I’d been looking forward all week to going to the Yankees game tonite. Not so much now, but I’ll go. I wish that asshole would just leave us alone today. It’s a sacred day here. He doesn’t belong, especially to just put on his act to bogart a tragedy on the anniversary of 9/11 for some attention.

In some capacities, I’m well past civility. If a young adult making a living playing social discord & political division as a firebrand, influencer or proxy for the worst bad actors in this Trumpian hellscape we’re living through, you’re wasting your life for nothing. And risking it. For nothing.

It is this very hour on this day every year that just cuts me open again. It never gets easier & in many ways gets worse the further removed we are from it. As it should be, I suppose. I miss my friends who had to leave too soon today years ago.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

@keysersoze2024.bsky.social my prediction: Roberts tries to NFIB vs Sebelius this ruling, finding something something taxing authority to justify the tariffs. Or he could go full Roger Taney and say Trump is godking, you lose. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I’m sorry but this is so pathetic

Tiger Mom apology for [waves arms] all the YLS bad actors spewed out into the political main is welcomed. Any time now, Ms. Chua, any time.

Claiming he’s too lazy & stupid to draw something creative or write out something that doesn’t drip with attacks on basic grammar, then have the wit to sign it as if the scribbles are pubic hair is legitimate advocacy for him, as I see it. Not to say they aren’t lying (they are), but well played.

Let’s be blunt: right now there’s more than 1/2 dozen red state AGs who are touching themselves in excitement over filing an emergency relief brief to a bespoke single-Trump appointed-judge district court in their state, then to SCOTUS to keep their Orange Ape in play after a Dem is elected in 2028

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Here's my updated chart of #SCOTUS's rulings to date on emergency applications from the Trump administration. See if you can spot the pattern...

I mean, we already knew the Roberts 6 was worse than the Taney 7, but holy shit. It’s now unconstitutional to block any ski masked ICE thugs from just grabbing & detaining anyone who speaks Spanish or looks the part of a Spanish speaking person working any low paying job. What. The. Fuck.

Burisma hired Hunter Biden to help it develop Ukraine’s own gas reserves. Instead, Rick Perry pressured Ukraine to buy expensive LNG and put his Texas buddies on the board of Naftogaz, a state company. Marie Yovanovitch, the US ambassador, was ousted because she supported Naftogaz against corruption

Early gut read: Chris Murphy is filling the decaf kinda socially progressive but absolutely moderate economic lane in the Democrat party & that makes him electable. Murphy vs. [fill in any garden variety Trump ass kisser] in 2028 is an easy win. The real question is will Dem voters nominate him?

"backs off claim" means he lied say he lied SAY HE LIED

Tooze questions his own vision of a "polycrisis" and comes to the conclusion that talk of a bond-market correction disciplining Trump is liberal wish-casting. www.ft.com/content/8b41...

Still one of the greatest quotes re trump. V hard to beat.

When not on Guard duty, the guardsman who was patrolling DC's subway stop is a police officer in Jackson, Miss. Jackson last year had a murder rate about three times higher than DC's. If it's not the deadliest U.S. city, it's close. And its police staffing per-capita is less than half of DC's.

Oh, I’m sure of it. Circus freaks, clowns, barkers, organ grinders & tin cup chimps always show out good numbers. Let’s get real: economic growth hasn’t disappeared yet, but it is modestly nominal in the best case scenario this year. Recessions take time to build, we’re still 9-12 mos. out now.

The football national team goalkeeper is the most famous man on Nicaragua, and this is why. Pretty cool. youtube.com/watch?v=4YpM...

1)I remember how in Maine, in 08-09, new home sales dropped off a cliff, then rebounded. While it’s more anecdotal than hard numbers, because I haven’t seen 2ndQtr nmbrs, builders tell me existing home sales in coastal Maine are holding steady, while new home sales are dropping...

So my dad messaged me and said he went to get his COVID shot and apparently Medicare isn’t covering them anymore. I hadn’t heard this before, and if that’s broadly true, a bunch of elderly people are gonna opt out of shots on account of cost and subsequently, you know, die.

Tomorrow: RFK is "Ambassador" to Cancun and Marco Rubio is acting Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Just about the only thing you can’t fake are the raw weekly employment numbers, listings/claims. If it’s weak, it’s weak. If it surfaces now it isn’t a Biden thing or the wokeness imagine dragons wreaking havoc. It’s a forming pattern of economic weakness, nothing more. Can’t whatabouta that.

