Erik Tanouye

whether through moral clarity or incompetence, the military has turned against its own border patrol

Man Arrested in New York Snowball Fight That Police Said Injured Officers

Sure, this seems like fun and games, but imagine if, instead of a snowball, they had thrown something more dangerous at the police, like a hoagie. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

Good morning! This man is a fucking liar.

Sir, the question was, is this your handwriting?

2018 Hawaii false missile alert - Wikipedia

You can count on a terrifying security alert one year into every Trump presidency en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Ha...

A screenshot from body-cam footage from the Oct. 4 shooting of Marimar Martinez. Highlighted is an Uber light in the front windshield of Border Patrol agents' Chevy Tahoe.

And yes, the agents were driving a vehicle that had an "Uber" light in the front windshield:

I kept waiting for the bushes to start dancing.

Real journalism that meets the moment

A poster for All the President’s Men with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman erased, and the title now says “None of the President’s Men”

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

Al Pacino in And Justice For All, but the subtitles read “I suck? The system sucks. This job sucks.”

“Guernica,” a black and white painting by Pablo Picasso

My favorite podcast is “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso. I also really liked “Cheers,“ the podcast about people hanging out at a bar in Boston. Podcasts are great. What are some of your favorite podcasts?

"If we go light on the Ratner, Polanski, Trump, and Riefenstahl parts, I wouldn't complain, because it could dwarf everything else.”

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

I think I’ve injured my thumbs constantly refreshing the AMCsAList and NYCMovies reddits to stay on top of when I can see what where

It played in 70mm at the Lincoln Square AMC back when it was in limited release. (I saw it there New Year’s Day.)

A lot of journalists gonna be more outraged about Don Lemon’s arrest than they were about the non-journalists being murdered in the streets.

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.

"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Reminder that you don’t need a new iPhone or Apple Watch every year. Or really at all. My Casio watch works fine and doesn’t ruin movies for other people in the theater.

Write to your senators. They are spineless, but it doesn’t hurt to try.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Ghouls taking a moment then firing extra bullets into somebody already shot on the ground. Disgusting.

Verdict reached in murder-for-hire trial involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino: live updates The unusually swift trial is the first to result from the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago, known as Operation Midway Blitz.

Jury finds Chicago man not guilty in murder-for-hire case involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino

Live updates via @chicago.suntimes.com : chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...

Willem Dafoe says “Try the Lindo brand. I think you’ll like it” in a scene from Clear and Present Danger.

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Shin turns to the exchange in which Oscar Martinez wrote "Not worth 10k."

Shin: "You wrote that because you were trying to talk your brother out of it?"

Oscar Martinez: "I wrote it because Bovino's not worth 10k."

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

ICE hasn’t even been around as long as The Wire.