Person, woman, man, Epstein, files, now.

When bad things get worse Border Patrol, ICE, and the repetition of grim history.

I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.

I think my favorite part of this article was the judges admonishment to Bonvino, “Children in Halloween costumes do not pose a danger to ICE agents.”

Caligula's unorthodox style raises eyebrows among some liberal Romans.

-New York Times, 39 AD

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.

Trump just won’t release it.

440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.

A portrait miniature of a unidentified lady by Jeremiah Meyer (1735-89),

The Great Gale of 1824

Two new Old Fox ghost stories up on my patreon: "The Émigrée on the Lawn" and "The Great Gale of 1824". Join for these and thousands of other tales. And Wolf will even send you a card when you sign up! patreon.com/annelouiseav...

And then get the @audioflux.bsky.social podcast into your feeds! 💕

Steve Bannon Insists There’s Already a Plan in Motion to Get Trump a Third Term: He’s ‘Gonna Be President in ’28’ Steve Bannon insisted in a Thursday interview with The Economist that Donald Trump will somehow receive a third term and there is already a plan in place.

Once again, they are telling us what they are going to do. Prepare accordingly.
www.mediaite.com/media/podcas...

If you are in a position to help your fellow Americans, they're really going to need it in the next few weeks. Find a local food pantry and give if at all possible. Food pantries can leverage your dollars better than you can. So cash really is the best gift.

My dudes, if you’re protesting at a PUMPKIN CARVING contest, claiming that you’re protecting women and children, you’ve lost the plot.

If you could afford to, please consider doing this Mother Jones reporting is essential!

The Three-Minute Rule Audio Flux opens our ears to the power of duration — a power that goes back to the earliest days of radio.

I did not even pursue a reference to Soviet-era rock stars here, they just naturally appeared. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/the-three-...

In Missoula, Montana, the Missoulian features a sweeping aerial shot of the rally:

I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:

Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.

Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23

The record protests are the 6th headline down on the NYT mobile app.

The @nytimes.com coverage today was terrible. Late to start. Badly framed. And just…some weird mix of lazy and too-cool-for-school? This prophylactic squib was especially annoying. Since they didn’t focus on either! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/i...

Vance Flexes the Marines’ Might as Thousand Protest Trump’s Agenda VP JD Vance’s trips o a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders

This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

A diseased population is easier to control

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together. Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police. The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities. But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life' Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

One judge compared their district’s current relationship with the Supreme Court to “a war zone.” Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson.

If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

By next spring, they'll be bragging about the passenger airliner they shot out of the sky because it was filled with "antifa commandos"

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.