Banana Dictatorship Banker

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

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yeah its only a matter of time till border patrol kills some people on camera

Consumers that would normally be substituting towards cheaper goods are substituting to nothing at all

How Foreign Media and Analysts are Misreporting Venezuela | Caracas Chronicles U.S. legacy media are spreading some big lies while trying to debunk and criticize Trump's discourse on Venezuela. Here's where they get it wrong

Excellent article as usual from Caracas Chronicles www.caracaschronicles.com/2025/10/31/h...

Between the article on Trump’s third term today and this…

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

note how the messaging has shifting from "we're targeting criminals" to "we're deporting everyone"

Tylenol check cleared, his work is done. On to the next shakedown

Overall social media use is declining.

Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.

A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

Correction (October 31st 2025): An earlier version of this article said that as vice-president, Donald Trump would only need Senate confrimation [sic] to become president through the 25th amendment. In fact he would need a majority vote of both Houses of Congress to do so.

You know this is a rigorously researched and cogent article when even the correction has spelling errors

Canceled my economist magazine subscription

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/clarke/facts/ for more info. John Clarke Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 Born: 1942, Cambridge, United Kingdom Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Prize motivation: "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" Prize share: 1/3

Lmao his affiliation according to the Nobel Foundation website is "University of California, Berkeley." Didn't want to mention that part in the tweet because he's currently shaking the UC system down for money I reckon. Of course, LBL is administered by UC as well, so...

Bunkering down in military housing. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Terrifying to think of what the pandemic would’ve been like if Musk had owned Twitter during COVID

A long memory of American politics is enough to drive someone insane right now

Donald J. Trump 9 O @realDonaldTrump Chris Wright: "A former Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientist won the Nobel Prize in physics for work in Quantum physics. Quantum computing, along with Al and Fusion, are the three signature Trump science efforts. Trump 47 racks up his first Nobel Prize!!"

This is so funny. Takes me back to when Al Gore said* he invented the internet

*he didn’t actually say that but conservatives made hay with it anyway

This is so funny

“He has done everything he can to make the shutdown as un-painless as possible”

We are in agreement Mr. Vance

“I have never shot a dog. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting”

hey guys are we ever going to talk about what's happening with DHS on social media

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Just once, once I wish that a journalist would be well-informed and competent enough to ask a follow up question of how the legal/illegal immigrant dichotomy works in the context of Trump demolishing all of our legal immigration programs and making millions of immigrants illegal overnight

COUNT I

Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.

COUNT II

The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

This is true (I think, I’m not sure what pick me actually means) but for our elite class writ large. Our elites have decided to abandon any sense of noblesse oblige (woke, but also, expensive) and devolved into a hoarding-the-pie mindset. Just absolutely every for themselves, no sense of higher duty

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

the fact that this was ushered in, to a significant degree, by an unusual number of latino voters breaking for the GOP candidate - who promised “mass deportations” - will be something academics study for decades.

this story is so wild.

the open embrace of racial profiling - on this scale and with this ferocity no less - if you predicted it 10 years ago people would have told you that you were being hysterical.

Pretty sure the guy in the video is too tbh

“Spending the day with Neo was like spending the day with a toddler who was learning how to do things”

Funny that’s exactly how I felt watching the journalist in this segment