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I was pulling photos from Getty Images today and this one took my breath away for a second. "Plain clothed federal agents pursue a man through the lobby of the Hennepin County Government Center before tackling and arresting him Tuesday, February 10, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minn."

Nothing in the rule book…

“Help us bring this situation to an end,” Savannah pleads to those who know where her beloved mother is. #BringHerHome

Did anyone hear the anthem before the Cubs - Pirates game and what the heck was that?????

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A lot of ancient storytelling traditions and texts from the Old Testament to the Odyssey wrestle with the morality of how to treat and interact with "strangers" because it's the first pluralistic challenge all human societies confront.

I think it also accounts for why anti-immigrant sentiment is so central to modern right-wing populism across a whole variety of different countries with very different racial dhistories. It's a pernicious force, but a truly formidable one that progressives everywhere need to grapple with.

People can be vicious and hostile to foreigners who are of the same "race." Race and racism are constructs of modernity, whereas what might be called xenophobia is as old as civilization itself. And I think there's an argument it's a more universally powerful force because it's far more adaptable.

There's a tendency to view anti-immigrant sentiment as an outgrowth of more fundamental racism in the US political culture. For good reason: the two are obviously related and feed each other. But they are also conceptually distinct and we see this both at home and abroad.

This piece is well done and really worth a read and prompts a few thoughts. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...

thank you, Rob!

Sheep Detectives: so good! What a delight.

the bar to be shocked by Trump is high, but genuinely shocking.

Had fun hopping on @chrislhayes.bsky.social’s great podcast Why Is This Happening to chat prediction market mania, how we got here and where all this crazy-making madness is heading open.spotify.com/episode/3mKo...

it’s coming home

Even while denying the significance of Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump family has cultivated friendships with the Tate brothers, and the Trump Administration has intervened on their behalf with Romanian authorities. A lot of the US far right is in bed with them, so to speak:

If you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Remember why they are in the US in the first place: the Trump administration lobbying on their behalf to free them from Romania.

This piece is incredible. If you prefer audio, here’s an interview I did with the reporter walking through her reporting. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

This is tonight’s A block