my uber driver is determined to sing this entire ride in bad falsetto please send help

In an interview with my colleague Erik Wasson, ahead of a weeks-long congressional recess, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski says, “I’m worried we get out of town and the president goes in with ground troops aiming for a full takeover.”

yea no sorry you simply shan’t catch me clowning for Phillies baseball on opening day. no. i know better. we all know better. call me in October, maybe then I’ll be ready to be hurt again

Sorry folks, X is the political mainstream now. If you're not on X, you're missing out on the central cultural figures of American life - Gunther Eagleman, End Wokeness and Catturd h/t @kylewilsontharp.bsky.social www.chaoticera.news/p/for-republ...

Trump said Thursday he was open to trying to suspend the federal gas tax as prices rise at the pump. He said he "thought about it, I guess," during his cabinet meeting, later adding it's "something we have in our pocket if we think it's necessary."

really deep and jarring new Urban Inst study about the millions of people who could lose Medicaid -- even if they do satisfy coming federal work requirements -- under Trump's tax law www.urban.org/sites/defaul...

another 24 hours or so until i can rage quit phillies baseball for the 2026 season :)

from today's pool report with the first lady: "Melania Trump entered the East Room at 11:14 am. A robot led her into the room, to great applause."

hi everyone

NEW: The US and Ecuador claimed they bombed a drug trafficking complex in early March. A @nytimes.com investigation found it was actually a dairy farm. From Ecuador: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

New: Trump says oil and gas prices will fall rapidly once the war with Iran is over. In truth, it’s likely to take weeks or months before people see relief from high costs www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

i am begging the folks at bloomberg to make their web login situation less insufferable

This is the worst spring for young graduates seeking employment since the depths of the pandemic. A low-hire, low-fire labor market is the main impediment to finding work.

oh sure okay yea

At the same time this is coming in, most or all V.O.A. staff have yet to hear from HR about who is being immediately reactivated or able to get back into their offices, even though there has been no stay of Lamberth's reinstatement order just yet. Our story:

"S&P 500 futures and oil futures flashed an unusual burst of activity early Monday minutes before a market-moving social media post from President Donald Trump." www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/v...

no but like what do you mean you're waiting hours for a potato www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/d...

Blackouts are getting worse in Cuba. On some days, the entire island is plunged into near total darkness. The electricity crisis has laid bare the risks of depending so heavily on foreign oil while trying to maintain a centrally planned socialist economic system.

my email traffic would be cut down by about half if some flacks could simply scroll up and look at the previous message before replying !

ah yes so about that weather account i mentioned

a certain very specific weather account, shall we say, could afford to let up on the gas a bit these past 24 hrs

the horrid broadcast sound is ruining this otherwise fab sinners performance

can one of the brilliant sound designers in that room fix the Oscars audio thanks

In a new filing today, the Trump admin offered some of the technical details about the refund system. But the bigger takeaway, for now, is that there’s a lot to do to get it up and running. Previously the govt said upgrades may be done by mid April. We’ll see.

Breaking News: The Senate overwhelmingly passed the largest piece of housing legislation in 36 years. But the bipartisan bill still faces major hurdles. Follow live updates.

controversial take, i know, but what if we agreed as a species to stop emulating every bad idea in a black mirror episode gizmodo.com/ai-generated...

great however i am fairly certain this location is cursed and needs to be exorcised in some way before a business can survive there

on today's @nytimes.com A1, my piece with @mikebaker.bsky.social on billionaires' election spending www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

thanks please take my money

It is really worth your time to read this @propublica.org story on how the Trump administration gutted the office responsible for trying to minimize civilian casualties. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: The Trump admin told a court it would take *4 million* hours of manual work to refund $166b in illegal tariffs. That may be an overstatement, but it illustrates the complex task now facing the White House -- and the ways that Trump has tried to slow it down www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

ah yes, the oil by duck tour boat strategy, classic

The U.S. trade deficit fell in January, declining 25% from the previous month as President Trump’s tariffs continued to cause huge fluctuations in trade.

it might not get it right, your car may end up at the bottom of a lake, you could end up in the wrong state, but it'll answer you! google always does! the accuracy never quite seems to matter!

NEW: The Trump admin told a court it would take *4 million* hours of manual work to refund $166b in illegal tariffs. That may be an overstatement, but it illustrates the complex task now facing the White House -- and the ways that Trump has tried to slow it down www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

A continuing military investigation has determined that the U.S. is responsible for a strike that hit an elementary school in Iran, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. Listen to "The Daily."

A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/h...

Chris Wright, the Energy secretary, told CNBC a few ago that it was "quite likely the case" that the U.S. Navy could begin escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz by the end of the month.

4,431,161 hours how do you measure measure a tariff refund

(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar .. www.marketscreener.com/news/us-navy...

who is responsible for the rise of "evangelist" as a job title because no stop it this is dumb just say you yap for money

Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

This is tomorrow! Join us for what is shaping up to be a great discussion of AI and the labor market. #EconSky

many many many businesses have sued the Trump admin for tariff refunds and looks like one of the latest to get in on the action is Nintendo storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hope Bezos does an interview soon where he explains, again, why he thought his foreign bureaus were expendable.

New: Despite an unexpected and significant dip in hiring last month — and other signs of economic strain, including an uptick in gas prices due to the war with Iran — the White House continues to insist the economy is fine and any setbacks are temporary www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/b...

also if the eagles trade aj brown today i'm walking off the job and into dc's shit-filled river in protest

there is just no way that everyone's effing menu options have recently changed so no i wont be listening closely thanks

“The industry, and related professions in the social assistance category, added 693,000 positions last year. Without it, the economy would have lost 512,000 jobs, as business and professional services, retail, the federal government and manufacturing all contracted.”