Jamie Gump (Halloween costume: "Centrist Pundit")

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Your humble narrator standing in front of a giant white cat sculpture in Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.

Au revoir, Paris!

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Plenary authority = not anchored in the constitution. Ask this immigration scholar how I know.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

Hey real quick who needs to see a video of an orange kitten chasing its tail?

It's hard to distinguish satire from workshopped PR stories.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"

Gift link from @bloomberg.com

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lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Among the more obvious differences, this was about using the Alabama National Guard to enforce federal law *in Alabama*, where the state government was defying court orders.

Note that even in that much more extreme context, Kennedy used the Alabama National Guard, not some other state's.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

On this day in 1991, Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center opened to the public!

This clip was shot about a week later as 16mm B-roll for "Skyline: Chicago," a series on the city's history and urban design that aired on @wttw.bsky.social It's part of CFA's Judith Paine McBrien Collection.

Mr. Paxton please contact me, I have crucial information regarding a deadly leftist terror group called BOFA

sarahdaviscline 4h Digital Media It's coming. Hope the whackadoos stay in the big liberal cities be the majority of the population won't put up with it anywhere else. We'll beat the National Guard there. Let these people do their jobs. For your own sake. Meme: IF THE BULLSHIT DOESN'T COME TO A HALT YOU WILL SEE 83 MILLION GUN OWNERS WALK OUT OF THEIR HOMES LIKE THIS

Saw this on that hellsite Threads.

Has some real Sundown Town vibes.

Eight current and former officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security told me that they blame Corey Lewandowski, the longtime Trump-world figure who is a “special government employee” at DHS and functions as the unofficial chief of staff to Secretary Kristi Noem. Lewandowski has operated as a gatekeeper for Noem, especially since June, when the department implemented a new policy requiring her to sign off on any contract exceeding $100,000. Read: Fast times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement With 260,000 employees and an annual budget of $62 billion, DHS has thousands of contracts in that range—including things like Coast Guard vessels, Border Patrol equipment, and TSA software—and deals with private-prison companies that have facilities with tens of thousands of beds that they say could be operational within weeks. Ever since Trump was elected, companies like the Geo Group and CoreCivic have been quickly expanding and promising their investors fat profits. DHS’s new contracting rules have produced “chaos,” according to the current and former officials I spoke with, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters or feared reprisals from the administration. Most of them support the president and his mass-deportation plan, but told me they were dismayed that ICE seemed to be losing altitude right after securing the funding they’d always dreamed of. “There’s extreme frustration that the president’s agenda—when it comes to ICE beds, and therefore deportations—is not going to happen,” one former DHS official told me. “The White House worked for months to get the reconciliation bill over the finish line. Why did you just lobby Congress for months saying you needed the money if you don’t intend to spend it?”

Turns out Corey Lewandowski is sabotaging Stephen Miller's dragnet.

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A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

“Do Something B*tch”: Damning Video Shows CBP Agent Shooting Protester The Department of Homeland Security initially said the agent had shot the woman five times in self-defense.

They need to sue ICE. That ICE officer needs to be charged and arrested. ICE needs to stop this insanity because they are who is causing all of this chaos. This is what happens when a wannabe dictator unleashes masked lawless angry incompetent agents.

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A meme. There’s a skull at the top, followed by the words ‘WRITE A HORROR STORY IN SIX WORDS OR LESS’

‘Six words or _fewer_.”

Lots of facial hair on these guys. I thought Hegseth wanted twinks?

Pete Hegseth is furiously screaming "I SAID NO FATTIES!"

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor…

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Bari Weiss. defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Dear Friends - I have a full-time job. But it’s precarious. I don’t need to tell you what looking for work is like these days. If I lose my job, my only medium-term option will be to return to writing full-time, both as @dicknixon and under my own name. Many of you have stuck with RN as paid subscribers, and my gratitude knows no bounds. Your material support keeps the lights on, and your psychic support goes further. As you’ve heard me explain, RN has fallen off regular columns for several reasons, beginning with our current regime defies rational analysis. In any case, I apologize for it. If I return to full-time writing I’d expand RN’s newsletter to include regular columns about history (not just his), baseball, etc. You could also expect RN’s analysis to heat up with the coming elections. I’d also start a separate newsletter under my own name, which would discuss theatre, film, music, etc. Some of you are familiar with my writing in this area. You could expect new words at least five days a week. Nothing is set up yet. I’m simply putting my finger in the wind. If you don’t already subscribe, please respond if you might be interested. Many thanks, and keep the faith - J.S.

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

I can’t believe how many of y’all didn’t know she dated Kate McKinnon 😂

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

"With local news in a severe tailspin for decades, there was a real question about whether Chicago’s media would meet the moment. But they have indeed," writes @markjacob.bsky.social in Stop The Presses.