Assessor candidate wants to replace the homestead exemption with a means tested tax break

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

The greatest innovation billionaires have come up with is they found a way to have billions of dollars and still be miserable and angry all the time

Days after announcing it was ending the government’s annual food insecurity report, the US Department of Agriculture placed about a dozen researchers, supervisors and administrators on paid administrative leave on Monday.

Sometimes, a single post can tell a 10,000 word story in around 200 characters:

Rep. Delisha Boyd’s campaign paid her daughter while she also worked for an outside PAC www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Why do these people agree to the Chotiner interviews?

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.

Trump says he now believes Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia with NATO’s help

The Secret Service isn't claiming it foiled any plot targeting the UN General Assembly. Just that a big collection of SIMs (probably used for fraud) could have *potentially* disrupted NYC cell service. The SIMs were in a *35 MILE* radius of the UN. These headlines are all pretty egregiously wrong:

funny thing is yggie actuallywas once an urbanist but then he stopped giving a shit, ezra never was, i don't know about derek. just a complete con job

Selling this was only ever about limiting the ability to see Palestinians being murdered in real time. This has been laid bare, but it no longer matters, and they China will now transfer ownership to a series of purveyors of the American surveillance state, and war crimes will no longer be visible.

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

Who is saying Helena is a "Trump supporter"? Is it, like, something in an IG comment or something? Because it's not anything a real person is saying. It's kind of dirty politics for Helena to elevate something like that, really

From the Tax-To-Spend mythology and moral-and-political framework comes "taxpayer" identity and thinking, which has a racist history in the United States. "Taxpayer" is a fascist trope. It is, by its nature, a term of exclusion. jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...

Monetarism is a dishonest, debunked conservative-libertarian moral framework and theory of money. From Monetarism comes the Tax-To-Spend mythology and moral-and-political framework.

Ezra Klein isn’t stupid, he’s just a Republican. I wonder at what point people are going to understand what those of us on the academic side have been saying is true that the centrist Democrats and neoliberals are just right wing ghouls attempting to radicalize the party to the right.

The Moreno campaign is promoting a clip where Kamala Harris basically uses her name to make an anti-Mamdani statement. They are proud of this for some reason.

If you have managed to talk yourself into favoring any of the mayoral candidates, I think you may have failed as a human somehow

Economic impact of 0-3 Saints: Uptick in the number of shoppers opting for paper at the supermarket check out

No childhood hero ever held up better.

Combine this dismantling of fair housing enforcement with the evisceration of the CFPB and the efforts to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and you have a perfect recipe for racialized hyper-predation in housing markets. Lots of money to be made at the expense of low-wealth folks of color.

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

Awful: White House is circulating draft bill to vastly expand Trump's authority to bomb "drug cartels" w/o Congress. It's a "blank check to use force anywhere in the world against anyone he designates a narco-terrorist," says @bcfinucane.bsky.social. All on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

what are we even doing here

Yup. It’s not about winning over republicans; it’s about defeating the left

Week 3 in the books. Time to start watching Arch Manning highlights

The Saints are the first team in NFL history to gain 280+ yards, give up fewer than 330 yards, not lose the turnover battle, and lose a game by more than 30.

Lost by 31 points. But at least we weren't watching the Charlie Kirk funeral

After three games I think part of the problem is I don't like Moore's offense

We may be witnessing one of those "remember where you were when" games here.

28-3. Right where we want em

plenty time left

Man it's like 5 minutes into the game and the Saints are already down two touchdowns. Most Saints fans haven't even finished their 4th beer yet

One of these days the Saints are going to come out dressed as the Saints. Not yet, though

Nothing matters to them except personally not losing their jobs or salaries. It will always be your fault for not voting hard enough and having the audacity to believe in something. They don’t want to make anything better, they just want to endlessly critique wanting to make anything better

Every four years people like Neera Tanden enter emotional blackmail mode screaming that you have no choice but to vote for Democrats because “abortion is on the ballot” and then a year later they put their book out about how Democrats ate shit because you stupid voters care about abortion too much

it's bad. the things are bad. send post

cyberpunk. is. a. warning. not. a. manual. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

living in the stupidest TV movie

hot hot HOT!!!!

Every day it's just looking around to see if anyone anywhere in charge of anything knows what they're doing and NOPE. No one is coming to help.

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

Investor alert: SEC “is acting quickly to pull back on how much information Wall Street giants, gadflies and the public at large may get about a company’s financial health as well as their ability to take those companies to court.” Via Politico

The people they are kidnapping are disappearing.

btwn the state sponsored censorship hypocrisy and stuff like this it really feels like a theme of being alive right now is power feeling like it doesn’t even have to try - just treating everyone with obvious contempt

Shut the fuck up challenge

These are the first steps toward placing the city under state receivership and basically liquidating everything www.nola.com/news/new-orl...