The first and probably only time someone I went to high school with is featured in The Onion

We hardly knew ye

Republicans in Congress do this kind of thing all the time. We call them messaging bills because the "message" is the point.

Meanwhile, funding on the Left has been reduced to a trickle. Ever since the Powell memo, the Right recognized how important it was to win in civil society. Their political dominance in recent years is a testament to how the Left has completely capitulated in this arena.

Honestly, I'm not sure it makes much difference whether Humphrey's is overturned sub silentio on the shadow docket. It's not like a single good argument will be concocted while we wait for the merits. And it will be that much easier to restore agency independence in the future using this device.

Elvis later died while taking a shit. Coincidence?!

Six Republican justices are speed-running our collapse into a dictatorship and they don’t even have the integrity to explain why. (But we all know why.) slate.com/news-and-pol...

LOOOOOOOL

"The Heritage Foundation urged the FBI to add a new designation to its list of domestic violent extremist groups for Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism...." Chilling 19thnews.org/2025/09/proj...

I believe this might still technically comply with the letter of Project 2025

4-for-4, no notes, no snark. Also, like Trump 1.0 w the USDA scientists, move SCOTUS to rural Kansas. Strip them of all elite DC social engagement, and make it easy to see when Harlan Crow’s private jet lands nearby.

Closeups had been featured in the earliest films but the edited closeup came along a few years later. One of the very earliest examples in AS SEEN THROUGH A TELESCOPE (1900) portrays a voyeur using the instrument to get a good look at a cyclist's legs.

If your "best player on the world" award voting ends with a top 10 consisting exclusively of white players from one region you've got to throw the whole thing out and start over.

Literally just now citing a NRDC/BlueGreen Alliance report for my endangerment finding comments

A great man has left us. Leo W. Gerard, union leader & BlueGreen Alliance co-founder, dies at 78. Gerard, former president of the United Steelworkers who helped link the labor movement with climate action, died Sunday in his hometown of Sudbury, Ontario. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Can't make your triumphant return to television if The Rapture takes place first

Goddamnit. I'm so done with this shit.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

Just Bluebooked Bluesky for the first time #Blueskyism

Getting Bogey and Bacall involved was a BFD. No one around like that today, though. Closest I can think of is Tom Hanks, but even he's been cancelled as "too Left."

It's Rapture Eve, not Rapture Steve

it’s a workers’ party now

Why do British people do acronyms like that? Just stop it.

my question for ahmari: the federal reserve is subject to democratic control — congress can, whenever it chooses, alter the terms of fed independence. how and why is the unilateral authority of the president, exercised outside of rule if law, more democratic than congress’s legitimate authority?

Golazo

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

Not that anyone asked, but if I'm ever the victim of deadly political violence, this is the general aesthetic I want for my memorial service

He sounds like the old guy in Rocky

For all the talk of "climate pragmatism" (basically, doing stuff that further enriches billionaires and pleases autocrats and also might reduce emissions a bit), most paths to genuine US climate action run first through deep system reform that makes this country an actual, functioning democracy.

I thought the ACT and SAT were the conservative alternative www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“Because $50,000 in US paper money was not a ‘thing of value’ at English common law prior to the existence of the US government, we hold . . . .” -SCOTUS, five years from now

I would love to write something about the perversion of the precautionary principle under an authoritarian regime. But I have this pesky day job.

"At the helm of federal power and without the need for Senate confirmation...." Suddenly a little suspicious that Trump didn't nominate Homan for a position that required Senate confirmation, no? As if the administration was aware of the bribery investigation. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

It's a good thing the rest of our economic fundamentals are in strong enough shape to absorb a shock of that magnitude *holds finger to ear, furrows brow*

"Scheiring observed 'a key underlying story is that media owners... largely capitulated individually rather than mounting collective resistance, which enabled Orbán’s systematic capture strategy.'” I continue to think a lack of industry solidarity is key for Trump. www.salon.com/2025/09/21/h...

My not so bold prediction: This time next year, September 21, 2026, Homan will still have his job

If you're in the nonprofit sector long enough, you can reach a point where everyone wants to use your work, but no one wants to actually pay for it. Like you're just supposed to do it for free.

Chartered buses on an old abandoned highway Taking kids to get a glimpse of the ghosts Broken bottles at the top of the stairway Tuned into monuments to those we love most from “We’ve Got Airplanes” by Guided By Voices, King Shit and the Golden Boys (1995)

Did the Trump/reconciliation bill give preferential tax treatment to illegal bribery income, too?

One relatively simple but important thing Congress can do to reassert Article I policymaking primacy is drastically reduce the number of presidential appointees, including both those that require Senate confirmation and those that don't

Only $50k for government contractor fraud? Looks like Trumpflation has hit everything except for the corruption market. Of course, a glut of supply does tend to depress prices....

“The Watergate scandal was unfair to Nixon” is basically the ethos of the unitary executive theory.

Joining Mastodon is easy! You just find an instance (not that one, not that one, not that one) and then you set up your farble to interact with the jibcrank but be sure to hide your content automatically behind a yuwving or you'll be in violation of the instances TOS and can be banned.

It's bad enough that Trump does this kind of stuff on the regular. It's even worse that he's able to do it in a world that Republicans have created where there is no credible threat of consequences.

On this date in 1977, the Fonz water-ski jumped over a shark.

My decision last year to abandon TikTok still looks well taken

Great crowd for the Kansas City Current game