Eric Earling

ice agents helping tsa at airports across the country this morning

Lots of stories from travelers seeing ICE agents basically just ... milling about, watching TSA work today. An industry official tells @Politico their deployment was "'performative,' with the agents not having certain badges to get into secure parts of airports and not being trained to check documents and bags." politico.com/news/2026/03/2…

ICYMI: TSA officials tell us ICE has "no practical use" in airports. Just about everything TSA screeners do require extensive classroom and on-the-job training that ICE personnel don't have. Exact nature of ICE duties unclear, but they're unlikely to free up staff. Details👇

“We’re sending ICE to airports, but they can’t actually do any of the TSA work to speed up the lines and we don’t want them to scare the normies who hate the image of masked government thugs milling about uselessly looking for people to roust. So uh no masks please!”

LOL, of course. And how about the fact that ICE officers haven't been trained in how to run TSA check points in airports? Is the TSA job so simple, it can be done by someone who just shows up to work in the morning with no training at all? Everything's a joke right now.

⬇️ Exactly why I want more Gen X, millennials, & Gen Z in office. The boomers have lost the plot on affordability because they largely have no conception what it takes to buy a home today at a comparable standard of living to when they bought - especially in high demand metros.

CNN’s Harry Enten: “Among Independents, Trump is 48 points underwater…these are numbers that if I were a Republican running for Congress, I would be shaking in place because there’s really nowhere to hide.”

Not a joke

Wait a minute. Brave brave sir President Trump did something impulsively and is charting a policy path on a major issue lacking any sort of plan or realistic application of his whims? That’s odd … (Also, sending the masked meatheads of ICE into airports will not end well)

As a staunch Zionist, let me say without hesitation, arrest these criminals and throw the book at them. Violent tribalism should never be accepted. If we're going to have peace in the region, we can't let extremists control the narrative through acts of terror.

@JonahDispatch Under-discussed: World War Z is a good movie and holds up exceptionally well on rewatch. Not quite Master & Commander level of rewatch, but on the same continuum. And get the Extended cut if one can.

Just rewatched World War Z. Does make me wonder how RFK Jr. would respond to a vaccine driven strategy to fight the zombie apocalypse. “Sure, the vaccine prevents you from being eaten by zombies, but do you really want to roll the dice with a vaccine?”

If you want to understand just how cooked Trump is just think about everything that's happened with Iran in the last couple weeks and then realize he's still doing better on Iran than he is on the economy.

On May 8, 2025 I underwent spinal fusion surgery, a 6 hour procedure in which I was filleted from front to back. First, my abdomen was opened up so that the surgeon could scrape out the disc between L5 and S1, replacing it with a perforated cage containing bone grafting material that was screwed into my vertebra. Then I was flipped over and opened up on my back so that my surgeon could screw vertical rods into L5 and S1 to secure my spine position to ensure the fusion sets properly. The procedure was successful, correcting 15 years of lower back debilitation due to severe Spondylolisthesis. However, the recovery process demanded I endure far more than I bargained for, debilitating me in ways I thought might handicap me permanently. For the first 3 months I could barely move. For the first six months my activity was limited to walking only. Pain was constant. At nine months I was still in so much discomfort, still so limited in my range of motion, still too unstable to do anything to elevate my heart rate. My weight ballooned. My muscles atrophied. My mood plummeted. And I was becoming resigned to the idea that my athletic identity (let alone performing extreme feats of ultra-endurance) was a thing of the past, a memory well behind me. But very slowly after that I began to turn a corner. At ten months, I finally felt stable enough to resume a very modest non-spine compressing return to fitness exercise regimen. Zone 1 indoor cycling, gentle core work, extremely low weight / high rep resistance training. Proceeding on a ‘less is more’ mandate in late November (which demands discipline for someone like myself prone to taking everything to the extreme, I just showed up every single morning to do what I could, and stop well before doing more than I should. Today I am down 35 pounds from November (207 to 171) including a body fat reduction from 20% to 11%. More importantly, I am beginning to feel like myself again. Grateful and hopeful. I still have a long way to go—it takes 12-18 months for the fusion to fully set. My surgeon was not optimistic that I will be able to run again. Time will tell of course, but I’m confident that provided I continue to proceed patiently that I have a future in which running can become part of my new reality. Towards that end I have a goal—which is to celebrate my 60th birthday this Fall by participating in the NYC Marathon. But here’s the thing. I’m not trying to return to who I once was. I’ve leaned into the stillness this experience has demanded of me to become someone new and better. I am posting this story not for external validation but rather to say that change is always possible. And the way to do it is the same way I have navigated every one of my many life transformations, from alcoholism to sobriety, from sedentary to middle aged ultra endurance athlete, and from a corporate lawyer career to becoming an author and podcaster: getting sober and staying sober: by taking contrary action consistently and religiously—one day at a time. As Chris Paul said on my podcast, “keep stacking days.” And remember, every obstacle life presents you is simply an opportunity custom-designed for your growth and evolution.

JD Vance in September 2025: "If you celebrate Charlie Kirk's death, you should not be protected from being fired for being a disgusting person."

Has any tweet aged better than this one? It’s basically the defining ethos of the entire last decade. By some objective measure, it might be the best tweet of all time.

7,000 potholes filled in one week? Now this is politics

@swimswim48 Exactly on Perisol. People underweight what a competitor he was because of his otherwise low key vibe. I remember the look on his face right after he realized he fucked up the 100: a split second of shock, then pure, quiet intensity. Zero surprise he then went gonzo in the 200.

Remaining men’s super suit records: 200 free - full faith that Popovici can take it 200 back - would require Kos to recreate the exact circumstances of Peirsol’s record; fucking up the 100 and revenge swimming the 200 800 free - Mijatovic’s rotator cuff vs the passage of time

Saw them at the Off Ramp and it honestly changed my life L’Andrew was something else. RIP