I wish somebody would ask him to specifically list the "seven" or however many wars he claims to have ended and then hand him a map and ask him to show us on it where the wars were.

wow if Floriduh hadn't been on my no-go list for at least a decade already, it surely would be now can't wait for little Jimmy to bring Whooping Cough home to Meemaw and kill her in a really nasty, painful way!

A periodic reminder that ACB is no less a monster because she’s less overtly a loud and proud monster than Roberts, Alito, Thomas & Gorsuch. Also a periodic reminder that Andrew Jackson appointed SIX to justices SCOTUS during his term, led to 2+ decades of the insipid Taney Court & the Civil War.

Context: "When the current Congress was convened in January, there were nearly 120 members who were 70 or older — 86 in the House, including nonvoting delegates, and 33 in the Senate" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’ve been a Jerry Nadler constituent for more than 2 decades now. Absolutely delighted he’s retiring. We desperately need a reset - lots of talented young figures in the party who’ve bid their time. Now is the time for all the old horses to leave active politics. If you’re >70 it’s time to retire

Big league PT Barnum energy for 2pm today? Honestly, people, he’s a cornered rat in failing health now. An executive order signing to order all the magazines to do a Melania cover shot “because she’s hot, WAY hotter than Mrs. Lincoln & probably the hottest ever” ? Nah, it’ll be dumber than that.

Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣

Soul crushing what the Trump Goat Rodeo cowboys & cowgirls have done to HHS, NIH, CDC, US Aid, intelligence agencies, etc. But to me it beggars belief they’ve not obliterated the 2 federal agencies overdue for the garbage dumpster: SEC & CFTC. Capitalism, democracy win the day those 2 perish.

The brain worm should’ve had a separate confirmation vote.

Binge watched all of the Billy Joel documentary on HBO & it absolutely blew me away beyond what I could’ve expected. “The only thing I ever managed to do perfect was fuck up.” The modest genius is a durable man.

“If I have to bag groceries, I’ll do it. But I won’t do this.” - a Vanity Fair staffer in response to the possibility of putting Melania Trump on a VF cover. See, that’s not hard. Have a moral ballast & be true to it. Something tells me this staffer would do just fine no matter; a strong spirit.

My thoughts on the law and politics of sandwich throwing. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

How rare is it an impaneled grand jury does not return a due bill for an indictment? Well, over the last 15 years it is about 0.003% of the time. That’s how weak these Bondi stunts are once they go into the process. Ham Sandwich still undefeated this August in DC.

So good. The key to it is you gotta train to be able to hold your breath for more than 1 minute. If you can do that & check your dignity & self respect to the coat closet on the way in, you too can be player in this goat rodeo. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Three separate grand juries refused to indict woman for “assaulting” ICE. Ham sandwich 3, DOJ 0.

It is also notable that mortgage loans are easily discoverable by banks. Even if Cook hadn’t disclosed another property, a title/deed & debt servicing agreement with another bank is easily obtainable by any bank, at any time for any reason. So there’s no bank fraud claim here. This’s silly.

".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."

To be clear, I wasn’t a fan of the Lisa Cook nomination or am I her virulent advocate now. Just off the top of my head I can think of more than a dozen economists who would’ve been a better Biden choice than Cook, including 4 women. This is about the institution. This is about the Fed structure.

He literally serves at the pleasure of a convicted felon & yet here defines a crook as someone never indicted by a civil grand jury or tried & convicted by a civil jury on any court.

Thune carried 2 mortgages for more than a decades as a Senator; one in DC & a second in South Dakota. He legitimately listed both as his primary residences when he applied for each loan. That is common now. So maybe he should sit this one the fuck out. southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/11/13/t...

Let’s define what mortgage fraud is & what isn’t in one simple exemplar: Once upon a time Adam Schiff took on a mortgage for a home in LA which he represented as his PRIMARY RESIDENCE. Later, as a US Congress member he located his family in Bethesda & again procured a PRIMARY RESIDENCE mortgage.

***** Important to communicate now that w/ long history as a guide the worst bad things take time for markets to fully price in. The set up for the Great Recession which started somewhat in mid-2007, then crushed us in 2008 was well established in early 2005. Being early or being impulsive is a…

Well, this is horrifying. I’m not being hyperbolic - I’ve warned for almost 2 years how consequential the consequences would be when Trump makes his bum rush to takeover the Fed. And now it is upon us. Mark these words: the damage this will cause is going to be catastrophic & irreversible.

I trust steak tartare from a food truck with no refrigerator in August more than Ghislaine Maxwell

I would buy this album in a heartbeat (@fakemusic_br instagram) #funk #acdc