Give A Mouse A Cookie political theory continues to play out.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We need a river and we need an ocean. So I was thinking either the Atlantic or the Pacific, we call it 'Trump ocean' or 'Ocean of the Americas.' Something like that. We have to. We should have, before I get out, I think we should have an ocean and we need a great river."

Here's hoping suggesting Iran nuke L.A. & San Diego will finally sway the "Noble" Committee to acknowledge this greatest of peacemakers.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more. I settled eight wars. I stopped the total obliteration of the world."

Most reports are leaving out the "this is a very small price to pay" part of this insane man's rant. The crowd reaction also adds quite a bit: even a room full of MAGA idiots expresses shock.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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To bring in the Halloween season, we had 2 live bats in our house over the weekend. Note: when a bat flies around & around a ceiling fan, it looks amazing.

I love the way you write

Here's your reminder that border czar Tom Homan, who is terrorizing hard-working immigrants, took $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting. The Trump regime killed the probe, and there’s no indication that Homan paid the money back to the taxpayers – or even paid taxes on the "income."

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

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Insane man with a statuary/military fetish at least makes things fun for cartoonists.

How many times has this guy practiced that line in front of his makeup mirror? Apparently not enough.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."

Buried deep in today’s NYT story about the Trump admin hiring 5,000 new ICE agents is the point that 7,500(!) of the previous 8,000 hires have yet to undergo background checks.

Love that Zuckerberg has to literally stand behind Trump as he rants about Biden, Democrats & what a wonderful job ICE is doing. Great look for business, Zuck!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump starts twitching in anger when a reporter tries to ask him about ICE

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

Trump administration very much staying on-brand with Brand.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

Oz: Russell Brand was backstage hugging the Secretary of Agriculture Brand: She initiated that contact. Oz: Ha!

Excellent enterprise journalism here, keep it up! (At least until they install the Nothing-About-Trump filters.)

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Burying the lede: "Nearly 7,500 people are still waiting for the extensive background checks required for their positions, with an ability to work on a limited basis in the meantime..." So, 5,000 unchecked hires to add to the previous 7,500 unchecked hires, right? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive

A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.

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NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...

Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com

EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...

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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w ago

SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Calling @tedlasso.bsky.social. Now would be a great time to speak out.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w ago

ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

I try not to swear here but, fuck these guys. A few years ago when my family was on Obamacare, my income turned out to be more than expected, thereby reducing my subsidy, which I repaid (painfully) at tax time. According to these assholes, I'm a fraudster. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...

Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud (Gift Article)

Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.

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Social media never fails to lower the bar & undermine democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content

Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversatio...

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Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

And runner-up in the Understatement of the Year Award goes to . . . “This is not Mr. Trump’s first brush with Russian controversy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...

Russian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Party (Gift Article)

The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.

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#NeverForget🇺🇸

Thank you so much for doing this. This is infuriating. And is yet another, "holy shit, they're racist" moment.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · last mo.

Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.

I'm sure people trying to use Anthropic's models to potentially create bio weapons is all marketing. /s www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...

Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons

In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.

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A Beautiful Nevermind... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/s...

The Mathematician Crushed Between OpenAI and Anthropic Over a Math Problem (Gift Article)

Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.

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@markfiore.bsky.social

Well this is effin’ nuts. The @baltimoresun.bsky.social thought it was a good idea to run awful AI slop "cartoons" instead of @kaltoons.bsky.social (who is a human). I wrote a post over at SFAI.agency. lnkd.in/p/gF2FUBya

The Baltimore Sun dumped award-winning editorial cartoonist, Kevin Kallaugher and replaced him with AI slop. Here's why that's exactly backwards: https://lnkd.in/gF9j_u4m | SFAI.agency

The Baltimore Sun dumped award-winning editorial cartoonist, Kevin Kallaugher and replaced him with AI slop. Here's why that's exactly backwards: https://lnkd.in/gF9j_u4m

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Um, really NYT? Might want to adjust the placement here.

I will never forgive those imaginary firemen.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."