A note to ICE agents. Precedent is clear: following orders is not a legal justification. You will be prosecuted, and your silly little masks won’t protect you. Go home. Call in sick. Get another job.
I’m still seeing the usual lefties—of whom I am one—blasting Trump for the usual stuff. But the ME agreement changes everything and we all know it. We need to reckon with this and we’re not.
Thiessen’s piece in Post says he also brought peace to Congo, but anyone who knows anything about central Africa know that’s bullshit, so maybe this is too?
My old joke about accusing rump of being a racist is like accusing an everything bagel of being a poppy seed bagel. I mean, yes, but it’s so much more. And now arguably most deserving candidate to win next year’s peace prize? WTF?
Is it possible that rump, although an insane asshole idiot with a spectacularly disastrous set of “ideas”, an authoritarian mindset, zero impulse control, a handful of brain cells, an openly corrupt administration and the worst cabinet in history, has brought peace to the Middle East? How???
Is it possible that rump, although an insane asshole idiot with a spectacularly disastrous set of “ideas”, an authoritarian mindset, zero impulse control, a handful of brain cells, an openly corrupt administration and the worst cabinet in history, has brought peace to the Middle East? How???
Pretty much every writer you’ve ever heard of—from Tolstoy, Proust and Virginia Woolf, to Auden, Larkin and Updike, to Wodehouse, Greene, and Nabokov—Nabokov!—hasn’t won the nod from those Swedes. Don’t take reading suggestions from these guys. They aren’t serious.
JC, did Trump just actually bring peace to the Middle East? 2500 years of conflict? Is next year’s Nobel actually his? Should I be rooting for this? Hashtag Conflicted feelings.
The comedians who have agreed to perform in Saudi Arabia—I’m looking at you Bill Burr—have done us a service: they’ve told us the price of their conscience. A lot of us will never watch them again.
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
So many questions. Were citizens within their rights, not just to taunt and record, but to physically intervene? what was the precipitating event? Cops just decide to arrest someone for being Hispanic? Why flee rather than escalate?
This book which I’m struggling with in Swahili, deserves a good translation. It’s little known but very good as far as I can tell. (By Karang’ae Chege, called Safari ya Mabwe, or Stone Journey).
