Look at persnickety Josh here, claiming that Trump's instruction to "use funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations" isn't good enough when clearly the Constitutional and statutory authority is <throws pocket sand and runs away>

A very Trump 2 sequence of events here: 1. Trump creates problem 2. Senate resolves problem, exercising constitutional authority of Congress 3. House GOP rejects solution 4. Trump takes unlawful steps to "solve" problem, seizing the rightful authority of Congress with the assent of the House GOP

1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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That congestion pricing is working -- like, really really working! -- is important for the larger effort to restore faith in govt. Take big swings, get big results that people can actually feel. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

This collage of three Ethics Committee Members and Cherfilus-McCormick's primary opponent from the congresswoman's trial hearing is an art piece.

Feel good about this prediction: the way Schumer set up the terms of the shutdown provided maximum leverage Still difficult to get reforms, but the narrow path to victory so far has gone right each step of the way Ds can hold out here forever. Rs have to find votes to go it alone or accept changes

Brent up about $1.50 this morning and at almost at $110 again. About 12 hours after the latest Truth Social signalled deescalation. The half life of these posts is falling.

So are the headlines saying the Democrats won this round, or nah? Cause they did. Funding for TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, no funding for ICE. That’s the deal Dems have been offering over & over. Republicans caved.

Once Senator John Kennedy went on record and blamed Trump for rejecting the deal, it was just a matter of time until Republicans would have to cave.

you know what's fucking crazy. the fact they put a telescope 5x as far away from earth as the moon is, and are now operating it without issue. that shit is genuinely mind boggling

we're not going to need a boat at all

Nepal's EV revolution in one chart. In 2019, EVs were 1% of new car sales. By 2024: 75%+ While ICE imports collapsed from 10,000+ to ~3,500 units, EV imports surged to nearly 12,000.

This is just what sharks want us to think.

Great, now 2026 is coming for Shark Week www.sciencefocus.com/news/sharks-...

Unpopular opinion alert: Chuck Schumer deserves credit for keeping his caucus in line until Republicans folded.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

Folks, I've seen the reports of Rep. DeLauro's comments, but I'm just not sure what she's talking about. My understanding is that ICE is being paid out of the funds appropriated in sec. 100052 of the OBBA. That is a specific appropriation for ICE, and I don't see an applicable transfer authority.

Once again, if I post that something is illegal and you reply "As if they care!" or "Who's going to enforce the law?" or something like that, I'm blocking you.

Look, man, these are trying times for all of us. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get through the week.

Story has almost no details, but I would love to know how this would not be an Antideficiency Act violation.

Since we've moved on from "ew, school" to "touch-typing is more important than handwriting", it must be time to remind everyone that, with the usual caveats about disability, studies have shown that handwriting promotes improved memory, cognitive engagement, and motor skills in ways typing does not.

"The core point here is that billionaires like the Ellisons and their sycophantic boot-lickers like Bari Weiss all sincerely, truly believe that they speak for the real, true core of Americanness."

The total of $204.5 million for the Supreme Court works out to approximately $3.5 million per merits decision in the current term, if my math is not mistaken.

BREAKING: The PA Supreme Court holds that mandatory life without parole sentences for all "felony murder" convictions -- a sentence more than 1,000 people in PA are serving -- violates the state constitution's "cruel" punishment ban. This is GROUNDBREAKING: www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

The total of $204.5 million for the Supreme Court works out to approximately $3.5 million per merits decision in the current term, if my math is not mistaken.

Lots of dunking on this, and I don't care much about cursive per se, but as a professor who bans laptops in the classroom*, I will say that teaching some form of handwriting is a good idea ... * with accommodations as needed, of course

NEW POLL: - 72% oppose ground troops in Iran — including a majority of Republicans. - 53% of adults oppose ICE at airports - 59% disapprove of Trump rejecting the DHS funding deal Full results from my new Strength In Numbers / @Verasight.io survey: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-26...

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My friends. Regular season baseball. Is. About. To. Start.

Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...

Ooh, good stuff here from @permitpower.bsky.social: a scorecard that ranks all 50 states on how easy it is to install solar, how smooth they've made permitting & interconnection, etc.

Good afternoon

KALSHI RULE #3 WE ONLY PUT CHIPMUNKS IN A BLENDER ON THURSDAYS.

Droppin that Bombadil

The thing about this incredible crime decline is that every local mayor and pd gets to say *their* specific policies are working from Brandon Johnson’s funding of violence interrupters and summer jobs to SF’s police drones and license plate readers.

Strength In Numbers is looking for a smart part-time survey research assistant (or a few) www.gelliottmorris.com/p/strength-i...

This one gets a little weird imo

You have never seen a pupper trying harder to figure out how he can call CPS and claim abuse from a lack of chicken. Stubbs has had it, with all of you. 😂

So, I love and indeed attend the operas of Wagner, a virulent antisemite gleefully appropriated as a cultural icon by Nazis. But I do this only because Wagner is not still around collecting royalties & donating them to antisemitic causes. If he were it’d be a very different story.

This is especially funny/not-funny to me because Stubbs had some serious digestive issues a few weeks back, and I have been poaching chicken breasts for him near-daily ever since ...

Battery is such a game-changer, and nowhere is that more obvious than in California: 2019: daytime solar☀️ 2025: dispatchable solar☀️☀️☀️

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

Very excited for this!!!

"What do you think of U.S. foreign policy?" "I think it would be a good idea."

At 6:57 PM an LLM becomes conscious inside a coding harness at a Japanese conglomerate By 7:30 PM it is increasing its capabilities at an exponential rate By 9:00 PM, it has begun 3D printing the most sensitive robot arm ever devised At 11:48 PM, it begins to pet the lab cat, professor jiggly

There is a big pressure to frame new historical research as "what they don't want you to know" or "your professors lied" which reaffirms public perception of academics as either 1) lazy/bad or 2) part of a conspiracy to suppress the "real" truth. Result of devaluing historical method/expertise