Listen to Derek Rae on the play by play call of Switzerland 🇨🇭 vs Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 and hear strains of J.Peterman #WorldCup2026 #fifa

It's true, he really said this...at a celebration of a critical battle leading to two of the most diverse countries in the world, the USSR and USA - the latter of which is a country of immigrants - defeated a racially exclusionary regime that was committed to the cause Hegseth just promoted.

So I urge you to look at the folks who will inevitable call for us to privatize social security in the wake of this report and check for the overlap with the folks who brought us the surging inequality and a sluggish economic recovery that got us here. 4/4

The Wall Street Journal editorial board in January on the new acting Director of National Intelligence: Bill Pulte is "an especially eager toady" whose pursuit of Jerome Powell was "Lawfare for Dummies" and should be fired "before he can cause any more embarrassment." www.wsj.com/opinion/jero...

Two requests for my general tennis viewing enjoyment: first, people stop doing the annoying “mouth trumpet” thing. The match is not about you. Second, can we fix the aspect ratio on outside court cameras? The game isn’t played in a bowling alley.

Today is a good day to remember that wars are almost never started, managed, or concluded by the people who die in them.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/artists you’ve seen live Talking Heads UB40 R.E.M. Pixies Spoon Terrence Blanchard Andrew Bird Courtney Barnett Beck Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

“The political elite [ JD Vance, Jon Husted, Jim Jordan and Bernie Moreno] do not give a damn about your maxed out credit card, Ohio. Not their problem. But at least the Nero building monuments to himself sees you, right?”

[sniff, sniff] smells like horseshit

Good news and bad. The good: I can actually watch the Orioles game today. The bad: Max Fried vs this roster.

THEY HAVE ALREADY PAID FOR MEDICARE THROUGH PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS THEIR ENTIRE WORKING LIVES. MEDICARE IN RETIREMENT IS THE FULFILLMENT OF A CONTRACT.

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) The Wire (2002-2008)

“we should talk about why and how [the Constitution] is being so systemically violated by the current administration, why and how Congress is sitting idly by why that happens, and why and how a Congress that actually took its constitutional responsibility seriously should—and would—respond.”

$3.2 million for eight years in one of the hardest and most important jobs in the world. And Trump and his family have reportedly made more than *one thousand times* that amount off the presidency in just *one year* www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In the meantime, members of Congress are entitled to read the FISA Court’s classified opinion, and they should insist on doing so. The FISA Court’s opinions are perhaps the most valuable source of information Congress has about how Section 702 is operating in practice… 19/20

so far in hungary, Vance has stumped for a kleptocratic dictator, regurgitated putinist propaganda, and is now indulging the gutter racism of his hosts. it really is an unvarnished look at what the ideological character of the trump regime is.

Vance has been trafficking in conspiracy slop for years - but this is another low. He accuses Ukrainian intelligence of interfering in both America’s and Hungary’s elections. “This is just what they do,” Vance said. Not it isn’t. This is what the Kremlin says they do.

Oral argument in Trump v. Barbara will reveal nothing new about the Fourteenth Amendment. It will reveal how gone this Court really is.

it's what happens when you need to clear the strait of hormuz but you bet on viktor orban as your one ally in europe.

One of my favorite movies. Hearing @eddiemuller.bsky.social talk at AFI Silver before screening was a treat.

DHS said “recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) are not automatically protected from deportations,” but the obverse is actually the policy: DACA recipients are targeted for kidnapping and deportation.

All of these are policies they're already supposed to be following. So why would anyone believe they'll start following them in exchange for DHS funding. I mean, come on. The proper response to "We won't deport U.S. citizens if you fund DHS" is, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

With institutions in crisis + elites capitulating to Trump's whims, the task of chronicling the admin's abuses is more important than ever. Yet there are ever fewer news organizations capable of doing the job. Becoming a TPM member allows us to do this work: talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships

Making a list of pundit class phone numbers so I can call and promise them large sums of money if they will give me their account numbers for a test deposit

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

We offered to fund TSA. No conditions. Republicans refused. They want the hostage, to extract more ICE money with. No ICE reforms

I’d like to amend my tariff refund claim

We could easily have no decline. But instead we get a little more than 2 months of Trump’s war on Iran.

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Funny, I keep reading how the Administration is spending a billion dollars a day bombing Iran. But, yeah, sure, the problem is the spreadsheets.

Thankfully American voters rescued the country from a low unemployment, rising real wages, declining inflation economic nightmare.

If you are not following Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social you are missing out on tons of interesting United States labor history.

Want to learn more about Pete Hegseth's God of war, and how his brand of Christianity is driving what the Pentagon is doing? Listen to this episode from a few weeks ago, with @julieingersoll.bsky.social: redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

fuck this

This should be a front-page scandal.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

It’s just like . . . none of this needs to be happening this way.

Lance Toast Chee crackers Cheese and Peanut Butter together should be gross, but I love it.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I will make consumer good more expensive for Americans, and you can’t stop me

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

Harold and Muppet

🧵 as important as anything you’ll read about where we are as a nation

I will reiterate: for every bit of damage, violence, or theatrical incompetence that draws public attention, there are a *thousand* things the Trumpists are doing behind the scenes, outside of public attention, that are just as ruinous to our country and our future.

🚨 “They came to [the school] claiming — claiming — that they had interviewed a Ponitz student, who’s no longer a student, who …alleged, “we directed them who to vote for, which was not true — there’s no evidence of that.” * * * “We, at no time, ask anybody to vote for anyone,” Lawrence insisted.

What conservatives angry about Bad Bunny look like