Somebody has to patiently explain the obvious -- like, say, that eliminating #IncomeTaxes is shooting all but the upper ~5% in the crotch -- to gullible morons I dunno how @jaybookman.bsky.social keeps doing it, but here he is again, patriotically plugging away georgiarecorder.com/2025/07/31/b...

Just curious, @dszymborski.fangraphs.com. If you gave ZIPS a tweak or two, would it tell us that Adolph Hitler had a great WAR?

New commentary from opinion writer Jay Bookman (@jaybookman.bsky.social): If I wanted a failed football coach as my U.S. senator, I’d move to Alabama.

New commentary from opinion writer Jay Bookman (@jaybookman.bsky.social): Massive turnout for ‘No Kings’ protests in Georgia shows people’s courage to act

This appears to be checkmate! All your private information belongs to Musk and Thiel.

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"Elon was wearing thin, I asked him to leave." Trump is treating Musk like another old trophy wife to be discarded. In fact, if Elon isn't careful he could end up buried on a golf course in New Jersey.

Georgia's "Pathways" program has been a terrible failure at getting people covered under Medicaid. That's why state and national Republicans, looking for a way to push millions of people off Medicaid, are embracing it as a success. My column, no sub. req.: georgiarecorder.com/2025/06/05/b...

10 million Americans will lose health care just to pay for more yachts for billionaires. Here’s what’s at stake just in battleground state Georgia, where at least 200,000 people will lose health care, potentially thousands more. Great writing from @jaybookman.bsky.social at @georgiarecorder.com.

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises ...." the Founders wrote almost 240 years ago, as if they anticipated the coming of a Trump and intended to frustrate him if possible. We should use the tools they gave us.

Why is the US Govt continuing to interfere in the domestic politics and elections of our allies, and why is the Homeland Security Secretary on a lengthy world tour?

If we refuse to let the brightest minds of the world come to the USA our of pure RACISM, we're gonna be run by a bunch of Proud Boy Oath Keeping morons, kinda like Donald Trump. We are isolating ourselves on an Island of Ignorance.

MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

This is the obvious result of any good-faith reading of the Constitution, which explicitly gives Congress control over int'l commerce. But to Trump, stripping him of the power to impose tariffs is tantamount to him losing the 2020 election. It's all that makes him relevant. So ... game time.

Remember early in Trump I, when Trump vehemently denied asking James Comey for loyalty? Now he publicly demands it, and enforces it. That's a measure of how much this has progressed.

At press conferences, Trump seems to learn more new things from reporters than reporters learn from Trump. "Really? I know nothing about that."

I’m thinking InfoWars.

Trump is pardoning Todd and Julie Chrisley, the Georgia reality TV stars convicted of fraud. Todd was sentenced to 12 years and Julie to 7 years. Their daughter, Savannah, campaigned for Trump. During a speech at the RNC in 2024, she said her parents were “persecuted” for their political beliefs.

Like Putin, Netanyahu is a monster: Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes. Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving in war zone and is one of dozens of minors who have died in recent attacks. 😭😭😭👇 tinyurl.com/26h4y7p7

This troubles me at least as much as anything else I've seen today, and much more than most. We are in deeper than the media admits. Don't ignore what your senses and rational thoughts point to. Some things...you don't have to be told.

I cannot stress enough how important the South is to the future of the Democratic Party given the Electoral College & population shifts. & in terms of margin in 2024, GA & NC were 9 & 8 points more Democratic, respectively, than Ohio was.

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In a press release last week, the Trump Dept of Justice bragged that the sentencing of Scott Jenkins, a Virginia county sheriff convicted of selling sheriff's badges, demonstrates that it will not tolerate corruption in law enforcement. Today, Trump announced he had pardoned Jenkins.

I am left believing that this obvious destruction of law, education, healthcare and the old economy is what Americans really want. They see the reconstruction of a new America, led by an autocrat, being better for them. There is simply no other explanation for what’s happening.

The number of young adult males too lazy to work but not too lazy to apply for Medicaid is close to zero, and far too small to build major policy around.

Looking back, my first real inkling of how crazed and fact-resistant the American right wing could become was during the Terri Schiavo case. That was 20 years ago.

