The people in this pool were generally charged with assaulting, impeding or threatening federal officers/agents during Midway Blitz.

So it excludes immigration-related offenses, like unlawful re-entry, which were creeping up even before Midway Blitz: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Our NYT piece examines Hamm's determined, 15-year campaign to reshape US energy policy. Why? He wanted to extend out the life of fossil fuels to allow his family-controlled company to keep drilling. He argued this is essential to US. energy security. A free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

I think there's a lot of hiding the ball in politics, but no, sadly, Donald Trump thinks that international trade is bad, its actually making America poorer, and that whatever is happening bad in the economy now, its certainly not his massive economically distortive tax hike on international trade

That the legislature rather than the executive controls when and if the nation goes to war was one of the most specific, deliberate, and extensively explained changes the Constitution made from the British model. "This is a power the crown had but the president won't" was absolutely unambiguous.

Exact same thing with cops, though they don’t have an explicit budget. You gotta make slop. Buckets and buckets of slop. High-calorie shit that people will actually watch.

but equally, you can't ignore the power of mass mobilization (which is of course often also driven by--ideas!). a genuinely successful political movement manages to blend both of these together

www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movement...

this is why i tend to emphasize the importance of elite persuasion in successful political movements--

www.liberalcurrents.com/how-movement...

i think he's basically right to emphasize the importance of choices made by elites--and this brings us to the importance of ideas. it's common to say that elites are only driven by power. yes, elites are often driven by power--and by their *conception* of their own power, which is to say--ideas.