in the summer of 2024. No one quite knows how their location was leaked—maybe it was because it was their second day filming in the same location, Jafari says—but Panahi and his team were prepared."

Article text that reads: "They slid an empty memory card into a camera and handed it over. Editor Amir Etminan had all the footage filmed until that point saved on his laptop in the back of the car, along with a bag of prop SLR cameras that wedding photographer Shiva uses in the film. As the police were searching his car, Etminan feinted toward the bag of cameras and pretended to be protecting them passionately, leading the authorities to believe they held footage."

A quote from Iranian director Jafar Panahi that reads: "You will ask yourself, How could a regime with all this apparatus allow you to even make a film like this? But because I’m inside, I know how to find my way through the crevices and the pathways. I know how to go through the street and come back...This film is made for a time for which there is no history yet."

Some incredible details in this profile of the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been playing "a game of chicken with the regime" since 2010.

www.vulture.com/article/jafa...

Business owners have always been the driving force behind pro-immigration policy. But they have also been more than willing to bargain away the rights of noncitizens to secure their labor.

We need a new coalition that sees noncitizens as workers/allies deserving of fair treatment and citizenship.

Trust the process.

Theory of the Party • Ill Will Phil A. Neel on the invariant features of communist revolutionary organization.

"In other words, people do not join organizations, support them, or adopt their political positions, symbology, and general dispositions en masse because they agree with them. They do so because these organizations exhibit competency and strength of spirit."

Trump admin is refusing backpay to furloughed federal workers while insulating DHS from the worst effects of the shutdown.

One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

"...it’s insidious for Anderson to use a movement of men and white leftists that was heavily criticized in its time by other Black revolutionaries and make a Black woman the face of it for the plot alone—a plot in which she doesn’t even get to actively participate!"

Article text: "Moreover, the law does not “mandate” that people seeking asylum “be detained until their case concludes.” The law gives the executive branch discretion. The Trump administration has chosen to exercise that discretion in a way that maximizes its ability to detain and deport people. And as we’ll see, they’re also going way beyond even what the outer parameters of the law allow."

Crucial point here: federal discretion plays a massive role in defining the terms and limits of immigration policy; and the use of discretion is one way to get at what is novel in Trump's enforcement regime.

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In many ways the Border Patrol can be thought of as the vestiges of an era of policing that had been stamped out in many major police departments nationwide - the era predating efforts to create a more “professional” police force.

An excerpt from the Slant manifesto: "we are looking for a society where the genuine personal openness which the experience of culture can provide has been generalised to the level of a whole way of life."

A bop.

Pictured: an issue of the Catholic leftist journal "Slant."

An excerpt from the Slant manifesto: "for the question is not whether we prefer a loving to a cruel father, but whether, in church and society, the implications of fatherhood make the image of a father desirable at all."

An excerpt from the Slant manifesto, continued: "the liberal pressure toward 'solving' a structural problem by personal kindness must be resisted as mystification..."

Eagleton and Cunningham were playing in the pocket on this one.

From the "Slant Manifesto" (1966).

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine An interview with Adam Przeworski.

"In retrospect, we pretend to understand why history took a particular course...The brutal fact that we find it so difficult to predict what will happen under our current circumstances is evidence that we do not have theories we can rely on."

A screenshot of an article titled "My Favorite Actress Is Not Human" written by the economist Tyler Cowen, who writes: "...if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances."

Elon Musk tweeting "nice" to a picture of a scantily clad AI companion.

Screenshot of an article about how ex investor and Business Insider founder Henry Blodget created an AI co-worker and then sexually harassed her.

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ICE, Border Patrol Continue Work Under Shutdown 91 percent of homeland security department still on the job

91% of homeland security personnel are exempt from the "shutdown," including most of ICE, Border Patrol, TSA and other agencies:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-border...

An issue of Histoire magazine featuring Marc Bloch on the cover.

A shelf of various manga books.

A sign in French for the Naguib Mahfouz public library in Paris.

Incredible vibes at this local public library in Paris.

"With no operational free cash flow to cover preferred dividends, Strategy must keep issuing new common shares to raise funds. It is the corporate equivalent of diluting common Peter to pay preferred Paul."

Just caught One Battle After Another at a theater in Paris. Crowd was quiet save for a ripple of laughter when Leo flips on La Bataille d'Alger in his living room.