Kyle Monson

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

NY and CA are just bursting with leverage here. Might as well use it.

Time for blue state governors to flip the script: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Lawrence Stroll is an "underdog" the way the Mets are -- can't win despite endless money. I love it.

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

This is very good: www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

"The best time to terraform Mars is 25 million years ago. The second-best time is never." Also not a great t-shirt.

"Occupy Mars! We'll be blind and stupid and immobile when we arrive, and that's if the radiation shielding holds up. And in that condition, we'll be touching down in the most hostile environment a human has ever tried to survive in!" doesn't fit on a t-shirt I guess.

it's funny-in-a-capitalist-way that the guys who own spaceship companies are the least bothered by all the ways the universe wants to kill us. Or they're just lying, like they do about everything else.

www.wired.com/story/how-sp...

Chris Van Hollen Is Angry—at Trump, and at His Party’s Lame Pollsters The Maryland senator explains why he went to El Salvador earlier this year while the rest of the party tried to downplay immigration issues, and his decision to go to Iowa and flirt with a 2028 presid...

Here's the interview, it's a good one.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

UI of the Paramount Plus app with a category called "You're Laughing at CBS"

Yes CBS, I am laughing at you. As I cancel Paramount+.

Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle? - emptywheel I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seed...

The ICE Goons will never succeed so long as they keep showing their Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...

A metaphor I use a lot: If ESPN hired an NFL reporter who didn't know about football, the audience would spot the imposter immediately.

But experience is expensive, so publishers throw young reporters onto unfamiliar beats. We end up with shallow coverage, and loss of media trust.

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

I also believe treating columnist as a lifetime appointment (or even a permanent gig) is a terrible approach. We get Tom, David, and Ross writing the same column over and over until the heat-death of the universe.

And half the jokes from Free Guy

Fair play correcting the right wing journalist, but I have to confess it’s hard for me to enjoy a political culture whose main point of consensus is that it should be illegal to use federal funds to treat people who are injured or sick and happen to have the wrong immigration status.

Same! Also, I rewatched Dick Tracy a few months back and it still looks just as beautiful and bizarre as it did when it first came out.

The framing that Google is "blocking AI search results" is super misleading though. I think Google's move is the responsible one for queries like this.

If we need a counterexample, Grok is right there, pretending to be an all-knowing answer machine no matter the query.

I had no business being at a political messaging conference, but had a great time hearing from faves like @katmabu.bsky.social, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social, Morris Katz from the Mamdani campaign, and rising stars like Graham Platner, who's gonna unseat Susan Collins.

No but I would also go to that if there are still tix available

Perry Bacon Jr. interviews Senator Chris Van Hollen

Weird day (or maybe the best day) to be in D.C. for Persuasion 2025, hosted by @swayable.bsky.social and @waytowinus.bsky.social.

Right now @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @vanhollen.senate.gov are talking about freedom in 2025, and how to convince Americans it's worth defending.

This is the most accurate review I've seen

That was wild, the only winners tonight were the fantasy managers

One of many lol. This is my natural state, my normal clothes are me dressing up and pretending.

Tuxedo! Favorite fall weekend

A vaguely renaissance-steampunk devil eating a giant turkey leg at ren faire

Lazy sunday

Silly of me to expect F1 to at least somewhat resemble F1!

Finally watched F1™️ The Movie and wow that sucked.

The only film named after a professional sport, and nobody bothered to learn how the sport works.

Can't wait for FIFA The Movie where the matches don't have an offside rule.