RIP Humphrey’s Executor www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Solar-powered EVs that can go months between conventional charge-ups could arrive by the end of 2026. Just don’t expect them from the major automakers www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Questions for lawyers out there related to the Homan cash bag story. Do you get to keep the money from a sting operation if they never charge you? If Homan did keep it (Leavitt says he didn't), do you think he declared $50k on his taxes? Section 61 says income is income from whatever source derived

Cardboard-box demand is slumping, flashing a potential warning about the health of the American consumer given that goods ranging from pizzas to ovens are transported in corrugated packaging. www.wsj.com/business/car...

The Father Coughlin of our times

John Oliver says Bob Iger should use "the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away. And that is, 'fuck you, make me.'" youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Scott Bessent has a history with Argentina from his hedge fund days. From my profile of SB.

Astonishing statistics: Since pandemic, 46 new musicals have opened on Broadway, costing about $800m to produce, according to SEC filings. Only three have become profitable so far. And this fall’s new musical offerings are sparse: There are just two, one of which has only two people in its cast.

Following exodus of attorneys from the Office of Chief Counsel, IRS has opened hiring for more than 60 positions in areas such as international tax and litigation support, reports Tax Notes. The office has lost about 13 percent of its workforce this year.

Good thread

Tech companies are scrambling to contact their visa-holding employees who happen to be overseas today amid Trump’s sudden policy change. That may mean getting them to the closest US soil, like Guam or Hawaii, or to a place like Abu Dhabi that has an immigration facility. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation — known in Australia as ABC — has received hundreds of complaints about the cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel’s show. These messages were, presumably, meant for the US-based ABC channel that canceled Kimmel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Rather than extend the subsidies that keep Obamacare plans affordable, the Trump administration is making it easier for insurers to sell cheap junk insurance. These “catastrophic” plans require people to spend more than $10,000 a year on deductibles before the policies pay most medical costs

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Shutting down USAID will cost taxpayers $6.4 billion over two years. That’s enough money to save more than one million children’s lives. Read @nickkristof.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

So after all that Mamdani won’t endorse Hochul for governor? nypost.com/2025/09/16/u...

Oops www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Mississippi has suspended data collection for Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (Prams), a national database that has been integral to policymaking on maternal and infant health for nearly four decades www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

America's beef cattle herd is the smallest in 75 years, in part because of drought. Beef imports are also down, because of tariffs. Unsurprisingly, beef prices are at record highs www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

disinflationary because it might kill demand/cause a recession? or...?

RIP U.S. innovation. Between gutting the H-1B program, purging US scientists from civil service, slashing research grants, and disappearing international students off the streets, our government has made a conscious decision to kill America's roll as a global leader in science and innovation.

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration? This will end it pretty much entirely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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1/3 Am almost too angry for words. But I paused this enraging vid to pull up recent SCOTUS case allowing these atrocities. Read here Brett Kavanaugh’s words: does it look like US citizen Andrea Velez was “promptly let go?”

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

“She’s mine.” Watch this whole interview with Andrea Velez, a US citizen arrested by ICE while on her way to work. youtu.be/AmfpngmLIzQ?...

GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Trump: "When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."

"For a long time, Republicans have adhered to a definition of free speech that could be simply summarized as: Conservatives can say what they want, and everyone else can say what conservatives want. That is now the policy of the Trump administration."

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA

BREAKING: Trump appointee Judge Tim Kelly GRANTS the plaintiffs motion for a preliminary injunction. Kelly’s order bars removal of “unaccompanied Guatemalan children who have received neither a final removal order nor permission from the Attorney General to voluntarily depart…”

He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Government so small you could drown it in the bathtub

Major health insurer group says members will continue to cover vaccines, a step that may ease anxiety over access www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/a...

This is a bad sign.

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

In a little-noticed announcement last week, SEC said it would consider ways for companies to limit risk of shareholder lawsuits. Days later, Trump called for SEC to drop rules that have been in place for decades that require most public US companies to disclose their financials quarterly

“.. It’s a scary thought to have the kind of Fed chair that’s willing to sacrifice the central bank’s independence out of loyalty to the president,” Mankiw said. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Sometimes seems like the parties have switched sides

On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...

Long-term unemployment at post-pandemic high, straining workers and economy www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Ed Dept has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have hearing & vision loss. They got caught in Trump admin’s attacks on DEI, with Ed Dept spokesperson citing concerns about “divisive concepts” and “fairness” in acknowledging decision to withhold the funding.

Twelfth-Grade Math and Reading Scores in U.S. Hit New Low www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...