Is anyone else still worrying about declining insect numbers? It's a sure sign of ecological collapse. I don't miss all the blowflies on the window sills or all the bugs on the windscreen but the loss environmental services must be colossal. How will agriculture & food production be sustained?

The Trump regime's embrace of "antisemitism" as a cause is rank opportunism, a virtuous cloak it has donned to make its cruelty, tyranny and racism seem somehow admirable.

The Trump regime's attack on Harvard is merely its latest attempt to shut down all potential sources of dissent and intimidate them into silent obedience. If I know my country -- and I hope I do -- it isn't going to work. But I'm not as certain of that as I'd like to be, as I used to be.

The claim of genocide perpetrated against white South Africans has roughly the same degree of factual support as the claim that Trump won the 2020 election. Which is, none. But once you claim to believe such bizarre things, you give yourself an excuse to do many bad things you really want to do.

New commentary from opinion writer Jay Bookman (@jaybookman.bsky.social): Sponsor of Georgia abortion ban spared trauma of watching brain dead loved one carry fetus

"This is the problem when you try to legislate what is right and wrong about decisions that are so personal, so intimate. Moral certainty feels good, it may play well in a political campaign, but it cannot possibly make such hard choices from a distance." georgiarecorder.com/2025/05/21/b...

These are the ridiculous people we've hired to run our country.

The more we learn about those whom we arbitrarily condemned to a Salvadoran hellhole, with no release date and no hint of due process, the better we understand why the Trump regime lies and cheats and stalls to avoid accountability. It is a grotesque violation of human rights, human decency.

On the day it's confirmed the Trump regime will pay $5 million to the family of violent insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt, it charges a member of Congress with "assault," warning it'll do the same if "any person, regardless of political party, influence or status, assaults a law enforcement officer."

To witness what Israel is doing to Gaza, after what Germany did to the Jews, is to understand just how thin that veneer of human civilization and decency can be, and what nightmares we set loose when we decide to strip it away.

Israel is explaining, with fully transparency, how they are navigating the international "rules-based" order to get away with genocide. They recognize that extermination in one fell swoop might trigger international intervention, so they normalize it by carrying it out strategically - "responsibly."

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

Why not drape the Presidential Medal of Freedom around the necks of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers? Because that's where this whole thing appears to be headed. www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/p...

When will Kid Rock be arrested for helping undocumented immigrants escape from ICE? Kid Rock’s Bar Sends Workers Home Mid-Rush as ICE Closes In balleralert.com/profiles/blo...

During the campaign Trump was highly critical of FEMA's response to the disaster in NC and elsewhere, insisting he would do much better. As president, though, he talks of dismantling the agency altogether. So what's gonna happen when the summer storm/fire season hits?

Again, Trump has total control of the DoJ. He could immediately order Kash Patel and Pam Bondi to launch a major criminal investigation into who "STOLE AND RIGGED THE 2020 ELECTION!!!!" Yet he studiously avoids doing so, and someone should ask him why. Someone should call his bluff.

The Supreme Court brushes back the Trump regime on immigration and the law, and Moody does the same on the economic front with a downgrade of US credit. Fridays can be such a bummer.

Have the Simpsons ever done a plot line where Krusty the Clown gets elected mayor of Springfield? Don't know why that thought occurred to me, but ... have they?

In a 7-2 opinion, the Supreme Court has ordered the Trump regime to cease deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. Donald is not taking it well.

In an exercise that is sure to enrage no one, we ranked our top NFL fanbases on the pod. My pick for #1? THE ATLANTA FALCONS. Fight me! 🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri 📺: youtu.be/XTg02DgPAiQ?...

Voter fraud is all but non-existent, but MAGA keeps the myth alive because their real goal is to put up so many bureaucratic barriers that voters get discouraged. Same with Medicaid. The idea isn't to stop fraud, it's to justify so many bureaucratic barriers that people just give up in frustration.

True, Biden had no business running for re-election. Period. End of story. But the notion that this will have any relevance whatsoever in 2028, after we've (hopefully) survived four years of this Trumpian madness, is absurd.

I saw this yesterday and had a quick series of thoughts: 1. This cannot possibly be real. 2. I've seen a lot of too-dumb-to-possibly-be-real shit turn out to be real recently. 3. OK, sure, but this one? This one is totally too dumb to be real. Sure enough: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...