damn, Jamelle. 🔥

Just a man of the people.

Proud of my doctor who has been volunteering for the Red Cross.

Watching the analysis on Fox News: Trump has “checkmated” and “out maneuvered” Iran. Trump is simply going to reroute traffic to the “Gulf of America”! The U.S. economy is going to take off like a rocket! Easy peasy!!!!

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Tonight we were treated to Trump’s leitmotif that the U.S. is bursting with economic success, which is belied by what Americans are experiencing. This speech is not going to help him.

Image of a truth social post by Trump reads, in part, "The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran. Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately “Open for Business,” we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched.”"

Trump just announced that Iran has a “new, and more reasonable, regime” and then followed that up with a threat of war crimes. Everything is going great!

🔥"Capital creates a world of insanity beyond the insanity of accumulation."🔥 Damn, Jack, that's a sentence.

Solipsistic Realism and Trump’s Poopy Bed Move over "Pottery Barn" there is a new maxim in town.

A short write up on how to understand Trump's "flexible realism." Flexible like a wet noodle (and just as competent!), but what of Realism?

And I offer a new maxim to replace the 2003 Pottery Barn Rule: You poop the bed, you clean it up!
open.substack.com/pub/needinpu...

Trump's NCTC advisor resigns in protest over the Iran war.

Ouch. Can't wait to hear Trump torch this dude.

Florida just handed Ron DeSantis a weapon to fire elected officials for supporting their own constituents.

Karl Weick (organizational psychologist, foundational work on sensemaking) had a great refrain: “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?” I often think about this in relation to how AI can interfere w/ thinking by substituting its words for ours. This experimental study offers evidence.

Breaking News: Trump says Iran has tomahawk cruise missiles. 😳

...and remember, war is the easy part! And a few musing on teaching international politics

A stupid war, and war is the easy part open.substack.com/pub/needinpu...

So Rubio's just explained that the imminent threat of an Iranian attack is in the form of Iran's certain retaliation to an imminent Israeli attack. cool cool cool

I just had a premonition that Trump will use the SOTU to announce military strikes against Iran.

#facts

A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

Very cool piece by @jeremywallace.bsky.social highlights (a) the fast pace of solar power and (b) its non-obvious chaotic implications. It further highlights how Trump is positioning the U.S. to succeed in the early 20th century.

This Davos speech is deeply embarrassing.

What was your undergraduate/grad degrees in? I am a professor of political science and am always interested in learning about career paths so I can share w my students.

I saw this after digesting the atrocious murder of Renee Good, and I welled up with sadness and rage.

And all the cultural and creative works they produce, 99.99% of which I will never be exposed to. 😳

This is fantastic.

It is so frustrating.

In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.

The story of my semester.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Philadelphia - Denver - El Paso - San Diego - Seattle/Portland - New Orleans Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed. Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino. ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations. I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: "ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?". Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results. Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio : "While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country." 7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2025 · 29.6K Views

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

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