The allegory is so loud it's giving me a headache.

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Pro-rape policies seem just par for the course for this administration, which is really saying something.

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

JARED BERNSTEIN: “.. Manufacturing is in a real slump, with emp down 5 months in row, down 94K over past year. We haven’t seen such trends outside of recessions for years.

“.. Trump’s fingerprints are on this trend. It turns out that making factory production more expensive is bad for jobs.”

Hey Siri, is this a CivMil crisis?

a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls . ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls .

Torsten Slok:
Economy likely to reaccelerate in 2026 because growth expectations are up and because the CBO says so

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out. Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s influence over state government.

NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom.

All but about 200 pages are blacked out.

Trump sent men to torture in El Salvador, report confirms Human Rights Watch found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the United States were beaten almost every day.

A new report found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador were beaten almost every day.

The men sent to CECOT by the Trump administration used their own blood to write “we are migrants, not terrorists” on a bed sheet.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.

NEW: Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims.

For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.

“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

What could have happened in 2025? 🤔

RUT RO! (plays tiny violin)

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Emboldened Democrats mobilize against centrists’ emerging shutdown deal | CNN Politics Hours before the first major elections since President Donald Trump’s win last November, Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a stern warning for Democrats about the party’s secret talks to end the shutdown.

Inside a tense, three-hour meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday, a fiery Senator Bernie Sanders urged Democrats not to yield to Republicans without a real victory on health care. He was armed with fresh polling that showed voters would punish the party for giving up with nothing in return.

Suck it Jeff Yass!

Everyone seems to be mad at the former Spotify CEO Daniel Ek for investing in an AI drone company, but forget that he lives in Sweden, where the fear of Russian interference and invasion is a real and present threat. The Nordic countries know this and act accordingly.

We’re not brutalizing grandmas in Chicago enough but I just pardoned the guy who helped fund Hamas because Don Jr. put his name on the bribe list.

Some of my favorite crypto hypocrisies from when I was at the SEC:

1. Lawmakers yelled at us for not suing Binance fast enough and have since gone absolutely silent since Trump got in business with CZ

If billionaires were a net good for society they would help pay for SNAP to save it, 1907 JP Morgan style.
But they won't because they aren't.
Meanwhile regular citizens like my family and friends are donating food and money to free fridges and food charities in Philly.
Thanks for nothing guys.

Remember BBL Drizzy?
Those were simpler times.

Trump officials shut down bribery probe of border czar Tom Homan Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in Texas in September 2024, according to people familiar with the matter and a government document...

Border czar Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in September 2024. Trump officials have shut down the bribery investigation.

$2,000 Shipping: International Sellers Charge Absurd Prices to Avoid Dealing With American Tariffs Some sellers on eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs so American buyers won't buy their products.

Good news: Rather than deal with tariff logistics, some international eBay and Etsy sellers have simply jacked their shipping costs up to $2,000 for Americans buyers:

www.404media.co/2-000-shippi...

Jobless claims 263k — highest since June 2023.

Ten year falls to 4.00%

@cnbc.com

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

a graph of CPI: Audio Equipment

You can really see the price impact of tariffs on audio equipment like speakers, microphones, & headphones—they're some of the few electronics not exempt from tariffs (most smartphones/computers are still tariff-free) & so prices are up more than 12% year-on-year