Wow. Influential 2010s-era hard-right figure overstayed his visa in 2019. #Milo missed his immigration hearing on July 22 and was ordered removed “in absentia.” Now he’s in #ICE custody. And in absentia orders are up because courts are rushing hearings, which means less notice.

If you suspect this level of delusion has any impact on policy, you're probably either a traitor or brainwashed by the media

Who among us has not considered destroying buildings that don't name themselves after us?

Remember the good ol’ days, when Trump claimed to solve numerous wars? As an example, he brokered a Congolese peace deal. Now, more than one year later, the combatants have agreed to a roadmap for peace talks. How he hasn’t won a Nobel yet is beyond me.

Welcome to The People’s Republic of America. But sure, *everyone else* is a communist.

Newt Gingrich, a pro-Trump Republican, said this about someone who isn't Trump. Irony is dead. The time of death was August 18, 2026. (The context is the Natalie Harp controversy. I promise you it's not worth your time.)

Billionaire lectures his subjects for complaining about paying only “a tiny little bit more for your gasoline.” Yes, please be grateful you’re poorer now. Fantasy Iran war triumphs make it all worthwhile.

Shortsighted military planning leaves the Pacific without an aircraft carrier. Service members’ and their families’ dire complaints are dismissed as sailors try to jump overboard. Don’t you love that America is great again?

Other than its sadism and inevitable abuses, this story is "shocking" on multiple levels

Good news! Now it's time to leave.

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950), a short story about a lone house amid a nuclear wasteland, is set today: August 4, 2026

The right-wing Heritage Foundation found only 100 proven or admitted cases of noncitizen federal voting from 1982 to 2025. That’s barely 1 case every 20 years per state. Godspeed to those hoping to overhaul election law over this supposedly grave threat to election security.

For anyone looking for a trashy read

If even a single municipal level Democrat talked like this it would be a week-long national scandal, complete with op-eds & podcasts from Ezra Douthglesias about how they are out of touch & don’t respect Real Folkz. This? Not even news. Total 🦗🦗 from those folks.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · last mo.

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

Now that DHS funding is secured, we’re seeing more killings. Reupping my piece on how DHS has become the very murderers its supporters claim to fear: agents of state violence acting in the name of stopping alleged immigrant violence. michaelzigismund.substack.com/p/the-conque...

The Conquest Of The United States By Immigrant Murderers (Sort Of)

So it goes.

michaelzigismund.substack.com

Good point

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.

Terrorists. Traitors. Communists. These days you can't just be a protester, a political opponent, or a journalist. Sometimes a label can even get you decades in jail. My latest: (link 👇)

Immigrants raise housing costs. So do babies. So does modern medicine, if you follow the logic. A new Fed study is being used to bash immigration — but the real culprit is zoning, not newcomers. My latest: (link 👇)

"buy a Dell" is the single worst thing Donald Trump has ever said ever (no, I'm not bitter about my multiple torturous experiences with Dell, thank you for asking)

The Declaration of Independence went from revolution to obscurity to a source of American progress. Here is my review of a classic history of a forgotten document that became national scripture. Here's to 250 more years of contesting who we are and who we wish to be! (link 👇)

Wow, Radley Balko annotated the Declaration of Independence *verbatim* with links to the Trump administration's actions. 🔥 radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-unremi...

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New at The Watch: Old words, new context radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-unremi...

This is sad. I, for one, have never been more proud to be an American because, in the crucible of the past decade, I have a much better sense of what is American and what is not. Kings, it turns out, are not.

Good news!

The most anti-free trade and pro-economic coercion administration in my lifetime tells Iran to "think bigger" by abandoning economic coercion in favor of free trade. (Source: Axios, 7/1/2026)

It's good to be the king

I've never been a fan of court packing. Yesterday's #birthrightcitizenship decision was a relief, but not enough. In this short post, I explain why I've come around on court packing, and how to do it right. michaelzigismund.substack.com/p/court-pack...

😭 Summary from Tangle. From the linked article: "Since then, crows have left more than half a dozen items for Leah—from sticks to balls of moss to a smaller bird’s nest."

This brought tears to my eyes. As always, you should be reading Tangle News. Link in comments.

He's serious you know

This was the centerpiece of Obama's Iran deal Trump abandoned the deal in 2018 He has spent a decade criticizing it Now it's a point of pride